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A low mound, ridge, bank, or hill of loose, windblown granular material (generally sand, sometimes volcanic ash), either bare or covered with vegetation, capable of movement from place but always retaining its characteristic shape. (Source: BJGEO)

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White L 2012. Home Range and Spacing Patterns of the Wedge Snouted lizard, Meroles cuneirostris. 80-81

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Holm E, Scholtz CH 1980. Structure and pattern of the Namib Desert dune ecosystem at Gobabeb. Madoqua 12 (1) 5-39

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Goudie A 1970. Notes on Some Major Dune Types in Southern Africa. South African Geographical Journal 52 (1) 93-101

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Bullard JE, Thomas DSG, Livingstone I, Wiggs GFS 1997. Dunefield Activity and Interactions with Climatic Variability in the Southwest Kalahari Desert. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 22 (2) 165-174

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199702)22:2%3C165::AID-ESP687%3E3.0.CO;2-9/abstract

Bullard JE, Thomas DSG, Livingstone I, Wiggs GFS 1996. Wind energy variations in the southwestern Kalahari Desert and implications for linear dunefield activity. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 21 (3) 263-278

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199603)21:3%3C263::AID-ESP627%3E3.0.CO;2-I/abstract

Comrie-Greig J 1986. Ostriches at the gallop. African Wildlife 40 15

Meinertzhagen R 1950. The Namib of South West Africa. Ibis 92 (4) 567-573

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1950.tb01764.x/abstract

Brook GA, Srivastava P, Marais E 2006. Characteristics and OSL minimum ages of relict fluvial deposits near Sossus Vlei, Tsauchab River, Namibia, and a regional climate record for the last 30?ka. Journal of Quaternary Science 21 (4) 347-362

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Henschel JR 1994. Diet and foraging behaviour of huntsman spiders in the Namib dunes (Araneae: Heteropodidae). Journal of Zoology 234 (2) 239-251

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1994.tb06072.x/abstract

Fielden LJ, Hickman GC, Perrin MR 1992. Locomotory activity in the Namib Desert golden mole Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Journal of Zoology 226 (2) 329-344

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1992.tb03843.x/abstract

Hanrahan SA, Kirchner WH 1994. Acoustic Orientation and Communication in Desert Tenebrionid Beetles in Sand Dunes. Ethology 97 (1-2) 26-32

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1994.tb01026.x/abstract

Fielden LJ 1991. Home range and movements of the Namib Desert golden mole, Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Journal of Zoology 223 (4) 675-686

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1991.tb04396.x/abstract

Livingstone I 2003. A twenty-one-year record of surface change on a Namib linear dune. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 28 (9) 1025-1031

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.1000/abstract

Livingstone I 1989. Monitoring surface change on a Namib linear dune. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 14 (4) 317-332

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.3290140407/abstract

Danin A 1996. Adaptations of Stipagrostis species to desert dunes. Journal of Arid Environments 34 (3) 297-311

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396901111

Stokes S, Haynes G, Thomas DSG, Horrocks JL, Higginson M, Malifa M 1998. Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 137 (3-4) 305-322

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018297001065

Telfer MW, Thomas DSG 2007. Late Quaternary linear dune accumulation and chronostratigraphy of the southwestern Kalahari: implications for aeolian palaeoclimatic reconstructions and predictions of future dynamics. Quaternary Science Reviews 26 (19-21) 2617-2630

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737910700193X

Watson A 1986. Grain-size variations on a longitudinal dune and a barchan dune. Sedimentary Geology 46 (1-2) 49-66

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0037073886900059

Hesp PA, Hastings K 1998. Width, height and slope relationships and aerodynamic maintenance of barchans. Geomorphology 22 (2) 193-204

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X97000706

Bourke MC 2010. Barchan dune asymmetry: Observations from Mars and Earth. Icarus 205 (1) 183-197

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103509003819

Stone A 2012. Dune generations in the east of the northern Namib Sand Sea. Quaternary International 279-280 471

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618212026201

Lancaster N 1983. Controls of Dune Morphology in the Namib Sand Sea. Developments in Sedimentology 38 261-289

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0070457108707994

Stone AEC, Thomas DSG 2008. Linear dune accumulation chronologies from the southwest Kalahari, Namibia: challenges of reconstructing late Quaternary palaeoenvironments from aeolian landforms. Quaternary Science Reviews 27 (17-18) 1667-1681

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379108001492

Svendsen J, Stollhofen H, Krapf CBE, Stanistreet IG 2003. Mass and hyperconcentrated flow deposits record dune damming and catastrophic breakthrough of ephemeral rivers, Skeleton Coast Erg, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 160 (1-3) 7-31

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0037073802003342

Stone AEC, Edmunds WM 2014. Naturally-high nitrate in unsaturated zone sand dunes above the Stampriet Basin, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 105 41-51

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196314000494

Lancaster N 2013. Dune Fields / Low Latitudes. Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Second Edition) 623-636

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444536433001539

Thomas DSG, Burrough SL 2013. Luminescence-based dune chronologies in southern Africa: Analysis and interpretation of dune database records across the subcontinent. Quaternary International In Press

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618213007088

Tsoar H 2013. Critical environments: sand dunes and climate change. Treatise on Geomorphology, 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 414-427

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123747396003146

Wiggs GFS 2013. Dune morphology and dynamics. Treatise on Geomorphology, 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 201-218

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123747396003043

Lancaster N 2013. Sand seas and dune fields. Treatise on Geomorphology, 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 219-245

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123747396003055

Bourke MC, Goudie AS 2009. Varieties of barchan form in the Namib Desert and on Mars. Aeolian Research 1 (1-2) 45-54

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875963709000123

Weaver CM, Wiggs GFS 2011. Field measurements of mean and turbulent airflow over a barchan sand dune. Geomorphology 128 (1-2) 32-41

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X10005519

Krapf CBE, Stollhofen H, Stanistreet IG 2003. Contrasting styles of ephemeral river systems and their interaction with dunes of the Skeleton Coast erg (Namibia). Quaternary International 104 (1) 41-52

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618202001349

Blümel WD, Eitel B, Lang A 1998. Dunes in southeastern Namibia: evidence for Holocene environmental changes in the southwestern Kalahari based on thermoluminescence data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 138 (1-4) 139-149

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018297001144

Breton C, Lancaster N, Nickling WG 2008. Magnitude and frequency of grain flows on a desert sand dune. Geomorphology 95 (3-4) 518-523

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X07003534

Teller JT, Lancaster N 1986. Lacustrine sediments at Narabeb in the central Namib Desert, Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 56 (3-4) 177-195

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018286900933

Lancaster N, Schaber GG, Teller JT 2000. Orbital Radar Studies of Paleodrainages in the Central Namib Desert. Remote Sensing of Environment 71 (2) 216-225

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425799000887

Kocurek G, Lancaster N, Carr M, Frank A 1999. Tertiary Tsondab Sandstone Formation: preliminary bedform reconstruction and comparison to modern Namib Sand Sea dunes. Journal of African Earth Sciences 29 (4) 629-642

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536299001207

Stone AEC, Thomas DSG, Viles HA 2010. Late Quaternary palaeohydrological changes in the northern Namib Sand Sea: New chronologies using OSL dating of interdigitated aeolian and water-lain interdune deposits. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 288 (1-4) 35-53

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018210000441

Bristow CS, Lancaster N 2004. Movement of a small slipfaceless dome dune in the Namib Sand Sea, Namibia. Geomorphology 59 (1-4) 189-196

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X03003234

Livingstone I, Bristow C, Bryant RG, Bullard J, White K, Wiggs GFS, Baas ACW, Bateman MD, Thomas DSG 2010. The Namib Sand Sea digital database of aeolian dunes and key forcing variables. Aeolian Research 2 (2-3) 93-104

Website link:http://www.robert-bryant.staff.shef.ac.uk/Livingstone%20et%20al.,%202010.pdf

Lamb T, Bond JE 2013. A multilocus perspective on phylogenetic relationships in the Namib darkling beetle genus Onymacris (Tenebrionidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (3) 757-765

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790312004368

Walden J, White K 1997. Investigation of the controls on dune colour in the Namib Sand Sea using mineral magnetic analyses. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 152 (1-4) 187-201

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X97001544

White K, Walden J, Gurney SD 2007. Spectral properties, iron oxide content and provenance of Namib dune sands. Geomorphology 86 (3-4) 219-229

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X06003990

Joubert EC, Harms TM, Muller A, Hipondoka M, Henschel JR 2012. A CFD study of wind patterns over a desert dune and the effect on seed dispersion. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 12 (1) 23-44

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10652-011-9230-3

Birkhofer K, Henschel J, Lubin Y 2012. Effects of extreme climatic events on small-scale spatial patterns: a 20-year study of the distribution of a desert spider. Oecologia 170 (3) 651-657

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-012-2342-8

Nørgaard T, Henschel JR, Wehner R 2003. Long-distance navigation in the wandering desert spider Leucorchestris arenicola: can the slope of the dune surface provide a compass cue?. Journal of Comparative Psychology A 189 (11) 801-809

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-003-0455-6

Lubke RA 2013. Restoration of Dune Ecosystems Following Mining in Madagascar and Namibia: Contrasting Restoration Approaches Adopted in Regions of High and Low Human Population Density. Restoration of Coastal Dunes 199-215

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-33445-0_13

Turner JS, Henschel JR, Lubin YD 1993. Thermal constraints on prey-capture behavior of a burrowing spider in a hot environment. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 33 (1) 35-43

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00164344

Desmet PG, Cowling RM 1999. Biodiversity, habitat and range-size aspects of a flora from a winter-rainfall desert in north-western Namaqualand, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 23-33

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