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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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Evans JS, Eifler DA, Eifler MA 2017. Sand-diving as an escape tactic in the lizard Meroles anchietae. Journal of Arid Environments 140 1-5

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Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196317300058

Scholz H 1968. Die Böden der Wüste Namib/Südwestafrika. Zeitschrift für Pflanzenernährung und Bodenkunde 119 (2) 91-107

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jpln.19681190202/abstract

McKee ED 1982. Sedimentary structures in dunes of the Namib Desert, South West Africa.

Website link:https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/309/sedimentary-structures-in-dunes-of-the-namib

Bhattachan A, D'Odorico P, Okin GS 2015. Biogeochemistry of dust sources in Southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 117 18-27

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196315000439

Liu B, Coulthart TJ 2015. Mapping the interactions between rivers and sand dunes: Implications for fluvial and aeolian geomorphology. Geomorphology 231 246-257

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X14006138

White K, Bullard J, Livingstone I, Moran L 2015. A morphometric comparison of the Namib and southwest Kalahari dunefields using ASTER GDEM data. Aeolian Research 19 (A) 87-95

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875963715000877

Gebhardt L 1973. Sandwich Harbour: A sanctuary in the dunes. SWA Annual 97 - 103

McFarlane MJ, Eckardt F 2004. The 'transparent' linear dunes of northwest Ngamiland, Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 36 136-139

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980367

Lancaster N 1981. Paleoenvironmental implications of fixed dune systems in Southern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 33 (4) 327-346

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018281900250

McFarlane MJ, Eckardt FD, Ringrose S, Coetzee SH, Kuhn JR 2005. Degradation of linear dunes in Northwest Ngamiland,Botswana and the implications for luminescence dating of periods of aridity. Quaternary International 135 (1) 83-90

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618204002186

Holter P, Scholtz CH, Stenseng L 2009. Desert detritivory: Nutritional ecology of a dung beetle (Pachysoma glentoni) subsisting on plant litter in arid South African sand dunes. Journal of Arid Environments 73 (12) 1090-1094

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Henschel JR, Davies VT, Dickman CR 1995. The slit spider (Araneae: Clubionoidea) that constructs fissures in the sand dunes of the Simpson Desert, Central Australia. Journal of Natural History 29 (1) 137-145

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222939500770071#.VGshhFItBHg

van Rooyen N, van Rooyen MW 1998. Vegetation of the south-western arid Kalahari: An overview. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 53 (2) 113-140

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359199809520381#.VGsELFItBHg

Henschel JR 1998. Dune spiders of the Negev Desert with notes on Cerbalus psammodes (Heteropodidae). Israel Journal of Zoology (Special Issue: Spiders of Israel: Systematics, Ecology, and Behavior) 44 (2) 243-251

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00212210.1998.10688946#.VGW1yVItBHg

Potts LV, Akyilmaz O, Braun A, Shum CK 2008. Multi-resolution dune morphology using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and dune mobility from fuzzy inference systems using SRTM and altimetric data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 29 (10) 2879-2901

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01431160701408352#.VGR8AFItBHg

Russell AP, Bauer AM 1990. Substrate excavation in the Namibian web-footed gecko, Palmatogecko rangei Andersson 1908, and its ecological significance. Tropical Zoology 3 (2) 197-207

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Lancaster N 2014. Dune systems of the Namib Desert – a spatial and temporal perspective. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2014.924085#.VGIUBVItBHg

Perrin MR, Boyer H, Boyer DC 1992. Diets of the Hairy-Footed Gerbils Gerbillurus paeba abd G. tytonis from the dunes of the Namib Desert. Israel Journal of Zoology 38 (3-4) 373-383

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00212210.1992.10688684#.VGIKcVItBHg

Burke A, Newton R, Boyce D, Kolberg H, Brunner I 2011. Reestablishing a Keystone Species in an Arid Coastal Environment: Saltbush (Salsola nollothensis) in Namibia. Ecological Restoration 29 (1-2) 25-34

Website link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ecological_restoration/summary/v029/29.1.burke.html

Veste M, Mohr M 2005. Vegetation der Lineardünen der zentralen Namib und deren Ionenhaushalt. Ökologische Forschung im globalen Kontext 93-108

Website link:http://books.google.de/books?id=kiapOY7VVZgC&pg=PP8&lpg=PP8&dq=%C3%96kologische%20Forschung%20im%20globalen%20Kontext&source=bl&ots=fDQXoy_ROw&sig=Zcgz4vaRgmw6Wl3Vu3TXKI0U3Ug&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x5mxUc68J67Y4QTJr4HADw&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAw

Berry H 1996. A grain of Namib sand. Namibia Environment 1 57-61

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Gröngröft A, Luther-Mosebach J, Landschreiber L, Revermann R, Finckh M, Eschenbach A 2013. Mashare - Landscape. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region 101-102

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Gröngröft A, Luther-Mosebach J, Landschreiber L, Eschenbach A 2013. Mashare - Soils. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region 105-108

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Gröngröft A, Luther-Mosebach J, Landschreiber L, Eschenbach A 2013. Seronga - Soils. Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region 135-137

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Moreno-Casasola P 2018. Dunes. Encyclopedia of Ecology Second Edition 467-472

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63768-0.00328-0

Feder A, Zimmermann R, Stollhofen H, Caracciolo L, Garzanti E, Andreani L 2018. Fluvial-aeolian sedimentary facies, Sossusvlei, Namib Desert. Journal of Maps (14) 630-643

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2018.1526719

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) 2013. Management Plan for Namib Sand Sea World Heritage Site 2013-2018.

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Ronca S, Ramond J-B, Jones BE, Seely M, Cowan DA 2015. Namib Desert dune/interdune transects exhibit habitat-specific edaphic bacterial communities. Frontiers in Microbiology (6)

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Namib Desert dune_interdune transects exhibit habitat_specific edaphic bacterial communities.pdf	1.45 MB

Strohbach BJ, Adank WF, Coetzee ME, Jankowitz WJ 2019. A baseline description of the soils and vegetation of Farm Klein Boesman, Khomas Region, Namibia. Namibian Journal of Environment (3) 37-55

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52-Data Set-437-1-10-20190822.zip	339.29 KB

Bristow CS, Lancaster N, Duller GAT 2005. Combining ground penetrating radar surveys and optical dating to determine dune migration in Namibia. Journal of the Geological Society 162 315–321

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Aushiku NNL, Buschbeck L, Christian A, Handjaba M, Haraes L, Ithindi J, Johannes K, Kandjai A, Ndjomba E 2015. Changes in rainfall and biomass in the Namib sand sea dune ecosystem over 52 Years. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 63 219-237

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Iiyambo N, Eifler D, Marais E, Kirchhof S 2016. Meroles anchietae: Size, growth and longevity. 12-15

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Goudie A, Viles H 2014. The ephemeral rivers and dunes of the Skeleton Coast. Landscapes and Landforms of Namibia. World Geomorphological Landscapes

Website link:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-017-8020-9_8

Desmet PG 1996. The vegetation and restoration potential of the arid coastal belt between Port Nolloth and Alexander Bay, Namaqualand, South Africa.

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The vegetation and restoration potential of the arid coastal belt_Desmet G Thesis.pdf	6.68 MB

Soboil J 1996. Dunes and dune movement in the Walvis Bay area of Namibia, and implications for future land-use planning and development.

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Dunes and dune movement in the Walvis Bay area of Namibia_Sobil_Thesis.pdf	9.26 MB

Goudie AS, Viles H 2014. Barchan Dunes: Walvis Bay and on the Skeleton Coast. Landscapes and Landforms of Namibia 115-120

Website link:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-017-8020-9_17

van der Walt AJ, Johnson RM, Cowan DA, Seely M, Ramond J-B 2016. Unique microbial phylotypes in Namib Desert dune and gravel plain fairy circle soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiol 82 (15) 4592-4601

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Unique microbial phylotypes in Namib Desert dune and gravel plain fairy circle soils.pdf	1.33 MB

Hedman HD, Alvarez HM, Hanghome GPK, Eifler M, Eifler D 2014. Reptiles of the Gobabeb Research and Training Centre. IRCF Reptiles and Amphibians 21 (2) 73-79

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Nauyoma L 2014. Cracking the habitat code of the critically endangered Juttadinteria albata. Gobabeb Times 9 (2) 11

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Tolzmann J 2014. Gobabeb FogNet - Monitoring the lifeblood of the Namib: fog. Gobabeb Times 9 (2) 7

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Maggs-Kölling G 2014. Training beyond 50 - Gobabeb has been involved in training and education since its inception. How can we grow the training programme while capitalising on our research strengths?. Gobabeb Times 9 (2) 4-5

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Seely M 2014. Living on the edge of a World Heritage Site. The Namib Sand Sea has been inscribed as a World Heritage Site. What does this mean and what next?. Gobabeb Times 9 (2) 3-4

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Kool D, Agra E, Drabkin A, Duncan A, Fendinat PP, Leduc S, Lupovitch G, Nambwandja AN, Ndilenga NS, Thi TN, Poodiack B, Sagi L, Shmuel Y, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Pinshow B, Turner JS, Agam N 2021. The overlooked non-rainfall water input sibling of fog and dew: Daily water vapor adsorption on a !Nara hummock in the Namib Sand Sea. Journal of Hydrology 598

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022169421004674?via%3Dihub=

van der Merwe BJ 2021. The relationship between barchan size and barchan morphology: a case study from Northern Namibia. South African Geographical Journal 103 119-138

Website link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03736245.2021.1876753?journalCode=rsag20

Lawrence RR 1959. The sand-dune fauna of the Namib Desert. South African Journal of Science 55 (9) 233-239

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Lorenz RD, Radebaugh J 2016. To Titan, via Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 17 51-65

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Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) Namib-Naukluft Park.

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NNP.pdf	1.5 MB

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) Skeleton Coast Park.

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Skeleton Coast Park.pdf	6.35 MB

Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) Sossusvlei.

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Sossusvlei 2.pdf	3.9 MB

Burke A 2006. In quest of biodiversity hotspots. Flamingo 32-33

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flamingo-May2006-bd-hotspots.pdf	1.37 MB