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Veiste M, Herppich WB, Willert DJ 2001. Variability of CAM in leaf-deciduous succulents from the Succulent Karoo (South Africa). Basic and Applied Ecology 2 (3) 283-288

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1078/1439-1791-00056

Scholtz CH, Harrison JG, Grebennikov VV 2004. Dung beetle (Scarabaeus (Pachysoma)) biology and immature stages: reversal to ancestral states under desert conditions (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83 (4) 453-460

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00389.x/abstract

Delport W, Kemp AC, Ferguson JWH 2004. Structure of an African Red-Billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus rufirostris and T. e. damarensis) Hybrid Zone as Revealed by Morphology, Behavior, and Breeding Biology. Auk 121 (2) 565-586

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4090420

Delport W 2001. The taxonomic status of the Damaraland Redbilled Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus damarensis).

Website link:http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02092006-122011/

Woitke M, Wolf R, Hartung W, Heilmeier H 2006. Flower morphology of the resurrection plant Chamaegigas intrepidus Dinter and some of its potential pollinators. Flora 201 (4) 281 - 286

Website link:http://openagricola.nal.usda.gov/Record/IND43827292

Wirth V, Kärnefelt I, Thell A, Gessner U 2005. Caloplaca testudinea V. Wirth & Kärnefelt sp. nov. and C. rubelliana (Ach.) Lojka, new to southern Africa. Mycological Progress 4 (4) 299 - 302

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/j50g10066w24pn86/

Whitaker C, Pammenter NW, Berjak P 2008. Infection of the cones and seeds of Welwitschia mirabilis by Aspergillus niger var. Phoenicis in the Namib-Naukluft Park. South African Journal of Botany 74 (1) 41 - 50

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629907003560

Whitaker C, Berjak P, Pammenter NW 2008. Abnormal morphology of the embryo and seedlings of the Welwitschia mirabilibis, and some observations on seed-associated fungi. South African Journal of Botany 74 338 - 340

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629907004206

Goudie AS, Eckardt F 1999. The evolution of the morphological framework of the central Namib desert, Namibia, since the early Cretaceous. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 81 (3) 443 - 458

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0459.00073/abstract

Schoonees JS, Theron AK 1995. Evaluation of 10 cross-shore sediment transport morphological models. Coastal Engineering 25 1 - 41

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1675

Crowe TM 1979. Adaptive morphological variation in Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris and Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani. Ibis 121 (3) 313 - 320

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1979.tb06848.x/abstract

Cooper J 1985. Biology of the Bank Cormorant, Part 2: Morphometrics, plumage, bare parts and moult. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 56 (1-3) 79 - 85

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1985.9639573#.VSaE6Wf9kpE

Brown CJ 1989. A comparison of some morphometric characteristics of the Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus with other large African raptors. Vulture News 22 21 - 27

Murray IW, Fuller A, Lease HM, Mitchell D, Wolf BO, Hetem RS 2015. Low field metabolic rates for geckos of the genus Rhoptropus may not be surprising. Journal of Arid Environments 113 35-42

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196314001906

Owono FM, Ntamak-Nida M-J, Dauteuil O, Guillocheau F, Njom B 2016. Morphology and long-term landscape evolution of the South African plateau in South Namibia. Catena 142 47-65

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816216300571

Kipping J, Martens A, Suhling F 2012. Africa's smallest damselfly - a new Agriocnemis from Namibia (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). Organisms Diversity and Evolution 12 (3) 301-306

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13127-012-0084-4

Daru BH, Manning JC, Boatwright JS, Maurin O, Maclean N, Schaefer H, Kuzmina M, van der Bank M 2013. Molecular and morphological analysis of subfamily Alooideae (Asphodelaceae) and the inclusion of Chortolirion in Aloe. Taxon 62 (1) 62-75

Website link:http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax/2013/00000062/00000001/art00006

Kramer B, Swartz ER 2010. A new species of Slender Stonebasher within the Hippopotamyrus ansorgii complex from the Cunene River in southern Africa (Teleostei: Mormyriformes). Journal of Natural History 44 (35-36) 2213-2242

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222931003764089#.VIakHGctBHg

Bates MF, Heideman NJL, Wilson BA, Hendricks MGJ, Don N, Moses C 1998. Morphological variation and geographical distribution in the South African lizards Typhlosaurus caecus (Cuvier 1817) and Typhlosaurus vermis Boulenger 1887 (Scincidae: Acontinae). African Journal of Herpetology 47 (2) 35-41

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21564574.1998.9650001#.VHw1amctBHg

Dawood A, Channing A 2002. Description of a new cryptic species of African sand frog, Tomopterna damarensis (Anura: Ranidae), from Namibia. African Journal of Herpetology 51 (2) 129-134

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21564574.2002.9635468#.VHsS_mctBHg

Branch WR, Shine R, Harlow PS, Webb JK 1997. Sexual dimorphism, diet and aspects of reproduction of the western keeled snake, Pythonodipsas carinata (Serpentes: Colubridae). African Journal of Herpetology 46 (2) 89-97

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21564574.1997.9649982#.VHbYMmctBHg

Kirk-Spriggs AH, Barraclough DA, Meier R 2002. The immature stages of Katacamilla cavernicola Papp, the first described for the Camillidae (Diptera: Schizophora), with comparison to other known Ephydroidea larvae, and notes on biology. Journal of Natural History 36 (9) 1105-1128

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110048936#.VHWT_2ctBHg

Flemming AF 1989. The reproductive cycle of the lizard Cordylus polyzonus with reference to the evolution of viviparity in the Sauria. The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 36 (1) 77

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/04416651.1989.9650239#.VG7_N1ItBHg

Broadley DG 2002. A review of the species of Psammophis boie found south of Latitude 12° S (Serpentes: Psammophiinae). African Journal of Herpetology 51 (2) 83-119

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21564574.2002.9635466#.VG3g61ItBHg

Gevers TW 1942. The Morphology of the Windhoek District, South West Africa. South African Geographical Journal 24 (1) 45-64

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03736245.1942.10559221#.VGslCFItBHg

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

Gevers TW 1936. The Morphology of Western Damaraland and the Adjoining Namib Desert of South West Africa. South African Geographical Journal 19 (1) 61-67

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03736245.1936.10559178#.VGNP0FItBHg

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

Simang A, Cunningham PL, Henen BT 2010. Color Selection by Juvenile Leopard Tortoises (Stigmochelys pardalis) in Namibia. Journal of Herpetology 44 (2) 327-331

Website link:http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1670/08-338.1?journalCode=hpet

McGaugh SE, Janzen FJ 2008. The Status of Apalone atra Populations in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, México: Preliminary Data. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 7 (1) 88-95

Website link:http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2744/CCB-0651.1

Puff C 1978. Zur Biologie von Myrothamnus flabellifolius Welw. (Myrothamnaceae). Dinteria 14 2-20

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Monadjem A, Conenna I, Taylor P, Schoeman C 2018. Species richness patterns and functional traits of the bat fauna of arid Southern Africa. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy (29)

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Retief E, van Wyk AE 2002. The genus Trichodesma (Boraginaceae: Boraginoideae) in southern Africa. Bothalia (32) 151-166

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Swanepoel W 2006. Two new species of Commiphora (Burseraceae) from southern Africa. Bothalia (36) 45-56

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Struwig M, Siebert SJ, Jordaan A Pollen morphology of members of southern African Boerhavia and Commicarpus (Nyctaginaceae). Bothalia (43) 15-22

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McCarthy TS, Cadle AB 1995. Alluvial fans and their natural distinction from rivers based on morphology, hydraulic processes, sedimentary processes, and facies assemblages - discussion. Journal of Sedimentary Research A65 581 - 583

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Martin CE, von Willert DJ 2000. Leaf epidermal hydathodes and the ecological consequences of foliar water uptake in species of Crassula from the Namib desert in southern Africa. Plant Biology 2 229–242

Website link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1055/s-2000-9163

Desmet PG, Cowling RM, Ellis AG, Pressey RL 2002. Integrating biosystematic data into conservation planning: Perspectives from southern Africa's Succulent Karoo. Systematic Biology 51 (2) 317–330

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Haacke WD 2013. Description of a new Tiger Snake (Colubridae, Telescopus) from south-western Africa. Zootaxa 3737 (3) 280-288

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Smook L 1969. Some observations on Lindernia intrepidus (Dinter) Oberm. (= Chamaegigas intrepidus Dinter). Dinteria 2 13-21

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Collins CE, Russell AP, Higham TE 2015. Subdigital adhesive pad morphology varies in relation to structural habitat use in the Namib Day Gecko. Functional Ecology doi:10.1111 1365-2435

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Henschel JR 1997. Psammophily in Namib Desert spiders. Journal of Arid Environments 37 (4) 695-707

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Idris I, Moloney CL, Van der Lingen CD 2016. Spatial variability in branchial basket meristics and morphology of southern African sardine Sardinops sagax. African Journal of Marine Science 38 (3) 351-362

Website link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/1814232X.2016.1204942

Struwig M, Jordaan A, Siebert SJ 2011. Anatomy of the southern African Boerhavia and Commicarpus species (Nyctaginaceae). Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 18 (2) 105-115

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Harvey MS, Mahnert V 2015. A new species of Sphaerowithius (Pseudoscorpiones, Withiidae) from Namibia. African Invertebrates 56 (2) 491-497

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Hamer ML, Appleton CC 1996. The genus Branchipodopsis (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca) in southern Africa. Morphology, distribution, relationships and the description of five new species. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum 104 311-377

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Bruyns PV, Klak C 2006. A systematic study of the old world genus Fockea (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 93 (4) 535-564

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Tsymbalyuk ZM, Albach DC, Manning JC, Ivanova D, Nitsenko LM, Mosyakin SL 2025. Pollen morphology of the monotypic genera Antherothamnus and Manuleopsis from southern Africa and the Madagascan Barthlottia (Scrophulariaceae): Taxonomic and phylogenetic implications. South African Journal of Botany 179 400-417

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Rawson CJ, Nemmers L, Criswell S, Smythe AB, Burke AK, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G, Treonis AM 2024. Description of Panagrolaimus namibiensis n. sp. (Rhabditida: Panagrolaimidae), an Anhydrobiotic Nematode from the Namib Desert of Namibia. Journal of Nematology 56

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Robertson A, Jarvis A, Mendelsohn J, Swart R 2012. Namibia's Coast: Figure 02 EEZ. Namibia's Coast: Ocean Riches and Desert Treasures

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