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The process by which plants transform carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates and other compounds, using energy from the sun captured by chlorophyll in the plant. Oxygen is a by-product of the process. Photosynthesis is the essence of all plant life (autotrophic production) and hence of all animal life (heterotrophic production) on the planet Earth. The rate of photosynthesis depends on climate, intensity and duration of sunlight, available leaf area, soil nutrient availability, temperature, carbon dioxide concentration, and soil moisture regimes. (Source: DUNSTE)

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Musil CF, Schmiedel U, Midgley GF 2005. Lethal effects of experimental warming approximating a future climate scenario on southern African quartz-field succulents: a pilot study. New Phytologist 165 (2) 539-547

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Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01243.x/abstract

van Heerden PDR, Krüger GHJ, Louw MK Long-term effects of limestone dust deposition on photosynthesis in the desert shrub Zygophyllum prismatocarpum. South African Journal of Botany 73 (2) 317

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629907001433

Egbert KJ, Martin CE 2000. Light penetration via leaf windows does not increase photosynthesis in three species of desert succulents. Journal of Plant Physiology 157 (5) 521-525

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0176161700801078

Swanepoel JW, Krüger GHJ, van Heerden PDR 2007. Effects of sulphur dioxide on photosynthesis in the succulent Augea capensis Thunb.. Journal of Arid Environments 70 (2) 208-221

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196307000183

van Heerden PDR, Swanepoel JW, Krüger GHJ 2007. Modulation of photosynthesis by drought in two desert scrub species exhibiting C3-mode CO2 assimilation. Environmental and Experimental Botany 61 (2) 124-136

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098847207000792

February EC, Matimati I, Hedderson TA, Musil CF 2013. Root niche partitioning between shallow rooted succulents in a South African semi desert: implications for diversity. Plant Ecology 214 (9) 1181-1187

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Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11258-013-0242-6

Schulze E-D, Ellis R, Schulze W, Trimborn P, Ziegler H 1996. Diversity, metabolic types and d13C carbon isotope ratios in the grass flora of Namibia in relation to growth form, precipitation and habitat conditions. Oecologia 106 (3) 352-369

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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

Lange OL, Meyer A, Zellner H, Heber U 1994. Photosynthesis and Water Relations of Lichen Soil Crusts: Field Measurements in the Coastal Fog Zone of the Namib Desert. Functional Ecology 8 (2) 253-264

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2389909

von Willert DJ, Armbrüster N, Drees T, Zaborowski M 2005. Welwitschia mirabilis: CAM or not CAM — what is the answer?. Functional Plant Biology 32 (5) 389-395

Website link:http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/FP01241.htm

van Heerden PDR, Krüger GHJ, Louw MK 2007. Dynamic responses of photosystem II in the Namib Desert shrub, Zygophyllum prismatocarpum, during and after foliar deposition of limestone dust. Environmental Pollution 146 (1) 34-45

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749106003988

Lange OL 2002. Photosynthetic productivity of the epilithic lichen Lecanora muralis: Long-term field monitoring of CO2 exchange and its physiological interpretation. I. Dependence of photosynthesis on water content, light, temperature, and CO2 concentration from laboratory measurements. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 197 (4) 233-249

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253004700249

Lange OL 2003. Photosynthetic productivity of the epilithic lichen Lecanora muralis: long-term field monitoring of CO2 exchange and its physiological interpretation: III. Diel, seasonal, and annual carbon budgets. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 198 (4) 277-292

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Lange OL 2003. Photosynthetic productivity of the epilithic lichen Lecanora muralis: long-term field monitoring of CO2 exchange and its physiological interpretation: II. Diel and seasonal patterns of net photosynthesis and respiration. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 198 (1) 55-70

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Lange OL, Green TGA, Meyer A, Zellner H 2007. Water relations and carbon dioxide exchange of epiphytic lichens in the Namib fog desert. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 202 (6) 479 - 487

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253007000643

Lange OL, Green TGA, Melzera B, Meyera A, Zellner H 2006. Water relations and CO2 exchange of the terrestrial lichen Teloschistes capensis in the Namib fog desert: Measurements during two seasons in the field and under controlled conditions. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 201 (4) 268 - 280

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036725300500143X

Lalley JS, Viles HA 2006. Do vehicle track disturbances affect the productivity of soil-growing lichens in a fog desert?. Functional Ecology 20 (3) 548 - 556

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Lauterbach M, de Wet van der Merwe P, Keßler L, Pirie MD, Bellstedt DU, Kadereit G Evolution of leaf anatomy in arid environments – A case study in southern African Tetraena and Roepera (Zygophyllaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 97 129-144

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Dyakov MY, Insarova ID, Kharabadze DE, Ptushenko VV, Shtaer OV 2015. Influence of extreme ambient temperatures and anaerobic conditions on Peltigera aphthosa (L.) Willd. viability. Life Sciences in Space Research 7 66-72

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Cloete JG, Berner JM 2016. Using chlorophyll a fluorescence to study the photosynthetic efficiency of Welwitschia mirabilis plants. South African Journal of Botany 103 312

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Berner JM, Shuuya T, Wassenaar T, Krüger GHJ 2015. Spatial distribution in the photosynthetic efficiency of Welwitschia in the central Namib dessert. South African Journal of Botany 98 206

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Shuuya T, Berner J, Krüger G, Wassenaar T, Curtis B 2016. Understanding the spatial and temporal patterns of photosynthetic efficiency of Welwitschia mirabilis in the central Namib Desert. South African Journal of Botany 103 348-349

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629916001988

Soderberg K, Henschel J, Swap R, Macko S 2011. Environmental controls on C, N and S cycling in plants of the Namib Desert. Geophysical Research Abstracts 13

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Lange OL, Green TGA, Meyer A, Zellner H 2008. Epilithic Lichens in the Namib Fog Desert: Field Measurements of Water Relations and Carbon Dioxide Exchange. Sauteria (15) 283-302

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Gwizdala M, Lebre P, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Cowan D, Krüger T 2021. Sub‐lithic photosynthesis in hot desert habitats. Environmental Microbiology

Website link:https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.15505

Daniels QF, Throop HL 2022. Ecophysiological responses of Terminalia sericea to fire history in a semi-arid woodland savanna, central Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 146 205-212

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Lange OL, Green TGA, Heber U 2001. Hydration-dependent photosynthetic production of lichens: what do laboratory studies tell us about field Performance?. Journal of Experimental Botany 52 (363) 2033-2042

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Veste M, Littmann T, Friedrich H, Breckle S-W 2001. Microclimate boundary conditions for activity of soil lichen crusts in sand dunes of the north-western Negev desert, Israel. Flora 196 465-474

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Lange OL, Meyer A, Ullmann I, Zellner H 1991. Microclimate conditions, water content and photosynthesis of lichens in the coastal fog zone of the Namib Desert: Measurements in the fall. Flora 185 233-266

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Lange OL, Meyer A, Zellner H, Ullmann I, Wessels DCJ 1990. Eight days in the life of a desert lichen: water relations and photosynthesis of Teloschistes capensis in the coastal fog zone of the Namib Desert. Madoqua 17 (1) 17-30

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Seaquist JW, Olsson L, Ardö J 2003. A remote sensing-based primary production model for grassland biomes. Ecological Modelling 169 131-155

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Ellis RP, Vogel JC, Fuls A 1980. Photosynthetic pathways and the geographical distribution of grasses in South West Africa/Namibia. South African Journal of Science 76 307 - 314

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Vogel JC, Seely MK 1977. Occurrence of C4 plants in the Central Namib Desert. Madoqua 10 (1) 75-78

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Schulze E-D, Schulze I 1976. Distribution and control of photosynthetic pathways in plants growing in the Namib Desert, with special regard to Welwitschia mirabilis Hook.fil.. Madoqua 9 (3) 5-13

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Distribution and control of photosynthetic pathways in plants growing in the Namib Desert_1976.pdf	2.38 MB