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Number of plants growing on a certain area of land. (Source: PHC)

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Rundel PW, Cowling RM Biodiversity of The Succulent Karoo and Cape Flora. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 1-8

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

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Heinl M, Frost P, Vanderpost C, Sliva J 2007. Fire activity on drylands and floodplains in the southern Okavango Delta, Botswana. Journal of Arid Environments 68 (1) 77-87

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196306001236

Owen JJ 2013. Hillslope Processes in Arid Environments. Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences Treatise on Geomorphology: Volume 7: Mountain and Hillslope Geomorphology 7 363-374

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Burke A 2014. Natural recovery of dwarf shrubs following topsoil and vegetation clearing on gravel and sand plains in the southern Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 100-101 18-22

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Harris A, Carr AS, Dash J 2014. Remote sensing of vegetation cover dynamics and resilience across southern Africa. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 28 131-139

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Wiegand K, Saltz D, Ward D, Levin SA 2008. The role of size inequality in self-thinning: A pattern-oriented simulation model for arid savannas. Ecological Modelling 210 (4) 431-445

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Moleele NM, Ringrose S, Matheson W, Vanderpost C 2002. More woody plants? the status of bush encroachment in Botswana's grazing areas. Journal of Environmental Management 64 (1) 3-11

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Joubert DF, Smit GN, Hoffman MT 2012. The role of fire in preventing transitions from a grass dominated state to a bush thickened state in arid savannas. Journal of Arid Environments 87 (2012) 1-7

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Johnson SD, Harris LF, Proches S 2009. Pollination and breeding systems of selected wildflowers in a southern African grassland community. South African Journal of Botany 75 (4) 630-645

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Jackson JC, Duodu KG, Holse M, Lima de Faria MD, Jordaan D, Chingwaru W, Hansen A, Cencic A, Kandawa-Schultz M, Mpotokwane SM, Chimwamurombe P, de Kock HL, Minnaar A 2010. Chapter 5 – The Morama Bean (Tylosema esculentum): A Potential Crop for Southern Africa. Advances in Food and Nutrition Research 61 187-246

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Loarie SR, van Aarde RJ, Pimm SL 2009. Elephant seasonal vegetation preferences across dry and wet savannas. Biological Conservation 142 (12) 3099-3107

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Lohmann D, Tietjen B, Blaum N, Joubert DF, Jeltsch F 2014. Prescribed fire as a tool for managing shrub encroachment in semi-arid savanna rangelands. Journal of Arid Environments 107 49-56

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Grist J, Nicholson SE, Mpolokang A 1997. On the use of NDVI for estimating rainfall fields in the Kalahari of Botswana. Journal of Arid Environments 35 (2) 195-214

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Avery DM 1993. Last interglacial and holocene altithermal environments in South Africa and Namibia: micromammalian evidence. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 103 (3-4) 221-228

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/003101829390014A

Mannheimer C, Curtis B 2010. Le Roux and Müller's Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Namibia.

Website link:http://www.nbri.org.na/le-roux-and-m%C3%BCllers-fieldguide-trees-and-shrubs-of-namibia

Ringrose S, Vanderpost C, Matheson W 2003. Mapping ecological conditions in the Okavango delta, Botswana using fine and coarse resolution systems including simulated SPOT vegetation imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24 (5) 1029-1052

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431160210155046#.U7UiQVJZopE

Kribek B, Majer V, Pasava J, Kamona F, Mapani B, Keder J, Ettler V 2014. Contamination of soils with dust fallout from the tailings dam at the Rosh Pinah area, Namibia: Regional assessment, dust dispersion modeling and environmental consequences. Journal of Geochemical Exploration In Press

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Hamandawana H, Chanda R, Eckardt E 2008. Reappraisal of contemporary perspectives on climate change in southern Africa's Okavango Delta sub-region. Journal of Arid Environments 72 (9) 1709-1720

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Loope LL, Sanchez PG 1988. Biological invasions of arid land nature reserves. Biological Conservation 44 (1-2) 95-118

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Hofmann C-C, Rice AHN 2010. Leaf-jams - A new and unique leaf deposit in the ephemeral Hoanib River, NW Namibia: Origin and plant taphonomic implications. International Journal of Coal Geology 83 (2) 195-203

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166516209001530

Wesuls D, Pellowski M, Suchrow S, Oldeland J, Jansen F, Dengler J 2013. The grazing fingerprint: Modelling species responses and trait patterns along grazing gradients in semi-arid Namibian rangelands. Ecological Indicators 27 61-70

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Joubert DF, Smit GN, Hoffman MT 2013. The influence of rainfall, competition and predation on seed production, germination and establishment of an encroaching Acacia in an arid Namibian savanna. Journal of Arid Environments 91 7-13

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Bamford MK 2004. Diversity of the Woody Vegetation of Gondwanan Southern Africa. Gondwana Research 7 (1) 153-164

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Milzow C, Burg V, Kinzelbach W 2010. Estimating future ecoregion distributions within the Okavango Delta Wetlands based on hydrological simulations and future climate and development scenarios. Journal of Hydrology 381 (1-2) 89-100

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Franz M, Kramer-Schadt S, Kilian W, Wissel C, Groeneveld J 2010. Understanding the effects of rainfall on elephant - vegetation interactions around waterholes. Ecological Modelling 221 (24) 2909-2917

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du Plessis WP 1999. Linear regression relationships between NDVI, vegetation and rainfall in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 42 (4) 235-260

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196399905050

Oldeland J, Dorigo W, Lieckfeld L, Lucieer A, Jürgens N 2010. Combining vegetation indices, constrained ordination and fuzzy classification for mapping semi-natural vegetation units from hyperspectral imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 114 (6) 1155-1166

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425710000258

Craven P, Dreyer LL, van Wyk AB 2009. Floristic groups in Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 75 (2) 397

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Kangombe FN, Strohbach BJ 2008. Vegetation mapping and description of Ogongo Agricultural Farm and surrounds. South African Journal of Botany 74 (2) 387-388

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Diester-Haass L, Heine K, Rothe P, Schrader H 1988. Late Quaternary history of continental climate and the Benguela Current off South West Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 65 (1-2) 81-91

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Greyling T, Cilliers SS, van Hamburg H 2007. Vegetation studies of feral horse habitat in the Namib Naukluft Park, Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 73 (2) 328

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Jankowitz WJ, van Rooyen MW, Shaw D, Kaumba JS, van Rooyen N 2008. Mysterious circles in the Namib Desert. South African Journal of Botany 74 (2) 332-334

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White F 1983. The vegetation of Africa, a descriptive memoir to accompany the UNESCO/AETFAT/UNSO Vegetation Map of Africa (3 Plates, Northwestern Africa, Northeastern Africa, and Southern Africa, 1:5,000,000). UNESCO, Paris. The Geographical Journal 151 (1) 132-134

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/633318

Miller MF 1994. Large African herbivores, bruchid beetles and their interactions with Acacia seeds. Oecologia 97 (2) 265-270

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00323159

Huntley BJ 1982. Southern African Savannas. Ecology of Tropical Savannas 42 101-119

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-68786-0_6

Todd SW, Hoffman MT 1999. A fence-line contrast reveals effects of heavy grazing on plant diversity and community composition in Namaqualand, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 169-178

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1009810008982

Ernst WHO, Veenendaal EM, Kebakile MM 1992. Possibilities for dispersal in annual and perennial grasses in a savanna in Botswana. Vegetatio 102 (1) 1-11

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00031700

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Thomas DA, Treichel S 1979. The activity and malate inhibition/stimulation of phosphoenolpyruvate-carboxylase in crassulacean-acid-metabolism plants in their natural environment. Planta 147 (1) 31-36

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00384587

Gibson AC 1996. Plant Life Forms of Warm Desert Climates. Structure-Function Relations of Warm Desert Plants 1-22

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-60979-4_1

Taylor HC 1978. Capensis. Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa 31 171-229

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-9951-0_8

Schmiedel U, Jürgens N 2004. Habitat ecology of southern African quartz fields: studies on the thermal properties near the ground. Plant Ecology 170 (2) 153-166

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Jürgens N, Gotzmann IH, Cowling RM 1999. Remarkable medium-term dynamics of leaf succulent Mesembryanthemaceae shrubs in the winter-rainfall desert of northwestern Namaqualand, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 87-96

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Schmiedel U, Jürgens N 1999. Community structure on unusual habitat islands: quartz-fields in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 57-69

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Leistner OA, Werger MJA 1973. Southern kalahari phytosociology. Vegetatio 28 (5-6) 353-399

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02386499

Burke A 2005. Vegetation types of mountain tops in Damaraland, Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 14 (6) 1487-1506

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-004-9788-x

Dupont LM, Behling H, Jahns S, Marret F, Kim J-H 2007. Variability in glacial and Holocene marine pollen records offshore from west southern Africa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 16 (2-3) 87-100

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-006-0080-8

Skarpe C 1986. Plant community structure in relation to grazing and environmental changes along a north-south transect in the western Kalahari. Vegetatio 68 (1) 3-18

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00031575

Goudie AS 2009. Global Deserts and Their Geomorphological Diversity. Geomorphology of Desert Environments 9-20

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-5719-9_2

Büdel B, Darienko T, Deutschewitz K, Dojani S, Friedl T, Mohr KI, Salisch M, Reisser W, Weber B 2009. Southern African Biological Soil Crusts are Ubiquitous and Highly Diverse in Drylands, Being Restricted by Rainfall Frequency. Microbial Ecology 57 (2) 229-247

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