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

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Parsons DAB, Shackelton CM, Scholes RJ 1997. Changes in herbaceous layer condition under contrasting land use systems in the semi-arid lowveld, South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 37 (2) 319-329

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196397902834

Dubroeucq D, Livenais P 2004. Land cover and land use changes in relation to social evolution—a case study from Northern Chile. Journal of Arid Environments 56 (2) 193-211

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196303000429

Traill LW 2004. Seasonal utilization of habitat by large grazing herbivores in semi-arid Zimbabwe. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 34 (1) 13-24

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/10709

Thrash I 1998. Impact of large herbivores at arti?cial watering points compared to that at natural watering points in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Journal of Arid environments 38 (2) 315-324

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196397903311

Archer ERM 2004. Beyond the "climate versus grazing" impasse: using remote sensing to investigate the effects of grazing system choice on vegetation cover in the eastern Karoo. Journal of Arid Environments 57 (3) 381-408

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196303001071

Heshmatti GA, Facelli JM, Conran JG 2002. The piosphere revisited: plant species patterns close to waterpoints in small, fenced paddocks in chenopod shrublands of South Australia. Journal of Arid environments 51 547-560

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302909699

Griffith JA, Price K, Martinko EA 2001. A multivariate analysis of biophysical parameters of tallgrass prairie among land management practices and years. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 68 (3) 249-271

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1010703725172?LI=true

Desoyza AG, Whitford WG, Turner SJ, van Zee JW, Johnson AR 2000. Assessing and monitoring the health of western rangeland watersheds. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 64 (1) 153-166

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1006423708707?LI=true

Edwards PJ, Cochard R, Tobler MW 2003. The impacts of cattle ranching on large-scale vegetation patters in a coastal savanna in Tanzania. Journal of Applied Ecology 40 (3) 430-444

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2003.00816.x/full

Pallett J, Brown CJ, Mannheimer CA 2009. Etango Project Environmental Impact Assessment: Vegetation, vertebrates and terrestrial ecology.

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Mannheimer CA 2008. Goanikontes Uranium Project, Vegetation study.

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A. Speiser Environmental Consultants 2008. Scoping Report, Social and Environmental Impact Assessment of the proposed Uranium Mine 'Etango Project' near Swakopmund.

Mannheimer CA 2006. Environmental impact assessment of the Trekkopje Uranium Project, Specialist contribution: Vegetation.

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EIA of the Trekkopje Uranium Project_Specialist contribution Vegetation.pdf	497.43 KB

Vegetation Survey of Namibia.

Website link:http://www.nbri.org.na/index.php?id=survey

Holz G, Bester FV 2007. A Dieback/Decline Disease of Blackthorn (Acacia mellifera ssp. Detinens): Monitoring the growth of plants in stands from 1986 to 2005.

Website link:http://www.nbri.org.na/publications

Grube S 2002. The fairy circles of Kaokoland (Northwest Namibia) - is the harvester termite Hodotermes mossambicus the prime causal factor in circle formation?. Basic and Applied Ecology 3 (4) 367 - 370

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/the-fairy-circles-of-kaokoland-northwest-namibia-is-the-harvester-termite-hodotermes-mossambicus-the-prime-causal-factor-in-circle-formation/

Cracknell AP 1999. The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR).

Website link:http://books.google.de/books?id=zykinPPMrasC&dq=The%20Advanced%20Very%20High%20Resolution%20Radiometer%20%28AVHRR%29.&hl=de&sa=X&ei=Vs88T__HFObl4QTkvo2vCA&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAA

Wiegand K, Saltz D, Ward D 2006. A patch-dynamics approach to savanna dynamics and woody plant encroachment - Insights from an arid savanna. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 7 (4) 229 - 242

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Wittneben M 2003. Vegetation of the Brandberg Mountain, Namibia.

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/vegetation-brandberg-mountain-namibia/

Yoshida H 2005. Observation of riparian vegetation in western Namibia by using NDVI and NDWI derived from SPOT-Vegetation. African Study Monographs 30 153 - 163

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Walter H 1954. Die Verbuschung, eine Erscheinung der subtropischen Savannengebiete, und ihre Ökologischen Ursachen. Vegetation 5 - 6 6 - 10

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/20034609

Volk OH, Leippert H 1971. Vegetationsverhältnisse im Windhoeker Bergland, Südwestafrika. Journal der S.W.A. Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft XXV 5 - 44

Verlinden A 1997. Human settlements and wildlife distribution in the southern Kalahari of Botswana. Biological Conservation 82 (2) 129 - 136

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320796001565

Smit GN 2005. Tree thinning as an option to increase herbaceous yield of an encroached semi-arid savanna in South Africa. BMC Ecology 5 (4)

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/89n57mr668701423/

Skarpe C 1991. Spatial patterns and dynamics of woody vegetation in an arid savanna. Journal of Vegetation Science 2 565 - 572

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/3236039/abstract

Palmer AR, van Rooyen AF 1998. Detecting vegetation change in the southern Kalahari using Landsat TM data. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 143 - 153

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398903998

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

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479701904864

Shackleton CM, Griffin NJ, Banks DI, Mavrandonis JM, Shackleton SE 1994. Community structure and species composition along a disturbance gradient in a communally managed South African savanna. Plant Ecology 115 (2) 157 - 167

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00044870

Skarpe C 1990. Structure of the woody vegetation in disturbed and undisturbed arid savanna, Botswana. Vegetation 87 (1) 11 - 18

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/v2110803718x1241/

Azzali S, Menenti M 2000. Mapping vegetation-soil-climate complexes in southern Africa using temporal Fourier analysis of NOAA-AVHRR NDVI data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 21 (5) 973 - 996

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014311600210380

Sannier CAD, Taylor JC, du Plessis W, Campbell K 1998. Real-time vegetation monitoring with NOAA-AVHRR in Southern Africa for wildlife management and food security assessment. International Journal of Remote Sensing 19 (4) 621 - 639

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/realtime-vegetation-monitoring-with-noaaavhrr-in-southern-africa-for-wildlife-management-and-food-security-assessment/

Sannier CAD, Taylor JC, du Plessis W 2002. Real-time monitoring of vegetation biomass with NOAA-AVHRR in Etosha National Park, Namibia, for fire risk assessment. International Journal of Remote Sensing 23 (1) 71 - 89

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/realtime-monitoring-of-vegetation-biomass-with-noaaavhrr-in-etosha-national-park-namibia-for-fire-risk-assessment/

Rohde RF, Hoffman MT 2011. The historical ecology of Namibian rangelands: Vegetation change since 1876 in response to local and global drivers. Science of the Total Environment 416 276 - 288

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969711012617

Richters J 2005. Biomass changes in north-western Namibia: First results from a remote sensing modelling approach. EARSeL eProceedings 4 (2) 157 - 170

Website link:http://las.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/eProceedings/vol04_2/04_2_richters1.html

Richter CGF, Snyman HA, Smit GN 2001. The influence of tree density on the grass layer of three semi-arid savanna types of southern Africa. African Journal of Range and Forage Science 18 (2) 103 - 109

Website link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/10220110109485762

du Plessis WP 2001. Effective rainfall defined using measurements of grass growth in the Etosha National Park, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 48 (3) 397 - 417

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196300907523

Leggett K, Fennessy J, Schneider S 2003. Seasonal vegetation changes in the Hoanib River catchment, north-western Namibia: A study of a non-equilibrium system. Journal of Arid Environments 53 (1) 99 - 113

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Lalley JS, Viles HA 2005. Terricolous lichens in the northern Namib Desert of Namibia: Distribution and community composition. The Lichenologist 37 (1) 77 - 91

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Katjiua M, Ward D 2007. Pastoralists perceptions and realities of vegetationchange and browse consumption in the northern Kalahari, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 69 (4) 716 - 730

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196306004204

Joubert DF, Rothauge A, Smit GN 2008. A conceptual model of vegetation dynamics in the semiarid Highland savanna of Namibia, with particular reference to bush thickening by Acacia mellifera. Journal of Arid Environments 72 (12) 2201 - 2210

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196308001900

Jürgens N, Schmiedel U, Haarmeyer DH, Dengler J, Finckh M, Goetze D, Gröngröft A, Hahn K, Koulibaly A, Luther-Mosebach J, Muche G, Oldeland J, Petersen A, Porembski S, Rutherford MC, Schmidt M, Sinsin B, Strohbach BJ, Thiombiano A, Wittig R, Zizka G 2011. The BIOTA Biodiversity Observatories in Africa - a standardized framework for large-scale environmental monitoring. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 184 (2) 655 - 678

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Geldenhuys CJ 1977. The effect of different regimes of annual burning on two woodland communities in Kavango. South African Forestry Journal 103 (1) 32 - 42

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00382167.1977.9629467

Fujioka Y 2005. Vegetation changes and use of palms as a building material by Ovambo Agro-Pastoralists in North-Central Namibia. African Study Monographs 30 89 - 105

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Vegetation changes and use of palms as a building material by Ovambo Agro_Pastoralists in North_Central Namibia.pdf	1.09 MB

Favier C, Aleman J, Bremond L, Dubois MA, Freycon V, Yangakola J-M 2012. Abrupt shifts in African savanna tree cover along a climatic gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21 (8) 787-797

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00725.x/abstract

Cox GW 1987. The origin of vegetation circles on stony soils of the Namib Desert near Gobabeb, South West Africa/Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 13 237 - 243

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292220748_The_origin_of_vegetation_circles_on_stony_soils_of_the_Namib_Desert_near_Gobabeb_South_West_AfricaNamibia

Cowlishaw G, Davies JG 1997. Flora of the Pro-Namib Desert Swakop River catchment, Namibia: Community classification and implications for desert vegetation sampling. Journal of Arid Environments 36 (2) 271 - 290

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396902037

Colditz RR, Keil M, Strohbach B, Geßner U, Schmidt M, Dech S 2007. Vegetation structure mapping with remote sensing time series: Capabilities and improvements. 2007

Website link:http://elib.dlr.de/66563/

Buss HJ, Nuppenau E-A 2002. More Sustainable Range Use in Semi-Arid Eco-Systems through adapted Management: A case Study on Namibian Farms based on Bio-Economic Models.

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