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Stapelberg H, van Rooyen MW, Bothma J du P, van der Linde MJ, Groeneveld HT 2008. Springbok behaviour as affected by environmental conditions in the Kalahari. Koedoe 50 (1) 145-153

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2007. Presentation on Project Duras. Kalahari Melon Seed oil.

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2013. Cultivation of Tylosema esculentum (Marama bean) Trials.

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Stewart KM 2010. Effects of secondary tuber harvest on populations of devil's claw (Harpagophytum procumbens) in the Kalahari savannas of South Africa. African Journal of Ecology 48 (1) 146-154

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2009.01093.x/abstract

Sadr K 2005. Hunter-Gatherers and Herders of the Kalahari During the Late Holocene. Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470774632.ch11/summary

Mees F 2002. The nature of calcareous deposits along pan margins in eastern central Namibia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 27 (7) 719-735

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.348/abstract

Bullard JE, Thomas DSG, Livingstone I, Wiggs GFS 1997. Dunefield Activity and Interactions with Climatic Variability in the Southwest Kalahari Desert. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 22 (2) 165-174

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199702)22:2%3C165::AID-ESP687%3E3.0.CO;2-9/abstract

Bullard JE, Thomas DSG, Livingstone I, Wiggs GFS 1996. Wind energy variations in the southwestern Kalahari Desert and implications for linear dunefield activity. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 21 (3) 263-278

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199603)21:3%3C263::AID-ESP627%3E3.0.CO;2-I/abstract

Collias EC, Collias NE 1978. Nest building and nesting behaviour of the Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius. Ibis 120 (1) 1 - 15

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1978.tb04994.x/abstract

Hulley GC, Hook SJ, Manning E, Lee S-Y, Fetzer E 2009. Validation of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) version 5 land surface emissivity product over the Namib and Kalahari deserts. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres (1984-2012) 114 (D19) 16

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2009JD012351/abstract

Shaw PA, Thomas DSG, Nash DJ 1992. Late Quaternary fluvial activity in the dry valleys (mekgacha) of the Middle and Southern Kalahari, southern Africa. Journal of Quaternary Science 7 (4) 273-281

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.3390070402/abstract

Burrough SL, Thomas DSG 2008. Late Quaternary lake-level fluctuations in the Mababe Depression: Middle Kalahari palaeolakes and the role of Zambezi inflows. Quaternary Research 69 (3) 388-403

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589408000252

Mees F, van Ranst E 2011. Euhedral sparitic calcite in buried surface horizons in lake basins, southwestern Kalahari, Namibia. Geoderma 163 (1-2) 109-118

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706111000899

Haddon IG, McCarthy TS 2005. The Mesozoic–Cenozoic interior sag basins of Central Africa: The Late-Cretaceous–Cenozoic Kalahari and Okavango basins. Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (1-3) 316-333

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X05001238

Humphries MS, McCarthy TS, Cooper GRJ, Stewart RA, Stewart RD 2014. The role of airborne dust in the growth of tree islands in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Geomorphology 206 307-317

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X13005199

Wanke H, Wanke A 2007. Water quality for game in drylands: A case study from the Khaudum National Park, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 70 (3) 553-559

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196307000493

Stokes S, Haynes G, Thomas DSG, Horrocks JL, Higginson M, Malifa M 1998. Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 137 (3-4) 305-322

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018297001065

Telfer MW, Thomas DSG 2007. Late Quaternary linear dune accumulation and chronostratigraphy of the southwestern Kalahari: implications for aeolian palaeoclimatic reconstructions and predictions of future dynamics. Quaternary Science Reviews 26 (19-21) 2617-2630

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737910700193X

Anne O, Rasa E 1995. Ecological factors influencing burrow location,group size and mortality in a nocturnal fossorial Kalahari detritivore, Parastizopus armaticeps Peringuey (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Arid Environments 29 (3) 353-365

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305801144

Thomas DSG, Brook G, Shaw P, Bateman M, Haberyan K, Appleton C, Nash D, McLaren S, Davies F 2003. Late Pleistocene wetting and drying in the NW Kalahari: an integrated study from the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana. Quaternary International 104 (1) 53-67

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618202001350

Thomas AD, Dougill AJ 2007. Spatial and temporal distribution of cyanobacterial soil crusts in the Kalahari: Implications for soil surface properties. Geomorphology 85 (1-2) 17-29

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X0600290X

Kong TM, Austin DE, Kellner K, Orr BJ 2014. The interplay of knowledge, attitude and practice of livestock farmers' land management against desertification in the South African Kalahari. Journal of Arid Environments 105 12-21

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196314000366

Singletary SJ, Hanson RE, Martin MW, Crowley JL, Bowring SA, Key RM, Ramokate LV, Direng BB, Krole MA 2003. Geochronology of basement rocks in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, and implications for regional Proterozoic tectonics. Precambrian Research 121 (1-2) 47-71

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301926802002012

Foster DA, Goscombe BD, Newstead B, Mapani B, Mueller PA, Gregor LC, Muvangu E U–Pb age and Lu–Hf isotopic data of detrital zircons from the Neoproterozoic Damara Sequence: Implications for Congo and Kalahari before Gondwana. Gondwana Research In press (Corrected proof)

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X14001762

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

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019639690172X

Stone AEC, Thomas DSG 2008. Linear dune accumulation chronologies from the southwest Kalahari, Namibia: challenges of reconstructing late Quaternary palaeoenvironments from aeolian landforms. Quaternary Science Reviews 27 (17-18) 1667-1681

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379108001492

Nash DJ, Shaw PA 1998. Silica and carbonate relationships in silcrete-calcrete intergrade duricrusts from the Kalahari of Botswana and Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 27 (1) 11-25

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536298000438

Wanke H, Wanke A 2007. Lithostratigraphy of the Kalahari Group in northeastern Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 48 (5) 314-328

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X07000702

Mees F 2003. Salt mineral distribution patterns in soils of the Otjomongwa pan, Namibia. Catena 54 (3) 425-437

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816203001358

Stone AEC, Edmunds WM 2014. Naturally-high nitrate in unsaturated zone sand dunes above the Stampriet Basin, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 105 41-51

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196314000494

Riedel F, Erhardt S, Chauke C, Kossler A, Shemang E, Tarasova R 2012. Evidence for a permanent lake in Sua Pan (Kalahari, Botswana) during the early centuries of the last millennium indicated by distribution of Baobab trees (Adansonia digitata) on "Kubu Island". Quaternary International 253 67-73

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618211001443

Lancaster N 2013. Dune Fields / Low Latitudes. Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Second Edition) 623-636

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444536433001539

Clancey PA 1968. The Angolan races of the Kalahari Scrub Robin. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 39 (4) 270

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1968.9634313#.VRlYmGf9kpE

Mncwangi N, Vermaak I, Viljoen AM Mid-infrared spectroscopy and short wave infrared hyperspectral imaging—A novel approach in the qualitative assessment of Harpagophytum procumbens and H. zeyheri (Devil's Claw). Phytochemistry Letters 7 (143-149) 2014

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1874390013002036

Letloa Custodian Comittee 2012. Naro San Values.

Website link:http://pabalelotrust.wix.com/home#!projects/c10d6

Melville HIAS, Bothma J du P 2006. Using spoor counts to analyse the effect of small stock farming in Namibia on caracal density in the neighbouring Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Journal of Arid Environments 64 (3) 436-447

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305001424

Blümel WD, Eitel B, Lang A 1998. Dunes in southeastern Namibia: evidence for Holocene environmental changes in the southwestern Kalahari based on thermoluminescence data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 138 (1-4) 139-149

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018297001144

Lamb T, Bond JE 2013. A multilocus perspective on phylogenetic relationships in the Namib darkling beetle genus Onymacris (Tenebrionidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (3) 757-765

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790312004368

Herremans M 1998. Monitoring the world population of the Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor) on the non-breeding grounds in southern Africa. Journal für Ornithologie 139 (4) 485-493

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01653472

Riedel F, Henderson ACG, Heußner K-U, Kaufmann G, Kossler A, Leipe C, Shemang E, Taft L 2013. Dynamics of a Kalahari long-lived mega-lake system: hydromorphological and limnological changes in the Makgadikgadi Basin (Botswana) during the terminal 50 ka. Hydrobiologia

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-013-1647-x

Wasylikowa K, van der Veen M 2004. An archaeobotanical contribution to the history of watermelon, Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai (syn. C. vulgaris Schrad.). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 13 (4) 213-217

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-004-0039-6

Leistner OA 1996. The subcanopy flora in the dynamics of the Kalahari Thornveld. The Biodiversity of African Plants 163-179

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-0285-5_23

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

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

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

Seymour CL, Huyser O 2008. Fire and the demography of camelthorn (Acacia erioloba Meyer) in the southern Kalahari – evidence for a bonfire effect?. African Journal of Ecology 46 594-601

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2007.00909.x/abstract

Barnes JI 1995. Economic analysis of community-based wildlife utilisation initiatives in Botswana. Development Southern Africa 12 (6) 783-803

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03768359508439857#.Ud_R1tzwBFo

Jacobs J, Pisarevsky S, Thomas RJ, Becker T 2008. The Kalahari Craton during the assembly and dispersal of Rodinia. Precambrian Research 160 (1-2) 142-158

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301926807001611

van Rooyen N, Bredenkamp GJ, Theron GK, Bothma J du P, Le Riche EAN 1994. Vegetational gradients around artificial watering points in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. Journal of Arid Environments 26 (4) 349-361

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196384710378

Bradfield RD 1952. Descriptions of new races of Kalahari birds and mammals. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 23 (2) 127 - 128

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1952.9633018#.VRJylGc5ApE