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Roberts CS, McClain EL, Seely MK, Mitchell D, Goodall VL, Henschel JR 2025. Beetling the heat - the diurnal Namib Desert beetle Onymacris plana cools by running. Journal of Experimental Biology

Website link:https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-abstract/doi/10.1242/jeb.250379/368535/Beetling-the-heat-the-diurnal-Namib-Desert-beetle?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Vogt R, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G, Göttsche F-M, Cermak J, Seely MK 2022. A decade of solar and terrestrial radiation monitoring at Gobabeb for BSRN. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 69 141-159

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Mitchell D, Henschel JR, Hetem RS, Wassenaar TD, Strauss WM, Hanrahan SA, Seely MK 2020. Fog and fauna of the Namib Desert: past and future. Ecosphere 11 (1)

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Throop HL, Seely MK, Marufu VJ 2020. Multiple scales of spatial heterogeneity control soil respiration responses to precipitation across a dryland rainfall gradient. Plant Soil 2020

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11104-020-04614-0

Spirig R, Vogt R, Larsen JA, Feigenwinter C, Wicki A, Franceschi J, Parlow E, Adler B, Kalthoff N, Cermak J, Andersen H, Fuchs J, Bott A, Hacker M, Wagner N, Maggs-Kölling G, Wassenaar T, Seely MK 2019. Probing the fog life-cycles in the Namib desert. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2019 2491-2507

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Website link:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0142.1

Li B, Wang L, Kaseke KF, Vogt R, Li L, Seely MK 2018. The impact of fog on soil moisture dynamics in the Namib Desert. Advances in Water Resources (113) 23-29

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.01.004

Kaseke KF, Wang L, Seely MK 2017. Nonrainfall water origins and formation mechanisms. Science Advances 3 (3) 1-8

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Li B, Wang L, Kaseke KF, Li L, Seely MK 2016. The impact of rainfall on soil moisture dynamics in a foggy desert. Plos ONE 11 (10) e0164982

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Marufu VJ, Hitila M, Donner M, Iita KT, Iyambo KE, Kalili SN, Kamburona TU, Liyeke MM, Mundilo PVI, Nuuyuni SN, Shimwafeni JI, Tjituka V, Tshikesho RS, Seely MK, Throop HL 2016. Rapid soil respiration responses to simulated rainfall along the Namib Desert climate gradient. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 64 103-120

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Wassenaar TD, Henschel JR, Pfaffenthaler MM, Mutotaa EN, Seely MK, Pallett J 2013. Ensuring the future of the Namib's biodiversity: Ecological restoration as a key management response to a mining boom. Journal of Arid Environments 93 126-135

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Kaseke KF, Mills AJ, Henschel J, Seely MK, Esler K, Brown R 2012. The effects of desert pavements (gravel mulch) on soil micro-hydrology. Pure and Applied Geophysics 169 (5-6) 873-880

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00024-011-0367-2

Kaseke KF, Mills AJ, Esler K, Henschel J, Seely MK, Brown R 2012. Spatial Variation of "Non-Rainfall" Water Input and the Effect of Mechanical Soil Crusts on Input and Evaporation. Pure and Applied Geophysics 169 (12) 2217-2229

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00024-012-0469-5

Kaseke KF, Mills AJ, Brown R, Esler KJ, Henschel JR, Seely MK 2012. A method for direct assessment of the "non rainfall" atmospheric water cycle: input and evaporation from the soil. Pure and applied geophysics 169 (5-6) 847-857

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Seely MK, Klintenberg P, Henschel JR 2009. Learning from the Desert. Journal of Arid Land Studies 19 (1) 1-3

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Henschel JR, Seely MK 2008. Ecophysiology of atmospheric moisture in the Namib Desert. Atmospheric Research 87 (3-4) 362-368

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Verlinden A, Seely MK, Hillyer A 2006. Settlement, trees and termites in Central North Namibia: A case of indigenous resource management. Journal of Arid Environments 66 307 - 335

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019630500282X

Shanyengana ES, Seely MK, Sanderson RD 2004. Major-ion chemistry and ground-water salinization in ephemeral floodplains in some arid regions of Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 57 71-83

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196303000958

Henschel JR, Seely MK, Mtuleni V, Pallett J 2003. The surface-dwelling arthropod fauna of Gobabeb with a description of the long-term pitfall trapping project. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 51 65-92

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Shanyengana ES, Sanderson RD, Seely MK, Schemenauer RS 2003. Testing greenhouse shade nets in collection of fog for water supply. Journal of Water Supply, Research and Technology-Aqua 52 237-241

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Seely MK, Zeidler J, Henschel JR, Barnard P 2003. Creative problem solving in support of biodiversity conservation. 54 (1) 155 - 164

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196301908821

Shanyengana ES, Henschel JR, Seely MK, Sanderson RD 2002. Exploring fog as a supplementary water source in Namibia. Atmospheric Research 64 (1-4) 251-259

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809502000960

Seely MK, Henschel JR, Zeidler J, Shanyengana ESC 2000. Namib research: its development at Gobabeb and implications for Namibia. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 48 62-88

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Henschel JR, Seely MK 2000. Long-term growth patterns of Welwitschia mirabilis , a long-lived plant of the Namib Desert (including a bibliography). Plant Ecology 150 (1 - 2) 7 - 26

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Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/tnk2447w856300j2/

Seely MK 1998. Can science and community action connect to combat desertification?. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 267 - 277

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Polis GA, Barnes JD, Seely MK, Henschel JR, Enders MM 1998. Predation as a major cost of reproduction in Namib Desert tenebrionid beetles. Ecology 79 (7) 2560-2566

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079%5B2560:PAAMCO%5D2.0.CO;2/full

Burke A, Jürgens N, Seely MK 1998. Floristic affinities of an inselberg archipelago in the southern Namib desert—relic of the past, centre of endemism or nothing special?. Journal of Biogeography 25 (2) 311-317

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2699.1998.252116.x/abstract

Abrams MM, Jacobson PJ, Jacobson KM, Seely MK 1997. Survey of soil chemical properties across a landscape in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 35 (1) 29-38

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196385701395

Henschel JR, Seely MK 1997. Mass-length relationships of Namib tenebrionids. Madoqua 19 (2) 159-160

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Ward D, Seely MK 1996. Adaptation and Constraint in the Evolution of the Physiology and Behavior of the Namib Desert Tenebrionid Beetle Genus Onymacris. Evolution 50 (3) 1231-1240

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2410663?uid=4&sid=21102165041421

Seymour RS, Seely MK 1996. The respiratory environment of the Namib Desert Golden Mole. Journal of Arid Environments 32 (4) 453-461

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396900385

Ward D, Seely MK 1996. Competition and habitat selection in Namib desert tenebrionid beetles. Evolutionary Ecology 10 (4) 341-359

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01237722

Southgate RI, Masters P, Seely MK 1996. Precipitation and biomass changes in the Namib Desert dune ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 33 (3) 267-280

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396900646

Hauffe HC, Searle JB, Seely MK 1994. The taxonomic status of two morphotypes of the tenebrionid Onymacris rugatipennis: indications from behavioural and genetical studies. Journal of Zoology 233 (2) 193-201

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1994.tb08583.x/abstract;jsessionid=EFB49D78DDB1474BAD38520AECC42C29.d04t03?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

Seely MK, Jacobson M 1994. Desertification and Namibia: A perspective. Journal of African Zoology 108 21–36

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Costa G, Petralia A, Conti E, Hänel C, Seely MK 1993. Seven stone spiders on the gravel plains of the Namib Desert. Bollettino dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali in Catania 26 77-83

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Nagy KA, Clarke BC, Seely MK, Mitchell D, Lighton JRB 1991. Water and energy balance in Namibian desert sand-dune lizards Angolosaurus skoogi (Andersson, 1916.). Functional Ecology 5 (6) 731-739

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2389535

Rasmussen JL, Seely MK, Pietruszka RD 1991. The reproductive behavior of six species of Namib desert tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 4 (5) 567-582

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01048071

Polis GA, Seely MK 1990. Imbibition of Precipitated Fog by Namib Desert Scorpions. Journal of Arachnology 18 (3) 362-363

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Seely MK 1990. Patterns of plant establishment on a linear desert dune. Israel Journal of Botany 36 443-451

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0021213X.1990.10677167#.VGWxNVItBHg

Seely MK, Mitchell D, Roberts CS, McClain E 1988. Microclimate and activity of the lizard Angolosaurus skoogi on a dune slipface. African Zoology 23 (2) 92-102

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Hauffe HC, Pietruszka RD, Seely MK 1988. Observations on the behaviour of Onymacris laeviceps Gebien (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae>: Adesmiini) in the central Namib Desert dunes. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 51 (2) 183 - 192

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/observations-behaviour-onymacris-laeviceps-gebien-coleoptera-tenebrionidae-adesmiini-central-namib-desert-dunes/

Day JA, Seely MK 1988. Physical and chemical conditions in an hypersaline spring in the Namib Desert. Hydrobiologia 160 (2) 141-153

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00015477

Mitchell D, Seely MK, Roberts CS, Pietruszka RD, McClain E, Griffin M, Yeaton RI 1987. On the biology of the lizard Angolosaurus skoogi in the Namib Desert. Madoqua 15 201-216

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Seely MK, Mitchell D 1987. Is the subsurface environment of the Namib Desert dunes a thermal haven for chthonic beetles?. African Zoology 22 (1) 57-61

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Loutit BD, Louw GN, Seely MK 1987. First approximation of food preferences and the chemical composition of the diet of the desert-dwelling black rhinoceros L.. Madoqua 15 (1) 35-54

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Pietruszka RD, Hanrahan SA, Mitchell D, Seely MK 1986. Lizard herbivory in a sand dune environment: the diet of Angolosaurus skoogi. Oecologia 70 (4) 587-591

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00379909

Osberg SA, Hanrahan SA, Seely MK 1986. Laboratory studies on hybridization among Namib Desert Tenebrionids (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Madoqua 14 (4) 345-354

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Seely MK, Griffin M 1986. Animals of the Namib Desert: interactions with their physical environment. 100 47-61

Website link:http://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetail&idt=7909137

Louw GN, Nicolson SW, Seely MK 1986. Short Communication: Respiration beneath Desert Sand: Carbon Dioxide Diffusion and Respiratory Patterns in a Tenebrionid Beetle. Journal of Experimental Biology 120 443-447

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McClain E, Seely MK, Hadley NF, Gray V 1985. Wax Blooms in Tenebrionid Beetles of the Namib Desert: Correlations with Environment. Ecology 66 (1) 112-118

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1941311?uid=4&sid=21102338722657

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