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Lands characterized by low annual rainfall of less than 250 mm, by evaporation exceeding precipitation and a sparse vegetation. (Source: LBC)
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1987. The Cenozoic succession in the Kuiseb Valley, central Namib Desert.
Website link:http://www.iucat.iu.edu/catalog/93163
2012. Conserving Dryland Biodiversity.
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| Conserving Dryland Biodiversity_2012.pdf | 3.58 MB |
1984. Chapter 7: Hunting versus gathering in an arid ecosystem: the evidence from the Namib Desert. Frontiers: Southern African Archaeology Today
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| Hunting versus gathering in an arid ecosystem_the evidence from the Namib Desert.pdf | 389.57 KB |
Chapter 3: Climate reconstructions based on fluvial deposits in hyper-arid desert Environments in. African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution, Palaeoecology of Africa 30
Website link:http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/b10542-4
1992. Transmission losses to alluvium and associated moisture dynamics in a semi-arid ephemeral channel system in Southern Africa. Hydrological Processes 6 (1) 45-53
Water Conservation in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions.
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| Water Conservation in Arid and Semi_Arid Regions.pdf | 225.76 KB |
1994. Historical changes in stocking rates of domestic livestock as a measure of semi-arid and arid rangeland degradation in the Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments
26 (3) 281-298
2001. Practical limits on hyperspectral vegetation discrimination in arid and semiarid environments. Remote Sensing of Environment 77 (2) 212-225
1996. Precipitation and biomass changes in the Namib Desert dune ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 33 (3) 267-280
1995. Grass cover distribution in the central Namib— a rapid method to assess regional and local rainfall patterns of arid regions?. Journal of Arid Environments
29 (1) 107-114
2007. Facies evidence of hydroclimatic regime shifts in tufa depositional sequences from the arid Naukluft Mountains, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 195 (1-2) 39-53
2006. Depositional environment and OSL chronology of the Homeb silt deposits, Kuiseb River, Namibia. Quaternary Research 65 (3) 478-491
2005. Dynamics of transmission losses in a large arid stream channel. Journal of Hydrology 306 (1-4) 112-126
2007. Plant endemism in the central Namib Desert. Evolutionary Ecology Research
9 283-297
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| Plant endemism in the central Namib Desert.pdf | 126.86 KB |
1999. Provision of watering points in the Australian arid zone: a review of effects on biota. Journal of Arid Environments 41 (1) 87-121
2005. Landsat monitoring of playa-lakes in the Spanish Monegros Desert. Journal of Arid Environments
63 (2) 497-516
2003. Soil–vegetation relationships in a coastal desert plain of southern Sinai, Egypt. Journal of Arid Environments
55 (4) 607-628
1998. Environmental correlates of species distribution in arid desert ecosystems of eastern Egypt. Journal of Arid Environments 38 (2) 297-313
2001. Dealing with aridity: socio-economic structures and environmental changes in an arid Mediterranean region. Land Use Policy 18 (1) 53-64
2002. Desertification in the Arab Region: analysis of current status and trends. Journal of Arid Environments
51 (4) 521-545
1998. On our failure to control desertification: implications for global change issues, and a research agenda for the future. Environmental Science and Policy 1 (2) 71-78
2006. Flow variability in dryland rivers: boom, bust and the bits in between. River Research and Applications, Special Issue: Variability in Riverine Environments 22 (2) 179-186
2010. The Namib Desert Archaeological Survey. Antiquity 084 (325)
Website link:http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/kinahan325/
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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| A patch_dynamics approach to savanna dynamics and woody plant encroachment_Insights from an arid savanna.pdf | 415.07 KB |
2011. Euphorbia caput-medusae L. - A journey from the foggy Cape of Storms to the arid windblasted sands of the Namib Desert (part 1). Euphorbia World
7 (2)
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| Euphorbia caput_medusae_Part 1.pdf | 1.48 MB |
2000. Perceptions and realities of land degradation in arid Otjimbingwe, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 45 (4) 337 - 356
2004. Spatio-temporal rainfall variation and stock management in arid Namibia. Journal of Range Management 57 (2) 130 - 140
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/4003910
2006. Arbuscular mycorrhizae from arid parts of Namibia. Journal of Arid Environment 64 (2) 221 - 237
2000. Dune activity as a record of late Quaternary aridity in the Northern Kalahari: New evidence from northern Namibia interpreted in the context of regional arida and humid chronologies. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
156 243 - 259
Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0031-0182(99)00143-1
1999. The impacts of people and livestock on topographically diverse open wood-and shrub-lands in arid north-west Namibia. Global Ecology and Biogeography
8 (3 - 4) 257 - 277
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| The impacts of people and livestock on topographically diverse open wood_and shrub_lands in arid north_west Namibia.pdf | 264.41 KB |
2001. Namib desert (AT1315).
2001. Kaokoveld desert (AT1310).
2005. Tree thinning as an option to increase herbaceous yield of an encroached semi-arid savanna in South Africa. BMC Ecology 5 (4)
1998. Detecting vegetation change in the southern Kalahari using Landsat TM data. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 143 - 153
1990. Structure of the woody vegetation in disturbed and undisturbed arid savanna, Botswana. Vegetation 87 (1) 11 - 18
2010. The relationship between fog, floods, groundwater and tree growth along the lower Kuiseb River in the hyperarid Namib. Journal of Arid Environments
74 (12) 1632 - 1637
2004. Population estimation and harvesting potential for game in arid Namibia. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 34 (2) 153 - 161
2001. Effective rainfall defined using measurements of grass growth in the Etosha National Park, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 48 (3) 397 - 417
2004. Effects of artificial water points on the Oshana ecosystem in Namibia. Environmental Conservation
31 (01) 47 - 54
Website link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/44520731
2006. Unravelling the effects of soil properties on water infiltration: Segmented quantile regression on a large data set from arid south-west Africa. Australian Journal of Soil Research 44 (8) 783 - 797
Website link:http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/SR05180.htm
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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| Seasonal vegetation changes in the Hoanib River catchment.pdf | 270.57 KB |