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A wide, open, comparatively barren tract of land with few forms of life and little rainfall. (Source: MGH)

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Günster A 1994. Variability in life history parameters of four serotinous plants in the Namib Desert. Vegetatio 114 (2) 149-160

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00048394

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Eller BM 1985. Availability of water controls Crassulacean acid metabolism in succulents of the Richtersveld (Namib desert, South Africa). Planta 164 (1) 44-55

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00391024

Lubyin YD, Henschel JR 1990. Foraging at the thermal limit: burrowing spiders (Seothyra, Eresidae) in the Namib desert dunes. Oecologia 84 (4) 461-467

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00328161

Prestel E, Salamitou S, DuBow MS 2008. An examination of the bacteriophages and bacteria of the Namib desert. Journal of Microbiology 46 (4) 364-372

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12275-008-0007-4

von Willert DJ, Eller BM, Brinckmann E, Baasch R 1982. CO2 gas exchange and transpiration of Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. fil. in the central Namib desert. Oecologia 55 (1) 21-29

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00386713

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

Stomeo F, Valverde A, Pointing SB, McKay CP, Warren-Rhodes KA, Tuffin MI, Seely M, Cowan DA 2013. Hypolithic and soil microbial community assembly along an aridity gradient in the Namib Desert. Extremophiles 17 (2) 329-337

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-013-0519-7

Werger JA 1978. The Karoo-Namib Region. Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa: Monographiae Biologicae 31 231-299

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-9951-0_9

Jürgens N 1991. A new approach to the Namib Region. Vegetation 97 (1) 21-38

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00033899

Jürgens N, Burke A 2000. The Arid Scenario: Inselbergs in the Namib Desert Are Rich Oases in a Poor Matrix (Namibia and South Africa). Inselbergs: Ecological Studies 146 237-257

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-59773-2_12

Curtis BA 1985. Nests of the namib desert dune ant Camponotus detritus Emery. Insectes Sociaux 32 (3) 313-320

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02224920

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Eller BM, Scheitler B 1983. CO2 exchange of CAM exhibiting succulents in the southern Namib desert in relation to microclimate and water stress. Photosynthesis Research 4 (3) 289-298

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00052133

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Schulze E-D, Thomas DA, Treichel S 1980. Ökophysiologische Untersuchungen an Pflanzen der Namib-Wüste. Naturwissenschaften 67 (1) 21-28

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00424499

Curtis BA 1985. The dietary spectrum of the namib desert dune ant Camponotus Detritus. Insectes Sociaux 32 (1) 78-85

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02233228

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Eller BM 1983. Responses of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) to Increasing and Decreasing Water Stress in Plants in the Southern Namib Desert. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology 3 155-163

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-6813-4_17

Schulze ED, Ziegler H, Stichler W 1976. Environmental control of crassulacean acid metabolism in Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. Fil. in its range of natural distribution in the Namib desert. Oecologia 24 (4) 323-334

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00381138

McClain E, Praetorius RL, Hanrahan SA, Seely MK 1984. Dynamics of the wax bloom of a seasonal Namib Desert tenebrionid, Cauricara phalangium (Coleoptera: Adesmiini). Oecologia 63 (3) 314-319

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00390659

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Eller BM, Scheitler B 1984. Water loss and malate fluctuations during the day for plants in the southern Namib desert. Oecologia 61 (3) 393-397

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00379641

Viles H, Goudie A 2000. Weathering, Geomorphology and Climatic Variability in the Central Namib Desert. Advances in Global Change Research 6 65-82

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-306-48086-7_4

Norgaard T, Henschel JR, Wehner R 2006. The night-time temporal window of locomotor activity in the Namib Desert long-distance wandering spider, Leucorchestris arenicola. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 192 (4) 365-372

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-005-0072-7

Treichel S, Brinckmann E, Scheitler B, Willert DJ 1984. Occurrence and changes of proline content in plants in the southern Namib Desert in relations to increasing and decreasing drought. Planta 162 (3) 236-242

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00397445

Wiesel I 2010. Killing of Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) pups by brown hyenas (Parahyaena brunnea) at mainland breeding colonies along the coastal Namib Desert. Acta Ethologica 13 (2) 93-100

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10211-010-0078-1

McClain E, Kok CJ, Monrad LAG 1991. Reflective wax blooms on black Namib desert beetles enhance day activity. Naturw 78 (1) 40-42

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01134045

Goudie A 2010. Namib Sand Sea: Large Dunes in an Ancient Desert. Geomorphological Landscapes of the World 163-169

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-3055-9_17

Eckardt FD, Drake N 2011. Introducing the Namib Desert Playas. Sabkha Ecosystems: Tasks for Vegetation Science 46 19-25

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-9673-9_3

Brain CK, Koste W 1993. Rotifers of the genus Proales from saline springs in the Namib desert, with the description of a new species. Hydrobiologia 255-256 (1) 449-454

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00025872

von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E, Baasch R, Eller BM 1983. Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. Fil. - A Cam Plant? Ecophysiological Investigations in the Central Namib Desert. Effects of Stress on Photosynthesis: Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology 3 185-191

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-6813-4_20

Widlok T 2003. Institutional Dynamics of Changing Land Care Practices in the Central Namib Desert. How Institutions Change 205-228

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-322-80936-0_12

Kojwang HO 2000. Wood fuels review and assessment :Namibia Country Report.

Website link:http://www.fao.org/docrep/004/x6797e/X6797E00.htm

Viljoen PJ, Bothma J du P 1990. The influence of desert-dwelling elephants on vegetation in the northern Namib Desert, South West Africa/Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 18 (1) 85-96

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140196318308747

Sjöskog M 2008. Plants around Gobabeb.

Website link:http://issuu.com/majasjoskog/docs/plants_around_gobabeb

Augus D 2006. Ant Colony Optimisation: From Biological Inspiration to an Algorithmic Framework.

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Wehner R 1987. Spatial organization of foraging behavior in individually searching desert ants, Cataglyphis (Sahara desert) and Ocymyrmex (Namib Desert). From Individual to Collective Behavior in Social Insects 15-42

Website link:http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12816268?selectedversion=NBD5388628

Muser B, Sommer S, Wolf H, Wehner R 2005. Foraging ecology of the thermophilic Australian desert ant, Melophorus bagoti. Australian Journal of Zoology 53 (5) 301-311

Website link:http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/ZO05023.htm

van den Eynden V, van Damme P 1993. Medicinal and aromatic plants used by the Topnaar - Namibia. Acta horticulturae 344 266-277

Website link:http://www.actahort.org/members/showpdf?booknrarnr=330_7

Dentlinger U 1977. The !nara plant in the Topnaar Hottentot culture of Namibia: ethnobotanical clues to an 8,000-year-old tradition. Munger Africana Library Notes 38

Website link:http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechMALN:1977:001

The Homeb silts in the Namib Desert. Planetary Science Institute.

Website link:http://www.psi.edu/about/staff/mbourke/bourkeprojects/Homeb1.html

Bourke MC, Child A, Stokes S 2003. Optical age estimates for hyper-arid fluvial deposits at Homeb, Namibia. Quaternary Science Reviews 22 (10-13) 1099-1103

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379103000854

Ward JD 1987. The Cenozoic succession in the Kuiseb Valley, central Namib Desert.

Website link:http://www.iucat.iu.edu/catalog/93163

Seely MK, Henschel JR 2003. Best Practices in the World's Oldest Desert.. Conserving Biodiversity in Arid Regions 119-128

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4615-0375-0_9

Milton SJ, Dean WRJ 2000. Disturbance, drought and dynamics of desert dune grassland, South Africa. Plant Ecology 150 (1-2) 37-51

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1026585211708

Jacobson L 1984. Chapter 7: Hunting versus gathering in an arid ecosystem: the evidence from the Namib Desert. Frontiers: Southern African Archaeology Today 10

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Ryan PG, Hood I, Bloomer P, Komen J, Crowe T 1999. Barlow's Lark: a new species in the Karoo Lark Certhilauda albescens complex. Ibis 140 (4) 605-619

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1998.tb04706.x/abstract

Armstrong S 1990. Fog, wind and heat: life in the Namib desert. New Scientist 127 (1725) 46-50

Website link:https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12717253-800/

Spriggs A WWF. Deserts and xeric shrublands. Africa: Namibia. Prepared by: Amy Spriggs.

Website link:http://worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/at1315

Fet V, Polis GA, Sissom WD 1998. Life in Sandy Deserts: The Scorpion Model. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (4) 609-622

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196397903864

Seely MK 1986. Chapter 12: Sand dune communities. The ecology of desert communities 348-382

Website link:http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19921158774.html;jsessionid=88ADE9CB1E4BD2706EB8FC7E9DE80BDE

Burke A 2001. Determining landscape function and ecosystem dynamics: contribution to ecological restoration in the southern Namib desert. Ambio 30 (1) 29-36

Website link:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11351790

Olivier J 1992. Some spatial and temporal aspects of fog in the Namib. SA Geographer 19 (1/2) 108-126

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/11741

Eckardt FD, Drake N, Goudie AS, White K, Viles H 2001. The role of playas in pedogenic gypsum crust formation in the Central Namib Desert: a theoretical model. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 26 (11) 1177-1193

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.264/abstract