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Study of the ways in which plants, animals, and microbes interact with each other and with their physical environment and of the processes involving the circulation, transformation and accumulation of both matter, especially nutrient materials, and energy. (Source: CULTER / PARCORa)

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Bartolome JW 1993. Applications of herbivore optimization theory to rangelands of the western United States. Ecological Applications 3 (1) 27-29

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1941785

Weber GE, Jeltsch F, van Rooyen N, Milton SJ 1998. Simulated long-term vegetation response to grazing heterogeneity in semi-arid rangelands. Journal of Applied Ecology 35 (5) 687-699

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2664.1998.355341.x/abstract

Todd SW 2006. Gradients in vegetation cover, structure and species richness of Nama-Karoo shrublands in relation to distance from livestock watering points. Journal of Applied Ecology 43 (2) 293-304

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2006.01154.x/abstract

Hille Ris Lambers R, Rietkerk M, van der Bosch F, Prins HHT, de Kroon H 2001. Vegetation pattern formation in semi-arid grazing systems. Ecology 82 (1) 50-61

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2680085

Parr TW, Sier ARJ, Battarbee RW, Mackay A, Burgess J 2003. Detecting environmental change: science and society—perspectives on long-term research and monitoring in the 21st century. The Science of the Total Environment 310 (1-3) 1-8

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969703002572

Dahlberg AC 2000. Interpretations of environmental change and diversity: a critical approach to indications of degradation — the case of Kalakamate, Northeast Botswana. Land Degradation and Development 11 (6) 438-451

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1099-145X(200011/12)11:6%3C549::AID-LDR413%3E3.0.CO;2-5/abstract

El-Ghani MMA, Amer WM 2003. Soil–vegetation relationships in a coastal desert plain of southern Sinai, Egypt. Journal of Arid Environments 55 (4) 607-628

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019630200318X

Diouf A, Lambin EF 2001. Monitoring land-cover changes in semi-arid regions: remote sensing data and field observations in the Ferlo, Senegal. Journal of Arid Environments 48 (2) 129-148

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196300907444

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

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

Ludwig JA, Coughenour MB, Liedloff AC, Dyer R 2001. Modelling the resilience of Australian savanna systems to grazing impacts. Environment International 27 167-172

Website link:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11697665

Geist HJ, Lambin EF 2004. Dynamic Causal Patterns of Desertification. BioScience 59 (9) 817-829

Website link:http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054%5B0817:DCPOD%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Abahussain AA, Abdou AS, Al-Zubari WK, El-Deen NA, Abdul-Raheem M 2002. Desertification in the Arab Region: analysis of current status and trends. Journal of Arid Environments 51 (4) 521-545

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302909754

Watkinson AR, Ormerod SJ 2001. Grasslands, grazing and biodiversity: editors' introduction. Journal of Applied Ecology 38 (2) 233-237

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2001.00621.x/full

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

Kirchmann H, Andersson R 2001. The Swedish system for quality assessment of agricultural soils. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 72 (2) 129-139

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1012048124858?LI=true

Glen E, Smith MS, Squires V 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

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901198000070

Ludwig JA, Bastin GN, Eager RW, Karfs R, Ketner P, Pearce G 2000. Monitoring Australian rangeland sites using landscape function indicators and ground-and remote -based techniques. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 64 (1) 167-178

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1006475825546

Hartnett DC, Setshego MP, Dalgleish HJ 2006. Bud banks of perennial savanna grasses in Botswana. African Journal of Ecology 44 (2) 256-263

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2006.00646.x/abstract

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

Bunn SE, Thomas MC, Hamilton SK, Capon SJ 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

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rra.904/abstract

Summer Desertification Programme (SDP).

Website link:http://www.drfn.info:81/

Albrecht CF, Joubert JJ, de Rycke PH 2001. Origin of the enigmatic, circular, barren patches ("Fairy Rings") of the pro-Namib. South African Journal of Science 97 23-27

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Becker T 2007. The phenomenon of Fairy Circles in Kaokoland (NW Namibia). Basic and Applied Dryland Research 1 (2) 121-137

Website link:http://www.badr-online.de/fairy_circles_kaokoland

The African Journal Archive.

Website link:http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=african-journal-archive

Coetzee ME 2004. Arenosols of Namibia. Agricola 14 18 - 22

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

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

Wood JD, O'Connell-Rodwell CE, Klemperer SL 2005. Methodological Insights: Using seismic censors to detect elephants and other large mammals: A potential census technique. Journal of Applied Ecology 42 587 - 594

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01044.x/abstract

Grube S 2001. Soil modification by the harvester termite Hodotermes mossambicus (Isoptera; Hodotermitidae) in a semiarid savanna grassland of Namibia. Sociobiology 37 (3B) 757 - 767

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/soil-modification-harvester-termite-hodotermes-mossambicus-isoptera-hodotermitidae-semiarid-savanna-grassland-namibia-3/

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/

List of publications of the 'Etosha Research Group' at the University of Regensburg, Federal Republic of Germany.

Website link:http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_III/Geographie/phygeo/leris/publikationen1.htm

Shvidenko A, Apps M 2006. The International Boreal Forest Research Association: Understanding Boreal Forests and Forestry in a Changing World. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 11 (1) 5 - 32

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/h162728907010587/

Arid Lands Newsletter.

Website link:http://ag.arizona.edu/oals/ALN/ALNHome.html

Trollope WSW, Trollope LA 2004. Prescribed burning in African grasslands and savannas for wildlife management.

Website link:http://ag.arizona.edu/oals/ALN/aln55/trollope.html

Trigg S, Flasse S 2000. Characterizing the spectral-temporal response of burned savannah using in situ spectroradiometry and infrared thermometry. International Journal of Remote Sensing 21 (16) 3161 - 3168

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431160050145045

Graz FP 2004. Structure and diversity of the dry woodland savanna in northern Namibia.

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Kuiper SM, Meadows ME 2002. Sustainability of livestock farming in the communal lands of Southern Namibia. Land Degradation and Development 13 (1) 1 - 15

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.476/abstract

Fritz H, Saïd S, Renaud P-C, Mutake S, Coid C, Monicat F 2003. The effects of agricultural fields and human settlements on the use of rivers by wildlife in the mid-Zambezi valley, Zimbabwe. Landscape Ecology 18 (3) 293 - 302

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Wallgren M, Skarpe C, Bergström R, Danell K, Bergström A, Jakobsson T, Karlsson K, Strand T 2009. Influence of land use on the abundance of wildlife and livestock in the Kalahari, Botswana. Journal of Arid Environments 73 (3) 314 - 321

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196308002826

Seely M, Klintenberg P, Hager C 2008. Human Dimensions of Soil Sustainability. Encyclopedia of Soil Science Second - Edition

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1081/E-ESS-120044638

Lancaster N 1982. Dunes on the skeleton coast, Namibia (South West Africa): Geomorphology and grain size relationships. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 7 575 - 587

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.3290070606/abstract

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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Kok OB, Nel JAJ 1996. The Kuiseb river as a linear oasis in the Namib desert. African Journal of Ecology 34 (1) 39 - 47

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1996.tb00592.x/abstract

Hoole A 2008. Community-based conservation and protected areas in Namibia: Social-Ecological Linkages for biodiversity.

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van Rooyen AF 1998. Combating desertification in the southern Kalahari: Connecting science with community action in South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 285 - 297

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398904074

Zimmermann I, Graz FP, Berry MH, Imasiku NNT, Muroua ND, Sibalatani MM, Sikopo CS 2001. Quantified range condition assessment of open Camelthorn savanna along a degradation gradient. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 18 (2 - 3) 111 - 116

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/10220110109485763

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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de Winter B 1968. Some observations on the Genus Commiphora in South and South-West Africa. Trees in South Africa XX (1) 1 - 12