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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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Ward D, Ngairorue BT, Apollus A, Tjiveze H 2000. Perceptions and realities of land degradation in arid Otjimbingwe, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 45 (4) 337 - 356

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196300906475

Ward D, Ngairorue BT, Kathena J, Samuels R, Ofran Y 1998. Land degradation is not a necessary outcome of communal pastoralism in arid Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 40 (4) 357 - 371

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019639890458X

Ward D, Saltz D, Ngairorue BT 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

Watts S 2003. The effects of communal land resource management on forest conservation in northern and north-eastern Namibia. Development Southern Africa 20 (3) 337 - 359

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0376835032000108167

Wesuls D, Lang H 2010. Perceptions and Measurements: The Assessment of Pasture States in a Semi-Arid Area of Namibia. Human Ecology 38 (2) 305 - 312

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/708640623mj73085/

Ward D, Ngairorue BT 2000. Are Namibia's grasslands desertifying?. Journal of Range Management 53 138 - 144

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/4003273

Walter H, Walter E 1953. Einige allgemeine Ergebnisse unserer Forschungsreise nach Südwestafrika 1952/53: Das Gesetz der relativen Standortkonstanz; das Wesen der Pflanzengemeinschaften. Berichte der deutschen botanischen Gesellscahft LXVI 228 - 236

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1438-8677.1953.tb00128.x/abstract

Walter H 1954. Die Verbuschung, eine Erscheinung der subtropischen Savannengebiete, und ihre Ökologischen Ursachen. Vegetation 5 - 6 6 - 10

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/20034609

Volk OH, Leippert H 1971. Vegetationsverhältnisse im Windhoeker Bergland, Südwestafrika. Journal der S.W.A. Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft XXV 5 - 44

Volk OH 1966. Einfluss von Mensch und Tier auf die natürliche Vegetation im tropischen Südwest-Afrika. Beiträge zur Landespflege 11 (1 - 2) 108 - 131

Vetter S 2001. Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands (AT0726).

Website link:https://secure.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0726_full.html

Vetter S 2001. Angolan Mopane woodlands (AT0702).

Website link:https://secure.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0702_full.html

Verlinden A, Laamanen R 2006. Modeling woody vegetation resources using Landsat TM imagery in northern Namibia. South African Forestry Journal 207 27 - 39

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/10295920609505250

Verlinden A 1997. Human settlements and wildlife distribution in the southern Kalahari of Botswana. Biological Conservation 82 (2) 129 - 136

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320796001565

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

Verlinden A, Kruger AS 2007. Changing grazing systems in Central North Namibia. Land Degradation and Development 18 (2) 179 - 197

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Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.769/abstract

Timberlake J 2000. Biodiversity of the Zambezi Basin, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: Biodiversity Foundation for Africa.

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Thuiller W, Albert C, Araujo MB, Berry PM, Cabeza M, Guisan A, Hickler T, Midgley GF, Paterson J, Schurr FM, Sykes MT, Zimmermann NE 2008. Predicting global change impacts on plant species-distributions: Future challenges. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 9 (3 - 4) 137 - 152

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1433831907000376

Thomas DSG, O'Connor PW, Bateman MD, Shaw PA, Stokes S, Nash DJ 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

Sullivan S 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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de Sousa Correia RI 1976. The main vegetation types of Kaokoland, northern Damaraland and a description of some transects of Owambo, Etosha and north western South West Africa.

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Smit GN 2005. Tree thinning as an option to increase herbaceous yield of an encroached semi-arid savanna in South Africa. BMC Ecology 5 (4)

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/89n57mr668701423/

Skarpe C 1991. Spatial patterns and dynamics of woody vegetation in an arid savanna. Journal of Vegetation Science 2 565 - 572

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/3236039/abstract

Palmer AR, van Rooyen AF 1998. Detecting vegetation change in the southern Kalahari using Landsat TM data. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 143 - 153

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398903998

Dougill A, Cox J 1995. Land degradation and grazinh in the Kalahari new analysis and alternative perspectives.

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Moleele NM, Ringrose S, Matheson W, Vanderpost C 2002. More woody plants? the status of bush encroachment in Botswana's grazing areas. Journal of Environmental Management 64 (1) 3 - 11

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479701904864

Skarpe C 1990. Structure of the woody vegetation in disturbed and undisturbed arid savanna, Botswana. Vegetation 87 (1) 11 - 18

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/v2110803718x1241/

Jacobson PJ, Jacobson KM, Angermeier PL, Cherry DS 2000. Variation in material transport and water chemistry along a large ephemeral river in the Namib Desert. Freshwater Biology 44 481 - 491

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2427.2000.00604.x/abstract?systemMessage=Wiley%20Online%20Library%20will%20be%20disrupted%204%20Feb%20from%2010-12%20GMT%20for%20monthly%20maintenance

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

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2007. Floodwater recharge of alluvial aquifers in dryland environments (WADE).

Website link:https://www.cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/74305_en.html

Rundel PW 1978. Ecological Relationships of Desert Fog Zone Lichens. The Bryologist 81 (2) 277 - 293

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3242189

Rohde RF, Hoffman MT 2011. The historical ecology of Namibian rangelands: Vegetation change since 1876 in response to local and global drivers. Science of the Total Environment 416 276 - 288

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969711012617

Richters J 2005. Biomass changes in north-western Namibia: First results from a remote sensing modelling approach. EARSeL eProceedings 4 (2) 157 - 170

Website link:http://las.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/eProceedings/vol04_2/04_2_richters1.html

Richter CGF, Snyman HA, Smit GN 2001. The influence of tree density on the grass layer of three semi-arid savanna types of southern Africa. African Journal of Range and Forage Science 18 (2) 103 - 109

Website link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/10220110109485762

du Plessis WP 2001. Effective rainfall defined using measurements of grass growth in the Etosha National Park, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 48 (3) 397 - 417

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196300907523

Owen-Smith N, Cooper SM 1987. Palatability of woody plants to browsing ruminants in a South African savanna. Ecology 68 (2) 319 - 331

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/1939263

Nangula S, Oba G 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

Mills AJ, Fey MV, Gröngröft A, Petersen A, Medinski TV 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

Mahowald NM, Bryant RG, del Corral J, Steinberger L 2003. Ephemeral lakes and desert dust sources. Geophysical Research Letters 30 (2)

Website link:http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2003/2002GL016041.shtml

Leggett K, Fennessy J, Schneider S 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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Leggett K, Fennessy J, Schneider S 2003. Does land use matter in an arid envrionment? A case study from the Hoanib River catchment, north-western Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 53 (4) 529 - 543

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Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196302910669

Leakey R 2005. Domestication potential of Marula (Sclerocarya birrea subsp. Caffra) in South Africa and Namibia: 3. Multiple trait selection. Agroforestry Systems 64 (1) 51 - 59

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/n11504k745440423/

Lange OL, Green TGA, Meyer A, Zellner H 2007. Water relations and carbon dioxide exchange of epiphytic lichens in the Namib fog desert. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 202 (6) 479 - 487

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253007000643

Lange OL, Green TGA, Melzera B, Meyera A, Zellner H 2006. Water relations and CO2 exchange of the terrestrial lichen Teloschistes capensis in the Namib fog desert: Measurements during two seasons in the field and under controlled conditions. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 201 (4) 268 - 280

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036725300500143X

Lalley JS, Viles HA, Copeman N, Cowley C 2006. The influence of multi-scale environmental variables on the distribution of terricolous lichens in a fog desert. Journal of Vegetation Science 17 (6) 831 - 838

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2006.tb02506.x/abstract

Lalley JS, Viles HA 2005. Terricolous lichens in the northern Namib Desert of Namibia: Distribution and community composition. The Lichenologist 37 (1) 77 - 91

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Lalley JS, Viles HA 2006. Do vehicle track disturbances affect the productivity of soil-growing lichens in a fog desert?. Functional Ecology 20 (3) 548 - 556

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Klintenberg P, Seely M, Christiansson C 2007. Local and national perceptions of environmental change in central Northern Namibia: Do they correspond?. Journal of Arid Environments 69 (3) 506 - 525

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196306003880

Klintenberg P, Kruger AS, Seely M 2007. Community-driven local level monitoring: Recording environmental change to support multi-level decision-making in Namibia. Secheresse 18 (4) 336 - 341

Website link:http://www.jle.com/e-docs/00/04/39/F7/article.phtml

Klintenberg P, Verlinden A 2008. Water points and their influence on grazing resources in central northern Namibia. Land Degradation and Development 19 (1) 1 - 20

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.809/abstract