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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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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

Akhtar-Schuster M, Thomas RJ, Stringer LC, Chasek P, Seely M 2011. Improving the enabling environment to combat land degradation: Institutional, financial, legal and science-policy challenges and solutions. Land Degradation and Development 22 (2) 299-312

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.1058/full

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/10.1007/978-1-4615-0375-0_9

Soderberg K, Henschel J, Macko SA 2008. Effects of aridity and fog deposition on C3/CAM Photosynthesis and N-cycling in Welwitschia mirabilis.

Website link:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AGUFM.B23C0439S

Macko S, Soderberg K, Henschel J, Billmark K, Swap R 2010. Linking fog water use by plants in the coastal Namib Desert to carbon and nitrogen cycles along aridity gradients.

Website link:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AGUFM.B51A0291M

Henschel JR, Lubin YD 1997. A test of habitat selection at two spatial scales in a Sitand-Wait Predator: A web spider in the Namib Desert dunes. Journal of Animal Ecology 66 (3) 401-413

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/5985

Coetzee M, Kinyanga V, Kruger B, Seely M, Werner W 2014. Combating land degradation in Namibia over 23 years: learning what matters in DLDD. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 69 (3) 171-174

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2014.949902

van Zinderen Bakker EM 1975. The origin and palaeoenvironment of the Namib Desert biome. Journal of Biogeography 2 (2) 65-73

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3038074

Harmse CJ, Kellner K, Dreber N 2016. Restoring productive rangelands: A comparative assessment of selective and non-selective chemical bush control in a semi-arid Kalahari savanna. Journal of Arid Environments 135 39-49

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196316301434

Rahlo SJ, Milton SJ, Esler KJ, Barnard P 2010. The distribution of invasive Pennisetum setaceum along roadsides in western South Africa: the role of corridor interchanges. Weed Research 50 (6) 537-543

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3180.2010.00801.x/abstract

Tarnita CE, Bonachela JA, Sheffer E, Guyton JA, Coverdale TC, Long RA, Pringle RM 2017. A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns. Nature 541 398-401

Website link:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v541/n7637/full/nature20801.html

Wilkinson MJ 1988. Tertiary events in the Tumas River basin, central Namib Desert: geology and geomorphology of the Naarip plain. 137-164

Wasiolka B, Jeltsch F, Henschel J, Blaum N 2010. Space use of the spotted sand lizard (Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata) under different degradation states. African Journal of Ecology 48 (1) 96-104

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2009.01085.x/abstract

Stanistreet IG, Stollhofen H 2002. Hoanib River flood deposits of Namib Desert interdunes as analogues for thin permeability barrier mudstone layers in aeolianite reservoirs. Sedimentology 49 719-736

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-3091.2002.00458.x/abstract

Bhattachan A, D'Odorico P, Okin GS 2015. Biogeochemistry of dust sources in Southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 117 18-27

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196315000439

Fischer C, Kollmann J, Wagner TC 2015. How does the seed fate of Crotalaria podocarpa DC, a highly competitive herbaceous legume in arid rangelands, contribute to its establishment probability?. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 17 (5) 405-411

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1433831915000682

Meyer JJM, Senejoux F, Heyman HM, Meyer NL, Meÿer MA 2015. The occurrence of triterpenoids from Euphorbia gummifera inside the fairy circles of Garub in the southern Namibian pro-desert. South African Journal of Botany 98 10-15

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629915000204

Zhang H, Sinclair R 2015. Namibian fairy circles and epithelial cells share emergent geometric order. Ecological Complexity 22 32-35

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1476945X15000069

Thomas DSG, Durcan JA 2016. Age and significance of Holocene valley fills in the Skeleton Coast, Namibia. Quaternary International 404 (B) 197-198

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104061821501294X

Scott L, Gil-Romera G, Marais E, Brook GA 2016. Evidence of vegetation change in Late Quaternary deposits of the Namib Desert and boundary region. Quaternary International 404 (B) 186

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618215012574

Sonderberg K, Henschel J, Swap RJ, Macko SA 2014. Sulphur isotopes in the central Namib Desert ecosystem. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa (Special Issue: A festschrift for Professor Mary Seely) 69 (3) 217-233

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Bonyongo MC, Mubyana T, Totolo O, Veenandaal EM 2002. Flooding and soil nutrient status in the Okavango Delta's seasonal floodplains. Botswana Notes and Records 34 123-130

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980328

Ringrose S, Lesolle D, Botshoma T, Gopolang B, Vanderpost C, Matheson W 1999. An analysis of vegetation cover components in relation to climatic trends along the Botswana Kalahari Transect. Botswana Notes and Records 31 33-52

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980237

Vanderpost C, Ringrose S, Matheson W 1998. Aspects of ecological change in the Botswana Kalahari. Botswana Notes and Records 30 121-138

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980209

Gieske A 1996. Modelling of surface outflow from the Okavango Delta. Botswana Notes and Records 28 165-192

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980140

Dangerfield JM, Veendendaal EM, Riddoch BJ, Black H 1992. Termites and land use in south-east Botswana: Variety and abundance of termite surface features. Botswana Notes and Records 24 165-179

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979922

Barker JF 1985. The distribution of "Acridoidea" (grass-hoppers) in relation to overgrazing. Botswana Notes and Records 17 141-148

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979744

Raffle JA 1984. Mapping the Kalahari Desert. Botswana Notes and Records 16 107-116

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979719

Linder HP, Strebel PM, Crowe TM 1980. Island biogeography and the "Acacia" clumps at the Nxai Pan, Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 12 170-173

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980804

van Rensburg HJ 1971. Range Management in Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 3 112-130

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979283

Gibbs Russell GE, Biegel HM 1973. Report on botanical collecting trips to Maun and the northern Okavango Delta. Botswana Notes and Records 5 154-169

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979389

Biggs R 1975. An ecological survey of Chief's Island and the adjacent floodplain. Botswana Notes and Records 7 203-204

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979446

Lancaster N 1981. Paleoenvironmental implications of fixed dune systems in Southern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 33 (4) 327-346

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018281900250

Lindenmayer D, Likens GE 2009. Adaptive monitoring: a new paradigm for long-term research and monitoring. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24 (9) 482-486

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534709001219

Trollope WSW 1982. Ecological Effects of Fire in South African Savannas. Ecology of Tropical Savannas 42 292-306

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-68786-0_14

Andersson L, Gumbricht T, Hughes D, Kniveton D, Ringrose S, Savenije H, Todd M, Wilk J, Wolski P 2003. Water Flow Dynamics in the Okavango River Basin and Delta - A prerequisite for the Ecosystems of the Delta. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 28 (20-27) 1165-1172

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474706503002067

Hoberg P, Lindholm M, Ramberg L, Hessen D 2002. Aquatic food web dynamics on a floodplain in the Okavango delta, Botswana. Hydrobiologia 470 23-30

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1015693520169

Ringrose S, Matheson W 2001. Spatial characteristics of riparian woodlands in the distal Okavango Delta. Botswana Notes and Records 33 101-114

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980301

Burrough SL, Thomas DSG, Shaw PA, Bailey RM 2007. Multiphase Quaternary highstands at Lake Ngami, Kalahari, northern Botswana. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253 (3-4) 280-299

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018207002982

Burrough SL, Thomas DSG, Bailey RM 2009. Mega-Lake in the Kalahari: A Late Pleistocene record of the Palaeolake Makgadikgadi system. Quaternary Science Reviews 28 (15-16) 1392-1411

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379109000584

Twidale CR 2004. River patterns and their meaning. Earth-Sciences Reviews 67 (3-4) 159-218

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825204000212

Haddon IG, McCarthy TS 2005. The Mesozoic-Cenozoic interior sag basins of Central Africa: The Late-Cretaceous-Cenozoic Kalahari and Okavango basins. Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (1-3) 316-333

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X05001238

Krah M, McCarthy TS, Annegarn H, Ramberg L 2004. Airborne dust deposition in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, and its impact on landforms. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 29 (5) 565-577

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.1051/abstract

Tooth S, McCarthy TS 2004. Controls on the transition from meandering to straight channels in the wetlands of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 29 (13) 1627-1649

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.1117/abstract

Ellery WN, McCarthy TS, Smith ND 2003. Vegetation, hydrology, and sedimentation patterns on the major distributary system of the Okavango fan, Botswana. Wetlands 23 (2) 357-375

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1672/11-20

McCarthy TS 1993. The great inland deltas of Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences (and the Middle East) 17 (3) 275-291

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Greenbaum N, Schwartz U, Benito G, Porat N, Cloete GC, Enzel Y 2014. Paleohydrology of extraordinary floods along the Swakop River at the margin of the Namib Desert and their paleoclimate implications. Quaternary Science Reviews 103 (1) 153-169

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379114003412

Gumbricht T, Wolski P, Frost P, McCarthy TS 2004. Forecasting the spatial extent of the annual flood in the Okavango delta, Botswana. Journal of Hydrology 290 (3-4) 178-191

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169403004475

du Toit JT, Cumming DHM 1999. Functional significance of ungulate diversity in African savannas and the ecological implications of the spread of pastoralism. Biodiversity and Conservation 8 (12) 1643-1661

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1008959721342

Suhling F, Sahlén G, Martens A, Marais E, Schütte C 2006. Dragonfly Assemblages in Arid Tropical Environments: A Case Study from Western Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 15 (1) 311-332

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