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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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Midgley GF, Thuiller W 2007. Potential vulnerability of Namaqualand plant diversity to anthropogenic climate change. Journal of Arid Environments 70 (4) 615-628

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Thomas DSG, Brook G, Shaw P, Bateman M, Haberyan K, Appleton C, Nash D, McLaren S, Davies F 2003. Late Pleistocene wetting and drying in the NW Kalahari: an integrated study from the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana. Quaternary International 104 (1) 53-67

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Gehring AU, Riahi N, Kind J, Almqvist BSG, Weidler PG 2014. The formation of the Namib Sand Sea inferred from the spatial pattern of magnetic rock fragments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 395 168-172

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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

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Thomas AD, Dougill AJ 2007. Spatial and temporal distribution of cyanobacterial soil crusts in the Kalahari: Implications for soil surface properties. Geomorphology 85 (1-2) 17-29

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Kong TM, Austin DE, Kellner K, Orr BJ 2014. The interplay of knowledge, attitude and practice of livestock farmers' land management against desertification in the South African Kalahari. Journal of Arid Environments 105 12-21

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Joubert DF, Smit GN, Hoffman MT 2012. The role of fire in preventing transitions from a grass dominated state to a bush thickened state in arid savannas. Journal of Arid Environments 87 (2012) 1-7

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Dreber N, Oldeland J, van Rooyen GMW 2011. Species, functional groups and community structure in seed banks of the arid Nama Karoo: Grazing impacts and implications for rangeland restoration. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 141 (3-4) 399-409

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Meadows ME 2001. The role of Quaternary environmental change in the evolution of landscapes: case studies from southern Africa. Catena 42 (1) 39-57

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Olivier J, de Rautenbach CJ 2002. The implementation of fog water collection systems in South Africa. Atmospheric Research 64 (1-4) 227-238

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Stringer LC, Dougill AJ 2013. Channelling science into policy: Enabling best practices from research on land degradation and sustainable land management in dryland Africa. Journal of Environmental Management 114 328-335

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Loarie SR, van Aarde RJ, Pimm SL 2009. Elephant seasonal vegetation preferences across dry and wet savannas. Biological Conservation 142 (12) 3099-3107

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Vanderpost C, Ringrose S, Matheson W, Arntzen J 2011. Satellite based long-term assessment of rangeland condition in semi-arid areas: An example from Botswana. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (4) 383-389

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Lohmann D, Tietjen B, Blaum N, Joubert DF, Jeltsch F 2014. Prescribed fire as a tool for managing shrub encroachment in semi-arid savanna rangelands. Journal of Arid Environments 107 49-56

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Modie BN 2000. Geology and mineralisation in the Meso- to Neoproterozoic Ghanzi-Chobe belt of northwest Botswana. Journal of African Earth Sciences 30 (3) 467-474

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Ramokate LV, Mapeo RMM, Corfu E, Kampunzu AB 2000. Proterozoic geology and regional correlation of the Ghanzi-Makunda area, western Botswana. Journal of African Earth Sciences 30 (3) 453-466

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Grist J, Nicholson SE, Mpolokang A 1997. On the use of NDVI for estimating rainfall fields in the Kalahari of Botswana. Journal of Arid Environments 35 (2) 195-214

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David JHM, Curry P, Crawford RJM, Randall RM, Underhill LG, Meÿer MA 2003. Assessing conservation priorities in the Benguela ecosystem, South Africa: analysing predation by seals on threatened seabirds. Biological Conservation 114 (2) 289-292

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Hagni RD, Shivdasan PA 2001. Recognition of pegmatitic carbonatite intrusions in sodic fenite and their importance in the localisation of the fluorite ores at Okorusu, Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 32 (1) A17

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Wilk J, Kniveton D, Andersson L, Layberry R, Todd MC, Hughes D, Ringrose S, Vanderpost C 2006. Estimating rainfall and water balance over the Okavango River Basin for hydrological applications. Journal of Hydrology 331 (1-2) 18-29

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Kniveton DR, Todd MC 2006. Water resources in regional development: The Okavango river. Journal of Hydrology 331 (1-2) 1-2

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Bethune S, Amakali M, Roberts K 2005. Review of Namibian legislation and policies pertinent to environmental flows. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 30 (11-16) 894-902

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Stone AEC, Thomas DSG 2008. Linear dune accumulation chronologies from the southwest Kalahari, Namibia: challenges of reconstructing late Quaternary palaeoenvironments from aeolian landforms. Quaternary Science Reviews 27 (17-18) 1667-1681

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Goscombe B, Gray DR 2007. The Coastal Terrane of the Kaoko Belt, Namibia: Outboard arc-terrane and tectonic significance. Precambrian Research 155 (1-2) 139-158

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Krah M, McCarthy TS, Huntsman-Mapila P, Wolski P, Annegarn H, Sethebe K 2006. Nutrient Budget in the Seasonal Wetland of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Wetlands Ecology and Management 14 (3) 253-267

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11273-005-1115-0

Wolski P, Murray-Hudson M 2006. Recent changes in flooding in the Xudum distributary of the Okavango Delta and Lake Ngami, Botswana. South Africa Journal of Science 102 (3/4) 173-176

Website link:http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication_article/sajsci_v102_n3_4_a24

Ringrose S, Vanderpost C, Matheson W 2003. Mapping ecological conditions in the Okavango delta, Botswana using fine and coarse resolution systems including simulated SPOT vegetation imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24 (5) 1029-1052

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431160210155046#.U7UiQVJZopE

Ramberg L, Wolski P 2008. Growing islands and sinking solutes: processes maintaining the endorheic Okavango Delta as a freshwater system. Plant Ecology 196 (2) 215-231

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Lindholm M, Hessen DO, Mosepele K, Wolski P 2007. Food webs and energy fluxes on a seasonal floodplain: The influence of flood size. Wetlands (Impact Factor: 1.28) 274 775-784

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McGMiller R 1997. Chapter 11: The owambo basin of northern namibia. Sedimentary Basins of the World 3 237-268

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Bamford MK 2000. Fossil woods of Karoo age deposits in South Africa and Namibia as an aid to biostratigraphical correlation. Journal of African Earth Sciences 31 (1) 119-132

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Gomez C, Delacourt C, Allemand P, Ledru P, Wackerle R 2005. Using ASTER remote sensing data set for geological mapping, in Namibia. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 30 (1-3) 97-108

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Kribek B, Majer V, Pasava J, Kamona F, Mapani B, Keder J, Ettler V 2014. Contamination of soils with dust fallout from the tailings dam at the Rosh Pinah area, Namibia: Regional assessment, dust dispersion modeling and environmental consequences. Journal of Geochemical Exploration In Press

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Taylor MP, Kesterton RGH 2002. Heavy metal contamination of an arid river environment: Gruben River, Namibia. Geomorphology 42 (3-4) 311-327

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Pickford M, Senut B, Dauphin Y 1995. Biostratigraphyof the Tsondab sandstone (Namibia) based on gigantic avian eggshells. Geobios 28 (1) 85-98

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Kamona AF, Günzel A 2007. Stratigraphy and base metal mineralization in the Otavi Mountain Land, Northern Namibia—a review and regional interpretation. Gondwana Research 11 (3) 396-413

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Heyns P 2008. Application of a basin management approach to groundwater utilization in the Otavi Mountain Land, Namibia. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 33 (8-13) 913-918

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Wanke H, Wanke A 2007. Lithostratigraphy of the Kalahari Group in northeastern Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 48 (5) 314-328

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Haapala I, Frindt S, Kandara J 2007. Cretaceous Gross Spitzkoppe and Klein Spitzkoppe stocks in Namibia: Topaz-bearing A-type granites related to continental rifting and mantle plume. Lithos 97 (1-2) 174-192

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Mees F 2003. Salt mineral distribution patterns in soils of the Otjomongwa pan, Namibia. Catena 54 (3) 425-437

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Oyedele JA, Shimboyo S, Sitoka S, Gaoseb F 2010. Assessment of natural radioactivity in the soils of Rössing Uranium Mine and its satellite town in western Namibia, southern Africa. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 619 (1-3) 467-469

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Jacob J, Ward JD, Bluck BJ, Scholz RA, Frimmel HE 2006. Some observations on diamondiferous bedrock gully trapsites on Late Cainozoic, marine-cut platforms of the Sperrgebiet, Namibia. Ore Geology Reviews 28 (4) 493-506

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Brook GA, Railsback LB, Marais E 2011. Reassessment of carbonate ages by dating both carbonate and organic material from an Etosha Pan (Namibia) stromatolite: Evidence of humid phases during the last 20 ka. Quaternary International 229 (1-2) 24-37

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Svendsen J, Stollhofen H, Krapf CBE, Stanistreet IG 2003. Mass and hyperconcentrated flow deposits record dune damming and catastrophic breakthrough of ephemeral rivers, Skeleton Coast Erg, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 160 (1-3) 7-31

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Keiding JK, Frei O, Renno AD, Veksler IV, Trumbull RB 2013. Conditions of magma crystallization in the Henties Bay-Outjo dyke swarm, Namibia: Implications for the feeder system of continental flood basalts. Lithos 179 16-27

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Stetten HR, Railsback LB, Liang F, Brook GA, Marais E, Hardt BF, Cheng H, Edwards RL 2013. A petrographic and geochemical record of climate change over the last 4600 years from a northern Namibia stalagmite, with evidence of abruptly wetter climate at the beginning of southern Africa's Iron Age. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 376 149-162

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Hamandawana H, Chanda R, Eckardt E 2008. Reappraisal of contemporary perspectives on climate change in southern Africa's Okavango Delta sub-region. Journal of Arid Environments 72 (9) 1709-1720

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Riedel F, Erhardt S, Chauke C, Kossler A, Shemang E, Tarasova R 2012. Evidence for a permanent lake in Sua Pan (Kalahari, Botswana) during the early centuries of the last millennium indicated by distribution of Baobab trees (Adansonia digitata) on "Kubu Island". Quaternary International 253 67-73

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Hayward MW, Kerley GIH 2009. Fencing for conservation: Restriction of evolutionary potential or a riposte to threatening processes?. Biological Conservation 142 (1) 1-13

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Cousins SR, Witkowski ETF 2012. African aloe ecology: A review. Journal of Arid Environments 85 1-17

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