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1) The locality in which a plant or animal naturally grows or lives. It can be either the geographical area over which it extends, or the particular station in which a specimen is found. 2) A physical portion of the environment that is inhabited by an organism or population of organisms. A habitat is characterized by a relative uniformity of the physical environment and fairly close interaction of all the biological species involved. In terms of region, a habitat may comprise a desert, a tropical forest, a prairie field, the Arctic Tundra or the Arctic Ocean. (Source: WRIGHT / GILP)

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Stone OML, Laffan SW, Curnoe D, Herries AIR 2013. The Spatial Distribution of Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) Habitat Based on an Environmental Envelope Model. International Journal of Primatology 34 (2) 407-422

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10764-013-9669-9

Harris L, Holness S, Nel R, Lombard AT, Schoeman D 2013. Intertidal habitat composition and regional-scale shoreline morphology along the Benguela coast. Journal of Coastal Conservation 17 (1) 143-154

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11852-012-0226-z

Gloudsley-Thompson JL 1975. The Desert as a Habitat. Rodents in Desert Environments 28 1-13

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-010-1944-6_1

Willis SG, Hole DG, Collingham YC, Hilton G, Rahbek C, Huntley B 2009. Assessing the Impacts of Future Climate Change on Protected Area Networks: A Method to Simulate Individual Species' Responses. Environmental Management 43 (5) 836-845

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-008-9125-3

Schmiedel U, Jürgens N 2004. Habitat ecology of southern African quartz fields: studies on the thermal properties near the ground. Plant Ecology 170 (2) 153-166

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Schulze E-D, Eller BM, Thomas DA, von Willert DJ, Brinckmann E 1980. Leaf temperatures and energy balance of Welwitschia mirabilis in its natural habitat. Oecologia 44 (2) 258-262

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00572688

Desmet PG, Cowling RM 1999. Biodiversity, habitat and range-size aspects of a flora from a winter-rainfall desert in north-western Namaqualand, South Africa. Plant Ecology 142 (1-2) 23-33

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Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1009814109891

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

van Aarde R 2005. Assessment of Seasonal Home-Range Use by Elephants across southern Africa's seven Elephants Clusters.

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Hamilton III WJ, Penrith M-L 1977. Description of an individual possible hybrid tenebrionid beetle and the habitat preference of the parental species. The Canadian Entomologist 109 701-710

Website link:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8554747

Brain CK 1974. The use of microfaunal remains as habitat indicators in the Namib. (2) 55 - 60

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3858068

Kellenberger R, Kneubühler M, Kellenberger TW 2009. Spectral characterisation and mapping of Welwitschia mirabilis in Namibia. IEEE International, IGARSS 4 IV362-IV365

Website link:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5417388&contentType=Conference%20Publications&sortType%3Dasc_p_Sequence%26filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A5417310%29%26pageNumber%3D5=

Kellenberger TW, Kneubühler M 2009. Mapping of Welwitschia mirabilis with high resolution satellite imagery in the Namib desert. IEEE International, IGARSS 4 IV366-IV369

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Roever CL, van Aarde RJ, Leggett K 2013. Functional connectivity within conservation networks: delineating corridors for African elephants. Biological Conservation 157 128-135

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320712002947

Roever CL, van Aarde RJ, Leggett K 2012. Functional responses in the habitat selection of a generalist mega-herbivore, the African savannah elephant. Ecography 35 972-982

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07359.x/abstract

Kadmon R 1995. Plant Competition along Soil Moisture Gradients: A Field Experiment with the Desert Annual Stipa capensis. Journal of Ecology 83 (2) 253-262

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2261564

Lalley JS, Viles HA, Henschel JR, Lalley V 2006. Lichen-dominated soil crusts as arthropod habitat in warm deserts. Journal of Arid Environments 67 (4) 579-593

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196306000978

Traill LW 2004. Seasonal utilization of habitat by large grazing herbivores in semi-arid Zimbabwe. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 34 (1) 13-24

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/10709

Simmons R, Smith PC 1985. Do Northern Harriers (Circus cyaneus) choose nest sites adaptively?. Canadian Journal of Zoology 63 (3) 494-498

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Vegetation Survey of Namibia.

Website link:http://www.nbri.org.na/index.php?id=survey

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

Smith N, de Klerk H 2007. Geo-information pyramids for up-to-date and flexible conservation plans: A case study for Transfrontier Conservation Areas. South African Journal of Science 103 442 - 448

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Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/14996

Thiollay J-M 1993. Habitat segregation and the insular syndrome in 2 congeneric raptors in New Caledonia, the White-bellied Goshawk Accipiter haplochrous and the Brown Goshawk A. fasciatus. Ibis 135 (3) 237 – 246

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1993.tb02840.x/abstract

Widen P 1994. Habitat quality for raptors - a field experiment. Journal of Avian Biology 25 (3) 219 – 223

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3677078

Hipondoka MHT, Versfeld WD 2006. Root system of Terminalia sericea shrubs across rainfall gradient in a semi-arid environment of Etosha National Park, Namibia. Ecological Indicators 6 (3) 516 - 524

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Günster A 1993. Microhabitat differentiation among serotinous plants in the Namib Desert. Journal of Vegetation Science 4 (5) 585 - 590

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/3236123/abstract

Burke A 2003. The role of Namibian inselbergs in contributing to local and regional plant species richness. Biodiversity and Conservation 12 (3) 469 - 486

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/role-namibian-inselbergs-contributing-local-regional-plant-species-richness/

Burke A 2002. Properties of soil pockets on arid Nama Karoo inselbergs-the effect of geology and derived landforms. Journal of Arid Environments 50 (2) 219 - 234

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140196301909073

Burke A 2004. From plains to inselbergs: Species in special habitats as indicators for climate change?. Journal of Biogeography 31 831 - 841

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00984.x/full

Burke A 2001. Classification and ordination of plant communities of the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia. Journal of Vegetation Science 12 (1) 53 - 60

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3236673

Becker T, Müller JV 2007. Floristic affinities, life-form spectra and habitat preferences of the vegetation of two semi-arid regions in Sahelian West and Southern Africa. Basic and Applied Dryland Research 1 33 - 50

Website link:http://www.kew.org/science-research-data/directory/publications/2007_28.htm

Rohweder DA, Baverstock PR 1996. Preliminary investigation of nocturnal habitat use by migratory waders (order Charadriformes) in northern New South Wales. Wildlife Research 23 (2) 169 – 184

Website link:http://www.publish.csiro.au/wr/WR9960169

Niles LJ, Burger J, Clark KE 1996. The influence of weather, geography, and habitat on migrating raptors on Cape May peninsula. Condor 92 (2) 382-394

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267552756_The_Influence_of_Weather_Geography_and_Habitat_on_Migrating_Raptors_on_Cape_May_Peninsula

American Bird Conservancy.

Website link:http://www.abcbirds.org/

Bernstein C, Krebs JR, Kacelnik A 1991. Distribution of birds amongst habitats: theory and relevance to conservation. Bird Population Studies: Relevance to Conservation and Management

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221944413_Distribution_of_birds_amongst_habitats_theory_and_relevance_to_conservation

O'Connor RJ, Fuller RJ 1985. Bird population responses to habitat. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Bird Census and Atlas Work 197-211

Website link:https://www.bto.org/research-data-services/publications/peer-reviewed-papers/1985/bird-population-responses-habitat

Bibby CJ, Buckland ST 1987. Bias of bird census results due to detectability varying with habitat. Acta Oecologica Generalis 8 103-112

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287114818_Bias_of_bird_census_results_due_to_detectability_varying_with_habitat

Viljoen PJ 1989. Habitat selection and preferred food plants of a desert-dwelling elephant population in the northern Namib Desert, South West Africa/Namibia. African Journal of Ecology 27 (3) 227 - 240

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1989.tb01016.x/abstract

Turpie JK, Adams JB, Joubert A, Harrison TD, Colloty BM, Maree RC, Whitfield AK, Wooldridge TH, Lamberth SJ, Taljaard S, van Niekerk L 2002. Assessment of the conservation priority status of South African estuaries for use in management and water allocation. Water SA 28 (2) 191 - 206

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Harrison JA, Allan DG, van Hensbergen HJ 1994. Automated habitat annotation of bird species lists - an aid in environmental consultancy. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 65 (3-4) 316 – 328

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1994.9632697#.VRzwRmf9kpE

Scholes RJ, Küper W, Biggs R 2006. Biodiversity. Africa environment outlook 2: Our environment, our wealth. 226 - 261

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1179

Monteiro PMS, van der Plas AK 2006. Low Oxygen Water (LOW) variability in the Benguela system: Key processes and forcing scales relevant to forecasting. Benguela: predicting a large marine ecosystem 14 19

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1085

Hockey PAR, Allan DG, Rebelo AG, Dean WRJ 1988. The distribution, habitat requirements and conservation status of Rudd's Lark Heteromirafra ruddi in South Africa. Biological Conservation 45 255 – 266

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0006320788900572

Millennium Seed Bank Project.

Website link:http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/msbp/index.html

Desert Lion Conservation.

Website link:http://www.desertlion.info/

Coastal/Marine Bird Working Group.

Website link:http://www.nnf.org.na/coastalbirds.htm

Roslin T 2002. So near and yet so far- habitat fragmentation and bird movement. News and Comment 17 (2) 61

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02437-5

Loske K-H 1985. Beobachtungen palaarktischer Zugvögel in Namibia/SWA - mit Bemerkungen zum derzeitigen Kenntnisstand. Journal of the SWA Scientific Society 39 7 - 36

Hockey PAR, Bosman AL 1983. Conservation-management of the Walvis Bay lagoon with special reference to its importance as a bird habitat.

Skead D 1979. The habitat of the Yellow-billed Duck. Laniarius 10 13 - 15