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An extensive, broad tract of level or rolling, almost treeless land with a shrubby vegetation, usually at a low elevation. (Source: MGH)

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Kreike E The Ovambo Paradox: Challenging Paradigms of Environmental Change in Africa.

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Emmanuel Krieke The Owambo paradox.pdf	172.55 KB

White L 2012. Home Range and Spacing Patterns of the Wedge Snouted lizard, Meroles cuneirostris. 80-81

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Home Range and Spacing Patterns of the Wedge Snouted lizard.pdf	192.86 KB

Prendini L, Esposito LA 2010. A reanalysis of Parabuthus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) phylogeny with descriptions of two new Parabuthus species endemic to the Central Namib gravel plains, Namibia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159 (3) 673-710

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A reanalysis of Parabuthus phylogeny with descriptions of two new Parabuthus species endemic to the Central Namib gravel plains.pdf	1.42 MB

Costa G, Petralia A, Conti E, Hänel C 1995. A 'mathematical' spider living on gravel plains of the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 29 (4) 485-494

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A mathematical spider living on gravel plains of the Namib Desert.pdf	1.85 MB

Jürgens N, Burke A 2000. The Arid Scenario: Inselbergs in the Namib Desert Are Rich Oases in a Poor Matrix (Namibia and South Africa). Inselbergs: Ecological Studies 146 237-257

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-59773-2_12

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

Metago Environmental Engineers 2010. Surface Water Management.

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2010_Husab_surface_water.pdf	1.57 MB

Burke A 2008. The effect of topsoil treatment on the recovery of rocky plain and outcrop plant communities in Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 72 (8) 1531 - 1536

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196308000591

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

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

Mabbutt JA 1951. The evolution of the middle Ugab Valley, Damaraland, South West Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 33 (3) 333-363

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359195109519890#.VGs9WVItBHg

Göttsche F-M, Olesen F-S, Bork-Unkelbach A 2013. Validation of land surface temperature derived from MSG/SEVIRI with in situ measurements at Gobabeb, Namibia. International Journal of Remote Sensing (Special Issue: Third International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing) 34 (9-10) 3069-3083

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01431161.2012.716539#.VGm7YVItBHg

Bonyongo MC, Bredenkamp GJ, Veenendaal E 2000. Floodplain vegetation in the Nxaraga Lagoon area, Okavango Delta, Botswana. South African Journal of Botany 66 (1) 15-21

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629915310462

Gadimang P, Masunga GS 2017. Ground survey of red lechwe in the Linyanti swamps and Chobe floodplains, northern Botswana. Koedoe (59) a1413

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Ground survey of red lechwe in the Linyanti swamps and Chobe floodplains_Botswana.pdf	2.28 MB

McCarthy TS, Barry M, Bloem A, Ellery WN, Ellery K, Heister H, Merry CL, Ruther H, Sternberg H 1997. The gradient of the Okavango Fan, Botswana, and its sedimentological and tectonic implications. Journal of African Earth Sciences 24 (1 - 2) 65 - 78

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The gradient of the Okavango Fan_and its sedimentological and tectonic implications.pdf	1.2 MB

le Roux CJG 2010. The grazing capacity of the plains in the Etosha national park. Proceedings of the Annual Congresses of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa 14 (1) 89-93

Website link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00725560.1979.9648866

Obrecht L, Göttsche F-M, Senn JA, Cermak J 2024. Mapping changes in fractional vegetation cover on the Namib gravel plains with satellite-retrieved Land Surface Emissivity Data. Remote Sensing 16 (1)

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Mapping changes in fractional vegetation cover on the Namib gravel plains with satellite_retrieved Land Surface Emissivity Data.pdf	13.11 MB

Boyer DC 1989. Some characteristics of the plant communities of three dunes situated across a climatic gradient in the Namib Desert. Madoqua 16 (2) 141-148

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Some characteristics of the plant communities of three dunes_1989.pdf	395.17 KB

Brown CJ, Stander P, Mayes S, Conradie L, Haredoeb P, Singwangwa M, Cilliers W 2004. Status of Wattled Cranes on the floodplains of north-east Namibia: Results from an aerial survey during August 2004.

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Wattled Crane Survey_2004.pdf	1.02 MB

Brown C, Chase M, Nkala T, Landen K, Aust P 2007. Status of Wattled Cranes on the floodplains of north-east Namibia: Results from an aerial survey during September 2007.

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Status of Wattled Cranes on the floodplains of north_east Namibia_2007.pdf	850.79 KB

Brown CJ, Meyer-Rust R 2004. Winter counts of wetland and floodplain birds in the Kwando River and floodplain system, Caprivi.

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Kwandu wetland and floodplain Bird counts Aug 2004.pdf	349.12 KB

Stander P 2004. Aerial Wildlife Census of the Caprivi River Systems - a survey of water bodies and floodplains 11 - 20 August 2004. 11 - 20

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Aerial Wildlife Census of the Caprivi River Systems_2004.pdf	1.97 MB