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An accumulation of loose sand heaped up by the wind, commonly found along low-lying seashores above high-tide level, more rarely on the border of large lakes or river valleys, as well as in various desert regions, where there is abundant dry surface sand during some part of the year. (Source: BJGEO)

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Masson MJ, Naris PM 2002. Seismic Sensitivity in the Desert Golden Mole (Eremitalpa granti): A Review. Journal of Comparative Psychology 116 (2) 158-163

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Pemadasa MA, Lovell PH 1975. Factors Controlling Germination of Some Dune Annuals. Journal of Ecology 63 (1) 41-59

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2258840

Southgate RI, Masters P, Seely MK 1996. Precipitation and biomass changes in the Namib Desert dune ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 33 (3) 267-280

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Abrams MM, Jacobson PJ, Jacobson KM, Seely MK 1997. Survey of soil chemical properties across a landscape in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 35 (1) 29-38

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Srivastava P, Brook GA, Marais E, Morthekai P, Singhvi AK 2006. Depositional environment and OSL chronology of the Homeb silt deposits, Kuiseb River, Namibia. Quaternary Research 65 (3) 478-491

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589406000123

Naidu SG 2001. Osmoregulation in Onymacris rugatipennis, a free-ranging tenebrionid beetle from the Namib Desert. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 129 (4) 873-885

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109564330100352X

Naidu SG 1998. Haemolymph Amino Acid, Sugar and Glycerol Levels in the Namib Desert Tenebrionid Stips stali During Dehydration and Rehydration. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 119 (2) 477-484

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Naidu SG 2001. Water balance and osmoregulation in Stenocara gracilipes, a wax-blooming tenebrionid beetle from the Namib Desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 47 (12) 1429-1440

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022191001001330

Rasmussen K, Fog B, Madsen JE 2001. Desertification in reverse? Observations from northern Burkina Faso. Global Environmental Change 11 (4) 271-282

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Lancaster N 1982. Dunes on the skeleton coast, Namibia (South West Africa): Geomorphology and grain size relationships. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 7 575 - 587

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Besler H 1980. Die Dünen-Namib: Entstehung und Dynamik eines Ergs.

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Victor JE Acanthosicyos horridus Welw. Ex Hook.F..

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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

Jacobson KM 1997. Moisture and substrate stability determine VA-mycorrhizal fungal community distribution and structure in an arid grassland. Journal of Arid Environments 35 59 - 75

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Bullard JE, Nash D 2000. Valley-marginal sand dunes in the south-west Kalahari: Their nature, classification and possible origins. Journal of Arid Environments 45 (4) 369 - 383

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196300906463

Hauffe HC, Pietruszka RD, Seely MK 1988. Observations on the behaviour of Onymacris laeviceps Gebien (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae>: Adesmiini) in the central Namib Desert dunes. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 51 (2) 183 - 192

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Mazor E 1982. Rain recharge in the Kalahari - A note on some approaches to the problem. Journal of Hydrology 55 (1-4) 137-144

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1694(82)90124-X

Miller RMcG 2014. Evidence for the evolution of the Kalahari dunes from the Auob River, southeastern Namibia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 69 (3) 195-204

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2014.955555

Moll E 2013. Keeping the Namib's sand sea at bay: feature. Veld and Flora 99 (4) 189-191

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/veld/99/4/EJC145535

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

Robinson MD 1990. Summer field energetics of the Namib desert dune lizard Aporosaura anchietae (Lacertidae), and its relation to reproduction. Journal of Arid Environments 18 (2) 207-215

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216814047_Summer_field_energetics_of_the_Namib_Desert_dune_lizard_Aporosaura_anchietae_Lacertidae_and_its_relation_to_reproduction

Nagy KA, Clarke BC, Seely MK, Mitchell D, Lighton JRB 1991. Water and energy balance in Namibian desert sand-dune lizards Angolosaurus skoogi (Andersson, 1916.). Functional Ecology 5 (6) 731-739

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2389535

Lawrence RF 1966. New dune spiders (Sparassidae) from the Namib Desert, South West Africa. Cimbebasia 17 3-15

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Henschel JR, Lubin YD 1992. Environmental factors affecting the web and activity of a psammophilous spider in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 22 173-189

Website link:http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US201301759097

Evans JS, Eifler DA, Eifler MA 2017. Sand-diving as an escape tactic in the lizard Meroles anchietae. Journal of Arid Environments 140 1-5

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Scholz H 1968. Die Böden der Wüste Namib/Südwestafrika. Zeitschrift für Pflanzenernährung und Bodenkunde 119 (2) 91-107

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McKee ED 1982. Sedimentary structures in dunes of the Namib Desert, South West Africa.

Website link:https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/309/sedimentary-structures-in-dunes-of-the-namib

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

Liu B, Coulthart TJ 2015. Mapping the interactions between rivers and sand dunes: Implications for fluvial and aeolian geomorphology. Geomorphology 231 246-257

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X14006138

Stone AEC, Bateman MD, Thomas DSG 2015. Rapid age assessment in the Namib Sand Sea using a portable luminescence reader. Quaternary Geochronology 30 (B) 134-140

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871101415000151

White K, Bullard J, Livingstone I, Moran L 2015. A morphometric comparison of the Namib and southwest Kalahari dunefields using ASTER GDEM data. Aeolian Research 19 (A) 87-95

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875963715000877

Stone A, Bateman MD, Thomas DSG 2016. Rapid assessment of Namib Sand Sea sediment chronologies? Testing a portable luminescence reader against full OSL dating. Quaternary International 404 (B) 200-201

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104061821501304X

McFarlane MJ, Eckardt F 2004. The 'transparent' linear dunes of northwest Ngamiland, Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 36 136-139

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40980367

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

McFarlane MJ, Eckardt FD, Ringrose S, Coetzee SH, Kuhn JR 2005. Degradation of linear dunes in Northwest Ngamiland,Botswana and the implications for luminescence dating of periods of aridity. Quaternary International 135 (1) 83-90

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618204002186

Holter P, Scholtz CH, Stenseng L 2009. Desert detritivory: Nutritional ecology of a dung beetle (Pachysoma glentoni) subsisting on plant litter in arid South African sand dunes. Journal of Arid Environments 73 (12) 1090-1094

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Nagy KA, Shemanski DR 2009. Observations on diet and seed digestion in a Sand Dune Lizard, Meroles anchietae. African Journal of Herpetology 58 (1) 39-43

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21564574.2009.9635579#.VHWKC2ctBHg

Henschel JR, Davies VT, Dickman CR 1995. The slit spider (Araneae: Clubionoidea) that constructs fissures in the sand dunes of the Simpson Desert, Central Australia. Journal of Natural History 29 (1) 137-145

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van Rooyen N, van Rooyen MW 1998. Vegetation of the south-western arid Kalahari: An overview. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 53 (2) 113-140

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Wilkinson MJ, Blaha JE, Noli D 1989. A new lagoon on the Namibian coast of South Africa: Sand spit growth documented from STS‐29 shuttle photography. Geocarto International 4 (4) 63-66

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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

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Jacobson N, Jacobson P, van Jaarsveld E, Jacobson K 2014. Field evidence from Namibia does not support the designation of Angolan and Namibian subspecies of Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa Published online: 28 Aug 2014

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Henschel JR 1998. Dune spiders of the Negev Desert with notes on Cerbalus psammodes (Heteropodidae). Israel Journal of Zoology (Special Issue: Spiders of Israel: Systematics, Ecology, and Behavior) 44 (2) 243-251

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Seely MK 1990. Patterns of plant establishment on a linear desert dune. Israel Journal of Botany 36 443-451

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Potts LV, Akyilmaz O, Braun A, Shum CK 2008. Multi-resolution dune morphology using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and dune mobility from fuzzy inference systems using SRTM and altimetric data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 29 (10) 2879-2901

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Harmse JT 1985. Trend Surface Analysis of Aeolian Sand Movement on the Southwest African Coast. South African Geographical Journal 67 (1) 31-39

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Russell AP, Bauer AM 1990. Substrate excavation in the Namibian web-footed gecko, Palmatogecko rangei Andersson 1908, and its ecological significance. Tropical Zoology 3 (2) 197-207

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Lancaster N 2014. Dune systems of the Namib Desert – a spatial and temporal perspective. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

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Hellwig DHR 1988. Challenging the Namib dune sea. Journal of the Limnological Society of southern Africa 14 (1) 35-40

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03779688.1988.9632888#.VGIRzFItBHg

Livingstone I, Baas A, Bateman MD, Bristow C, Bryant RG, Bullard JE, Nield JM, Thomas DSG, White KH, Wiggs GFS 2014. A prospectus for future geomorphological investigation of the Namib Sand Sea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

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