semi-arid land ecosystem

The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environmental surroundings in regions that have between 10 to 20 inches of rainfall and are capable of sustaining some grasses and shrubs but not woodland. (Source: TOE / DOE)



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Leach LC 1976. Euphorbia (Tetracanthae) in Angola and northern Kaokoland. Dinteria 12 1-35
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van der Walt JJA 1973. A new species of Commiphora from the Kaokoveld (South West Africa). Dinteria 9 23-28
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Whetstone GA 1972. Adaptation to aridity: Water development in South Africa. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 8 (3) 600-607
Cigizoglu HK, Adamson PT, Metcalfe AV 2002. Bivariate stochastic modelling of ephemeral streamflow. Hydrological Processes 16 (7) 1451-1465
van Wyk B-E, Kolberg H 2008. A new species of Lotononis section Oxydium (Fabaceae, Crotalarieae). South African Journal of Botany 74 (4) 750-752
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
Popp A, Domptail S, Blaum N, Jeltsch F 2009. Landuse experience does qualify for adaptation to climate change. Ecological Modelling 220 (5) 694-702
Loope LL, Sanchez PG 1988. Biological invasions of arid land nature reserves. Biological Conservation 44 (1-2) 95-118
Franz M, Kramer-Schadt S, Kilian W, Wissel C, Groeneveld J 2010. Understanding the effects of rainfall on elephant - vegetation interactions around waterholes. Ecological Modelling 221 (24) 2909-2917
Hipondoka MHT, Mauz B, Kempf J, Packman S, Chiverrell RC, Bloemendaal J 2014. Chronology of sand ridges and the Late Quaternary evolution of the Etosha Pan, Namibia. Geomorphology 204 (1) 553-563
Seely M, Klintenberg P 2007. Can information circulation contribute to combating desertification?. AIDCCD – Active exchange of experience on indicators and development of perspectives in the context of UNCCD: Role of information circulation systems in scientific and practical approaches to combat desertification. Proceedings of the International Seminar 14-23
Leistner OA, Werger MJA 1973. Southern kalahari phytosociology. Vegetatio 28 (5-6) 353-399
Berry HH, Siegfried WR 1991. Mosaic-Like Events in Arid and Semi-Arid Namibia. The Mosaic-Cycle Concept of Ecosystems Ecological Studies 85 147-160
Davies J, Poulsen L, Schulte-Herbrüggen B, Mackinnon K, Crawhall N, Henwood WD, Dudley N, Smith J, Gudka M 2012. Conserving Dryland Biodiversity.
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Seely MK, Henschel JR 2003. Best Practices in the World's Oldest Desert.. Conserving Biodiversity in Arid Regions 119-128
Robinson MD, Barrows CW 2013. Namibian and North American sand-diving lizards. Journal of Arid Environments 93 116-125
Heine K Chapter 3: Climate reconstructions based on fluvial deposits in hyper-arid desert Environments in. African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution, Palaeoecology of Africa 30
Schlesinger WH, Reynolds JF, Cunningham GL, Huenneke LF, Jarrell WM, Virginia RA, Whitford WG 1990. Biological Feedbacks in Global Desertification. Science 247 (4946) 1043-1048
Leprieur C, Kerr YH, Mastorchio S, Meunier JC 2000. Monitoring vegetation cover across semi-arid regions: Comparison of remote observations from various scales. International Journal of Remote Sensing 21 (2) 281-300
Theseira MA, Argandona G, Sannier CAD 2002. An evaluation of spectral mixture modelling applied to a semi-arid environment. International Journal of Remote Sensing 23 (4) 687-700
Moleele N, Ringrose S, Arnberg W, Lunden B, Vanderpost C 2001. Assessment of vegetation indexes useful for browse (forage) prediction in semi-arid rangelands. International Journal of Remote Sensing 22 (5) 741-756
Dougill AJ, Thomas DSG, Heathwaite AL 1999. Environmental change in the Kalahari: integrated land degradation studies for Nonequilibrium dryland environments. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89 (3) 420-442