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Number of plants growing on a certain area of land. (Source: PHC)

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Bond W, Midgley GF, Woodward F 2003. What controls South African vegetation-climate or fire?. South African Journal of Botany 69 (1) 79 - 91

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Blench R, Sommer F 1999. Understanding rangeland biodiversity.

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de Beer Y, Kilian W, Versfeld W, van Aarde RJ 2006. Elephants and low rainfall alter woody vegetation in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 64 412 - 421

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305001527

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

Becker T, Jürgens N 2000. Vegetation along climate gradients in Kaokoland, north-west Namibia. Phytocoenologia 30 (3 - 4) 543 - 565

Website link:http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/bzf/fb0a058/fb0a058_pub.htm

Becker T, Getzin S 2000. The fairy circles of Kaokoland (North-West Namibia) - origin, distribution, and characteristics. Basic and Applied Ecology 1 (2) 149 - 159

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1439179104700201

Becker T 2007. Untersuchungen zur floristischen Diversität entlang von Grossraumtransekten im Kaokoland (NW Namibia). Basic and Applied Dryland Research 1 86 - 99

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van Aarde R, de Beer Y, Guldemond R 2004. Elephants, drought and woody vegetation in Namibia's Etosha National Park. Transactions of the Royal Society of SA 59 (2) 123

Website link:http://www.sabinet.co.za/abstracts/royalsa/royalsa_v59_n2_a15.html

Raal PA, Burns MER 1996. Mapping and conservation importance rating of the South African coastal vegetation as an aid to development planning. Landscape and Urban Planning 34 389 - 400

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1551

Scholes RJ, Dowty PR, Caylor K, Parsons DAB, Frost PGH, Shugart HH 2002. Trends in savanna structure and composition along an aridity gradient in the Kalahari. Journal of Vegetation Science 13 (3) 419 - 428

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Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2027

Vogel M, Strohbach M 2009. Monitoring of savanna degradation in Namibia using Landsat TM/ETM+ data. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 3 III - 931

Website link:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A//ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/5403226/5417750/05417925.pdf%3Farnumber%3D5417925&authDecision=-203

SAFARI 2000 NBI Vegetation Map of the Savannas of Southern Africa.

Website link:ftp://daac.ornl.gov/data/safari2k/vegetation_wetlands/nbi_veg_maps/

Burke A 2015. Rare plants in a Succulent – Nama Karoo ecotone in southern Africa. African Journal of Ecology 53 (1) 93-102

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aje.12206/full

Craven P, Kolberg HH Plants of Namibia.

Website link:http://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/namibia

Kolberg H, van Slageren MW 2016. A synopsis of Aptosimum and Peliostomum (Scrophulariaceae) in Namibia, including the description of a new species, Aptosimum radiatum, and keys to all accepted species. Kew Bulletin 71 (16)

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12225-016-9628-7

Craven P 1999. A checklist of Namibian plant species.

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299488518_A_checklist_of_Namibian_plant_species

Ulbrich R, Kwembeya E, Joubert D, de Cauwer V 2017. Species distribution modelling of selected invasive alien plant species in Namibia and Germany.

Website link:http://www.invasives.org.za/events/item/1289-species-distribution-modelling-of-selected-invasive-alien-plant-species-in-namibia-and-germany

Kasaona M 2004. Tree distribution, vegetative and regenerative growth of seedlings at two selected sites in the Kuiseb River. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 1 18-25

Website link:http://www.namscience.com.na/

EnviroScience.

Website link:http://www.enviro-science.info/

Namibia Biomass industry Group (N-BiG).

Website link:http://www.n-big.org/

Akhtar-Schuster M, Thomas RJ, Stringer LC, Chasek P, Seely M 2011. Improving the enabling environment to combat land degradation: Institutional, financial, legal and science-policy challenges and solutions. Land Degradation and Development 22 (2) 299-312

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.1058/full

Leggett K, Fennessy J, Schneider S 2003. Seasonal distributions and social dynamics of elephants in the Hoanib River catchment, northwestern Namibia. African Zoology 38 (2) 305-316

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/afzoo/38/2/EJC17882

Struwig M, Siebert SJ 2009. Spiderlings, stars and hyrax bushes - a collecting excursion to Namibia. Veld and Flora 95 (4) 194-197

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/veld/95/4/EJC113435

Moll E, Moll A, Picker M, Ross-Gillespie V, Swart R, Smuts S, Xaba P 2011. Seed-collecting ants that run fairy rings around scientists or the mystery of the bare patches. Veld and Flora 97 (1) 27-29

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/veld/97/1/EJC113638

van Jaarsveld E 2009. Kleinduimpie grass: Dregeochloa pumila, the only succulent grass in the world: Namib desert flora. Veld and Flora 95 (1) 19-21

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/veld/95/1/EJC113328

Coetzee M, Kinyanga V, Kruger B, Seely M, Werner W 2014. Combating land degradation in Namibia over 23 years: learning what matters in DLDD. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 69 (3) 171-174

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2014.949902

van Jaarsveld EJ 1987. The succulent riches of South Africa and Namibia. Aloe 24 45-92

Website link:http://www.succulents.net/backup/society/aloe_archive.html

Harmse CJ, Kellner K, Dreber N 2016. Restoring productive rangelands: A comparative assessment of selective and non-selective chemical bush control in a semi-arid Kalahari savanna. Journal of Arid Environments 135 39-49

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196316301434

Barnard P, Waage JK 2004. Tackling biological invasions around the world: regional responses to the invasive alien species threat.

Website link:https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/28023

McClean CJ, Doswald N, Küper W, Sommer JH, Barnard P, Lovett JC 2006. Potential impacts of climate change on Sub-Saharan African plant priority area selection. Diversity and Distributions 12 645-655

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2006.00290.x/full

Tarnita CE, Bonachela JA, Sheffer E, Guyton JA, Coverdale TC, Long RA, Pringle RM 2017. A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns. Nature 541 398-401

Website link:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v541/n7637/full/nature20801.html

Shackley M 1980. An Acheulean industry with Elephas recki fauna from Namib IV, South West Africa (Namibia). Nature 284 (5754) 340-341

Website link:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v284/n5754/abs/284340a0.html

Burney DA, Brook GA, Cowart JB 1994. A Holocene pollen record for the Kalahari Desert of Botswana from a U-series dated speleothem. The Holocene 4 (3) 225-232

Website link:http://hol.sagepub.com/content/4/3/225.abstract

Gil-Romera G, Scott L, Marais E, Brook GA 1991. Holocene environmental changes in Namibia inferred from pollen analysis of swamp and lake deposits. The Holocene 16 (8) 1073-1084

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Moritz W 1992. Nara, das Brot der Wüste.

Website link:http://www.namibiana.de/de/die-nara-das-brot-der-wueste.html

Beyer M, Koeniger P, Gaj M, Hamutoko JT, Wanke H, Himmelsbach T 2016. A deuterium-based labeling technique for the investigation of rooting depths, water uptake dynamics and unsaturated zone water transport in semiarid environments. Journal of Hydrology 533 627-643

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169415009853

Carr AS, Chase BM, Boom A, Medina-Sanchez J 2016. Stable isotope analyses of rock hyrax faecal pellets, hyraceum and associated vegetation in southern Africa: Implications for dietary ecology and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Journal of Arid Environments 134 33-48

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196316301148

Lauterbach M, de Wet van der Merwe P, Keßler L, Pirie MD, Bellstedt DU, Kadereit G Evolution of leaf anatomy in arid environments – A case study in southern African Tetraena and Roepera (Zygophyllaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 97 129-144

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790316000178

Fischer C, Kollmann J, Wagner TC 2015. How does the seed fate of Crotalaria podocarpa DC, a highly competitive herbaceous legume in arid rangelands, contribute to its establishment probability?. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 17 (5) 405-411

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1433831915000682

Meyer JJM, Senejoux F, Heyman HM, Meyer NL, Meÿer MA 2015. The occurrence of triterpenoids from Euphorbia gummifera inside the fairy circles of Garub in the southern Namibian pro-desert. South African Journal of Botany 98 10-15

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629915000204

Hoetzel S, Dupont LM, Wefer G 2015. Miocene–Pliocene vegetation change in south-western Africa (ODP Site 1081, offshore Namibia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 423 102-108

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018215000516

Zhang H, Sinclair R 2015. Namibian fairy circles and epithelial cells share emergent geometric order. Ecological Complexity 22 32-35

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1476945X15000069

Lim S, Chase BM, Chevalier M, Reimer PJ 2016. 50,000 years of vegetation and climate change in the southern Namib Desert, Pella, South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 451 197-209

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018216001619

Scott L, Gil-Romera G, Marais E, Brook GA 2016. Evidence of vegetation change in Late Quaternary deposits of the Namib Desert and boundary region. Quaternary International 404 (B) 186

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618215012574

Ludwig A, Meyer H, Nauss T 2016. Automatic classification of Google Earth images for a larger scale monitoring of bush encroachment in South Africa. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 50 89-94

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243416300265

Swanepoel W, van Jaarsveld E, Voigt W, van Wyk F, Versfeld F 2009. The Otjihipa Mountains Expedition: botanical exploration in Namibia: Kaokoveld centre of endemism. Veld and Flora 95 (1) 12-18

Website link:http://reference.sabinet.co.za/document/EJC113329

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Wood fuels and assessment: Namibia country report: 2. Wood Fuels in Namibia.

Website link:http://www.fao.org/docrep/004/x6797e/X6797E02.htm

Burke A 2005. Status of succulent shrubs in the southern Namib Desert, Succulent Karroo Biome. African Journal of Ecology 43 325-331

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2005.00584.x/abstract

Günster A 1994. Phenological niches of coexisting serotinous plants in the Namib Desert. Journal of Tropical Ecology 10 531-544

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2559987

Günster A 1993. Does the timing and intensity of rain events affect resource allocation in serotinous desert plants?. Acta Oecologica 14 153-159

Website link:http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=4878158