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1) The plants of an area considered in general or as communities, but not taxonomically; the total plant cover in a particular area or on the Earth as a whole. 2) The total mass of plant life that occupies a given area. (Source: ALL / MGH)

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Hassler SK, Kreyling J, Beierkuhnlein C, Eisold J, Samimi C, Wagenseil H, Jentsch A 2010. Vegetation pattern divergence between dry and wet season in a semiarid savanna - Spatio-temporal dynamics of plant diversity in northwest Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 74 (11) 1516 - 1524

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196310001631

Geldenhuys CJ 1977. The effect of different regimes of annual burning on two woodland communities in Kavango. South African Forestry Journal 103 (1) 32 - 42

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00382167.1977.9629467

Fujioka Y 2005. Vegetation changes and use of palms as a building material by Ovambo Agro-Pastoralists in North-Central Namibia. African Study Monographs 30 89 - 105

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Favier C, Aleman J, Bremond L, Dubois MA, Freycon V, Yangakola J-M 2012. Abrupt shifts in African savanna tree cover along a climatic gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21 (8) 787-797

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00725.x/abstract

Cox GW 1987. The origin of vegetation circles on stony soils of the Namib Desert near Gobabeb, South West Africa/Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 13 237 - 243

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292220748_The_origin_of_vegetation_circles_on_stony_soils_of_the_Namib_Desert_near_Gobabeb_South_West_AfricaNamibia

Cowlishaw G, Davies JG 1997. Flora of the Pro-Namib Desert Swakop River catchment, Namibia: Community classification and implications for desert vegetation sampling. Journal of Arid Environments 36 (2) 271 - 290

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396902037

Colditz RR, Keil M, Strohbach B, Geßner U, Schmidt M, Dech S 2007. Vegetation structure mapping with remote sensing time series: Capabilities and improvements. 2007

Website link:http://elib.dlr.de/66563/

Buss HJ, Nuppenau E-A 2002. More Sustainable Range Use in Semi-Arid Eco-Systems through adapted Management: A case Study on Namibian Farms based on Bio-Economic Models.

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Burke A 2006. Savanna trees in Namibia - Factors controlling their distribution at the arid end of the spectrum. Flora 201 (3) 189 - 201

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253005001271

Burke A 2002. Island-matrix relationship in Nama Karoo inselberg landscapes. Part II: Are some inselbergs better sources than others?. Plant Ecology 158 41 - 48

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/islandmatrix-relationships-in-nama-karoo-inselberg-landscapes-part-ii-are-some-inselbergs-better-sources-than-others/

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

Burke A 2004. Vegetation types of the Brukkaros Mountain - a hide-out for some winter-rain related species and range resources?. Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society 51 97 - 113

Website link:http://www.namibiana.de/de/journal-vol-51-2003.html

Burke A 1997. The impact of large herbivores on floral composition and vegetation structure in the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia. Biodiversity and Conservation 6 1203 - 1217

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/u271173654h65114/

Burke A 1995. Geigeria alata in the Namib desert: Seed heteromorphism in an extremely arid environment. Journal of Vegetation Science 6 (4) 473 - 478

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3236345

Bucini G, Hanan NP 2007. A continental-scale analysis of tree cover in African savannas. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16 (5) 93 - 605

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00325.x/full

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

Namibia Bird Club.

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

Meraka Institute African Advanced Institute for Information and Communication Technology. RSRU - Satellite Derived Vegetation phenology.

Website link:http://www.meraka.csir.co.za/rsru_vegetation_phenology.htm

le Maitre D, Scott DF, Colvin C 1999. Review of information on interactions between vegetation and groundwater. Water SA 25 (2) 137 - 152

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/524

Keene WC, Lobert JM, Crutzen PJ, Maben JR, Scharffe DH, Landmann T, Hély C, Brain C 2006. Emissions of major gaseous and particulate species during experimental burns of southern African biomass. Journal of Geophysical Research 111

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/824

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

Wessels KJ, Prince SD, Malherbe J, Small J, Frost PE, van Zyl D 2007. Can human-induced land degradation be distinguished from the effects of rainfall variability? A case study in South Africa. Journal of Arid Environment 68 (2) 271 - 297

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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

Thuiller W, Midgley GF, Hughes GO, Bomharb B, Drew G, Rutherford MC, Woodward FI 2006. Endemic species and ecosystem sensitivity to climate change in Namibia. Global Change Biology 12 (5) 759 - 776

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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 1981. Vegetation map of southern Africa.

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

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

Botanical Society of South Africa.

Website link:http://www.botanicalsociety.org.za

Heemstra HH 1976. The vegetation of the seasonal swamps.

de Sousa Correira RJ, Bredenkamp GJ 1987. A reconnaissance survey of the vegetation of the Kavango, South West Africa. Journal of the South West African Scientific Society 40 - 41 29 - 45

2002. 4.02 Biomes and vegetation types in Namibia - biomes.

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