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Burke A 2005. Endemic plants of the arid succulent karoo in Namibia: towards hypotheses for their evolution. Ecography 28 (2) 171-180

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0906-7590.2005.04143.x/abstract

Bullard JE, White K, Livingstone I 2011. Morphometric analysis of aeolian bedforms in the Namib Sand Sea using ASTER data. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 36 (11) 1534-1549

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.2189/abstract

Lubin Y, Henschel JR, Baker MB 2001. Costs of aggregation: shadow competition in a sit-and-wait predator. Oikos 95 (1) 59-68

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.950107.x/abstract

Henschel JR 1994. Diet and foraging behaviour of huntsman spiders in the Namib dunes (Araneae: Heteropodidae). Journal of Zoology 234 (2) 239-251

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1994.tb06072.x/abstract

Clinning CF 1980. Birds of the Namib coast.

Fielden LJ, Hickman GC, Perrin MR 1992. Locomotory activity in the Namib Desert golden mole Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Journal of Zoology 226 (2) 329-344

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1992.tb03843.x/abstract

Enders MM, Schüle H, Henschel JR 1998. Sexual Dimorphism, Fighting Success and Mating Tactics of Male Onymacris plana Péringuey (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in the Namib Desert. Ethology 104 (12) 1003-1019

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1998.tb00049.x/abstract

Dickman CR 1995. Diets and habitat preferences of three species of crocidurine shrews in arid southern Africa. Journal of Zoology 237 (3) 499-514

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1995.tb02777.x/abstract

Henschel JR 1995. Tool Use by Spiders: Stone Selection and Placement by Corolla Spiders Ariadna (Segestriidae) of the Namib Desert. Ethology 101 (3) 187-199

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1995.tb00357.x/abstract

Hanrahan SA, Kirchner WH 1994. Acoustic Orientation and Communication in Desert Tenebrionid Beetles in Sand Dunes. Ethology 97 (1-2) 26-32

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1994.tb01026.x/abstract

Fielden LJ 1991. Home range and movements of the Namib Desert golden mole, Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Journal of Zoology 223 (4) 675-686

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1991.tb04396.x/abstract

Livingstone I 2003. A twenty-one-year record of surface change on a Namib linear dune. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 28 (9) 1025-1031

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.1000/abstract

Livingstone I 1989. Monitoring surface change on a Namib linear dune. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 14 (4) 317-332

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.3290140407/abstract

Bothma J du P, Nel JAJ, MacDonald A 1984. Food niche separation between four sympatric Namib Desert carnivores. Journal of Zoology 202 (3) 327-340

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1984.tb05086.x/abstract

Hulley GC, Hook SJ, Manning E, Lee S-Y, Fetzer E 2009. Validation of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) version 5 land surface emissivity product over the Namib and Kalahari deserts. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres (1984-2012) 114 (D19) 16

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2009JD012351/abstract

Nel JAJ, Bothma J du P 1983. Scent marking and midden use by aardwolves (Proteles cristatus) in the Namib Desert. African Journal of Ecology 21 (1) 25-39

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1983.tb00310.x/abstract

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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Lindeque M, Lindeque PM 1991. Satellite tracking of elephants in northwestern Namibia. African Journal of Ecology 29 (3) 196-206

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1991.tb01002.x/abstract

Viljoen PJ 1989. Spatial distribution and movements of elephants (Loxodonta africana) in the northern Namib Desert region of the Kaokoveld, South West Africa/Namibia. Journal of Zoology 219 (1) 1-19

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1989.tb02561.x/abstract

Clinning CF 1980. Vulture study in South West Africa. Vulture News 3 7 - 10

Website link:http://www.iucn-vulturenews.org/

The Greater Sossusvlei-Namib Landscape.

Website link:http://www.landscapesnamibia.org/sossusvlei-namib/

Pickford M 1997. Lower Miocene Suiformes from the northern Sperrgebiet, Namibia, including new evidence for the systematic position of the Sanitheriidae. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 325 (4) 285-292

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1251805097883024

Nicolson SW 1991. Diuresis or clearance: Is there a physiological role for the "diuretic hormone" of the desert beetle Onymacris?. Journal of Insect Physiology 37 (6) 447-452

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191091900544

Hanrahan SA, Nicolson SW 1987. Ultrastructure of the malpighian tubules of Onymacris plana plana peringuey (Coleoptera : Tenebrionidae). International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology 16 (2) 99-119

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0020732287900110

Watson A 1986. Grain-size variations on a longitudinal dune and a barchan dune. Sedimentary Geology 46 (1-2) 49-66

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0037073886900059

Schenk K, Suhling F, Martens A 2004. Egg distribution, mate-guarding intensity and offspring characteristics in dragonflies (Odonata). Animal Behaviour 68 (3) 599-606

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347204002131

Hesp PA, Hastings K 1998. Width, height and slope relationships and aerodynamic maintenance of barchans. Geomorphology 22 (2) 193-204

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X97000706

Tilson RL, Hamilton III WJ 1984. Social dominance and feeding patterns of spotted hyaenas. Animal Behaviour 32 (3) 715-724

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347284801475

Narins PM, Lewis ER, Jarvis JJUM, O'Riain J 1997. The Use of Seismic Signals by Fossorial Southern African Mammals: A Neuroethological Gold Mine. Brain research Bulletin 44 (5) 641-646

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361923097002864

Muhs DR 2004. Mineralogical maturity in dunefields of North America, Africa and Australia. Geomorphology 59 (1-4) 247-269

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X03003271

Swanepoel JW, Krüger GHJ, van Heerden PDR 2007. Effects of sulphur dioxide on photosynthesis in the succulent Augea capensis Thunb.. Journal of Arid Environments 70 (2) 208-221

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196307000183

Chase BM, Thomas DSG 2007. Multiphase late Quaternary aeolian sediment accumulation in western South Africa: Timing and relationship to palaeoclimatic changes inferred from the marine record. Quaternary International 166 (1) 29-41

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618206003247

Goudie AS, Parker AG 1998. Experimental simulation of rapid rock block disintegration by sodium chloride in a foggy coastal desert. Journal of Arid Environments 40 (4) 347-355

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398904657

Bourke MC 2010. Barchan dune asymmetry: Observations from Mars and Earth. Icarus 205 (1) 183-197

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103509003819

Neish CD, Lorenz RD, Kirk RL, Wye LC 2010. Radarclinometry of the sand seas of Africa's Namibia and Saturn's moon Titan. Icarus 208 (1) 385-394

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103510000424

Senut B, Pickford M, Segalen L 2009. Neogene desertification of Africa. Comptes Rendus Geoscience 341 (8-9) 591-602

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631071309000790

Fujioka T, Chappell J 2011. Desert landscape processes on a timescale of millions of years, probed by cosmogenic nuclides. Aeolian Research 3 (2) 157-164

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875963711000140

Vogel S, Müller-Doblies U 2011. Desert geophytes under dew and fog: The "curly-whirlies" of Namaqualand (South Africa). Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 206 (1) 3-31

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253010001015

Bennett MR, Morse SA, Liutkus-Pierce C, McClymont J, Evans M, Crompton RH, Thackeray JF 2014. Exceptional preservation of children's footprints from a Holocene footprint site in Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 97 331-341

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X14001745

Marsh AC 1987. Thermal responses and temperature tolerance of a dessert* ant-lion larva. Journal of Thermal Biology 12 (4) 295-300

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0306456587900313

Göttsche F-M, Hulley GC 2012. Validation of six satellite-retrieved land surface emissivity products over two land cover types in a hyper-arid region. Remote Sensing of Environment 124 149-158

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425712002131

Amit R, Enzel Y, Grodek T, Crouvi O, Porat N, Ayalon A 2010. The role of rare rainstorms in the formation of calcic soil horizons on alluvial surfaces in extreme deserts. Quaternary Research 74 (2) 177-178

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589410000529

de Villiers PS, Hanrahan SA 1991. Sperm competition in the Namib Desert beetle, Onymacris unguicularis. Journal of Insect Physiology 37 (1) 7-8

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002219109190012O

Lichtenthaler H 1998. Die Wurzel, das neue Organ, ihre Bedeutung fur das Leben von Welwitschia mirabilis und anderer Arten der Namib sowie von Arten angrenzender Gebiete. Journal of Plant Physiology 153 (1-2) 264

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0176161798800898

Enders M, Schüle H 1993. Age identification of a Namib desert tenebrionid beetle. Journal of Arid Environments 24 (2) 211-214

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196383710189

McClain E, Magnuson P, Warner SJ 1988. Behavioural fever in a Namib Desert tenebrionid beetle, Onymacris plana. Journal of Insect Physiology 34 (4) 279-284

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191088901369

Speer KG, Siedler G, Talley L 1995. The Namib Col Current. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 42 (11-12) 1933-1950

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0967063795000887

Enders MM 1995. Size-assortative mating in a tenebrionid beetle of the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 29 (4) 469-484

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196395800190

Stone A 2012. Dune generations in the east of the northern Namib Sand Sea. Quaternary International 279-280 471

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618212026201

Fielden LJ, Perrin MR, Hickman GC 1990. Water metabolism in the Namib Desert Golden Mole, Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology 96 (1) 227-234

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0300962990900709