Herbarium
Extensive collection of plant descriptions and / or pressings found on the NamibRand Nature Reserve.
Species
For a list of mammals, birds, repitles and amphibians (PDF file) click on the link above.
- Game count - May 2023 (3.3 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the May 2023 game count - Game count - May 2022 (2.3 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the May 2022 game count - Game count - May 2021 (1.5 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the May 2021 game count - Game count - May 2020 (1.5 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the May 2020 game count - Game count - May 2019 (1.4 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the May 2019 game count - Game count - May 2018 (1.4 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the May 2018 game count - Game count - May 2017 (1.1 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the May 2017 game count - Game count - May 2016 (1.3 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the May 2016 game count - Game count - May 2015 (3.3 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the May 2015 game count - Game count poster - May 2015 (4.6 MB / JPEG)
Results and discussion of the May 2015 game count - Plains zebra and hartebeest count report - June 2014 (970KB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the plains zebra and hartebeest count as held in June 2014 - Game count - May 2014 (2 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the May 2014 game count - Game count - June 2013 (1.5 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the June 2013 game count - Game count - June 2012 (1.37 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the June 2012 game count - Game count - June 2011 (1.4 MB / PDF)
Results and discussion of the June 2011 game count - Game count - June 2010 (800 KB/PDF)
Results and discussion of the June 2010 game count - Game count - June 2009 (700 KB/PDF)
Results and discussion of the June 2009 game count - Game count - June 2008 (60 KB/PDF)
Results and discussion of the June 2008 game count - Game count - June 2007 (253 KB/PDF)
Results and discussion of the June 2007 game count - Game count - December 2006 (368 KB/PDF)
Results and discussion of the December 2006 game count - Game count - June 2006 (308 KB/PDF)
Results and discussion of the June 2006 game count - Game count - November 2005 (267 KB/PDF)
Results and discussion of the November 2005 game count - Game count - June 2005 (361 KB/PDF)
Results and discussion of the June 2005 game count
- Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings (3MB / PDF)
Journal of Vegetation Science
By: Stephan Getzin, Hezi Yizhaq & Walter R. Tschinkel, 2021 - The impact of linear barriers on the movement ecology of ungulates in the Greater Sossusvlei-Namib Landscape, Namibia (3MB / PDF)
By: Stefanie Kim Urban, September 2021 - Revisiting Theron’s hypothesis on the origin of fairy circles after four decades: Euphorbias are not the cause (5MB / PDF)
BMC Ecology and Evolution
By: Stephan Getzin, Ailly Nambwandja, Sönke Holch & Kerstin Wiegand, 2021 - Magnetic rock fragments and the formation of the Namib Sand Sea (1MB / PDF)
International Conference of Aeolian Research 2020
By: Andreas U. Gehring, Stefan Schultheiss & Peter G. Weidler - Contrasting Global Patterns of Spatially Periodic Fairy Circles and Regular Insect Nests in Drylands (400KB / PDF)
JGR Biogeosciences
By: Stephan Getzin, Hezi Yizhaq, Michael D. Cramer and Walter R. Tschinkel, 2019 - Unusual Namibian fairy circle patterns in heterogeneous and atypical
environments (1MB / PDF)
Journal of Arid Environments
By: Stephan Getzina & Hezi Yizhaq, 2019 - Mountain Zebra Project – 8th progress report (1MB / PDF)
Population ecology of Hartmann’s mountain zebra
2018 - Two new species of Garreta Janssens, 1940 (4MB / PDF)
Zootaxa 4450 (2): 242–248
By: Adrian L. V. Davis & Christian M. Deschodt, 2018 - New deltochiline (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) taxa associated with hyrax dung in arid south western Namibia (5MB / PDF)
Zootaxa 4450 (1): 066–076
By: Christian M. Deschodt & Adrian L. V. Davis, 2018 - Non-invasive genetic sampling of the Zebra population in NamibRand Reserve, Namibia (2MB / PDF)
By: Katarzyna Bojarska, Roman Gula and Ralph Kuehn, June 2017 - Can private conservation foster valid results? (4MB / PDF)
Master thesis in the study program: Integrated Natural Resource Management (M.Sc.)
By: Judith Schulze, Berlin, August 4th, 2014 - Evaluating socio-ecological aspects of land use conflicts and edge effects: a case study of the NamibRand Nature Reserve in Namibia (2MB / PDF)
Master thesis in the study program: Integrated Natural Resource Management (M.Sc.)
By: Stephanie Haberl, Berlin, 17. 7. 2014 - Are Namibian “Fairy Circles” the Consequence of Self-Organizing Spatial Vegetation Patterning?
PLoS ONE 8(8): e70876. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070876
By: Cramer MD, Barger NN (2013) - The Biological Underpinnings of Namib Desert Fairy Circles
Science 29 March 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6127 pp. 1618-1621DOI:10.1126/science.
222999 By: Norbert Juergens - The Life Cycle and Life Span of Namibian Fairy Circles
Scientific paper, published in PLOS One (2012) By: W.R.Tschinkel
By: W.R.Tschinkel - Evidence for a geochemical origin of the mysterious circles in the Pro-Namib desert (1MB / PDF)
Scientific paper, published in Journal of Arid Environments 75 (2011)
By: Y. Naudé, M.W. van Rooyen and E.R. Rohwer - Experimental Thermoregulation in the Wedge-Snouted Lizard (Meroles cuneirostris) (878KB / PDF)
Scientific paper, unpublished, prepared for 2011 Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Sweden.
By: Maria Wilén - A new species of the Pachydactylus Weberi Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the NamibRand Reserve, Southern Namibia (347KB / PDF)
Scientific paper, published in BREVORIA Museum of Comparative Zoology, June 2011
By: W. R. Branch, A. M. Bauer, T. R. Jackman, and M. Heinicke - Preliminary report on the late Holocene archaeology of the Awasib-Gorrasis basin complex in the southern Namib Desert (590KB / PDF)
Scientific paper, published in Studies in the African Past 5, September 2006
By: J. Kinahan & J. Kinahan - The Foraging Tunnel System of the Namibian Desert Termite, Baucaliotermes hainesi (891 KB/PDF)
Scientific paper, unpublished, February 2008
By: W. R. Tschinkel - Desert Revival, Africa Geographic - Volume 17 Number 11 (770KB/PDF)
Article by Tim Jackson on the NamibRand Nature Reserve, please visit www.africageographic.com - Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Round-Eared Sengis or Elephant-Shrews, Genus Macroscelides (Mammalia, Afrotheria, Macroscelidea) (630 KB/PDF)
Scientific paper, published by PLos One, March 2012, Volume 7, Issue e32410.
By: John P. Dumbacher, Galen B. Rathbun, Hanneline A. Smit, Seth J. Eiseb -
Systematics of the Round-eared Sengi (Macroscelides proboscideus) in Namibia (299 KB/PDF)
Trip Report - August 2007
By: G. Rathbun & J. Dumbacher - Origin of the enigmatic, circular, barren patches (Fairy Rings) of the pro-Namib (158 KB/PDF)
Scientific paper, published in the South African Journal of Science 97, January/February 2001.
By: C.F. Albrecht, J.J. Joubert and P.H. De Rycke - Experiments to test the hypothesis whether a semi-volatile substance inhibits plant growth within Fairy Circles (19 KB/PDF)
Research report, unpublished.
By: W. Jankowitz - Investigation of the Hydrophobicity of the Fairy circles of Namibia (332 KB/PDF)
Research report, unpublished.
By: N. Shirtcliffe and S. Doerr -
Report on an Archeological reconnaissance of Gorassis (NRNR) and adjacent parts of the Namib Naukluft Park (38 KB/PDF)
Survey report, unpublished.
By: J. Kinahan & J. Kinahan - Habitat use by radio-tagged Namib Desert golden moles (Eremitalpa granti namibensis) (78 KB/PDF)
Scientific paper, unpublished.
By: G.B. Rathbun and C.D. Rathbun - Aerial survey of breeding lappet-faced vultures and marking of chicks - 2006 (42 KB/PDF)
Research report, unpublished.
By: P. Bridgeford and M. Bridgeford - The Ecology of the Cape ground squirrel (Xerus inauris) in the Namib Desert - 2006 (39 KB/PDF)
Research report, unpublished.
By: J. M. Waterman and J. D. Roth
