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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Coastal desert"”.
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The archaeology of the coastal desert of Namaqualand, South Africa : a regional synthesis
… this thesis was to study human adaptation in a desert environment during the Later Stone Age. Nine open-air sites from the coastal desert of Namaqualand, South Africa were excavated and analysed with the focus on identifying settlement patterns and subsistence strategies within the context of a …
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Seasonal dynamics of edaphic bacterial communities in the hyper-arid namib desert
The Namib Desert is a hyper-arid, coastal desert with limited bioavailable water and nutrients; characteristics which collectively impose constraints on edaphic microbial communities. Several studies in the Namib Desert have investigated changes in soil microbial communities across space. However, …
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A Comparative Analysis of the Nutrient Composition and Digestibility of California Perennial and Annual Grasses at Four Stages of Growth
… (FRAP, 2003). Forages found on California’s coastal, desert, foothill, and mountain ranges are the basis of the state’s beef cattle industry. Understanding their nutritional quality of these forages is important for their effective use (George et al., 2001a; Waterman et al., 2014). The …