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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Kalahari"”.
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Pans of the southern Kalahari, Botswana
The main geomorphic features of the southern Kalahari in Botswana are the 1000 pans or small dry lakes which lie along the broad watershed between the Nossop - Molopo and Makgadikgadi drainages. No previous detailed studies exist of the pans, which appear to have developed under climatic conditions …
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Eviction Behaviour in the Kalahari Meerkats
… females’ perspective (evictor) using the Kalahari meerkats (Suricata suricatta). I focus on how eviction behaviour varies with current environmental, social, and individual conditions and determine whether eviction behaviour is personality-driven or context-dependent (Chapter Three). I …
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Groundwater of the North-Western Kalahari, Namibia
… water scheme at the north-western fringe of the Kalahari was developed within this study. The investigated area corresponds to the Upper Omatako basin and encompasses an outer mountainous rim and sediments of the Kalahari sand desert in the centre. This study revealed the eminent importance of …
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Hydrogeology of the Kalahari in north-eastern Namibia
… hydrochemical settings of the Northern Namibian Kalahari Catchment which is the Namibian part of the Makgadikgadi-Kalahari-Catchment. Recharge has been the subject of process-understanding, quantification and regionalisation. Within the semiarid study area a bimodal surface constitution is …
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Participatory rangeland monitoring and management in the Kalahari, Botswana
The multi-dimensional and dynamic nature of rangeland degradation makes accurate assessment a difficult challenge. Existing assessment methods rarely integrate different components of land degradation and local communities rarely participate, or derive results that can improve the sustainability of …
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"Nothing changes in the Kalahari" : Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, the Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park Agreement and the effects of difference, discourse and the past
… reiterate that "nothing changes in the Kalahari", and this is a dominant discourse in the Park. Experience of living in the region (including the National Park) has demonstrated to residents that little does change in their material social reality. Based on the experience of nine months …
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The evolution of the Congo- Kalahari Watershed: African mega-geomorphology
… south and east, is globally unique. The Congo–Kalahari Watershed represents the transition between low and high Africa. This sub–continental drainage divide separates two of the world's large rivers: the Congo and Zambezi Rivers. This study focuses on the large rivers which form the …
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Contextual engineering for sustainable Kalahari melon oil extraction in rural Namibia
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Sugilite and associated metamorphic silicate minerals from Wessels Mine, Kalahari manganese field
… lower manganese orebody at Wessels Mine, in the Kalahari Manganese Field. This orebody was formed in the lowermost manganiferous horizon of the Hotazel Member of the Voelwater Jasper Formation, part of the volcanogenic sedimentary iron formation of the Griqualand West Sequence. At Wessels Mine, …
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Understanding changes in plant productivity using EVI satellite data in Tswalu Kalahari Reserve
… plant productivity in the 100 000 hectare Tswalu Kalahari Reserve (TKR) in the semi-arid Northern Cape and relate the observed changes to potential drivers using medium spatial resolution of MODIS Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) time series data (16 day, 250 m) from 2000 to 2015. The time series …
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A Kalahari family : the makings of a family, a filmmaker and a film
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-120)
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The Ecology and Management of Kalahari lions in a Conflict Area in Central Botswana
… square kilometres in the north of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), in central Botswana. The collars acquired total of 241,858 usable GPS fixes and I visited each lion monthly. Lion spatial behaviour appears to have changed in response to the decline in herbivores, although there is …
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The Ecology and Management of Kalahari lions in a Conflict Area in Central Botswana
… square kilometres in the north of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), in central Botswana. The collars acquired total of 241,858 usable GPS fixes and I visited each lion monthly. Lion spatial behaviour appears to have changed in response to the decline in herbivores, although there is …
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Ecology and morphology of the Kalahari tent tortoise, Psammobates oculifer, in a semi-arid environment
… I studied the habitat, morphology and ecology of Kalahari tent tortoises over 13 months in semi-arid Savanna at Benfontein farm, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. In order to allow continuous monitoring of individuals, I attached radiotransmitters to males and females, split equally between …
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Genealogies and narratives of San authenticities the ?Khomani San land claim in the southern Kalahari
… of the land claim lodged by the San against the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa in 1995, the post-land claim settlement activities on the restituted farms, and the various issues around authenticity and traditional leadership. I will also highlight a variety of issues, ranging from …
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Early human social transmission during Marine Isotope Stage 5: a perspective from the Kalahari Basin
… between different early human groups across the Kalahari Basin and adjoining regions during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 (~130-74 ka), a key time and place for understanding the emergence and expansion of complex behaviors in Africa. It has been proposed that glacial periods (e.g., MIS 4) in …
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A functional analysis of the response of the Southern Kalahari dune vegetation to land-use intensity
… farms as well as a communal farm in the southern Kalahari. The farms were subjectively chosen to represent a gradient from underutilized to overutilized. Plant community surveys were conducted on the farms and the dominant plant species were sampled and researched for selected functional traits to …
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An ecotourism approach to tourism development in the Green Kalahari District of the Northern Cape Province
This dissertation arises from a study commissioned by the Peace Parks Foundation to investigate the feasibility of establishing a new conservation area known as the Gariep Transfrontier Conservation Area (GTFCA), entitled; Feasibility Study of the Proposed Gariep Transfrontier Conservation Area: …
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Heat tolerance of Southern Pied Babblers in the Kalahari Desert : how will they respond to climate change?
An increasing incidence of mass mortalities of birds in hot deserts suggests that birds may be appropriate candidates for assessing how natural selection, under the influence of climate change, drives adaptation. ... The effects of ambient temperature on daily weight gain, foraging effort and …
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The socio-ecology and social behaviour of the brown hyaena Hyaena Brunnea, Thunberg, 1820 in the southern Kalahari.
The brown hyaena in the southern Kalahari is predominantly a scavenger of mammal remains, supplementing its diet with wild fruits as well as other vertebrate remains, insects, birds' eggs and the occasional small animal which is killed. Brown hyaenas are solitary foragers, but most of them live in …
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