Ecology of desert organisms

By M. Chadwick, G. Louw, M. Seeley. Vegetatio, 2004

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Ecophysiology of atmospheric moisture in the Namib Desert (2008, background): “Active absorption requires energy, especially remarkable in deserts where energy from food is limited (Louw and Seely, 1982).”
Sources and significance of variation in basal, summit and maximal metabolic rates in birds (2010, background): “Although scarce and unpredictable rainfall and resultant spatially and temporally unpredictable food supplies have often been invoked as a major factor driving the evolution of reduced metabolic rates in desert organisms (Louw and Seely, 1982; Lovegrove, 2000, 2003; Williams and Tieleman, 2005), two”
Nomadic Desert Birds (2000, background): “Net primary production in the Namib Desert (Louw and Seely 1982) and other arid areas in southern Africa is low (Werger 1986) and most of it occurs immediately after rain (Rutherford 1980; Louw and Seely 1982).”
Effects of bush encroachment on an assemblage of diurnal lizard species in central Namibia (2002, background): “Although humans have influenced the natural environment in Namibia for thousands of years, changes in land use practices over the last century have severely altered natural ecological processes (Louw and Seely, 1982; Prins and van der Jaeugd, 1993; Hoffman, 1997; Pallett, 1997).”