east by the Nama Karoo, which has more extreme temperatures and variable rainfall, and on the north by the Namib Desert. Succulent Karoo vegetation types...
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The Karoo (/kəˈruə/ kə-ROO-ə; from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or Khoemana word ǃ’Aukarob "Hardveld") is a semi-desert natural...
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number of desert ecoregions that have a high degree of biodiversity and endemism: The Nama Karoo of Namibia has the world's richest desert fauna. The...
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The Karoo National Park is a wildlife reserve in the Great Karoo area of the Western Cape, South Africa near Beaufort West. This semi-desert area covers...
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Gwarrieveld (AT 55) Willowmore Gwarrieveld (AT 58) 29 Nama Karoo and desert vegetation types, codes NK and D: Albany Broken Veld (NKl 4) Blouputs Karroid Thornveld...
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Namib (redirect from Namib desert)
South African Karoo semi-desert. Southern Namib (between Lüderitz and the Kuiseb River) comprises a vast dune sea with some of the tallest and most spectacular...
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Chersobius boulengeri (redirect from Karoo padloper)
as the Karoo padloper or Boulenger's cape tortoise, is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae. The species is endemic to the Nama Karoo Region...
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List of ecoregions in Namibia (section Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands)
Zambezian and mopane woodlands Etosha Pan halophytics Zambezian flooded grasslands Kalahari xeric savanna Kaokoveld desert Nama Karoo Namib desert Namibian...
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65 Succulent Karoo vegetation types, code SK; 54 Albany Thicket and Strandveld vegetation types, codes AT and FS; 29 Nama Karoo and desert vegetation types...
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Richtersveld (redirect from Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape)
transitional zone between the coastal Succulent Karoo ecoregion in the west, and the drier Nama Karoo to the east. Rainfall in the Richtersveld varies...
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