the Namib they grow on shrubs, rocks and pebbles of the gravel plains. These small organisms can densely cover large areas, forming lichen fields. The...

6) Kahams Mountain Desert (Dg 5) Kwaggarug Mountain Desert (Dg 4) Namib Lichen Fields (Dn 2) Noms Mountain Desert (Dg 1) Northern Nababiepsberge Mountain...

 lagunebergensis. In a study of the lichen growth form distributions within the lichen fields of the Central Namib desert, Xanthoparmelia serusiauxii was...

gravel plains. In many areas within the Namib Desert, there is little vegetation with the exception of lichens found in the gravel plains, and in dry river...

Namibia. The Orange River wetland is a declared Ramsar site. Fields of green and orange lichen grow on a hill near the turnoff to Alexander Bay town. It...

Nature Conservation Ordinance No.4 of 1975 on 1 December 2010, and with Namib-Naukluft Park it covers an area of 107,540 square kilometres (41,520 sq mi)...

plants like lichen or pine seedlings benefit from dew. Large-scale, natural irrigation without rainfall, such as in the Atacama and Namib deserts, however...

seals and tardigrades. Where vegetation occurs, it is mostly in the form of lichen or moss. The ice shelves of Antarctica were probably first seen in 1820...

zones. The climatic zones range from the extreme desert of the southern Namib in the farthest northwest to the lush subtropical climate in the east along...

"Terricolous Lichens in the Northern Namib Desert of Namibia: Distribution and Community Composition." The Lichenologist. The British Lichen Society. 2004...