Some of the oldest living plants and vegetation species live in Namibia. TheWelwitschiaplant with its two huge leaves is known a living fossil. The plant grows even in the driest of all arid places, the Namib desert. Another famous Namibian species is thekokerboomor quiver tree. Quiver tree ...
gummifera. The circles in this area have an average diameter of 3.53 m and the plants 3.44 m. This study partially supports the first published hypothesis by Theron in 1979, that the fairy circles are caused by Euphorbia spp. or their remains....
a unique fauna and flora has been formed under semi-arid desert and savannah conditions and the variety of indigenous plants, animals, fungi, micro-organisms, and marine organisms makes the commercial utilisation of such resources, frequently referred to as bioprospecting,Footnote4very attractive. Sinc...
land Article Aeolian Sand Sorting and Soil Moisture in Arid Namibian Fairy Circles Hezi Yizhaq 1,* , Constantin Rein 2 , Lior Saban 3, Noa Cohen 3, Klaus Kroy 2 and Itzhak Katra 3 1 Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Sede Boqer ...