Nama-Karoo Biome.
In Buch: The vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland: 324-347.
Publisher: SANBI, Pretoria
Volltext: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236982004_Nama-Karoo_Biome
Aus der Einleitung:
The Nama-Karoo is a large, landlocked region on the central plateau of the western half of South Africa and extends into southeastern Namibia. The name is derived from the Khoi San word kuru meaning ‘dry’. Its extensive surface (248 284 km2 or 19.6% of the area covered by the map) is flanked by six biomes: the Succulent Karoo to the south and west, Desert to the northwest, the arid Kalahari form of the Savanna Biome to the north, Grassland to the northeast, Albany Thicket to the southeast and small parts of Fynbos to the south. The Nama-Karoo has a continental-type climate. In South Africa, only the Desert Biome has a higher variability in annual rainfall and the Kalahari Savanna greater extremes in temperature. The Nama-Karoo has most rainfall in the summer half of the year, especially in late summer.
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