Namibia (Gbb-EON)

• Gbb-EON Website
• ILTER regional network: Africa

Gbb-EON is now over four and half decades old. It all started with the establishment of a weather station, later with several at different sites situated between Walvis Bay and near Windhoek. Measurements of different variables soon followed, ranging from geophysical changes such as dune movements and groundwater dynamics to growth of individuals, such as Welwitschia, changes in populations, such as Tenebrionid beetles, and patterns of productivity, e.g., of grasses. A team at Gobabeb undertakes these measurements on an hourly, daily, monthly, seasonal, annual or decadal basis to build up a data base. Methods range from use of calipers to remote sensing. Gbb-EON straddles both time and space between projects and different initiatives, thus forming a true network concerning long-term environmental monitoring.