The East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and BiodiversityEric O. Odada, Daniel O. Olago The Second International Symposium on the East African Lakes was held from 10-15 January 2000 at Club Makokola on the southern shore of Lake Malawi. The symposium was organized by the International Decade for the East African Lakes (IDEAL), a research consortium of African, European and North American scientists interested in promoting the investigations of African Great Lakes as archives of environmental and climatic dynamics. Over one hundred African, European and North American scientists with special expertise in the tropical lakes participated in the symposium which featured compelling presentations on the limnology, climatology, palaeoclimatology and biodiversity of the East African Lakes. It is their papers that comprise this book. The large lakes of East Africa are important natural resources that are heavily utilized by their bordering countries for transportation, water supply, fisheries, waste disposal, recreation and tourism. The lakes are unique in many ways: they are sensitive to climatic change and their circulation dynamics, water-column chemistry and biological complexity differ significantly from large lakes at higher latitudes; they have long, continuous, high resolution records of past climatic change; and they have rich and diverse populations of endemic organisms. These unique properties and the significance of the palaeolimnological records demand and attract research interest from around the world. |
Contents
Mesoscale Patterns of Rainfall Cloudiness and Evaporation Over | 93 |
Observations Evaporation and Preliminary Modelling of Over | 121 |
Development of a Coupled Regional Climate Simulation Model | 152 |
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Hydrology and Physical Limnology | 185 |
Ventilation of Lake MalawiNyasa | 207 |
Application of Satellite AVHRR to Water Balance Mixing | 259 |
A Review of Sediment Gas Cycling in Lakes with reference to Lake | 277 |
Sedimentology and Geochronology of Late Pleistocene | 369 |
A 24000 yr Diatom Record from the Northern Basin of Lake | 409 |
Lake Tanganyika Holocene Record on Variability in Precipitation | 415 |
Late Quaternary Sedimentation and Climate in the Lakes Edward | 429 |
Pigment Analysis of Short Cores from the Central Ethiopian Rift | 467 |
Origin and Isotopic Composition of Aragonite Laminae in | 487 |
Vegetation Changes and their Climatic Implications for the Lake | 509 |
Organic Content and Xray Density of Lacustrine Sediments from | 524 |
Redundancy and Ecosystem Stability in the Fluctuating | 309 |
Effects of Climate and Human Activities on the Ecosystem of Lake | 335 |
Limnological Profiles and their Variability in Lake Tanganyika | 348 |
Restoring and Protecting the African Great Lake Basin Ecosystems | 535 |
Geological Hazards and Anthropogenic Impacts on the Environment | 557 |
Other editions - View all
The East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and Biodiversity Eric O. Odada,Daniel O. Olago No preview available - 2010 |
The East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and Biodiversity Eric O. Odada,Daniel O. Olago No preview available - 2002 |
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