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The East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and Biodiversity

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Eric O. Odada

    1. Pan African START Secretariat, Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, Kenya

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  2. Daniel O. Olago

    1. Pan African START Secretariat, Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, Kenya

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Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 12)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Geological and Structural Setting of the East African Lakes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A 300 Million Years History of Rift Lakes in Central and East Africa: An Updated Broad Review

      • J.-J. Tiercelin, K.-E. Lezzar
      Pages 3-60

  3. Climate Dynamics and Climate Variability in the East African Lakes Region

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Extreme Rainfall Events and Lake Level Changes in East Africa: Recent Events and Historical Precedents

      • Declan Conway
      Pages 63-92

    3. Mesoscale Patterns of Rainfall, Cloudiness and Evaporation over the Great Lakes of East Africa

      • Sharon E. Nicholson, Xungang Yin
      Pages 93-119

    4. Observations, Evaporation and Preliminary Modelling of Over-Lake Meteorology on Large African Lakes

      • P. F. Hamblin, P. Verburg, P. Roebber, H. A. Bootsma, R. E. Hecky
      Pages 121-151

    5. Development of a Coupled Regional Climate Simulation Model for the Lake Victoria Basin

      • Yi Song, Fredrick H. M. Semazzi, Lian Xie
      Pages 153-186

  4. Hydrology and Physical Limnology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. A Modelling Approach for Lake Malawi/Nyasa/Niassa: Integrating Hydrological and Limnological Data

      • D. C. L. Lam, L. Leon, R. Hecky, H. Bootsma, R. C. McCrimmon
      Pages 189-208

    3. Ventilation of Lake Malawi / Nyasa

      • M. K. Vollmer, R. F. Weiss, H. A. Bootsma
      Pages 209-233

    4. Application of Satellite AVHRR to Water Balance, Mixing Dynamics, and the Chemistry of Lake Edward, East Africa

      • John T. Lehman
      Pages 235-260

    5. Lake — Groundwater Relationships, Oxygen Isotope Balance and Climate Sensitivity of the Bishoftu Crater Lakes, Ethiopia

      • Seifu Kebede, Henry Lamb, Richard Telford, Melanie Leng, Mohammed Umer
      Pages 261-275

    6. A Review of Sediment Gas Cycling in Lakes with Reference to Lake Victoria and Sediment Gas Measurements in Lake Tanganyika

      • Donald D. Adams, Samuel O. Ochola
      Pages 277-305

  6. Sedimentary Processes, Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 367-367
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pan African START Secretariat, Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, Kenya

    Eric O. Odada, Daniel O. Olago

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