The East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and Biodiversity

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

5. Biodiversity, Food Webs and Fisheries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307

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   2. Redundancy and Ecosystem Stability in the Fluctuating Environments of Long-Lived Lakes

      • Koen Martens

      Pages 309-319

   3. Invasion of Lake Victoria by the Large Bodied Herbivorous Cladoceran Daphnia Magna

      • Ryan Jonna, John T. Lehman

      Pages 321-333

   4. Effects of Climate and Human Activities on the Ecosystem of Lake Baringo, Kenya

      • P. A. Aloo

      Pages 335-347

   5. Limnological Profiles and Their Variability in Lake Tanganyika

      • P.-D. Plisnier

      Pages 349-366

6. Sedimentary Processes, Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 367-367

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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.

• Climatology
• Cloud
• Groundwater
• Meteorology
• Precipitation
• Rain
• Scale
• Sediment
• Sedimentation
• cloudiness
• ecosystem
• fisheries
• lacustrine
• palaeoclimatology
• hydrogeology

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

  Eric O. Odada, Daniel O. Olago

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