Overview
- Editors:
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John T. Lehman
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Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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History and Ontogeny of IDEAL
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Investigations of Lake Victoria. Climate, History and Modern Dynamics
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- C. A. Scholz, T. C. Johnson, P. Cattaneo, H. Malinga, S. Shana
Pages 47-57
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- Gideon N. Ngobi, Kerry Kelts, Thomas C. Johnson, Peter A. Solheid
Pages 59-73
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- Thomas C. Johnson, Yvonne Chan, Kristina Beuning, Kerry Kelts, Gideon Ngobi, Dirk Verschuren
Pages 75-88
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- Josh Holtzman, John T. Lehman
Pages 89-98
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- John T. Lehman, Rose Mugidde, Donna A. Lehman
Pages 99-116
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- Godfrey B. Mbahinzireki, John T. Lehman, Hannington Ochieng
Pages 117-124
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- Donn K. Branstrator, Lucas Mwebaza-Ndawula
Pages 125-133
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- John T. Lehman, Kathleen Halat, Bryan Betz, Lucas M. Ndawula, Vincent Kiggundu
Pages 135-145
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IDEAL investigations of Rift Valley lakes
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- Kristina R. M. Beuning, Kerry Kelts, J. Curtis Stager
Pages 147-156
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- John T. Lehman, Arni H. Litt, Rose Mugidde, Donna A. Lehman
Pages 157-172
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- P. Ng’ang’a, M. W. Muchane, Thomas C. Johnson, Keith Sturgeon
Pages 173-190
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Back Matter
Pages 233-236
About this book
The idea for this book was born at the June 1996 meeting of the IDEAL Steering Committee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We had just completed a successful and stimulating special symposium during the annual meeting of the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, and enthusiasm was running high for the production of a volume that could assemble in one place the scientific findings that were starting to emerge from East Africa. IDEAL, an International Decade for the East African Lakes, had ended one round of field investigations, many of which had been centered on Lake Victoria. As the climatologists, geologists, paleolimnologists, and biologists displayed their results and debated interpretations, it appeared that some paradigms were shifting, and that new explanations of climate history and modem processes were taking shape. The Steering Committee endorsed the production of a volume that would draw together the different research results that were emerging and which would be representative of the scope of science issues that exist within IDEAL. This book follows in the spirit of The Limnology, Climatology, and Paleoclimatology of the East African Lakes, published in 1996, but has a somewhat different purpose. The previous publication also included original science results, but it was conceived to review the state of knowledge, identify critical problems, and point to new paths of inquiry. It accompanied the development of our first Science and Implementation Plan for the East African Lakes.
Reviews
`The book presents, in addition to an amount of new data, also a thorough analysis of the interrelations between physical, chemical and biological events based on long term records. In this respect it can be considered a major contribution not only to limnology of the particular lakes, but to tropical limnology in general.'
International Reviews of Hydrobiology, 4:85 (2000)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
John T. Lehman
