The East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and Biodiversity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Advances in Global Change Research, 12
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2002
Editors:	Eric O. Odada • Daniel O. Olago
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	587
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-6083-9
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > Soil science, sedimentology Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > General
LSN:	90-481-6083-9
Barcode:	9789048160839

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