1st Edition

Limnology, Climatology and Paleoclimatology of the East African Lakes

Edited By Thomas C Johnson, Eric O Odada Copyright 1996
456 Pages
by Routledge

678 Pages
by CRC Press

456 Pages
by Routledge

The large lakes of the East African Rift Valley are among the oldest on Earth, and are vital resources for the people of their basins. They are unique among the large lakes of the world in terms of their sensitivity to climatic change, rich and diverse populations of endemic species, circulation dynamics and water-column chemistry, and long, continuous records of past climatic change. A... Read more

Tectonic Setting of the East African Lakes, East African Climate, Physical Limnology, Aquatic Chemistry, Food Webs and Fisheries, Sedimentary Processes and Deciphering the Past in the Large Lakes, Impact of Man, Historical Note

Biography

A. Ivan Johnson