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The East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and Biodiversity
Eric O. OdadaDaniel O. Olago
出版Springer Science & Business Media, 2006-03-09
主題Science / Life Sciences / GeneralScience / Earth Sciences / GeologyScience / Life Sciences / EcologyScience / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & ClimatologyScience / Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & StratigraphyScience / Life Sciences / BiologyTechnology & Engineering / Agriculture / Agronomy / Soil Science
ISBN03064820109780306482014
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rYXfBwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.