Paleolimnological evidence of the effects of recent cultural eutrophication and climatic variability during the last 300 years in Lake Malawi, East Africa

Lake Malawi is the second largest lake in Africa, supporting diverse populations of endemic cichlids and supplying essential water resources to Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. However, population growth, rapid deforestation and intensive agriculture, especially in the southern catchments, have ac...

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Main Author: Puchniak, Megan
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: University of Waterloo 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1252