Biological implications of a suggested Late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Victoria

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 354, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 177-182

  Fryer, Geoffrey ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflicting evidence; Desiccation; Faunal evolution; Lake Victoria; Refuges

Indexed keywords

DESICCATION; DISICCATION; EVOLUTION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PALAEOECOLOGY; SPECIATION;

AFRICA, LAKE VICTORIA;

EID: 0031587171     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1003183432203     Document Type: Article

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