Water quantity and quality as the factors driving the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 458, Issue , 2001, Pages 169-180

  Wolanski, Eric ^a   Gereta, Emmanuel ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b TANAPA   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Africa; Evaporation; Rainfall; Runoff; Salinity; Serengeti; Water quality; Wildlife migration

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; RAIN; RIVERS; SOLAR HEATING; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; VEGETATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION;

WATER QUALITY;

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY;

TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 0035882992     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013125321838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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