Aquatic biodiversity and saline lakes: Lake Bogoria National Reserve, Kenya

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 500, Issue , 2003, Pages 259-276

  Harper, David M ^a   Childress, R Brooks ^a,b,c   Harper, Maureen M ^a   Boar, Rosalind R ^d   Hickley, Phil ^e   Mills, Suzanne C ^f   Otieno, Nickson ^c   Drane, Tony ^g   Vareschi, Ekkehard ^h   Nasirwa, Oliver ^b,c   Mwatha, Wanjiru E ^a,i   Darlington, Joanna P E C ^g   Escuté Gasulla, Xavier ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Threatened Species Wildfowl W   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^g Carl von Ossietzky Universität ^*  (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

more..

Author keywords

African Rift Valley; Avian tuberculosis; Lesser flamingo Phoeniconaias minor; Ramsar; Spirulina Arthrospira fusiformis

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; LAKES; PLANTS (BOTANY); WATER POLLUTION;

RIFT VALLEYS;

BIODIVERSITY;

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; INVERTEBRATE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SALINE LAKE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; LAKE BOGORIA NATIONAL RESERVE; RIFT VALLEY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANAS CAPENSIS; ARTHROSPIRA FUSIFORMIS; AVES; CHIRONOMIDAE; CYANOBACTERIA; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PARATENDIPES; PHOENICOPTERIDAE; PHOENICOPTERUS MINOR; SPIRULINA;

EID: 0345330935     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024722821407     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Agnew, A. D. Q. & S. Agnew, 1994. Upland Kenya Wild Flowers: A Flora of the Ferns and Herbaceous Flowering Plants of Upland Kenya. 2nd edn. East Africa Natural History Society, Nairobi.
2. Alonso-Andicoberry, L. Garcia-Villada, V. Lopez-Rodas & E. Costas, 2002. Catastrophic mortality of flamingos in a Spanish national park caused by cyanobacteria. The Vetinary Record 151: 706-707.
3. Anon, 2003. Death of a lake: Lake Nakuru's disappearing catchment. Ecoforum Short Rains: 14-15.
4. Bartholomew, G. A. & C. J. Pennycuick, 1973. The flamingo and pelican populations of the Rift Valley lakes in 1968-69. East African Wildlife J. 11: 189-198.
5. Beadle, L. C., 1981. The Inland Waters of Tropical Africa, 2nd edn. Longman: 475 pp.
6. Benenson, A. S. (ed.), 1990. Control of Communicable Diseases in Man. 15th edition. Washington DC: American Public Health Association.
7. Bennun, L. A. & O. Nasirwa, 2000. Trends in waterbird numbers in southern Rift Valley of Kenya. Ostrich 71: 220-226.
8. Bennun, L. & P. Ngoroge, 1999. Important Bird Areas in Kenya. Nairobi: Nature Kenya; The East Africa Natural History Society.
9. Brown, L. H., 1959. The Mystery of the Flamingos, London: Country Life Ltd. 116 pp.
10. Brown, L., 1979. Encounters with Nature. Chapter 6; Flamingos. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 67-89.
11. Brown, L. H. & P. L. Britton, 1980. The Breeding Seasons of East African Birds. Nairobi: The East Africa Natural History Society.
12. Brown, L. H. & A. Root, 1971. The breeding behaviour of the lesser flamingo Phoeniconaias minor. Ibis 113: 147-172.
13. Chalié, F. & F. Gasse, 2002. Late glacial-holocene diatom record of water chemistry and lake level change from the tropical East African Rift lake Abiyata (Ethiopia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 187: 259-283.
14. Constanza R., R. d'Arge, R. de Groot, S. Farber, M. Grasso, B. Hannon, K. Limburg, S. Naeem, R. V. O'Neill, J. Paruelo, R. G. Raskin, P. Sutton & M. van den Belt, 1997. The value of the worlds' ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387: 253-260.
15. Cooper, J. E., L. Karstad & E. Boughton, 1975. Tuberculosis in Lesser Flamingos in Kenya. J. Wildlife Diseases 11: 32-36.
16. Davies, T. D., C. E. Vincent & A. K. C. Beresford, 1985. July-August rainfall in west-central Kenya. J. Climatol. 5: 17-33.
17. Duckworth, A. W., W. D. Grant, B. E. Jones & R. van Steenbergen, 1996. Phylogenetic diversity of soda lake alkliphiles. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 19: 181-191.
18. Escuté-Gasulla X., M. M. Pérez, L. F. Gonzålez-Solis & M.G. Süné, 2002. The Lesser Flamingo Expedition Kenya 2000-2001. Unpublished Report, University of Barcelona.
19. Evans, A. S. & H. A. Feldman, 1982. Bacterial Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and Control. London: Plenum Medical Book Company.
20. Gasse, F., 1986. East African Diatoms. Taxonomy, Ecological Distribution. Bibliotheca Diatomologica. Bd 11, J. Cramer, Stuttgart. 202 pp.
21. Grant, W. D., W. E. Mwatha & B. E. Jones, 1990. Alkaliphiles: ecology, diversity and applications. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 75: 255-270.
22. Gough, D., 2000. No haven as disease claims lives of 30 000 flamingos. The Guardian, 6 March 2000: 16.
23. Haines, R. W. & K. A. Lye, 1983. The Sedges and Rushes of East Africa. East Africa Natural History Society, Nairobi, Kenya.
24. Harper J. L. & D. L. Hawksworth, 1994. Biodiversity: measurement and evaluation. Phil. Trans. r. Soc. Lond. B. 345: 5-12.
25. Hilton-Taylor, C. (eds), 2000. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. 61 pp.
26. Hindák, F., 1985. Morphology of trichomes in Spirulina fusiformis Voronichin from Lake Bogoria Kenya. Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl. Algol Std. 38/9: 201-218.
27. Jellison, R., A. Adams & J.M. Melack 2001. Re-appearance of rotifers in hypersaline Mono Lake, California, during a period of rising lake levels and decreasing salinity. Hydrobiologia 466: 39-43.
28. Jenkin, P. M., 1936. Reports on the Percy Sladen Expedition to some Rift Valley Lakes in Kenya in 1929 VII. Summary of the ecological results with special reference to the alkaline lakes. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 10, 18: 133-181.
29. Jones, B. E., W. D. Grant, N. C. Colins & W. E. Mwatha, 1994. Alkaliphiles: diversity and identification. In Priest. F. G., A. Ramos-Cormenzana & B. J. Tindall (eds), Bacterial Diversity and Systematics. Plenum Press: 195-229.
30. Kaliner, G. & J. E. Cooper, 1973. Dual infection of an African Fish Eagle with acid-fast bacilli and an Aspergillus sp. J. Wildlife Diseases 9: 51-55.
31. Kock, N. D., R. A. Kock, J. Wambua, G. J. Kamau & K. Mohan, 1999. Mycobacterium avium-related epizootic in free-ranging lesser flamingos in Kenya. J. Wildlife Diseases 35: 297-300.
32. Koeman, J. H., J. H. Pennings, J. J. M. de Goeij, P. S. Tjioe, P. M. Olindo & J. Hopcraft, 1972. A preliminary survey of the possible contamination of Lake Nakuru in Kenya with some metals and chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides. J. appl. Ecol. 9: 411-416.
33. Krienitz, L., A. Ballot, K. Kotut, C. Weigand, S. Putz, J. S. Metcalf, G. A. Codd & S. Pflugmacher, 2003. Contribution of hot spring cyanobacteria to the mysterious deaths of Lesser Flamingos at Lake Bogoria, Kenya. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 43: 141-148.
34. LaVigne, M. & G. Ashley, 2001. Climatology and Rainfall Patterns: Lake Bogoria National Reserve (1976-2001). Unpublished thesis, New Hampshire College, Amherst MA, U.S.A. 32 pp + appendix.
35. Legesse, D., F. Gasse, O. Radakovitch, C. Vallet-Culomb, R. Bonnefille, D. Verschuren, E. Gibert & P. Barker 2002. Environmental changes in a tropical lake (Lake Abiyata, Ethiopia) during recent centuries. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 187: 233-258.
36. Livingstone, D. A. & J. M. Melack, 1984. Some lakes of sub-Saharan Africa. In Taub, F. B. (ed.), Ecosystems of the World 23, Lakes and Reservoirs. Elsevier, Amsterdam: 467-498.
37. Melack, J. M., R. Jellison & D. B. Herbst (eds), 2001. Seventh International Conference on Salt Lakes (September 1999). Hydrobiologia 466: 1-347.
38. Melack J. M. & P. Kilham, 1974. Photosynthetic rates of phytoplankton in East African alkaline, saline lakes. Limnol. Oceanogr. 19: 743-755.
39. Melack, J. M., 1981. Photosynthetic activity of phytoplankton in tropical African soda lakes. Hydrobiologia 81: 71-85.
40. Melack, J. M., 1988, Primary producer dynamics associated with evaporative concentration in a shallow, equatorial soda lake (Lake Elmenteita, Kenya). Hydrobiologia 158: 1-14.
41. McCullough G., A. Aebischer & K. Irvine, 2003. Importance of small wetlands for migrations of African flamingos. Oryx, in press.
42. Nasirwa, 2000. Conservation statusd of flamingos in Kenya. Waterbirds 23 (Special Publication 1): 47-51.
43. Nasirwa, O. & L. A. Bennun, 1994. Waterbirds in the southern Kenyan Rift Valley, July 1993 and January 1994. Nairobi: The National Museums of Kenya.
44. Nelson, Y. M., R. J. Thampy, G. K. Motelin, J. A. Raini, C. I. Difante & L. Wilson, 1998. Model for trace metal exposure in filter-feeding flamingos at alkaline Rift Valley lakes, Kenya. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 17: 2302-2309.
45. Nilsson, E., 1932. Quarternary glaciations and pluvial lakes in British East Africa. Ph.D. Thesis, Centraltryckeriet, Stockholm:101+ 4 plates.
46. Onkware, A. O., 1996. The Ecophysiology of Grass and Sedge Halophytes of Loburu Delta, Lake Bogoria National Reserve, Kenya. Unpublished thesis, Moi University, Kenya.
47. Owino, A., J. O. Oyugi, O. O. Nasirwa & L. A. Bennun, 2001. Patterns of variation in waterbird numbers on four Rift Valley lakes in Kenya. Hydrobiologia 458: 45-53.
48. Ratcliffe, H. L., 1946. Tuberculosis in captive wild birds. Am. Rev. Tuberculosis 54: 389-400.
49. Sileo, L., J. G. Grootenhuis, C. H. Tuite & J. B. D. Hopcraft, 1979. Mycobacteriosis in the Lesser Flamingos of Lake Nakuru, Kenya. J. Wildlife Diseases 15: 387-389.
50. Simmons, R. E., 2000. Declines and movements of lesser flamingos in Africa. Waterbirds 23 (Special Publication 1): 40-46.
51. Stephen, T. & J. Fanshawe, 2002. Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa. T & A. D. Poyser, London: 603 pp.
52. Talling, J. F. & D. Driver, 1963. Some problems in the estimation of chlorophyll-a in phytoplankton. Proc. Conference of Primary Productivity Measurement, marine and Freshwater, Hawaii, 1961. U.S. Atomic Energy Comm., TID-7633: 142-146.
53. Talling, J. F. & I. B. Talling, 1965. The chemical composition of African lake waters. Int. Rev. ges. Hydrobiol. 50: 421-463.
54. Talling, J. F., R. B. Wood, M. V. Prosser & R. M. Baxter, 1973. The upper limit of photosynthetic productivity by phytoplankton: evidence from Ethiopian soda lakes. Freshwat. Biol. 3: 53-76.
55. Tuite, C. H., 1979. Population size, distribution, and biomass density of the lesser flamingo in the eastern Rift Valley, 1974-76. J. appl. Ecol. 16: 765-775.
56. Tuite, C. H., 2000. The distribution and density of Lesser Flamingos in East Africa in relation to food availability and productivity. Waterbirds 23 (Special Publication 1): 52-63.
57. Vareschi, E., 1978. The ecology of Lake Nakuru (Kenya) I. Abundance and feeding of the lesser flamingo. Oecologia (berl.) 32: 11-35.
58. Vareschi, E., 1982. The ecology of Lake Nakuru (Kenya) III. Abiotic factors and primary production. Oecologia 55: 81-101.
59. Vareschi, E., 1987. Saline lake ecosystems. In Schulze, E.-D. & H. Zwolfer (eds), Potentials and Limitations of Ecosystem Analysis. Springer-Verlag, Berlin: 347-363.
60. Verschuren, D., C. Cocquyt, J. Tibby, C. N. Roberts & P. R. Leavitt, 1999. Long-term dynamics of algal and invertebrate communities in a small, fluctuating, tropical soda lake. Limnol. Oceanogr. 44: 1216-1231.
61. Vosmarty, C. J., P. Green, J. Salisbury & R. B. Lammers, 2000. Global water resources: vulnerability from climate change and population growth. Science 289: 284-288.
62. Wilcox, B. A., 1984. In situ conservation of genetic resources: determinants of minimum area requirements. In Neeley, J. A. & K. R. Miller (eds), National Parks: Conservation and Development. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC: 639-647.
63. Weiss, E., 1989. Guide to Plants Tolerant of Arid and Semi-arid Conditions: Nomenclature and Potential Uses. Margraf Scientific Publications, Germany/Ministry of Livestock Development, Kenya.
64. Williams, J. G., 1967. A Field Guide to the National Parks of East Africa. Collins: 352 pp.
65. Wilson. E. O., (ed.), 1987. Technologies to Maintain Biological Diversity. US Office of Technology Assessment, Washington.
66. Wilson, E. O. (ed.), 1988. BioDiversity. National Academy Press, Washington DC.
67. Wilson, E. O., 2002. The Future of Life. Little, Brown. 230 pp.
68. Wood, N. A., 1975. Tuberculosis. In Kear, J. & N. Duplaix-Hall (eds), Flamingos. T. & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, England: 205-207.
69. Wood, R. B. & J. F. Talling, 1988. Chemical and algal relationships in a salinity series of Ethiopian inland waters. Hydrobiologia 158: 29-67.