Environmental impact of seasonal integrated aquaculture ponds ('fingerponds') in the wetlands of Lake Victoria, Kenya: An assessment, with the aid of Bayesian Networks

African Journal of Aquatic Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 219-234

  Kipkemboi, Julius ^a   Van Dam, Anne A ^b   Denny, Patrick ^b  

^a EGERTON UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Eutrophication; Groundwater; Hydrology; Impact assessment; Monitoring; Nutrients; Scaling up

Indexed keywords

EID: 37149014274     PISSN: 16085914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/AJAS.2007.32.3.1.300     Document Type: Article

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