History and timing of human impact on Lake Victoria, East Africa

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1488, 2002, Pages 289-294

  Verschuren, Dirk ^a   Johnson, Thomas C ^a   Kling, Hedy J ^a   Edgington, David N ^a   Leavitt, Peter R ^a   Brown, Erik T ^a   Talbot, Michael R ^a   Hecky, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; Fish introduction; Human impact; Lake Victoria; Landscape disturbance; Nile perch

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

DEGRADATION; EUTROPHICATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LAKE;

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUTROPHICATION; FISH; FOOD WEB; HISTORY; IMMUNOLOGY; LAKE; LAND USE; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL WELFARE;

AFRICA, EASTERN; AGRICULTURE; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; CYANOBACTERIA; DIATOMS; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; EVOLUTION; FRESH WATER; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; OXYGEN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION GROWTH;

AFRICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CICHLIDAE; CYANOBACTERIA; LATES NILOTICUS; PISCES; VICTORIA;

EID: 53149100109     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1850     Document Type: Article

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