Paleolimnological evidence of the effects of recent cultural eutrophication during the last 200years in Lake Malawi, East Africa

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 61-74

  Otu, Megan K ^a   Ramlal, Patricia ^b   Wilkinson, Paul ^b   Hall, Roland I ^a   Hecky, Robert E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

African Great Lakes; Biogenic silica; Diatom community composition; Eutrophication; Lake Malawi; Paleolimnology

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC SILICA; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CARBON AND NITROGEN; DIATOM ASSEMBLAGE; DIATOM COMMUNITIES; DIATOM COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EAST AFRICA; GREAT LAKES; NORTHERN BASINS; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; NUTRIENT LOADS; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; QUALITY CHANGE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEDIMENT CORE; SOIL EROSION; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; DEFORESTATION; EROSION; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICA; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

LAKES;

BIOGENIC MINERAL; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIATOM; EUTROPHICATION; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LAND USE CHANGE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEDIMENT CORE; SILICA; SOIL EROSION; SUCCESSION; WATER QUALITY;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE MALAWI;

AULACOSEIRA NYASSENSIS; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYCLOSTEPHANOS; FRAGILARIA; NITZSCHIA; STEPHANODISCUS;

EID: 79952697335     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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