A call to action: strong long-term limnological changes in the two largest Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes, Abaya and Chamo

Inland Waters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 129-137

  Teffera, Fassil E ^a,b   Lemmens, Pieter ^b   Deriemaecker, Arne ^b   Brendonck, Luc ^b   Dondeyne, Stefaan ^b   Deckers, Jozef ^b   Bauer, Hans ^c   Gamo, Feleke W ^a   De Meester, Luc ^b  

^a ARBA MINCH UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deforestation; ecological deterioration; Ethiopian Rift Valley Lakes; nutrient enrichment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044989220     PISSN: 20442041     EISSN: 2044205X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20442041.2017.1301309     Document Type: Article

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