The East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and Biodiversity

Chapter 1 A 300 Million Years History of Rift Lakes in Central and East Africa: An Updated Broad Review

Chapter 2 Extreme Rainfall Events and Lake Level Changes in East Africa: Recent Events and Historical Precedents

Chapter 3 Mesoscale Patterns of Rainfall, Cloudiness and Evaporation over the Great Lakes of East Africa

Chapter 4 Observations, Evaporation and Preliminary Modelling of Over-Lake Meteorology on Large African Lakes

Chapter 5 Development of a Coupled Regional Climate Simulation Model for the Lake Victoria Basin

Chapter 6 A Modelling Approach for Lake Malawi/Nyasa/Niassa: Integrating Hydrological and Limnological Data

Chapter 7 Ventilation of Lake Malawi / Nyasa

Chapter 8 Application of Satellite AVHRR to Water Balance, Mixing Dynamics, and the Chemistry of Lake Edward, East Africa

Chapter 9 Lake — Groundwater Relationships, Oxygen Isotope Balance and Climate Sensitivity of the Bishoftu Crater Lakes, Ethiopia

Chapter 10 A Review of Sediment Gas Cycling in Lakes with Reference to Lake Victoria and Sediment Gas Measurements in Lake Tanganyika

Chapter 11 Redundancy and Ecosystem Stability in the Fluctuating Environments of Long-Lived Lakes

Chapter 12 Invasion of Lake Victoria by the Large Bodied Herbivorous Cladoceran Daphnia Magna

Chapter 13 Effects of Climate and Human Activities on the Ecosystem of Lake Baringo, Kenya

Chapter 14 Limnological Profiles and Their Variability in Lake Tanganyika

Chapter 15 Sedimentology and Geochronology of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sediments from Northern Lake Malawi

Chapter 16 A 24,000 yr Diatom Record from the Northern Basin of Lake Malawi

Chapter 17 Lake Tanganyika Holocene Record on Variability in Precipitation in the Malagarasi Catchment Basin

Chapter 18 Late Quaternary Sedimentation and Climate in the Lakes Edward and George Area, Uganda — Congo

Chapter 19 Pigment Analysis of Short Cores from the Central Ethiopian Rift Valley Lakes

Chapter 20 Origin and Isotopic Composition of Aragonite Laminae in an Ethiopian Crater Lake

Chapter 21 Vegetation Changes and Their Climatic Implications for the Lake Victoria Region during the Late Holocene

Chapter 22 Organic Content and X-ray Density of Lacustrine Sediments from Hausberg Tarn, Mount Kenya

Chapter 23 Restoring and Protecting the African Great Lake Basin Ecosystems-Lessons from the North American Great Lakes and the GEF

Chapter 24 Geological Hazards and Anthropogenic Impacts on the Environment in Malawi: Lesson from a Case Study of Debris Flows in Zomba

Chapter 25 The Human Dimensions Studies on the East African Lake Regions: A Review