Multiple stressors cause rapid ecosystem change in Lake Victoria
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R. E. HECKY*, R. MUGIDDE, P. S . RAMLAL, M. R. TALBOT § AND G. W. KLING *Large Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, U.S.A. Fisheries Resource Research Institute, Jinja, Uganda Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Geological Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
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