Mercury biomagnification in the food web of Lake Tanganyika (Tanzania, East Africa).

Biomagnification of mercury in fish from Thruston Bay, Napoleon Gulf, Lake Victoria (East Africa)

Effects of local farming and deforestation on tropical freshwater streams: A comparison of stream geomorphology and fine clastic particle size, distribution, and water column suspension in Kalande Stream (forested) and Ngelwa Stream (deforested), Lake Tanganyika, East Africa

Lake Tanganyika is the oldest and largest of the East African rift lakes and therefore has the potential for recovery of temporally long paleoclimate records vital to our understanding of the climate history of the region (Figure 1). The resources of Lake Tanganyika are central to the viability of East Africa. As regional populations continue to expand, at an annual rate of 1.9-3.0%, demand for...

Effects of land-use change on aquatic biodiversity: A view from the paleorecord at Lake Tanganyika, East Africa

Population growth and watershed deforestation in northwestern Tanzania threaten the biodiversity of Lake Tanganyika through erosion and habitat degradation. We used cores collected offshore from Gombe Stream National Park and a deforested watershed to reconstruct how land-use changes in the Gombe Stream area since A.D. 1750 have affected lake biodiversity. Paleoenvironmental and paleoecological...

Lake-level history of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, for the past 2500 years based on ostracode-inferred water-depth reconstruction

Assemblages of ostracodes from sediment cores illuminate lake-level history at decadal to centennial timescales during the late Holocene at Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. The ostracode-based lake-level curves for several cores resemble both each other and the only previously published lake-level record of comparable resolution for Lake Tanganyika during this interval, successfully reconstructing...

Impact of deforestation on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in tributaries of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa

Benthic macroinvertebrate communities of Lake Tanganyika tributaries in pristine, forested, and impacted, deforested, watersheds were examined. Samples were collected using a Surber-sampler, and identified under a dissecting microscope. Family biotic indices (FBI), percent of Ephemeroptera/Plecoptera/Trichoptera (%EPT), relative Chironomid abundance (RCA), and taxa richness of five impacted str...