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Ecology and Management of Lake Naivasha, Kenya, in Relation to Climatic Change, Alien Species' Introductions, and Agricultural Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

David M. Harper ,
Kenneth M. Mavuti  and
S. Mucai Muchiri
David M. Harper
Affiliation:
Lecturer in the Department of Zoology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, England, UK
Kenneth M. Mavuti
Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Zoology, University of Nairobi, PO Box 30197, Nairobi, Kenya
S. Mucai Muchiri
Affiliation:
Fisheries Officer, Department of Fisheries, PO Box 135, Naivasha, Kenya.
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Lake Naivasha is an important freshwater resource for Kenya's foreign-currency-earning agriculture and tourism, and for water-supply. It has always experienced extensive water-level fluctuations as a consequence of irregular rainfall patterns that are affected by continental-scale climatic events, and its communities — particularly of aquatic plants — were adapted to these changes.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , Winter 1990 , pp. 328 - 336
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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