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Study region: East Africa (EA), lake basins (Tana, Abaya-Chamo, Turkana, Victoria, and Tanganyika), 6472,404 km2 of total area. Study focus: Total water storage change (TWSC) exposes serious challenges in sustainable water resources management and ...
Ayalkibet M. Seka +5 more
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Cholera Hot-Spots and Contextual Factors in Burundi, Planning for Elimination
The Republic of Burundi first reported cholera cases in 1978 and outbreaks have been occurring nearly every year since then. From 2008–2020, 6949 cases and 43 deaths were officially reported.
Amanda K. Debes +7 more
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A recent inventory of the fishes of the north-western and central western coast of Lake Tanganyika (Democratic Republic Congo) [PDF]
Background. Despite the importance of Lake Tanganyika’s biodiversity for science and the livelihoods of the riparian people, high-resolution surveys of the fish biodiversity are sparse and fragmentary, especially along the western (Congolese ...
M. Van Steenberge +12 more
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No evidence for sex chromosomes in natural populations of the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni
Sex determination (SD) is not conserved among teleost fishes and can even differ between populations of the same species. Across the outstandingly species-rich fish family Cichlidae, more and more SD systems are being discovered. Still, the picture of SD
Nicolás Lichilín +2 more
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Background The adaptive radiations of cichlid fishes in East Africa are well known for their spectacular diversity and their astonishingly fast rates of speciation.
Verheyen Erik +3 more
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Fishing with bed nets on Lake Tanganyika: a randomized survey. [PDF]
Malaria is among the most common causes of death along Lake Tanganyika, a problem which many aid organizations have attempted to combat through the distribution of free mosquito bed nets to high-risk communities.
McLean KA +5 more
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Lake level fluctuations and divergence of cichlid fish ecomorphs in Lake Tanganyika [PDF]
Lake Tanganyika has undergone substantial climate-driven lake level fluctuations that have repeatedly changed the distribution and extent of habitat for endemic fishes.
Ruber, Lukas +3 more
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Background Raising unrelated offspring is typically wasteful of parental resources and so individuals are expected to reduce or maintain low levels of parental effort when their parentage is low.
Holger Zimmermann +7 more
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ABSTRACT The United Nations has declared 2026 the International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development. Against that backdrop, this article examines the experience of volunteerism, and specifically self‐help voluntary labour in Tanzania in the early colonial period, to explore the place of volunteerism in the construction of the post‐colonial ...
Michael Jennings
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