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Spatio-temporal analysis of water storage variation and temporal correlations in the East Africa lake basins

open access: yesJournal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Cholera Hot-Spots and Contextual Factors in Burundi, Planning for Elimination

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

A recent inventory of the fishes of the north-western and central western coast of Lake Tanganyika (Democratic Republic Congo) [PDF]

open access: yesActa Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2011
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
doaj   +3 more sources

No evidence for sex chromosomes in natural populations of the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni

open access: yesG3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Out of Tanganyika: Genesis, explosive speciation, key-innovations and phylogeography of the haplochromine cichlid fishes

open access: yesBMC Evolutionary Biology, 2005
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
doaj   +1 more source

Fishing with bed nets on Lake Tanganyika: a randomized survey. [PDF]

open access: yesMalar J, 2014
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
europepmc   +3 more sources

Lake level fluctuations and divergence of cichlid fish ecomorphs in Lake Tanganyika [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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
core   +1 more source

Nest defense in the face of cuckoldry: evolutionary rather than facultative adaptation to chronic paternity loss

open access: yesBMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

Self‐help and Volunteerism in Tanzania in the 1960s: Voluntary Labour, Nation Building and Constructing Modernity

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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