Spatio-temporal variation of phytoplankton biomass in Lake Malawi, Central Africa

References

• Beauchamp, R. S. A., 1953: Hydrological data from Lake Nyasa. — J. Ecol. 41: 226–239.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Caron, D. A., Pick, F. R. & Lean, D. R. S., 1985: Chroococcoid Cyanobacteria in Lake Ontario: Vertical and seasonal distribution during 1982. — J. Phycol. 21: 171–175.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coulter, G. W., 1963: Hydrological changes in relation to biological production in southern Lake Tanganyika. — Limnol. Oceanogr. 8: 463–477.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coulter, G. W., 1977: Approaches to estimating fish biomass and potential yield in Lake Tanganyika. — J. Fish Biol. 11: 393–408.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coulter, G. W. & Spigel, R. H., 1991: Hydrodynamics. — In: Coulter, G. W. (ed.): Lake Tanganyika and its life: 49–75. — Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Degnbol, P. & Mapila, S., 1982: Limnological observations on the pelagic zone of Lake Malawi from 1978 to 1981. — In: Biological studies on the pelagic ecosystem of Lake Malawi. — 5–47. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation Technical Report FI: DP/MLW/75/019.
   Google Scholar
• Eccles, D. H., 1974: An outline of the physical limnology of Lake Malawi (Lake Nyasa). — Limnol. Oceanogr. 19: 730–742.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Evans, J. H., 1962: Some new records and forms of algae in Central East Africa. — Hydrobiologia 20: 59–87.
   Google Scholar
• Fogg, G. E., 1965: Algal cultures and phytoplankton ecology. — University of Wisconsin Press, Madison & Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
   Google Scholar
• Fryer, G. & Iles, T. D., 1972: The cichlid fishes of the Great Lakes of Africa. — Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh.
   Google Scholar
• Ganf, G. G. & Viner, A. B., 1973: Ecological stability in a shallow equatorial lake (Lake George, Uganda). — Proc. R. Soc. Lord. 184: 321–346.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hecky, R. E., 1991: The pelagic ecosystem. — In: Coulter, G. W. (ed.): Lake Tanganyika and its life: 90–110. 9 Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hecky, R. E. & Kling, H. J., 1981: The phytoplankton and protozooplankton of the euphotic zone of Lake Tanganyika: species composition, biomass, chlorophyll content and spatio-temporal distribution. — Limnol. Oceanogr. 26: 548–564.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hecky, R. E. & Kling, H. J., 1987: Phytoplankton ecology of the great lakes in the rift valleys of Central Africa. — Arch. Hydrobiol. Beih./Ergebn. Limnol. 25: 197–228.
   Google Scholar
• Hecky, R. E., Spigel, R. H. & Coulter, G. W., 1991: The nutrient regime. — In: Coulter, G. W. (ed.): Lake Tanganyika and its life: 76–89. — Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Jackson, P. B. N., Iles, T. D., Harding, D. & Fryer, G., 1963: Report on the survey of northern Lake Nyasa, 1954–55. Government Printer, Zomba.
   Google Scholar
• Kilham, P., 1971: A hypothesis concerning silica and the freshwater planktonic diatoms. — Limnol. Oceanogr. 16: 10–18.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kilham, P., Kilham, S. S. & Hecky, R. E., 1986: Hypothesized resource relationships among African planktonic diatoms. — Limnol. Oceanogr. 31: 1169–1181.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kilham, S. S., 1984: Silicon and phosphorus growth kinetics and competitive interactions between Stephanodiscus minuturs and Synedra sp. — Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 22: 435–439.
   Google Scholar
• Melack, J. M., 1979: Temporal variability of phytoplankton in tropical lakes. — Oecologia 44: 1–7.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Owen, R. B. & Crossley, R., 1992: Spatial and temporal distribution of diatoms in sediments of Lake Malawi, Central Africa, and ecological implications. — J. Paleolimnol. 7: 55–71.
   Google Scholar
• Priscu, J. C. & Goldman, C. R., 1984: The effect of temperature on photosynthetic and respiratory electron transport system activity in the shallow and deep-living phytoplankton of a subalpine lake. — Freshwat. Biol. 14: 143–155.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Round, R. E., Crawford, R. M. & Mann, D. G., 1990: The diatoms: Biology and morphology of the genera. — Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Talling, J. F., 1966: The annual cycle of stratification and phytoplankton growth in Lake Victoria (East Africa). — Int. Revue ges. Hydrobiol. 51. 545–621.
   Google Scholar
• Talling, J. F., 1969: The incidence of vertical mixing, and some biological and chemical consequences, in tropical African lakes. — Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 17: 998–1012.
   Google Scholar
• Talling, J. F., 1986: The seasonality of phytoplankton in African lakes. — Hydrobiologia 138: 139–160.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tweddle, D. & Magasa, J. H., 1989: Assessment of multispecies cichlid fisheries of the Southeast Arm of Lake Malawi, Africa. — J. Cons. int. Explor. Mer. 45: 209–222.
   Google Scholar
• Van Meel, L., 1954: Le phytoplancton. — Result, sci. Exploration hydrobiologique du Lac Tanganyika (1946–47) 4: 1–681.
   Google Scholar
• West, G. S., 1907: Report on the freshwater algae including phytoplankton of the third Tanganyika expedition conducted by Dr. W. A. Cunnington, 1904–1905. — J. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 38: 81–197.
   Google Scholar