Nutrient recycling by Tropheus brichardi across a littoral productivity gradient in Lake Tanganyika Student:

Impact of Sediment Pollution on the Littoral Zone of Lake Tanganyika: A Case Study of Two Cichlid Fish, Petrochromis polyodon and Tropheus brichardi

Indirect and direct effects of fish herbivory on nitrogen cycling in nearshore Lake Tanganyika Student: Brittany Graham Mentor: Peter McInytre

When external loading is small, as it is in Lake Tanganyika, the internal redistribution of nutrients can be important for ecosystem productivity. One conduit for this redistribution is fish. Research has been conducted on the transfer of nutrients into the pelagic or benthic ecosystems by benthic or pelagic fishes, respectively, but less attention has been paid to the recycling of nutrients by...

Do gastropod abundances and distributions vary in relation to primary productivity and site complexity? Student: Brittany Huntington Mentor:

Population ecology incorporates a variety of foundational tenets that aid in understanding community structure and biodiversity of organisms in the natural world. For example, it has been observed that increasing the habitat and environmental complexity is correlated with increasing species diversity (Rosenzweig, 1995). Lake Tanganyika, in central East Africa, represents an ideal system to test...

Tropheus Evolution In Tanganyika Lake

African lakes have produced striking variation in cichlid fish fauna. Lake Tanganyika, whose age is estimated at 9 to 12,000,000 years, is the oldest East African lake and hides morphologically, genetically and behaviorally diverse group cichlid fish. Many of the more than 200 described species is divided into geographically and genetically distinct populations that differ primarily in their co...

Nutrient dynamics of Lake Tanganyika

The large and productive fishery of Lake Tanganyika is an important source of income and nutrition for the surrounding areas. This fishery, based primarily on pelagic clupeids (Kiswahili: dagaa), is very productive, and provides a readily available, nutritious, and inexpensive source of protein to the rapidly growing human populations in this area. The regional importance of the Lake Tanganyika...