Lake George, Uganda
- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences
- Vol. 274 (934) , 375-391
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1976.0052
Abstract
This small (250 km 2 ), shallow (mean depth 2.4 m) equatorial lake has an exceptionally constant physicochemical aquatic environment. Two outstanding features are the high relative biomass of the blue-green algae (ca. 95 % of the total), and the lake’s 24 h rather than seasonal physiological cycle. In open water areas the animal community is dominated by three herbivorous species feeding on the blue-green algae. Various factors interact to produce a concentric and centripetal pattern of distribution for the plankton biomass, but a centrifugal one for fishes and benthos.Keywords
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