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Trophic Ecology of Sardinella gibbosa (Pisces: Clupeidae) and Atherinomorous lacunosus (Pisces: Atherinidae) in Mtwapa Creek and Wasini Channel, Kenya
(Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association, 2002)
The food habits of two schooling planktivorous fishes, Sardinella gibbosa and Atherinomorous lacunosus, were investigated in Mtwapa creek and Wasini Channel of the Kenya coast. Spatial and temporal variations in their food ...
Abundance and Population Structure of the Blacklip Pearl Oyster, Pinctada margaritifera l. 1758 (Bivalvia: Pteriidae), in Coastal Kenya
(Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association, 2002)
Pearl oysters are an important marine resource within the Indo-Pacific oceans. They are widely cultured for the production of black pearls, their flesh is eaten, and their shell, known as mother-of-pearl (MOP) is used in ...
Population structure and secondary productivity of Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri (Claparede) and Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard in the profundal zone of Lake Naivasha, Kenya
(Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2002)
Lake Naivasha has been well studied since the 1930s but attempts to understand its ecological functioning have had to wait until enough was known about its structure. The energetics of the lake has only been studied to ...
Phosphorus inputs to Lake Naivasha, Kenya, from its catchment and the trophic state of the lake
(Springer, 2002)
The main river supplying Lake Naivasha, Kenya, the Malewa, drains a catchment given over to largely subsistence cultivation and animal husbandry. The lake itself is the focus for an intensive horticultural industry based ...
Dynamics of Suspended Sediment Exchange and Transport in a Degraded Mangrove Creek in Kenya
(Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2002)
This study focuses on sediment exchange dynamics in
Mwache Creek, a shallow tidal mangrove wetland in
Kenya. The surface area of the creek is 17 km2
at high
water spring. The creek experiences semidiurnal tides with
tidal ...