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Lake Nakuru and Lake Elmenteita
Lakes Nakuru and Elmenteita lie in the semi-arid central Kenya Rift just south of the equator. Both are shallow saline, alkaline playa lakes...
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Lake Bogoria
Saline alkaline Lake Bogoria occupies a narrow half-graben in a drainage basin floored by volcanic rocks of Miocene to Pleistocene age. The perennial...
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Lake Turkana
Lake Turkana is the largest of the Kenya Rift lakes and lies within a semi-desert setting. Early explorers visited the area from 1888 and were...
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Lake Baringo
Lake Baringo is the largest freshwater lake in Kenya and lies in a closed basin with probable outflow through fractured lavas. It lies within the...
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Effect of Reclamation on the Groundwater-Lake Water Interaction in Chen Lake
Lake reclamation cut off the direct seepage from the lake to groundwater in reclaimed farmland, the aquifer showed a connection with lake water by...
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Lake Naivasha
Lake Naivasha is characterised by sodium bicarbonate waters and is the second largest freshwater body in Kenya with Cyperus papyrus dominant along...
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Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria fills a sag basin and is the largest freshwater body in Africa by surface area with the Winam Gulf occupying the east-west trending...
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MTBE in Lake Zurich
Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is found in Lake Zurich at quite low concentrations between 40 ng L−1 in deep water or during the winter season,...
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Lake Victoria Basin
Northeastern Lake Victoria partially lies within the east-west trending Nyanza Rift. Many Miocene deposits identified as lacustrine have been...
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Water Quality of Lake Constance
Lake Constance is used as a drinking water reservoir for about 5 million people. Because of its glacial origin from the Alps, the amount of...
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Floodplain Lake Water Level Prediction with Strong River-Lake Interaction Using the Ensemble Learning LightGBM
Timely and accurate prediction of water levels is crucial for managing floodplain lakes with important ecosystem services, especially for flood...
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Lake Ice Climatology
Local climate has a strong impact on the the lake ice season, and on the other hand lake ice is a sensitive indicator of local climate. The climatic...
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Fragmentation and separation of diatom valves in modern shallow lake sediments: a case study in Lake Kitaura, Japan
We investigated diatom-valve fragmentation and frustule separation in surface sediments in Lake Kitaura, a shallow lake in Japan, to clarify how...
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Community input to quantification of lake restoration benefits: a pilot study of coastal Karnataka Lake, India
Lake restoration is one of the regional initiatives aimed at increasing natural resource-based livelihoods. Typically, data on lake inflows/outflows...
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How Long a Tropical Mountainous Lake Can Survive? Inferences from Geochemistry and Radiometric Measurements of Pookode Lake, Kerala, India
Pookode, the freshwater lake in the Western Ghats, is a well-known tourist place in southern India, and human interference has turned the otherwise...
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Effect of Climate Change on Water Temperature and Stratification of a Small, Temperate, Karstic Lake (Lake Kozjak, Croatia)
AbstractAs closed systems, lakes are extremely vulnerable to climate change. Understanding the response to climate change is crucial for effective...
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Microplastic Concentrations in Bottom Sediments of the Lakes of Specially Protected Natural Territories: Case Study of the Kizhskie Skerries, Lake Onega and Vodlozero Lake
AbstractThe concentrations of microplastic were determined in bottom sediments of water bodies in specially protected natural...
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Lake Magadi and Nasikie Engida
Lake Magadi, a hypersaline alkaline lake, occupies a hydrological sump (~600 m) in volcanic terrain (mainly trachyte) in the axial graben of the...
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Lake Logipi and the Suguta Valley
The north-south trending Suguta Valley is defined by monoclines and faults along its lateral margins. The valley is separated from Lake Turkana to...
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Lake Sediments and Climate Studies
The introductory chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the utilization of lake sediments as a valuable tool for climate reconstruction. Using...