Ancient Lakes
Subtitle: Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology (Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 31) (Advances in Ecological Research)
Contributors: Andrew Rossiter (Editor); Hiroya Kawanabe (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780120139316
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Nature/Ecology; Aquatic Ecology; Organic Evolution; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - Marine Biology; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Ecology; Science / Marine Biology; Science-Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Science-Life Sciences - Evolution; Lakes & Ponds; Marine Life
First sentence: So much is now known about the ancient lakes of Africa - Malawi, Tanganyika and Victoria - that it comes almost as a shock to realize that even the existence, and certainly the true whereabouts, of these enormous lakes was unknown to the outside world until after the middle of the nineteenth century.