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The Great Lakes
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Abstract
Lake Superior is greater in surface area than Lake Victoria. Lake Baikal is deeper than Lake Tanganyika. Nonetheless, the Great Lakes of East Africa are second to none, when it comes to the wealth of native fishes and the number of people dependent on these lakes. Lake Malawi is thought to host more than 500 species of fishes, nearly all endemic (27). Endemism is also >99% among the haplochromine cichlids of Lake Victoria, where more than 400 species appear to have evolved in less than 200,000 years (29) - geologically and evolutionarily little more than an instant. The most diverse faunas occur in Lake Tanganyika, the deepest and oldest lake. Fishes and snails in Lake Tanganyika are so varied in form that the occupants of this one lake might easily be mistaken for marine organisms hailing from dozens of unrelated taxa. Through the fish protein that they produce, the Great Lakes fuel a human society with currently one of the earth’s highest rates of population growth.
Oxford University PressNew York, NY
Title: The Great Lakes
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Abstract
Lake Superior is greater in surface area than Lake Victoria.
Lake Baikal is deeper than Lake Tanganyika.
Nonetheless, the Great Lakes of East Africa are second to none, when it comes to the wealth of native fishes and the number of people dependent on these lakes.
Lake Malawi is thought to host more than 500 species of fishes, nearly all endemic (27).
Endemism is also >99% among the haplochromine cichlids of Lake Victoria, where more than 400 species appear to have evolved in less than 200,000 years (29) - geologically and evolutionarily little more than an instant.
The most diverse faunas occur in Lake Tanganyika, the deepest and oldest lake.
Fishes and snails in Lake Tanganyika are so varied in form that the occupants of this one lake might easily be mistaken for marine organisms hailing from dozens of unrelated taxa.
Through the fish protein that they produce, the Great Lakes fuel a human society with currently one of the earth’s highest rates of population growth.
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