Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-4rdpn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-14T10:35:08.847Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Report on the freshwater workshop in Kisumu, Kenya (30 June–5 July 1985)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2011

Colin R. Curds ,
Stuart S. Bamforth  and
Bland J. Finlay
Get access

Extract

Our knowledge of tropical African protozoa is limited to the extensive studies on ciliates by Dragesco (1980, 1985) and a study of plankton in Lake Tanganyika by Hecky et al., (1978) and Hecky and Kling (1981). No intensive study of freshwater protozoa had been previously undertaken in Kenya and for this reason a post-congress freshwater workshop under the dual leadership of Dr Stuart S. Bamforth (U.S.A.) and Dr Colin R. Curds (U.K.) was held at Kisumii, a town situated on the shores of Lake Victoria. The opportunity was taken to visit Lakes Naivasha and Nakuru en route to Kisumu. In addition a smaller saline lake, Lake Simbi near Kisumu was visited by some participants which enabled a comparison of two saline and two freshwater lakes to be made as well as a study of some stream sites.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 7 , Special Issue 3: Progress in Entomology: Proceedings of the VII International Congress of Protozoology , June 1986 , pp. 447 - 449
Copyright
Copyright © ICIPE 1986

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Dodge, J. D. and Crawford, R. M. (1970) The morphology and fine structure of Ceratium hirudinella (Dinophyceae). J. Phycol. 6, 137–139.Google Scholar
Dragesco, J. (1980) Les Protozoaires. In Flore et Faune Aquatique de l'Afrique (Edited by Durand, J. R. and Leveque, C.). Sahelo-Souanienne, Paris.Google Scholar
Dragesco, J. (1985) Cities Libres de l'Afrique Intertropicale. Orstom, Paris.Google Scholar
Finlay, B. J., Curds, C. R., Bamforth, S. S. and Bafort, J. M. (1986) Ciliated Protozoa and other microorganisms from two African soda lakes (L. Nakuru ‘L. Simbi, Kenya). Arch. Protistenk. In press.Google Scholar
Hecky, R. E., Free, E. J., Kling, H. and Rudd, J. W. (1978) Studies on the planktonic ecology of Lake Tanganyika. Can. Fish. Mar. Sen. Tech. Rep., Vol. 816.Google Scholar
Hecky, R. E. and Kling, H. (1981) The phytoplankton and protozooplankton of the eutrophic zone of Lake Tanganyika: species composition, biomass, chlorophyll content, and spatio-temporal distribution. Limnol. Oceanogr. 26, 548–564.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Milbrink, G. (1977) On the limnology of two alkaline lakes (Nakuru and Naivasha) in the East Rift Valley system in Kenya. Int. Rev. ges. Hydrobiol. 62, 1–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Porter, K. G., Sherr, E. B., Sherr, B. F., Pace, M. and Sanders, R. W. (1985) Protozoa in planktonic food webs. J. Protozool. 32, 409–415.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pratt, J. R. and Cairns, J. (1985) Functional groups in the protozoa: roles in differing ecosystems. J. Protozool. 32, 415–423.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vareschi, E. (1978) The ecolgy of Lake Nakuru (Kenya). I. Abundance and feeding of the lesser flamingo. Oecologia 32, 11–35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vareschi, E. and Jacobs, J. (1985) The ecology of Lake Nakuru. VI. Synopsis of production and energy flow. Oecologia 65, 412–424.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed