Nyanza Project Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
(* indicates Nyanza student author/coauthors)
Adams, D.D. and Ochola*, S., 2002. "A Review Of Sediment Gas
Cycling In Lakes With Reference To Lake Victoria And Sediment Gas Measurements
In Lake Tanganyika." In Odada, E. and Olago, D. (eds.) The
East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Paleolimnology and Biodiversity,
Kluwer Academic Press.
Alin, S.R.*, O’Reilly, C.M.*,
Cohen, A.S., Dettman, D.L., Palacios-Fest, M.R., and McKee, B.A.,
2002. "Effects of land use change on aquatic biodiversity: A
view from the paleorecord at Lake Tanganyika, East Africa." Geology 30:1143-1146.
Alin, S.R.*, and Cohen, A.S., 2003. "Lake-level
history of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, for the past 2500 years
based on ostracode-inferred water-depth reconstruction." Palaeogeology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 199:31-49.
Alin, S.R.*, and Cohen, A.S., 2004. "The
live, the dead, and the very dead: taphonomic calibration of the
recent record of paleoecological change in Lake Tanganyika, East
Africa." Paleobiology, 30:44-81.
Bellinger, B.J.*,
Cocquyt, C., and O’Reilly, C.M., in press. "Benthic
diatoms as indicators of eutrophication in tropical streams. Hydrobiologia."
Cohen A.S., Palacios-Fest M.R.,
McGill J., Swarzenski P., Verschuren D., Sinyinza R., Songori T.,
Kakagozo B., Syampila M., O'Reilly C.M.* and Alin S.R.*, 2005. "Paleolimnological
investigations of anthropogenic environmental change in Lake Tanganyika:
I. An introduction to the project."Journal of Paleolimnology,
34:1-18.
Cohen A.S., Palacios-Fest,
M.R., Msaky, E.S., Alin*, S.R., McKee, B., O’Reilly, C.M.*,
Dettman, D.L., Nkotagu, H.H., and Lezzar, K.E. 2005. "Paleolimnological
investigations of anthropogenic environmental change in Lake Tanganyika:
IX. Summary of paleorecords of environmental change and catchment
deforestation at Lake Tanganyika and impacts on the Lake Tanganyika
ecosystem." Journal of Paleolimnology, 34:125-145.
Cohen, A.S., Lezzar, K.E., Cole,
J., Dettman,D., Ellis, G.S.*, Eagle Gonneea, M.*, Plisnier, P.D.,
Langenberg, V., Blaauw, M., and Derrick Zilifi* 2006. "Late
Holocene linkages between decade-century scale climate variability
and productivity at Lake Tanganyika, Africa." in pressDOI 10.1007/s10933-006-9004-y.
DeWever, A., Muylaert, K.,
Van der Gucht, K., Pirlot, S., Cocquyt, C., Descy, J.P., Plisnier,
P.D., and Vyverman, W., 2005. "Bacterial community composition
in Lake Tanganyika: Vertical and Horizontal Heterogeneity." Applied
and Environmental Microbiology. 71:5029-5037.
Kingma, I. and Michel,
E. 2000. "Variation in reproductive strategies
in the ovoviviparous genus Lavigeria (Gastropoda: Thiaridae)
from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa." (in Dutch). Corresp. Blad
Ned. Malac. Ver., 312:15-24.
Lezzar, K.E., Tiercelin, J.J.,
Le Turdu, C., Cohen, A.S., Reynolds, D.J., Le Gall, B. and Scholz,
C.A. 2002. "Control of normal fault interaction on the distribution
of major Neogene sedimentary depocenters, Lake Tanganyika, East African
Rift." AAPG Bulletin, 86:1027-1059.
Marijnissen, S.A.E.*, Schram,
F.R., Cumberlidge, N. and Michel, E., 2004. "Two new species
of Platytelphusa A. Milne Edwards, 1887 (Decapoda, Potamoidea,
Platytelphusidae) and comments on the taxonomic position of P.
denticulate Capart 1952 from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa." Crustaceana 77:513-532.
Marijnissen, S.* E. Michel,
S. Daniels, D. Erpenbeck, S.B.J. Menken, F.R. Schram, 2006. "Molecular evidence for recent divergence of
Lake Tanganyika endemic crabs (Decapoda: Platythelphusidae)." Molecular
Phylogeny and Evolution 40:628-634.
McIntyre, P.B.*, Michel, E.,
France, K.*, Rivers, A.*, Hakizimana, P.* and Cohen, A.S. 2005. "Individual-and
Assemblage-Level Effects of Anthropogenic Sedimentation on Snails
in Lake Tanganyika: comparing individual and assemblage level measures." Conservation
Biology, 19:171-181.
McIntyre, PB*, E. Michel,
M. Olsgard*. 2006. Top-down and bottom-up controls on periphyton
biomass and productivity in Lake Tanganyika. Limnology and Oceanography,
51: 1514-1523.
McIntyre, PB*, and AS Flecker, 2006 (in press). "Rapid turnover
of tissue nitrogen of primary consumers in tropical freshwaters." Oecologia.
McKee B.A., Cohen A.S., Dettman
D.L., Palacios-Fest M.R., Alin S.A*. and Ntungumburangye G., 2005. "Paleolimnological
investigations of anthropogenic environmental change in Lake Tanganyika:
II: Geochronologies and mass sedimentation rates based on 14C and
210Pb data." Journal of Paleolimnology 34:19-29
Michel, E.,
2000. "Phylogeny of a Gastropod Species Flock: Exploring
Speciation in Lake Tanganyika in a Molecular Framework." In A.
Rossiter and H. Kawanabe, (eds.), Advances in Ecological Research,
Vol. 31, Biology of Ancient Lakes: Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution,
Academic Press, London, pp. 275-302.
Michel, E., K. West, J.A. Todd, D.S. Brown, and J. Clabaugh, 2003. The
Gastropods of Lake Tanganyika: Diagnostic Key and Taxonomic
Classification with Notes on the Fauna. 132 pgs, 102 figures.
SIL (Societas Internationalis Limnologiae - International Assoc.
of Theoretical and Applied Limnology), special publications book.
Michel, E., 2004. “Vinundu a
new genus and species of gastropod ( Cerithiodea: 'Thiaridae’)
with two species from Lake Tanganyika, east Africa, and its molecular
phylogenetic Relationships." Journal
of Molluscan Studies, 70:1-19.
Michel, E., Todd, J.A., Cleary,
F.R., Kingma, I., Cohen, A.S., and Genner, M.J., 2003." Scales
of endemism: Challenges for conservation and incentives for evolutionary
studies in a gastropod species flock from Lake Tanganyika." Journal
Conchology, Spec. Publ. 3.
O’Reilly, C.M.*, Hecky,
R.E., Cohen, A.S., and Plisnier, P.D., 2002. "Interpreting stable
isotopes in food webs: Recognizing the role of time averaging at
different trophic levels." Limnology and Oceanography, 47:306-309.
O’Reilly, C.M.,
Alin, S.R., Plisnier, P.D., Cohen, A.S., and McKee, B.A., 2003. "Climate
change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika,
Africa." Nature, 424:766-768.
O’Reilly, C. M.*,
P. Verburg, R. E. Hecky, P.-D. Plisnier, and A. S. Cohen. 2003. “Food
web dynamics in stable isotope ecology: Time integration of different
trophic levels.” In L. Seuront and P. Sutton (eds.), Handbook
of scaling methods in aquatic ecology: Measurement, analysis, simulation. CRC
Press, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 125-134.
O’Reilly, C.A*., Plisnier,
P.D., Cohen, A.S. and Alin, S.R.*, 2004, Reply to “Climate
change not shown to affect Lake Tanganyika,” Brief Communications
Arising. Nature, doi: 10.1038/nature02737.
Palacios-Fest, M.R., Cohen,
A.S., Lezzar, K.E., Nahimana, L., and Tanner, B.M., 2005. "Paleolimnological
investigations of anthropogenic environmental change in Lake Tanganyika:
III. Physical stratigraphy and charcoal analysis." Journal
of Paleolimnology, 34:31-49.
Palacios-Fest M.R., Alin
S.R.*, Cohen A.S., Tanner B., and Heuser H.*, 2005b. "Paleolimnological
investigations of anthropogenic environmental change in Lake Tanganyika:
IV. Lacustrine paleoecology." ournal of Paleolimnology, 34:51-71.
Papadopoulos, L.N., Todd,
J.A., and Michel, E., 2004. "Adulthood and phylogenetic analysis
in gastropods: character recognition and coding in shells of Lavigeria (Cerithiodea,
Thiaridae) from Lake Tanganyika." Zoology Journal,
Linn. Soc, 140:223-240.
Park, L.E., Cohen, A.S., Martens,
K., and Bralek, R., 2003. "The impact of taphonomic processes
on interpreting paleoecologic changes in large lake ecosystems: Ostracodes
in Lake Tanganyika and Malawi." Journal Paleolimnoloy, 30:127-138.
Plisnier P.D. 2002a. "Limnological profiles and their variability
in Lake Tanganyika." In Odada, E. and Olago, D. (eds.), The
East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Paleolimnology and Biodiversity. Kluwer
Academy Publication, Dordrecht, p. 349-366.
Plisnier P.D. 2002b (in press). "Recent
climate and limnology changes in Lake Tanganyika.,' Verhandlungen
Internationale Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie.
Sako, A., MacLeod,K.G., and O’Reilly, C.M., (in press). "Oxygen
and carbon stable isotopic compositions of Lates stappersii from Lake
Tanganyika, East Africa." Journal of Great Lakes Research.
Tiercelin, J.J., and Lezzar, K.E., 2002. "A 300 Million Years
History of Rift Lakes in Central and East Africa: An updated broad
review." In Odada, E. (ed.), “The Geology of East African
Lakes,” IDEAL Program Special Issue, p. 1-63.
West, K., and Michel, E., 2000, The Dynamics of Endemic Diversification:
Molecular Phylogeny Suggests an Explosive Origin of the Thiarid Gastropods
of Lake Tanganyika. In A. Rossiter and
H. Kawanabe, (eds.) Advances in Ecological Research, 31, Biology
of Ancient Lakes: Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Academic
Press, London, pp. 331-354.
In Review
Michel. E., J. Chan*, and P.B. McIntyre*, (submitted). "A Snail’s
Pace in a Snail’s Space: Sex- and species-specific adult movement
rates of Lavigeria gastropods (Caenogastropoda, ‘Thiaridae’)
in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa." Journal of Molluscan Studies.
In
Preparation for May 2006 submissions
McIntyre, P.B.* "Rates, sources, ecosystem significance, and
sources of nutrient recycling by littoral fishes in Lake Tanganyika.
Ecology."
McIntyre, P.B.*, Flecker, A.S., Vanni, M.J., and L. Jones. "Species
extinctions, overfishing, and nutrient cycling in tropical freshwaters."
Proc. Nat. Sci.
