The late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Victoria and the origin of its endemic biota
@article{Stager2007TheLP, title={The late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Victoria and the origin of its endemic biota}, author={J. C. Stager and T. Johnson}, journal={Hydrobiologia}, year={2007}, volume={596}, pages={5-16} }
Lingering debate among evolutionary biologists over whether or not Lake Victoria dried out during the late Pleistocene focuses on perceived conflicts between biological and geological evidence for the age of its endemic species. This article reviews and updates the geophysical and paleoecological evidence for lake-wide desiccation and describes the environmental conditions that aquatic species likely experienced during the low stand. Lake Victoria was at its lowest between 18,000 and 14,000… CONTINUE READING
94 Citations
Pleistocene desiccation in East Africa bottlenecked but did not extirpate the adaptive radiation of Lake Victoria haplochromine cichlid fishes
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2009
- 78
- PDF
Population collapse in viviparid gastropods of the Lake Victoria ecoregion started before the Last Glacial Maximum
- Medicine, Biology
- Molecular ecology
- 2021
- 1
Biogeographic and Evolutionary Implications of an Extinct Late Pleistocene Impala from the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya
- Biology
- Journal of Mammalian Evolution
- 2013
- 22
- PDF
Diatom evidence for the timing and causes of eutrophication in Lake Victoria, East Africa
- Geography
- Hydrobiologia
- 2009
- 42
The Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya.
- Geology, Medicine
- Journal of human evolution
- 2010
- 60
- PDF
Old fossils–young species: evolutionary history of an endemic gastropod assemblage in Lake Malawi
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- 2009
- 55
- Highly Influenced
- PDF
Late Pleistocene Fish Remains from the Rurubu River, Tanzania
- Geography
- Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
- 2019
- 1
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 54 REFERENCES
On the age and origin of the species flock of haplochromine cichlid fishes of Lake Victoria
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
- 2001
- 41
- Highly Influential
Patterns in fish radiation are compatible with Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Victoria and 14 600 year history for its cichlid species flock
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
- 2002
- 115
- Highly Influential
Speciation rates in lakes and the enigma of Lake Victoria
- Biology
- Hydrobiologia
- 2004
- 30
- Highly Influential
Biological implications of a suggested Late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Victoria
- Biology
- Hydrobiologia
- 2004
- 32
The origin and age of haplochromine fishes in Lake Victoria, East Africa
- Geography, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
- 2000
- 143
- Highly Influential
Origin of the Superflock of Cichlid Fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa
- Biology
- Science
- 2003
- 302
- Highly Influential
- PDF
Cooling cycles, Heinrich event 1, and the desiccation of Lake Victoria
- Geology
- 2002
- 130
- Highly Influential
An extant cichlid fish radiation emerged in an extinct Pleistocene lake
- Geography, Medicine
- Nature
- 2005
- 153
- PDF