Publications [#228752] of Daniel A. Livingstone

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  1. JC Stager, PN Reinthal and DA Livingstone, A 25 000-year history for Lake Victoria, East Africa, and some comments on its significance for the evolution of cichlid fishes., Freshwater Biology, vol. 16 no. 1 (1986), pp. 15-19 .
    (last updated on 2016/04/09)

    Abstract:
    Microfossil and X-ray analyses of sediment cores from Lake Victoria reveal a history of dramatically shifting environmental conditions over the last 25 000 yr. The diatom record of a 10 m core collected from beneath 66 m of water at an offshore station extends the known history of the lake 10 000 yr beyond the published records from Pilkington Bay and Damba Channel, and shows that maximal late Pleistocene aridity occurred between 15 000 and 13 000 BP. There is no evidence that the lake level fell low enough to confine fishes to refugia in small isolated ponds or around river mouths. -from Authors