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Project

EAGLES: East African Great Lake Ecosystem Sensitivity to changes
Acronym
EAGLES
Code
12Z01211
Duration
15 December 2010 → 31 March 2015
Funding
Federal funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Geology
    • Physical geography and environmental geoscience
    • Evolutionary biology
    • Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
Keywords
Great Lakes Lake Kivu climate change limnology
 
Project description
 

EAGLES is aimed at understanding, monitoring and forecasting how the ecosystem of Lake Kivu responds to human-induced changes in order to predict the effects of ongoing and planned exploitation of its resources under different scenarios of climate change. We will combine data mining, remote sensing, moorings, field and laboratory experiments, numerical modeling and proxies in lake sediment cores.