Their extraordinary diversity and speed of have been the subjects for many scientists studying the forces that drive the richness of life everywhere | At the same time it was warned that this could present a serious danger to the native fish species and required extensive research into possible ecological effects before done |
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This is far more species of fish than any other lake in the world, except | This may increase as a result of the spread of the invasive water hyacinth an optimum snail habitat , and the loss of many snail-eating cichlids in the lake |
Public awareness exercises were also conducted | "The late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Victoria and the origin of its endemic biota" |
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Sediment and suspended solids are filtered out using sand, which acts like a sieve | Believing he had found the source of the Nile on seeing this "vast expanse of open water" for the first time, Speke named the lake after Queen Victoria |
6 ft and 200 kg 440 lb | London: Crown Agents for the Colonies |
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Among the introductions are several : Coptodon rendalli , C | "Wetland ecotones as refugia for endangered fishes" |
Environmental issues [ ] A number of are associated with Lake Victoria and the complete disappearance of many endemic cichlid species has been called the "most dramatic example of human-caused extinctions within an ecosystem".
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