Comparing flow regime, channel hydraulics, and biological communities to infer flow-ecology relationships in the Mara River Kenya and Tanzania

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Title:: Comparing flow regime, channel hydraulics, and biological communities to infer flow-ecology relationships in the Mara River Kenya and Tanzania
Creator:: McClain, Michael E.
Subalusky, Amanda L.
Anderson, Elizabeth P.
Dessu, Shimelis Behailu
Meleese, Assefa M.
Ndomba, Preksedis
Mtamba, Joseph OD
Tamatamah, Rashid A.
Mligo, Cosmas
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Publication Date:: 2014-04-10
Language:: English
Physical Description:: Article

Abstract:: Equatorial rivers of East Africa exhibit unusually complex seasonal and inter-annual flow regimes, aquatic and terrestrial organisms and adjacent-have to cope with this adapté flow variability. This study Examined the annual flow diet over the past 40 years for three gauging stations on the Mara River in Kenya and Tanzania, which is of international importance because it is the only perennial river traversing the Mara-Serengeti ecoregion. Select environmental flow components were quantified and converted to ecologically relevant hydraulic variables.
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