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Science 25 July 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5632, pp. 468 - 469
DOI: 10.1126/science.1088633
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Perspectives

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ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: Global Climate Change Strikes a Tropical Lake

Daniel A. Livingstone

Lake Tanganyika, just south of the equator in tropical Africa, is home to many animal species that live nowhere else. As Livingstone reports in his Perspective, historical records of lake temperature, transparency, and fauna collected for over a hundred years reveal that even the thermal inertia of this deep lake has not been able to protect it from the effects of global climate change (Verburg et al.).

The author is in the Department of Biology and the Division of Earth and Ocean Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. E-mail: livingst{at}duke.edu

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