Cenozoic Evolution of the Nile Basin

Abstract

A description of the Nile basin, and a synopsis of its history, ecology, biogeography, hydrology, and natural resources -- The Nile : History of scientific research -- Cenozoic evolution of the Nile basin -- Late quaternary environments in the Nile basin -- The Nile delta -- The Fayum depression and its lakes -- Lake Nasser -- Nubia -- The Toshka Lakes -- Lake Tana : Source of the Blue Nile -- Swamps of the upper White Nile -- The Kyoga catchment -- Lake Victoria -- Rwenzori Mountains (Mountains of the Moon) : Headwaters of the White Nile -- Nilotic lakes of the western rift -- Lake Turkana and its link to the Nile -- Nile basin climates -- The hydrology of the Nile basin -- Physical and chemical water characteristics -- River Nile pollutants and their effect on life forms and water quality -- Bacteria and viruses in the Nile -- Phytoplankton : Composition, development and productivity -- Hydrophytes of the Nile in Egypt -- Aquatic plants of the Sudan -- The cnidaria of the Nile basin -- The oligochaeta of the Nile basin revisited -- The crustacean zooplankton (copepoda, branchiopoda), atyid decapoda, and syncarida of the Nile basin -- Freshwater crabs and shrimps (crustacea : Decapoda) of the Nile basin -- The Nile benthos -- Freshwater molluscs of the Nile basin, past and present -- Aquatic insects of the Nile basin, with emphasis on the odonata -- Fish fauna of the Nile -- Fossil fish from the Nile river and its southern basins -- Birds of the Nile -- Fisheries in the Nile system -- Nile basin asymmetries : A closed fresh water resource, soil water potential, the political economy and Nile transboundary hydropolitics -- Human impact on the Nile basin : Past, present, future.