Lakes of Africa: Microbial Diversity and Sustainability

Lakes of Africa: Microbial Diversity and Sustainability consists of 17 Chapters, forming four sections, which cover microbial ecosystems inhabiting African lakes. The first section includes background chapters, describing the history and formation of African lakes. The second section includes chapters that describe how environmental stressors, including seasonal variations, climate changes and anthropogenic activities affect microbial ecosystem dynamics in African lakes and the microbial responses to these stressors. The third section includes chapters that deal with exploring and evaluating of extremophiles in desert and harsh African lakes, and how to benefit from these microbes in the term of industrial biotechnology. Finally, the fourth section concludes by highlighting challenges facing the microbial ecology in African lakes and designing of models for solving these problems and prediction of the future of Lake microbial ecosystem succession and sustainability. Lakes of Africa covers all investigations and questions concerning challenges facing sustainability of ecosystems in African lakes. It is written for students and researchers in the fields of aquatic ecology and microbiology.