caa a22 4500 445892102 CHVBK 20180317145619.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10750-011-0713-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10750-011-0713-5 Possible effects of global climate change on the ecosystem of Lake Tanganyika [Elektronische Daten] [Jaya Naithani, Pierre-Denis Plisnier, Eric Deleersnijder] Any change in the air temperature, wind speed, precipitation, and incoming solar radiation induced by increasing greenhouse gasses and climate change will directly influence lakes and other water bodies. The influence can cause changes in the physical (water temperature, stratification, transparency), chemical (nutrient loading, oxygen) and biological (structure and functioning of the ecosystem) components of the Lake. In this work an influence of the likely effects of the climate change on the above three components of Lake Tanganyika are studied by means of a simple ecological model. Simulations for the years 2002-2009 have been performed using the wind and solar radiation data from the National Centres for Environmental Protection (NCEP) reanalysis. Various possible climatic scenarios are studied by changing the surface layer depth, its temperature and the wind stress. Any change in any of the above physical forcing parameters modifies the timing and intensity of the dry season peaks of the biogeochemical parameters. It is seen that the gross production increases as temperature of the surface layer increases and its depth decreases. High temperature and low wind stress, reduces the biomass. The effects of a slight increase in lake water temperature on the Lake Tanganyika ecosystem might be mitigated by increased windiness, if the latter was sufficient to induce greater mixing. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Lake Tanganyika nationallicence Ecological and hydrodynamic model nationallicence Climate change nationallicence Sensitivity analysis nationallicence Naithani Jaya Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (iMMC), Avenue Georges Lemaître 4, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium aut Plisnier Pierre-Denis Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg, 13, 3080, Tervuren, Belgium aut Deleersnijder Eric Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (iMMC), Avenue Georges Lemaître 4, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium aut Hydrobiologia Springer Netherlands 671/1(2011-08-01), 147-163 0018-8158 671:1<147 2011 671 10750 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-011-0713-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-011-0713-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Naithani Jaya Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (iMMC), Avenue Georges Lemaître 4, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Plisnier Pierre-Denis Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg, 13, 3080, Tervuren, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Deleersnijder Eric Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (iMMC), Avenue Georges Lemaître 4, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Hydrobiologia Springer Netherlands 671/1(2011-08-01), 147-163 0018-8158 671:1<147 2011 671 10750 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer