West African Monsoon Variability from a High-Resolution Paleolimnological Record (Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana)

Keywords

Oceanography, Monsoon, Geology, Paleolimnology, Physical geography

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Cited by

• Secondary production of Chaoborus ceratopogones (Diptera: Chaoboridae) in Lake Bosumtwi, GhanaPeter O. Sanful, E. Frempong, S. Aikins — 2012
• Secondary production of crustacean zooplankton and biomass of major rotifer species in Lake Bosumtwi/Bosomtwe, Ghana, West AfricaPeter O. Sanful, E. Frempong, S. Aikins — 2013
• The origin, transformation and deposition of sediments in Lake Bosomtwe/Bosumtwi (Ghana, West Africa)Megan K. Otu — 2010
• Temporal dynamics and relationship between climate, limnological variables and zooplankton composition in climate-sensitive Lake Bosumtwi, GhanaPeter O. Sanful, S. Aikins, E. Frempong — 2017
• Depth distribution of zooplankton in relation to limnological gradients under different stratification and interannual regimes in a deep, tropical crater lakePeter O. Sanful, S. Aikins, Robert E. Hecky — 2017
• Occurrence and seasonal dynamics of metalimnetic Deep Chlorophyll Maximum (DCM) in a stratified meromictic tropical lake and its implications for zooplankton community distributionPeter O. Sanful, Megan K. Otu, Hedy Kling — 2017

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