Abstract
One of the most striking features of all temperate water bodies is the conspicuous zonation of vegetation, usually associated either directly or indirectly with changes in water depth. However, in Lake Chilwa, as in other tropical African lakes particularly the shallow ones, the relationship between zonation of vegetation and water depth is not as simple. This is due to the unusually large water level fluctuations relative to lake depth which occur here. Indeed, Beadle (1974) pointed out that the type of vegetation in tropical Africa seems to depend on water level fluctuations rather than merely a water depth gradient.KeywordsWater LevelVegetation TypeAquatic MacrophyteWater Level ChangeOpen LakeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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