Rose Kaggwa

Fingerponds: Managing Nutrients & Primary Productivity for Enhanced Fish Production in Lake Victoria's Wetlands Uganda

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Produktbeschreibung

Fingerponds are earthen ponds dug at the edge of natural wetlands and stocked naturally with wild fish during flooding. This study examines the management of nutrients and primary productivity in enhancing fish production in these systems in Lake Victoria's wetlands, Uganda. It also discusses the role of Fingerponds in ameliorating food security.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781138440791
• ISBN-10: 1138440795
• Artikelnr.: 49372395

Autorenporträt

Rose Kaggwa

Inhaltsangabe

Abstract Chapter 1 The role of natural wetlands in enhancing food security
- a general introduction Chapter 2 Fringing wetlands on the northern shores
of Lake Victoria, Uganda and their potential for fish culture Chapter 3
Organic manuring in Fingerponds: effects on phytoplankton primary
productivity and water quality and implications for management Chapter 4
The use of artificial substrates in turbid seasonal wetland fish ponds
'Fingerponds' in Uganda and their effects on water quality Chapter 5 Fish
production in periphyton-based organically manured seasonal wetland fish
ponds 'Fingerponds' in Uganda Chapter 6 Parameterization and calibration of
a model for fish production in seasonal wetland fish ponds ('Fingerponds')
Chapter 7 General discussions and conclusions, Summary.