LAUREN J. CHAPMAN

Respiratory Ecology of Macroinvertebrates in a Swamp–River System of East Africa1 (2004)

Lauren J. Chapman, Kimberly R. Schneider, Chrissy Apodaca, Colin A. Chapman

Hypoxia (oxygen scarcity) is widespread in tropical freshwaters, particularly in dense swamps, and may be an important factor structuring benthic macroinvertebrate communities. Macroinvertebrates...

Fragmentation and Alteration of Seed Dispersal Processes: An Initial Evaluation of Dung Beetles, Seed Fate, and Seedling Diversity1 (2003)

Colin A. Chapman, Lauren J. Chapman, Kevina Vulinec, Amy Zanne, Michael J. Lawes

ABSTRACT Given current accelerated trends of tropical land conversion, forest fragments are being incorporated into many conservation programs. For investing in fragments to be a viable conservation...

Biodiversity and Fishery Sustainability in the Lake Victoria Basin: An Unexpected Marriage? (2003)

JOHN S. BALIRWA, COLIN A. CHAPMAN, LAUREN J. CHAPMAN, IAN G. COWX, KIM GEHEB, LES KAUFMAN, ...

Lake Victoria is Africa's single most important source of inland fishery production. After it was initially fished down in the first half of the 20th century, Lake Victoria became home to a series of...

Nuclear markers reveal unexpected genetic variation and a Congolese-Nilotic origin of the Lake Victoria cichlid species flock.

Seehausen, Ole, Koetsier, Egbert, Schneider, Maria Victoria, Chapman, Lauren J, Chapman, Colin A, Knight, Mairi E, ...

Phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial (mt) DNA have indicated that the cichlid species flock of the Lake Victoria region is derived from a single ancestral species found in East African...