Borderland(s) in motion: Borders, mobility and history in the Lake Kivu region Ghent University
Historical research on and about the border between Rwanda and the DRC (ca. 1880-1962)
Historical research on and about the border between Rwanda and the DRC (ca. 1880-1962)
We propose a new model group for speciation research, the African small barbs (Enteromius), the world’s third species-richest fish genus, with a substantial unrecognised diversity. Contrary to most other species-rich groups, no sets of special features are found in Enteromius that can be linked to extraordinary speciation events. They live in rivers and display little variation in colour pattern, reproductive behaviour and morphology. This ...
The project explores the new coffee frontier in the region around Lake Kivu in Central Africa in the period 1920-1960. After the 1920's, Kivu developed in a successful coffee growing region. The dominant oriducion models east (smallholders) and west (plantations) of Lake Kivu diverged considerably. This project will focus on a/ the interaction between large scale (plantations) and small scale (smallholders) production systels, b. the ...
Species that look very similar are not always closely related. Numerous examples of species that independently evolved similar structures have been reported: the flippers of penguins and dolphins, the wings of bats, birds, and insects, and the striking similarity between the eyes of humans and squids. Although structures look similar, the mechanisms of how they developed can be very different.
Lakes Albert, Edward, Kivu, and Victoria ...
EAGLES is aimed at understanding, monitoring and forecasting how the ecosystem of Lake Kivu responds to human-induced changes in order to predict the effects of ongoing and planned exploitation of its resources under different scenarios of climate change. We will combine data mining, remote sensing, moorings, field and laboratory experiments, numerical modeling and proxies in lake sediment cores.
In this PhD project, use will be made of the regional climate model CCLM, in which only very recently, the freshwater lake parameterisation scheme FLake has been implemented. The research will be build around three main axes: (i) improvement of the treatment of turbulent exchanges and lake dynamics in FLake, (ii) climate simulations –and evaluation– for Central and Eastern Africa using CCLM driven by Global Climate Model (GCM) output, and ...