TY  - JOUR
A1  - Audisio, Paolo
A1  - Cline, Andrew R.
A1  - Solano, Emanuela
A1  - Mancini, Emiliano
A1  - Lamanna, Francesco
A1  - Antonini, Gloria
A1  - Trizzino, Marco
T1  - A peculiar new genus and species of pollen-beetle (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) from eastern Africa, with a molecular phylogeny of related Meligethinae
JF  - Systematics and biodiversity
KW  - new species
KW  - new genus
KW  - molecular analysis
KW  - pollen-beetles
KW  - host-plants
KW  - Asteraceae
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Tarchonanthopria freidbergi
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2013.877539
SN  - 1477-2000
SN  - 1478-0933
VL  - 12
IS  - 1
SP  - 77
EP  - 91
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Borchardt, Sven
A1  - Trauth, Martin H.
T1  - Remotely-sensed evapotranspiration estimates for an improved hydrological modeling of the early holocene mega-lake Suguta, northern Kenya Rift
JF  - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology : an international journal for the geo-sciences
N2  - The actual evapotranspiration is an important, but difficult to determine, element in the water balance of lakes and their catchment areas. Reliable data on evapotranspiration are not available for most lake basins for which paleoclimate reconstructions and modeling have been performed, particularly those in remote parts of Africa. We have used thermal infrared multispectral data for 14 ASTER scenes from the TERRA satellite to estimate the actual evapotranspiration in the 12,800 km(2) catchment of the Suguta Valley, northern Kenya Rift Evidence from sediments and paleo-shorelines indicates that, during the African Humid Period (AHP, 14.8 to 5.5 kyrs BP), this valley contained a large lake, 280 m deep and covering similar to 2200 km(2), which has now virtually disappeared. Evapotranspiration estimates for the Suguta Basin were generated using the Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL). Climate data required for the model were extracted from a high-resolution gridded dataset obtained from the Climatic Research Unit (East Anglia, UK). Results suggest significant spatial variations in evapotranspiration within the catchment area (ranging from 450 mm/yr in the basin to the north to 2000 mm/yr in more elevated areas) and precipitation that was similar to 20% higher during the AHP than in recent times. These results are in agreement with other estimates of paleo-precipitation in East Africa. The extreme response of the lake system (similar to 280 m greater water depth than today, and a lake surface area of 2200 km(2)) to only moderately higher precipitation illustrates the possible sensitivity of this area to future climate change.
KW  - Actual evapotranspiration
KW  - Remote sensing
KW  - Water balance model
KW  - East African Rift
KW  - Kenya
KW  - SEBAL
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.07.009
SN  - 0031-0182
VL  - 361
IS  - 22
SP  - 14
EP  - 20
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -