Vadeboncoeur awarded $850,000 collaborative NSF grant to study primary productivity in Lake Tanganyika

Yvonne Vadeboncoeur (Biological Sciences) and Pete McIntyre (University of Michigan) have received news that their proposal entitled “Consumer control of high-productivity low-nutrient ecosystems: Enhancement of primary productivity by grazing fish in Lake Tanganyika” will be funded by NSF for $850,000. Lake Tanganyika is the second largest lake in the world, and its nearshore, or littoral, waters are home to hundreds of fish and invertebrate species found nowhere else in the world. Fish densities and diversity in the littoral zones of African rift valley lakes are unparalleled in freshwater