Adel A. Fathi

TL;DR: The environmental status of nine wetland lakes in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt was evaluated as part of the CASSARINA Project (see Flower, 2001), and the results showed that all are conservationally important habitats and several are Ramsar Sites.

TL;DR: In this article, a closed saline lake in the northern part of El-Fayoum Depression (Middle Egypt) at the margin of the Great Western Desert was monitored during 2001 and all the water quality variables measured showed considerable seasonal variation, and quantitative and qualitative differences in phytoplankton communities were recorded.

TL;DR: Sediment cores were collected from nine wetland lakes in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt for the CASSARINA project investigating environmental change in Northern African wetlands as discussed by the authors, which revealed high and accelerating siltation rates, threatening their continued existence beyond the next few decades.

TL;DR: Sediment cores from Lake Qarun have been used to examine the potential of paleolimnology for reconstructing the recent environmental history of the site as mentioned in this paper, showing that during most of this period both lake water level and salinity increased and that by the late 1980s lake water salinity was approximately that of seawater.

TL;DR: In this paper, seasonal variations in phytoplankton species composition (frequencies) and densities (cell numbers) in nine North African coastal lakes selected in Morocco (Merja Sidi Bou Rhaba, Zerga and Bokka), Tunisia (Chitane, Ichkeul and Korba lakes) and Egypt (Edku, Burullus and Manzala lakes) were investigated during 1998.