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R.E. Hecky
Professor, BSc (Kent State), PhD (Duke)
Email: rehecky@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca
Tel: 888-4567 x. 2820 Office: B2 244
Research Interests
- African limnology and paleolimnology
- International Great Lakes biodiversity, ecology and management
- Biogeochemistry of mercury
- Carbon and nutrient cycling in freshwater environments
- Impact of cultural activities on aquatic productivity and food web structure
- Transport and bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants
- Food web ecology and stable isotopes
- Ecology of Cladophora
RV Usipa on Lake Malawi near Senga Bay Fisheries Centre
Selected Recent Publications
- Verburg, Piet, Robert E. Hecky and Hedy Kling. 2003. Ecological consequences of a century of warming in Lake Tanganyika. Science 301:505-507.
- Hart, R.C., L.M. Campbell, and R.E. Hecky.2003. Stable isotope analyses and demographic responses counter prospects of zooplanktivory by Caridina (Decapoda: Atyidae) in Lake Victoria. Oecologia 136(2):270-278.
- Davies, John-Mark, R.H. Hesslein, C.A. Kelly and R.E. Hecky. 2003. PCO 2 method for measuring photosynthesis and respiration in freshwater lakes. Journal of Plankton Research 25:385-395.
- Campbell, L.M., R.E. Hecky, and D.G. Dixon. 2003. Review of mercury in Lake Victoria (East Africa): Implications for human and ecosystem health, Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B 6:325-356.
- Campbell, L.M., R. E. Hecky, R. Muggide, D. G. Dixon, and P. S. Ramlal. 2003. Variation and distribution of total mercury in water, sediment and soil from northern Lake Victoria, East Africa. Biogeochemistry 65:195-211.
- Andre, E.R., R.E. Hecky and H.C. Duthie. 2003. Nitrogen and phosphorus regeneration by cichlids in the littoral zone of Lake Malawi, Africa. Journal of Great Lakes Research 29(2): 190-201.
- Campbell, L.M., R.E. Hecky, J. Nyaundi, R. Mugidde, and D.G. Dixon. 2003. Distribution and food-web transfer of mercury in Napoleon and Winam Gulfs, Lake Victoria, East Africa. Journal Great Lakes Research 29(2): 267-282.
- Hecky, R.E., H.A. Bootsma and M.L. Kingdon.2003. The importance of river basin characteristics and impact of land use change on sediment and nutrient yields to Lake Malawi/Nyasa (Africa). Journal of Great Lakes Research 29(2):139-158.
- Bootsma, H. A. and R.E. Hecky. 2003. A comparative introduction to the biology and limnology of the African Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 29(2):3-18.
- Hamblin, P.F., H.A. Bootsma, and R.E. Hecky. 2003. Surface meteorological observations over Lake Malawi/Nyasa. Journal of Great Lakes Research 29(2):19-33.
- Higgins, S.N., H. Kling, R.E. Hecky, W.D. Taylor, and H.A. Bootsma. 2003. The community composition, distribution, and nutrient status of periphyton in the rocky littoral zones of Lake Malawi. Journal of Great Lakes Research 29(2):181-189.
- Verburg,P. and R.E. Hecky. 2003. Wind patterns, evaporation, and related physical variables in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa.. Journal of Great Lakes Research 29(2):48-61.
- Mugidde, R., R.E. Hecky, L. Hendzel and W.D. Taylor. 2003. Pelagic nitrogen fixation in Lake Victoria, Uganda. Journal of Great Lakes Research 29(2):76-88.
- Hecky, R.E. 2003. What does the future hold for the Great Lakes of Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science 28(1): iii-vi (Invited Guest editorial).
- Halafo, J., R.E. Hecky and W.D. Taylor. 2004. The artisanal fishery of Lake Malawi/Niassa, East Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science 29 (1): 83-89.
- Hecky, R.E., R.E.H. Smith, D.R. Barton, S.J. Guildford, W.D. Taylor, M.N. Charlton, T. Howell. 2004. The near shore phosphorus shunt: a consequence of ecosystem engineering by dreissenids in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 61:1285-1293 .
- Tamatamah, R.L., H.C. Duthie and R.E. Hecky. 2005. The importance of atmospheric deposition to the phosphorus loading of Lake Victoria. (East Africa). Biogeochemistry 73:
- Vollmer, Martin K., Harvey A. Bootsma, Robert E. Hecky, Graeme Patterson, John D. Halfman, John M. Edmond, David H. Eccles, Ray F. Weiss. 2005. Deep-water warming trend in Lake Malawi, East Africa . Limnol. Oceanogr. 50:727-732.
- Gikuma-Njuru, P. and R.E. Hecky 2005. Nutrient Concentrations in Nyanza Gulf, Lake Victoria, Kenya: Light limits Algal Demand and Abundance. Hydrobiologia 534:131-140.
- Williams, A.E., H.C. Duthie and R.E. Hecky. 2005. Water hyacinth in Lake Victoria: Why did it vanish so quickly and will it return. Aquatic Botany 81:300-314.
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