David M. Harper,^1,*,** Edward H.J. Morrison,^1,2,*** Michael M. Macharia,^1,2,3,**** Kenneth M. Mavuti,^4,***** Caroline Upton<sup>2,*,******

1</sup>1Department of Biology, University of Leicester, LE17RH, UK. Email: dmh@le.ac.uk
²2Department of Geography, University of Leicester, LE17RH, UK. Email: cu5@le.ac.uk
³3Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, PO Box 40658, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁴5School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi, PO Box 30197, Nairobi, Kenya.

^*Corresponding authors
^**David Harper is a Senior Lecturer in Ecology & Conservation at the University of Leicester. He researches aquatic ecosystems, with particular emphasis on human impacts - eutrophication - and ecohydrology. He has conducted research at Lake Naivasha since 1982 as part of a larger programme on the Rift Valley lakes that was funded by the Earthwatch Institute for 20 years, the Darwin Initiative for 8, the British Council for 3 and NERC/ESRC/DFID ESPA for 2; members of his team have produced over 100 publications from this work. He is the joint supervisor of Ed Morrison's PhD.
^***Ed Morrison is a PhD student, funded by a NERC/ESRC studentship under the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation programme, conducting a study of the ecological and sociological feasibilities of papyrus restoration at Lake Naivasha.
^****Michael Macharia is a Kenyan ornithologist, attached to National Museums of Kenya, who has worked with David Harper at Lake Naivasha since 1998. He was fortunate to have been sponsored through a B.A. Geography and M.Sc. GIS at Leicester University by two Earthwatch volunteers who worked on the “Lakes of the Rift Valley” project in the late 1990s and early 2000s - Ed Sleeper and Jim Spevak, both from the US. He now works as a Project Officer at Birdlife Kenya.
^*****Kenneth Mavuti is Professor of Hydrobiology in the University of Nairobi. He conducted his M.Sc. on the ecology of Micronecta scutellaris at Lake Nakuru and PhD upon the Zooplankton ecology of Lake Naivasha. He has researched Lake Naivasha with David Harper since 1982 and has supervised over a dozen M.Sc. and Ph.D students on the project.
^******Caroline Upton is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography. She was formerly at Cambridge University. Her research specialisation is the social ecology of pastoralist societies. She has worked at Naivasha for the past 2 years and is a joint supervisor of Ed Morrison's PhD with David Harper.