Saline Lakes

by Melack, John M.; Jellison, Robert; Herbst, David B.

• ISBN13: 9781402005671
• ISBN10: 1402005679
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Inland saline waters are threatened worldwide by diversion and pollution of their inflows, introductions of exotic species and economic development of these ecologically valuable habitats. Since 1979 a series of international symposia on inland saline waters has served to strengthen and expand the scope of limnological research on inland saline waters. The seventh conference continued this tradition and the papers derived from the conference focused on the ecology of microbial communities, the influence of habitat geochemistry on biogeography of flora and fauna, physical and geochemical processes, and the conservation of inland saline waters. Of particular note are papers on Walker Lake, Nevada (USA), and the Salton Sea and Mono Lake, California (USA). Continued local, national and international efforts are required to inform the public and decision-makers about the environmental problems faced by saline waters. The papers in this volume will serve this end and should be of interest to aquatic ecologists, limnologists, aquaculturalists, and water resource managers.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Nitrogen limitation and particulate elemental ratios of seston in hypersaline Mono Lake, California, U.S.A.	1	(12)
Robert Jellison
John M. Melack
Nutrient fluxes from upwelling and enhanced turbulence at the top of the pycnocline in Mono Lake, California	13	(18)
Sally MacIntyre
Robert Jellison
Airborne remote sensing of chlorophyll distributions in Mono Lake, California	31	(8)
John M. Melack
Mary Gastil
Re-appearance of rotifers in hypersaline Mono Lake, California, during a period of rising lake levels and decreasing salinity	39	(6)
Robert Jellison
Heather Adams
John M. Melack
Stratification of microbial assemblages in Mono Lake, California, and response to a mixing event	45	(16)
James T. Hollibaugh
Patricia S. Wong
Nasreen Bano
Sunny K. Pak
Ellen M. Prager
Cristian Orrego
The bioenergetic basis for the decrease in metabolic diversity at increasing salt concentrations: implications for the functioning of salt lake ecosystems	61	(12)
Aharon Oren
Comparative metabolic diversity in two solar salterns	73	(8)
Carol D. Litchfield
Amy Irby
Tamar Kis-Papo
Aharon Oren
Polar lipids and pigments as biomarkers for the study of the microbial community structure of solar salterns	81	(10)
Carol D. Litchfield
Aharon Oren
Limnological effects of anthropogenic desiccation of a large, saline lake, Walker Lake, Nevada	91	(16)
Marc W. Beutel
Alex J. Horne
James C. Roth
Nicola J. Barratt
Oxygen consumption and ammonia accumulation in the hypolimnion of Walker Lake Nevada	107	(12)
Marc W. Beutel
Limnological control of brine shrimp population dynamics and cyst production in the Great Salt Lake, Utah	119	(14)
Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh
Z. Maciej Gliwicz
International study on Artemia LXIII. Field study of the Artemia urmiana Gunther, 1890) population in Lake Urmiah, Iran	133	(12)
Gilbert Van Stappen
Gholamreza Fayazi
Patrick Sorgeloos
Dispersal of Artemia franciscana Kellogg (Crustacea; Anostraca) populations in the coastal saltworks of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil	145	(4)
Marcos R. Camara
Anostracan cysts found in California salt lakes	149	(10)
William D. Shepard
Richard E. Hill
Thermal, mixing, and oxygen regimes of the Salton Sea, California, 1997-1999	159	(18)
James M. Watts
Brandon K. Swan
Mary Ann Tiffany
Stuart H. Hurlbert
Pleurochrysis pseudoroscoffensis (Prymnesiophyceae) blooms on the surface of the Salton Sea, California	177	(10)
Kristen M. Reifel
Michael P. McCoy
Mary Ann Tiffany
Tonie E. Rocke
Charles C. Trees
Steven B. Barlow
D. John Faulkner
Stuart H. Hurlbert
Chattonella marina (Raphidophyceae), a potentially toxic alga in the Salton Sea, California	187	(8)
Mary A. Tiffany
Steven B. Barlow
Victoria E. Matey
Stuart H. Hurlbert
Parasites of fish from the Salton Sea, California, U.S.A.	195	(14)
Boris I. Kuperman
Victoria E. Matey
Stuart H. Hurlbert
Gradients of salinity stress, environmental stability and water chemistry as a templet for defining habitat types and physiological strategies in inland salt waters	209	(12)
David B. Herbst
Thermal tolerance and heat shock proteins in encysted embryos of Artemia from widely different thermal habitats	221	(10)
James S. Clegg
Nguyen Van Hoa
Patrick Sorgeloos
Land-use influence on stream water quality and diatom communities in Victoria, Australia: s response to secondary salinization	231	(14)
Dean W. Blinn
Paul C.E. Bailey
A study of the Werewilka Inlet of the saline Lake Wyara, Australia - a harbour of biodiversity for a sea of simplicity	245	(10)
Brian V. Timms
Demography and habitat use of the Badwater snail (Assiminea infima), with observations on its conservation status, Death Valley National Park, California, U.S.A.	255	(12)
Donald W. Sada
Holocene hydrological and climatic changes in the southern Bolivian Altiplano according to diatom assemblages in paleowetlands	267	(12)
S. Servant-Vildary
M. Servant
O. Jimenez
Reconnaissance hydrogeochemistry of economic deposits of sodium sulfate (mirabilite) in saline lakes, Saskatchewan, Canada	279	(12)
Lynn I. Kelley
Chris Holmden
Benthos of a seasonally-astatic, saline, soda lake in Mexico	291	(8)
Javier Alcocer
Elva G. Escobar
Alfonso Lugo
L. Maritza Lozano
Luis A. Oseguera
Phytoplankton dynamics in a deep, tropical, hyposaline lake	299	(8)
Ma. Guadalupe Oliva
Alfonso Lugo
Javier Alcocer
Laura Peralta
Ma. del Rosario Sanchez
Food-web structure in two shallow salt lakes in Los Monegros (NE Spain): energetic vs dynamic constraints	307	(10)
Paloma Alcorlo
Angel Baltanas
Carlos Montes
Avian communities in baylands and artificial salt evaporation ponds of the San Francisco Bay estuary	317	(12)
John Y. Takekawa
Corinna T. Lu
Ruth T Pratt
Anthropogenic salinisation of inland waters	329	(10)
William D. Williams
On salinology	339
Zheng Mianping