The Salton Sea

by Salton Sea Symposium (2000 Desert Hot Springs, Calif.); Elder, John F.; Stephens, Doyle; Friend, Milton

• ISBN13: 9781402005558
• ISBN10: 1402005555
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

For the first time, an effort to conduct coordinated interdisciplinary research on a vast and complex saline lake has been undertaken for the purposes of providing baseline data to guide restoration project activities. This volume compiles state-of-the-art science for the Salton Sea and will serve as the foundation for the next several generations of scientific inquiry for California's largest lake. The science presented here reveals the Salton Sea to be one of the most productive fisheries in the world, details why the Salton Sea is important to migratory and wintering birds, investigates the microbial world and reports numerous taxa new to science, and documents chemical and physical interactions which make this inland saline lake function. This book is intended for specialists in saline lake research who are interested in all aspects of saline lake ecology.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
M. Friend
Chemical and physical characteristics of the Salton Sea, California	1	(22)
G. Chris Holdren
Andrew Montano
Chemical evolution of the Salton Sea, California: nutrient and selenium dynamics	23	(24)
Roy A. Schroeder
William H. Orem
Yousif K. Kharaka
Characteristics and contaminants of the Salton Sea sediments	47	(8)
Richard A. Vogl
Ryan N. Henry
Reconstruction of prehistoric Lake Cahuilla in the Salton Sea Basin using GIS and GPS	55	(4)
Joseph E. Buckles
Kazuyuki Kashiwase
Timothy Krantz
Simulation of wind-driven circulation in the Salton Sea: implications for indigenous ecosystems	59	(18)
Christopher B. Cook
Gerald T. Orlob
David W. Huston
Preliminary studies of cyanobacteria, picoplankton, and virioplankton in the Salton Sea with special attention to phylogenetic diversity among eight strains of filamentous cyanobacteria	77	(16)
A. Michelle Wood
Scott R. Miller
W.K.W. Li
Richard W. Castenholz
Flagellate Cryptobia branchialis (Bodonida: Kinetoplastida), ectoparasite of tilapia from the Salton Sea	93	(10)
Boris I. Kuperman
Victoria E. Matey
Steven B. Barlow
Metazooplankton dynamics in the Salton Sea, California, 1997--1999	103	(18)
Mary A. Tiffany
Brandon K. Swan
James M. Watts
Stuart H. Hurlbert
Freeliving nematodes from the Salton Sea	121	(8)
R. M. Warwick
D.M. Dexter
B. Kuperman
Cryptomonads from the Salton Sea, California	129	(10)
S.B. Barlow
P. Kugrens
The benthic invertebrates of the Salton Sea: distribution and seasonal dynamics	139	(22)
P.M. Detwiler
Marie F. Coe
Deborah M. Dexter
Naked amoebae (Protozoa) of the Salton Sea, California	161	(18)
Andrew Rogerson
Gwen Hauer
The diatom flora of the Salton Sea, California	179	(24)
Carina B. Lange
Mary Ann Tiffany
Invertebrates of the Salton Sea: a scanning electron microscopy portfolio	203	(14)
Boris I. Kuperman
Victoria E. Matey
Deborah M. Dexter
Mary Ann Tiffany
Skeletal development in Hermesinum adriaticum Zacharias, a flagellate from the Salton Sea, California	217	(6)
M.A. Tiffany
Summer movements of desert pupfish among habitats at the Salton Sea	223	(6)
Ronald J. Sutton
Fish biology and fisheries ecology of the Salton Sea, California	229	(16)
Ralf Riedel
Lucille Caskey
Barry A. Costa-Pierce
Biology and migration of Eared Grebes at the Salton Sea	245	(10)
Joseph R. Jehl, Jr.
Robert L. McKernan
The Salton Sea as critical habitat to migratory and resident waterbirds	255	(20)
W. David Shuford
Nils Warnock
Kathy C. Molina
Kenneth K. Sturm
Possible importance of algal toxins in the Salton Sea, California	275	(18)
Kristen M. Reifel
Michael P. McCoy
Tonie E. Rocke
Mary Ann Tiffany
Stuart H. Hurlbert
D. John Faulkner
Avian disease at the Salton Sea	293
Milton Friend