Saline Lakes: Proceedings Of The Fourth International Symposium On Athalassic (inland) Saline Lakes, Held At Banyoles, Spain, May 1988 (developments In Hydrobiology)

Front Matter....Pages i-xii Sediment-water interaction as a control on geochemical evolution of playa lake systems in the Australian arid interior....Pages 1-12 Metal concentrations in surficial sediments from hypersaline lakes, Australia....Pages 13-22 Heavy metals in the Dead Sea and their coprecipitation with halite....Pages 23-33 The evolution of saline lake waters: gradual and rapid biogeochemical pathways in the Basotu Lake District, Tanzania....Pages 35-50 Hydrogeochemistry of Lake Gallocanta (Aragón, NE Spain)....Pages 51-66 Recent carbonate sedimentation and brine evolution in the saline lake basins of the Cariboo Plateau, British Columbia, Canada....Pages 67-81 Nutrients in pore waters from Dead Sea sediments....Pages 83-89 Influence of salinity on the concentration and rate of interchange of dissolved phosphate between water and sediment in Fuente Piedra lagoon (S. Spain)....Pages 91-97 Solubility of oxygen in the Dead Sea brine....Pages 99-104 Vernal microstratification patterns in a meromictic saline lake: their causes and biological significance....Pages 105-114 Production and decomposition processes in a saline meromictic lake....Pages 115-128 Autumnal mixing in Mahoney Lake, British Columbia....Pages 129-138 Changes in lake levels, salinity and the biological community of Great Salt Lake (Utah, USA), 1847–1987....Pages 139-146 Large-scale patterns of Nodularia spumigena blooms in Pyramid Lake, Nevada, determined from Landsat imagery: 1972–1986....Pages 147-164 The photosynthesis of Dunaliella parva Lerche as a function of temperature, light and salinity....Pages 165-172 Distribution and abundance of littoral benthic fauna in Canadian prairie saline lakes....Pages 173-192 Distribution and abundance of the alkali fly ( Ephydra hians ) Say at Mono Lake, California (USA) in relation to physical habitat....Pages 193-205 Distribution patterns of ostracods in iberian saline lakes. Influence of ecological factors....Pages 207-220 Anostraca, Cladocera and Copepoda of Spanish saline lakes....Pages 221-231 Artemia monica cyst production and recruitment in Mono Lake, California, USA....Pages 233-243 Comparative limnology of Sambhar and Didwana lakes (Rajasthan, NW India)....Pages 245-256 Salinity as a determinant of salt lake fauna: a question of scale....Pages 257-266 Multivariate analysis of diatoms and water chemistry in Bolivian saline lakes....Pages 267-290 Hydrochemistry from Sr and Mg contents of ostracodes in Pleistocene lacustrine deposits, Baza Basin (SE Spain)....Pages 291-303 Absolute dating of sedimentation on Lake Torrens with spring deposits, South Australia....Pages 305-308