Saline Lakes: Publications From The 7th International Conference On Salt Lakes, Held In Death Valley National Park, California, U.s.a., September 1999 (developments In Hydrobiology) (volume 162)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Nitrogen limitation and particulate elemental ratios of seston in hypersaline Mono Lake, California, U.S.A.....Pages 1-12 Nutrient fluxes from upwelling and enhanced turbulence at the top of the pycnocline in Mono Lake, California....Pages 13-29 Airborne remote sensing of chlorophyll distributions in Mono Lake, California....Pages 31-38 Re-appearance of rotifers in hypersaline Mono Lake, California, during a period of rising lake levels and decreasing salinity....Pages 39-43 Stratification of microbial assemblages in Mono Lake, California, and response to a mixing event....Pages 45-60 The bioenergetic basis for the decrease in metabolic diversity at increasing salt concentrations: implications for the functioning of salt lake ecosystems....Pages 61-72 Comparative metabolic diversity in two solar salterns....Pages 73-80 Polar lipids and pigments as biomarkers for the study of the microbial community structure of solar salterns....Pages 81-89 Limnological effects of anthropogenic desiccation of a large, saline lake, Walker Lake, Nevada....Pages 91-105 Oxygen consumption and ammonia accumulation in the hypolimnion of Walker Lake, Nevada....Pages 107-117 Limnological control of brine shrimp population dynamics and cyst production in the Great Salt Lake, Utah....Pages 119-132 International study on Artemia LXIII. Field study of the Artemia urmiana (Günther, 1890) population in Lake Urmiah, Iran....Pages 133-143 Dispersal of Artemia franciscana Kellogg (Crustacea; Anostraca) populations in the coastal saltworks of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil....Pages 145-148 Anostracan cysts found in California salt lakes....Pages 149-158 Thermal, mixing, and oxygen regimes of the Salton Sea, California, 1997–1999....Pages 159-176 Pleurochrysis pseudoroscoffensis (Prymnesiophyceae) blooms on the surface of the Salton Sea, California....Pages 177-185 Chattonella marina (Raphidophyceae), a potentially toxic alga in the Salton Sea, California....Pages 187-194 Parasites of fish from the Salton Sea, California, U.S.A.....Pages 195-208 Gradients of salinity stress, environmental stability and water chemistry as a templet for defining habitat types and physiological strategies in inland salt waters....Pages 209-219 Thermal tolerance and heat shock proteins in encysted embryos of Artemia from widely different thermal habitats....Pages 221-229 Land-use influence on stream water quality and diatom communities in Victoria, Australia: a response to secondary salinization....Pages 231-244 A study of the Werewilka Inlet of the saline Lake Wyara, Australia — a harbour of biodiversity for a sea of simplicity....Pages 245-254 Demography and habitat use of the Badwater snail ( Assiminea infima ), with observations on its conservation status, Death Valley National Park, California, U.S.A.....Pages 255-265 Holocene hydrological and climatic changes in the southern Bolivian Altiplano according to diatom assemblages in paleowetlands....Pages 267-277 Reconnaissance hydrogeochemistry of economic deposits of sodium sulfate (mirabilite) in saline lakes, Saskatchewan, Canada....Pages 279-289 Benthos of a seasonally-astatic, saline, soda lake in Mexico....Pages 291-297 Phytoplankton dynamics in a deep, tropical, hyposaline lake....Pages 299-306 Food-web structure in two shallow salt lakes in Los Monegros (NE Spain): energetic vs dynamic constraints....Pages 307-316 Avian communities in baylands and artificial salt evaporation ponds of the San Francisco Bay estuary....Pages 317-328 Anthropogenic salinisation of inland waters....Pages 329-337 On salinology....Pages 339-347