Saline Lakes V : Proceedings of the Vth International Symposium on Inland Saline Lakes, Held in Bolivia, 22–29 March 1991

The Vth International Symposium on Inland Saline Lakes was held at Hotel Titikaka on the shores of that lake, 22--29 March 1991 with participants from 16 countries. Twenty-three papers presented by the participants, plus an additional one reporting a microcosm study on salinity effects, constitute the present volume. The papers cover the wide array of subject matters and scales characteristic of our `interdiscipline' and represent the symposium well. All manuscripts submitted for these proceedings were critically reviewed by at least three referees and are representative of saline lake research, developed around the world in the three-year period since the last symposium. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Large saline lakes of former USSR: a summary review....Pages 1-12 Mongolian salt lakes: some features of their geography, thermal patterns, chemistry and biology....Pages 13-21 Chinese saline lakes....Pages 23-36 The major ion chemistry of some southern African saline systems....Pages 37-59 Formation of manganese oxyhydroxides on the Dead Sea coast by alteration of Mn-enriched carbonates....Pages 61-73 Morphology, distribution, and preservation potential of microbial mats in the hydromagnesite-magnesite playas of the Cariboo Plateau, British Columbia, Canada....Pages 75-98 Effects of microbial activity on the hydrochemistry and sedimentology of Lake Logipi, Kenya....Pages 99-112 Physico-chemical characteristics of a permanent Spanish hypersaline lake: La Salada de Chiprana (NE Spain)....Pages 113-125 The Dead Sea — an economic resource for 10000 years....Pages 127-141 Quaternary and recent Lamprothamnium groves (Charophyta) from Argentina....Pages 143-154 Dunaliella salina from saline environments of the central coast of Peru....Pages 155-161 Effects of NaCl and KNO 3 concentrations on the abscisic acid content of Dunaliella sp. (Chlorophyta)....Pages 163-168 Spatial heterogeneity of macrophytes in Lake Gallocanta (Aragón, NE Spain)....Pages 169-178 The importance of nitrogen in Pyramid Lake (Nevada, USA), a saline, desert lake....Pages 179-189 A population model for the alkali fly at Mono Lake: depth distribution and changing habitat availability....Pages 191-201 Salinity tolerance of the copepod Apocyclops dengizicus (Lepeschkin, 1900), a key food chain organism in the Salton Sea, California....Pages 203-209 Seasonal change in a saline temporary lake (Fuente de Piedra, southern Spain)....Pages 211-223 The fauna of athalassic saline waters in Australia and the Altiplano of South America: comparisons and historical perspectives....Pages 225-231 The penetration of cladocerans into saline waters....Pages 233-248 Zooplankton associations in East African lakes spanning a wide salinity range....Pages 249-256 Benthic invertebrates of some saline lakes of the Sud Lipez region, Bolivia....Pages 257-267 Saline lakes of the Paroo, inland New South Wales, Australia....Pages 269-289 Conservation of salt lakes....Pages 291-306 Microcosm analysis of salinity effects on coastal lagoon plankton assemblages....Pages 307-335 Proceedings of the Vth International Symposium on Inland Saline Lakes, held in Bolivia - 22--29 March, 1993