Saline Lakes: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Athalassic (Inland) Saline Lakes, Held at Banyoles, Spain, May 19

ISBN-13: 9789401067591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 324 str.

F. A. Comin;T.G. Northcote

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Proceedings of the IV International Symposium on Athalassic (Inland) Saline Lakes

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1. Sediment-water interaction as a control on geochemical evolution of playa lake systems in the Australian arid interior.- 2. Metal concentrations in surficial sediments from hypersaline lakes, Australia.- 3. Heavy metals in the Dead Sea and their coprecipitation with halite.- 4. The evolution of saline lake waters: gradual and rapid biogeochemical pathways in the Basotu Lake District, Tanzania.- 5. Hydrogeochemistry of Lake Gallocanta (Aragón, NE Spain).- 6. Recent carbonate sedimentation and brine evolution in the saline lake basins of the Cariboo Plateau, British Columbia, Canada.- 7. Nutrients in pore waters from Dead Sea sediments.- 8. Influence of salinity on the concentration and rate of interchange of dissolved phosphate between water and sediment in Fuente Piedra lagoon (S. Spain).- 9. Solubility of oxygen in the Dead Sea brine.- 10. Vernal microstratification patterns in a meromictic saline lake: their causes and biological significance.- 11. Production and decomposition processes in a saline meromictic lake.- 12. Autumnal mixing in Mahoney Lake, British Columbia.- 13. Changes in lake levels, salinity and the biological community of Great Salt Lake (Utah, USA), 1847–1987.- 14. Large-scale patterns of Nodularia spumigena blooms in Pyramid Lake, Nevada, determined from Landsat imagery: 1972–1986.- 15. The photosynthesis of Dunaliella parva Lerche as a function of temperature, light and salinity.- 16. Distribution and abundance of littoral benthic fauna in Canadian prairie saline lakes.- 17. Distribution and abundance of the alkali fly (Ephydra hians) Say at Mono Lake, California (USA) in relation to physical habitat.- 18. Distribution patterns of ostracods in iberian saline lakes. Influence of ecological factors.- 19. Anostraca, Cladocera and Copepoda of Spanish saline lakes.- 20. Artemia monica cyst production and recuitment in Mono Lake, California, USA.- 21. Comparative limnology of Sambhar and Didwana lakes (Rajasthan, NW India).- 22. Salinity as a determinant of salt lake fauna: a question of scale.- 23. Multivariate analysis of diatoms and water chemistry in Bolivian saline lakes.- 24. Hydrochemistry from Sr and Mg contents of ostracodes in Pleistocene lacustrine deposits, Baza Basin (SE Spain).- 25. Absolute dating of sedimentation on Lake Torrens with spring deposits, South Australia.