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

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Stuart H. Hurlbert
Kluwer Academic, 1993 - Nature - 335 pages
Large saline lakes of the former U.S.S.R.: A summary review; N.V. Aladin, I.S. Plotnikov. Mongolian salt lakes: Some features of their geography, thermal patterns, chemistry and biology; A.N. Egorov. Chinese saline lakes; Mianping Zheng, Jiayou Tang, Junying Liu, Fasheng Zhang. The proportions of the major ions in some athalassic South African saline waters; J.A. Day. Formation of manganese oxyhydroxides on the Dead Sea coast by alteration of Mn-enriched carbonates; A. Nishri, A. Nissenbaum. Morphology, distribution, and preservation potential of microbial mats in the hydromagnesite-magnesite playas of the Cariboo Plateau, British Columbia, Canada; R. Renaut. Role of microbial activity on the hydrochemistry and sedimentology of Lake Logipi (Rift Valley, Kenya); S. Castanier, M. Bernet-Rollande, A. Maurin, J.-P. Perthuisot. Physico-chemical characteristics of a permanent Spanish hypersaline lake: La Salada de Chiprana (NE Spain); B. Vidono, B. Martínez, C. Monte, M.C. Guerrero. The Dead Sea - an economic resource for 9000 years; A. Nissenbaum. Quaternary and recent Lamprothamnium groves (Charophytoa) from Argentina; A. Garcia. Dunaliella salina teodoresco (Chlorophyta) from saline environments at the central costs of Peru; H. Montoya, A. Olivera G. Effects of NaCl and KNO3 concentrations on the abscisic acid content of Dunaliella sp.(Chlorophyta); N. Tominaga, M. Takahata, H. Tominaga. Spatial heterogeneity of macrophytes in Lake Gallocanta; F.A. Comín, X. Rodó, M. Menéndez. Nitrogen limitation in a saline, desert lake; J.E. Reuter, C.L. Rhodes, M.E. Lebo, M. Kotzman, C.R. Goldman. A population model for the alkali fly at Mono Lake: Depth distribution and changing habitat availability; D. Herbst, T. Bradley.Salinity tolerance of the copepod Apocyclops dengizicus (Lepeschkin, 1900), a key food chain organism in the Salton Sea, California; D. Dexter. Effects of abiotic and biotic factors on succession in a shallow Spanish saline lake; C. Garcia, F.X. Niell. The fauna of athalassic saline waters in Australia and the Altiplano of South America: Comparisons and historical perspectives; I.A.E. Bayly. The penetration of cladocerans into saline waters; D. Frey. Zooplankton associations in East African lakes spanning a wide salinity range; J. Green. Benthic invertebrate communities in saline lakes of the South Lipez, Bolivia; C. Dejoux. Saline lakes of the Paroo, inland New South Wales, Australia; B.V. Timms. Conservation of salt lakes; W.D. Williams.

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some features of their geography thermal patterns chemistry and biology
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The major ion chemistry of some southern African saline systems
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Formation of manganese oxyhydroxides on the Dead Sea coast by alteration of Mnenriched
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