Saline Lakes: Publications from the 7th International Conference on Salt Lakes, held in Death Valley National Park, California, U.S.A., September 1999

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