Saline Lakes: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Inland Saline Lakes, held at Nairobi, Kenya, August 1985

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Primary producer dynamics associated with evaporative concentration in a shallow, equatorial soda lake (Lake Elmenteita, Kenya)....Pages 1-14
Nutrient-phytoplankton relationships in a tropical meromictic soda lake....Pages 15-28
Chemical and algal relationships in a salinity series of Ethiopian inland waters....Pages 29-67
Photosynthetic activity of phytoplankton and its relation to environmental factors in hypersaline Mono Lake, California....Pages 69-88
A microcosm study of nitrogen utilization in the Great Salt Lake, Utah....Pages 89-100
Aquatic macrophytes in saline lakes of the Canadian prairies....Pages 101-116
The benthic communities of the saline lakes Abijata and Shala (Ethiopia)....Pages 117-123
Effect of lake level fluctuations on the habitats of benthic invertebrates in a shallow tropical lake....Pages 125-131
Experimental effects of elevated salinity on three benthic invertebrates in Pyramid Lake, Nevada....Pages 133-144
Comparative population ecology of Ephydra hians Say (Diptera: Ephydridae) at Mono Lake (California) and Abert Lake (Oregon)....Pages 145-166
Abundance and spatial distribution of Artemia salina in Lake Abert, Oregon....Pages 167-172
Nearshore and pelagic abundances of Artemia monica in Mono Lake, California....Pages 173-181
 In situ hatching of Artemia monica cysts in hypersaline Mono Lake, California....Pages 183-190
Acid brine shrimp: Metabolic strategies in osmotic and ionic adaptation....Pages 191-200
 Artemia habitats: Ion concentrations tolerated by one superspecies....Pages 201-214
Factors influencing species diversity in saline waters of Death Valley, USA....Pages 215-226
The biogeographical affinities of the fauna in episodically filled salt lakes: A study of Lake Eyre South, Australia....Pages 227-236
Spanish salt lakes: Their chemistry and biota....Pages 237-245
An instance of thermal instability in Lake Simbi, Kenya....Pages 247-252
Thermal stratification and the stability of meromixis in the Pretoria Salt Pan, South Africa....Pages 253-265
Lake Torrens brine....Pages 267-269
The distribution, structure, and composition of freshwater ice deposits in Bolivian salt lakes....Pages 271-299
The salt lakes of western Canada: A paleolimnological overview....Pages 301-316