Saline Lake Ecosystems of the World

כריכה קדמית
Springer Science & Business Media, 30 באפר׳ 1986 - 616 עמודים
'With Hammer's book as a guide, major gaps in our understanding of saline lakes become clear and research opportunities become apparent.' Ecology, 68 (1987)
 

תוכן

Introduction
1
The saline lake concept
5
The influence of climatic and geological factors on the occurrence of athalassic saline lakes
16
Physical characteristics of athalassic saline lakes
61
Chemical characteristics of saline lakes
94
Saline lake sediments and palaeolimnology
153
The plankton communities of saline lakes
171
The littoral community
337
Models of interactions in saline lake ecosystems
486
Osmotic and ionic regulation by inhabitants of athalassic saline waters
496
The utilization of athalassic saline lakes
514
The management of saline lakes
539
Appendices
543
Bibliography
563
Subject index
605
Index of lakes
609

The benthic community
406
The vertebrates of athalassic saline lakes
450

מונחים וביטויים נפוצים

קטעים בולטים

עמוד 596 - GILLESPIE, 1976: Phytoplankton production in the Great Salt Lake. Utah and a laboratory study of algal response to enrichment. — Limnol.
עמוד 571 - Currey. DT. 1964. The former extent of Lake Corangamite. Proc. r. Soc. Viet. 77: 377-386.
עמוד 589 - IR (1976) Sulfur and carbon isotopic evidence for biogeochemical processes in the Dead Sea ecosystem, In: JO Nriagu (ed.), Environmental Biochemistry.
עמוד 578 - A comparative study of primary production and related factors in four saline lakes in Victoria. Australia. -Int. Revue ges. Hydrobiol. 66: 701—743.
עמוד 601 - JH (1961). Recent chemical analyses of waters from several closed basin lakes and their tributaries in the western United States.
עמוד 583 - Primary productivity and associated physical, chemical and biological characteristics of Lake Bonney: a perennially ice-covered lake in Antarctica.
עמוד 579 - P. Kilham, 1973. Diatoms in alkaline, saline lakes: ecology and geochemical implications. Limnol. Oceanogr. 18: 53-71.
עמוד 570 - Cole. GA. 1963. The American Southwest and Middle America. In DG Frey (ed) Limnology of North America. University of Wisconsin Press. Madison. Wl. USA. Ch. "4. Cole. GA. 1968. Desert limnology. In Desert Biology. Vol. 1. Academic '. inc.. New York: 423486. Cole. GA. & WL Minckley. 1968. 'Anomalous' thermal conditions in a hypcrsaline inland pond.
עמוד 571 - Pp. 385-488, 10 figs., in GW Brown, Jr. (ed.). Desert Biology, Vol. 2. Academic Press, New York-London.

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