Saline Lakes V

Large saline lakes of former USSR: a summary review.- Mongolian salt lakes: some features of their geography, thermal patterns, chemistry and biology.- Chinese saline lakes.- The major ion chemistry of some southern African saline systems.- Formation of manganese oxyhydroxides on the Dead Sea coast by alteration of Mn-enriched carbonates.- Morphology, distribution, and preservation potential of microbial mats in the hydromagnesite-magnesite playas of the Cariboo Plateau, British Columbia, Canada.- Effects of microbial activity on the hydrochemistry and sedimentology of Lake Logipi, Kenya.- Physico-chemical characteristics of a permanent Spanish hypersaline lake: La Salada de Chiprana (NE Spain).- The Dead Sea - an economic resource for 10 000 years.- Quaternary and recent Lamprothamnium groves (Charophyta) from Argentina.- Dunaliella salina from saline environments of the central coast of Peru.- Effects of NaCl and KNO3 concentrations on the abscisic acid content of Dunaliella sp. (Chlorophyta).- Spatial heterogeneity of macrophytes in Lake Gallocanta (Aragón, NE Spain).- The importance of nitrogen in Pyramid Lake (Nevada, USA), a saline, desert lake.- A population model for the alkali fly at Mono Lake: depth distribution and changing habitat availability.- Salinity tolerance of the copepod Apocyclops dengizicus (Lepeschkin, 1900) a key food chain organism in the Salton Sea, California.- Seasonal change in a saline temporary lake (Fuente de Piedra, southern Spain).- The fauna of athalassic saline waters in Australia and the Altiplano of South America: comparisons and historical perspectives.- The penetration of cladocerans into saline waters.- Zooplankton associations in East African lakes spanning a wide salinity range.- Benthic invertebrates of some saline lakes ofthe Sud Lipez region, Bolivia.- Saline lakes of the Paroo, inland New South Wales, Australia.- Conservation of salt lakes.- Microcosm analysis of salinity effects on coastal lagoon plankton assemblages.