Hydrobiologia Saline Lake Issue

A special volume of Hydrobiologia containing papers derived from the Seventh International Conference on Salt Lakes, held in Death Valley, California, September 1999 was published as Volume 466 (2001).  The approximately 400-page volume consists of 31 peer-reviewed papers. 

Edited by John M. Melack, Robert Jellison and David B. Herbst

Preface

The Seventh International Conference on Salt Lakes was held in Death Valley National Park, California, U.S.A. in September 1999. The conference was sponsored by the International Society for Salt Lake Research, Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, and University of California-Santa Barbara.  Since 1979 a series of international symposia on inland saline waters have served to strengthen and expand the scope of limnological research on salt lakes.  The seventh conference continued this tradition with a set of plenary talks and oral and poster sessions focusing on promising research directions including the ecology of microbial communities, the influence of habitat geochemistry on biogeography of flora and fauna, physical and geochemical processes, and the conservation of inland saline waters.  Sixty participants from eleven countries participated.  The venue of the conference in Death Valley encouraged informal interactions in a striking landscape rich in saline environments.  A 5-day, post-conference tour visited a wide variety of saline ecosystems located on the western edge of the North American Great Basin, a region noted for its remarkable ecological diversity and striking beauty.  Major stops included Owens, Mono, Walker, and Pyramid lakes.

Inland saline waters are threatened worldwide by diversion and pollution of their inflows, introductions of exotic species and economic development of these ecologically valuable habitats.  Several sessions at the conference concerned anthropogenic impacts and conservation with special attention paid to Walker Lake, Nevada (U.S.A.), the Salton Sea, Mono and Owens lakes and Death Valley, California (U.S.A.), Siberian salt lakes and salinization in Australia.  Continued local, national and international efforts are required to inform the public and decision-makers about the environmental problems faced by saline waters.

All manuscripts were critically refereed by well qualified experts, revised by the authors and edited before acceptance.  We gratefully thank Death Valley National Park for hosting the conference, Doug Threloff for his assistance with the local arrangements, and the manuscript reviewers for their care and rigor.

                    John M. Melack, Robert Jellison, and David B. Herbst

Table of Contents

1. Nitrogen limitation and particulate elemental ratios of seston in hypersaline Mono Lake, California, U.S.A.; Robert Jellison and John M. Melack

2. Nutrient fluxes from upwelling and enhanced turbulence at the top of the pycnocline in Mono Lake, California; Sally MacIntyre and Robert Jellison

3. Airborne remote sensing of chlorophyll distributions in Mono Lake, California; John M. Melack and Mary Gastil

4. Re-appearance of rotifers in hypersaline Mono Lake, California, during a period of rising lake levels and decreasing salinity; Robert Jellison, Heather Adams and John M. Melack

5. Stratification of microbial assemblages in Mono Lake, California, and response to a mixing event; James T. Hollibaugh, Patricia S. Wong, Nasreen Bano, Sunny Pak, Ellen M. Prager and Cristian Orrego

6. The bioenergetic basis for the decrease in metabolic diversity at increasing salt concentrations: implications for the functioning of salt lake ecosystems; Aharon Oren

7. Comparative metabolic diversity in two solar salterns; Carol D. Litchfield, Amy Irby, Tamar Kis-Papo and Aharon Oren

8. Polar lipids and pigments as biomarkers for the study of the microbial community structure of solar salterns; Carol D. Litchfield and Aharon Oren

9. Limnological effects of anthropogenic desiccation of a large, saline desert lake,Walker Lake, Nevada; Marc W. Beutel,  Alex J. Horne, James C. Roth and Nicola J. Barratt

10. Oxygen consumption and  ammonia accumulation in the hypolimnion of Walker Lake, Nevada; Marc W. Beutel

11. Limnological control of brine shrimp population dynamics and cyst production in the Great Salt Lake, Utah; Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh  and Z. Maciej Gliwicz

12. International study of Artemia LXIII. Field study of the Artemia urmiana (Gunther 1900) population in Lake Urmiah, Iran; Gilbert Van Stappen, Gholamreza Fayazi and  Patrick Sorgeloos

13. Disperal of Artemia franciscana Kellogg (Crustacea; Anostraca) populations in the central saltworks of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil; Marcos R. Camara

14. Anostracan cysts in California salt lakes; William D. Shepard and Richard E. Hill

15. Thermal, mixing, and oxygen regimes of the Salton Sea, California, 1997-1999; James M. Watts, Brandon K. Swan, Mary Ann Tiffany and Stuart H. Hurlbert

16. Pleurochysis pseudoroscoffensis (Prymnesiophyceae) blooms on the surface of the Salton Sea, California; Kristen M. Reifel, Michael P. McCoy,  Mary Ann Tiffany, Tonie E. Rocke, Charles C. Trees, Steven B. Barlow, D. John Faulkner and Stuart Hurlbert

17. Chattonella marina (Raphidophyceae), a potentially toxic alga in the Salton Sea, California; Mary A. Tiffany,  Steven B. Barlow, Victoria E. Matey and Stuart H. Hurlbert

18. Parasites of fish from the Salton Sea, California, U.S.A.; Boris I. Kuperman, Victoria E. Matey and Stuart H. Hurlbert

19. Gradients of salinity stress, environmental stability and water chemistry as a templet for defining habitat types and physiological strategies in inland salt lakes; David B. Herbst

20. Thermal tolerance and heat shock proteins in encysted embryos of Artemia from widely different thermal habitats; James S. Clegg, Nguyen Van Hoa and Patrick Sorgeloos

21. Land use influence on stream water quality and diatom communities in Victoria, Australia: a response to secondary salinization; Dean W. Blinn and Paul C. E. Bailey

22. A study of the Werewilka Inlet of the the saline Lake Wyara, Australia: a harbour of biodiversity for a sea of simplicity; Brian Timms

23. Demography and habitat use of the Badwater snail (Assiminea infirma), with observations on its conservation status, Death Valley National Park, California; Donald W. Sada

24. Holocene hydrological and climatic changes in the southern Bolivian altiplano according to diatom assemblages in paleowetlands; Simone Servant-Vildary, Michel Servant and Oscar Jimenez

25. Reconaissance hydrogeochemistry of economic deposits of sodium sulfate (mirabilite) in saline lakes, Saskatchewan, Canada; Lynn I. Kelley and Chris Holmden

26. Benthos of a seasonally-astatic, saline soda lake in Mexico; Javier Alcocer, Elva G. Escobar, Alfonso Lugo, L. Maritza Lozano and Luis A. Oseguera

27. Seasonal succession of phytoplankton in a tropical, hyposaline deep lake; Ma. Guadalupe Oliva, Alfonso Lugo, Javier Alcocer, Laura Peralta and Ma. del Rosario Sanchez

28. Food-web structure in two shallow salt lakes in Los Monegros (NE Spain): energetic vs dynamic constraints; Paloma Alcorlo, Angel Baltanas and Carlos Montes

29. Avian communities in baylands and artificial salt evaporation ponds of the San Francisco Bay estuary; John Y. Takekawa, Corinna T. Lu and Ruth T. Pratt

30. Anthropogenic salinization of inland waters; William D. Williams

31. On salinology; Zheng Mianping

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