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12/29/2004	December 2004 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (38 new references)
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Alexandre, A., J. D. Meunier, E. Llorens, S. M. Hill, and S. M. Savin. 2004. Methodological improvements for investigating silcrete formation: petrography, FT-IR and oxygen isotope ratio of silcrete quartz cement, Lake Eyre Basin (Australia). Chemical Geology 211: 261-274. Baliga, N. S., R. Bonneau, M. T. Facciotti, M. Pan, G. Glusman, E. W. Deutsch, P. Shannon, Y. L. Chiu, R. R. Gan, P. L. Hung, S. V. Date, E. Marcotte, L. Hood, and W. V. Ng. 2004. Genome sequence of Haloarcula marismortui: A halophilic archaeon from the Dead Sea. Genome Research 14: 2221-2234. Bao, H. 2005. Sulfate in modern playa settings and in ash beds in hyperarid deserts: implication for the origin of 17O-anomalous sulfate in an Oligocene ash bed. Chemical Geology 214: 127. Blomqvist, S., A. Gunnars, and R. Elmgren. 2004. Why the limiting nutrient differs between temperate coastal seas and freshwater lakes: A matter of salt. Limnology And Oceanography 49: 2236-2241. Bossier, P., X. M. Wang, F. Catania, S. Dooms, G. Van Stappen, E. Naessens, and P. Sorgeloos. 2004. An RFLP database for authentication of commercial cyst samples of the brine shrimp Artemia spp. (International Study on Artemia LXX) (vol 231, pg 93, 2004). Aquaculture 240: 631-631. Doi, H., E. Kikuchi, C. Mizota, N. Satoh, S. Shikano, N. Yurlova, E. Yadrenkina, and E. Zuykova. 2004. Carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur isotope changes and hydro-geological processes in a saline lake chain. Hydrobiologia 529: 225-235. Elevi, R., P. Assa, M. Birbir, A. Ogan, and A. Oren. 2004. Characterization of extremely halophilic Archaea isolated from the Ayvalik Saltern, Turkey. World Journal Of Microbiology & Biotechnology 20: 719-725. Foreman, C. M., C. F. Wolf, and J. C. Priscu. 2004. Impact of episodic warming events on the physical, chemical and biological relationships of lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Aquatic Geochemistry 10: 239-268. Garza-Sánchez, F. 2004. Responses of the benthic diatom Nitzschia ovalis Arnot ex Grunow (strain Mono Lake, CA) to changes of salinity in alkaline conditions. Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology. University of California, Santa Barbara. Gerla, P. J. 2004. Hydrological effects of an uncontrolled flowing well, Red River Valley, North Dakota, USA. Journal Of The American Water Resources Association 40: 1305-1314. Ginzburg, A. I., A. G. Kostianoi, and N. A. Sheremet. 2004. Seasonal and interannual variability of the surface temperature in the Caspian Sea. Oceanology 44: 605-618. Green, W. J., B. R. Stage, B. J. Bratina, S. Wagers, A. Preston, K. O'Bryan, J. Shacat, and S. Newell. 2004. Nickel, copper, zinc and cadmium cycling with manganese in Lake Vanda (Wright Valley, Antarctica). Aquatic Geochemistry 10: 303-323. He, Q. H., D. R. Qiao, Q. L. Zhang, Y. Li, H. Xu, L. Wei, Y. Gu, and Y. Cao. 2004. Cloning and expression study of a putative high-affinity nitrate transporter gene from Dunaliella salina. Journal Of Applied Phycology 16: 395-400. Hill, T. M., J. P. Kennett, and D. L. Valentine. 2004. Isotopic evidence for the incorporation of methane-derived carbon into foraminifera from modern methane seeps, Hydrate Ridge, Northeast Pacific. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 68: 4619-4627. Huseynov, D. A., and I. S. Guliyev. 2004. Mud volcanic natural phenomena in the South Caspian Basin: geology, fluid dynamics and environmental impact. Environmental Geology 46: 1012-1023. Jakobsen, T. S., P. B. Hansen, E. Jeppesen, and M. Sondergaard. 2004. Cascading effect of three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus on community composition, size, biomass and diversity of phytoplankton in shallow, eutrophic brackish lagoons. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 279: 305-309. Joaquim-Justo, C., C. Detry, F. Caufman, and J. P. Thome. 2004. Feeding of planktonic rotifers on ciliates: a method using natural ciliate assemblages labelled with fluorescent microparticles. Journal Of Plankton Research 26: 1289-1299. Kefford, B. J., C. G. Palmer, L. Pakhomova, and D. Nugegoda. 2004. Comparing test systems to measure the salinity tolerance of freshwater invertebrates. Water Sa 30: 499-506. Kulp, T. R., S. E. Hoeft, and R. S. Oremland. 2004. Redox transformations of arsenic oxyanions in periphyton communities. Applied And Environmental Microbiology 70: 6428-6434. Lawson, J., P. T. Doran, F. Kenig, D. J. Des Marais, and J. C. Priscu. 2004. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of benthic and pelagic organic matter in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Aquatic Geochemistry 10: 269-301. Lee, P. A., J. C. Priscu, G. R. DiTullio, S. F. Riseman, N. Tursich, and S. J. de Mora. 2004. Elevated levels of dimethylated-sulfur compounds in Lake Bonney, a poorly ventilated Antarctic lake. Limnology And Oceanography 49: 1044-1055. Manous, J. D., and H. G. Stefan. 2004. Sulfate distribution in a multi-basin, saline lake. Hydrobiologia 529: 169-185. Mikucki, J. A., C. M. Foreman, B. Sattler, W. B. Lyons, and J. C. Priscu. 2004. Geomicrobiology of Blood Falls: An iron-rich saline discharge at the terminus of the Taylor Glacier, Antarctica. Aquatic Geochemistry 10: 199-220. Ngana, J. O., R. B. B. Mwalyosi, P. Yanda, and N. F. Madulu. 2004. Strategic development plan for integrated water resources management in Lake Manyara sub-basin, North-Eastern Tanzania. Physics And Chemistry Of The Earth 29: 1219-1224. Nissenbaum, A. 2004. "and the vale of Siddim was full of slime [=bitumen, asphalt?] pits" (Genesis, 14:10). Pages 359-364 in R. J. Hill, J. Leventhal, Z. Aizenshtat, M. J. Baedecker, and G. Claypool, eds. Geochemical Investigations in Earth and Space Science: A Tribute to Isaac R. Kaplan. The Geochemical Society. Nkhoma, B. G., and W. O. Mulwafu. 2004. The experience of irrigation management transfer in two irrigation schemes in Malawi, 1960s-2002. Physics And Chemistry Of The Earth 29: 1327-1333. Pandey, K. D., S. P. Shukla, P. N. Shukla, D. D. Giri, J. S. Singh, P. Singh, and A. K. Kashyap. 2004. Cyanobacteria in Antarctica: Ecology, physiology and cold adaptation. Cellular And Molecular Biology 50: 575-584. Poreda, R. J., A. G. Hunt, W. B. Lyons, and K. A. Welch. 2004. The helium isotopic chemistry of Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica: Timing of Late Holocene climate change in Antarctica. Aquatic Geochemistry 10: 353-371. Rusak, J. A., P. R. Leavitt, S. McGowan, G. M. Chen, O. Olson, S. Wunsam, and B. F. Cumming. 2004. Millennial-scale relationships of diatom species richness and production in two prairie lakes. Limnology And Oceanography 49: 1290-1299. Ryu, J. H., R. A. Dahlgren, S. D. Gao, and K. K. Tanji. 2004. Characterization of redox processes in shallow groundwater of Owens Dry Lake, California. Environmental Science & Technology 38: 5950-5957. Schar, C., L. Vasilina, F. Pertziger, and S. Dirren. 2004. Seasonal runoff forecasting using precipitation from meteorological data assimilation systems. Journal Of Hydrometeorology 5: 959-973. Shacat, J. A., W. J. Green, E. H. Decarlo, and S. Newell. 2004. The geochemistry of Lake Joyce, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Aquatic Geochemistry 10: 325-352. Stackebrandt, E., E. Brambilla, S. Cousin, W. Dirks, and R. Pukall. 2004. Culture-independent analysis of bacterial species from an anaerobic mat from Lake Fryxell, Antarctica: Prokaryotic diversity revisited. Cellular And Molecular Biology 50: 517-524. Todhunter, P. E., and B. C. Rundquist. 2004. Terminal lake flooding and wetland expansion in Nelson County, North Dakota. Physical Geography 25: 68-85. Verschoor, A. M., M. Vos, and I. van der Stap. 2004. Inducible defences prevent strong population fluctuations in bi- and tritrophic food chains. Ecology Letters 7: 1143-1148. Y., N., H. Shimizu, N. O. Ogawa, T. Sakamoto, H. Okada, K. Koba, H. Kitazato, and H. Ohkouchi. 2004. Vertical distributions of stable isotopic compositions and bacteriochlorophyll homologues in suspended particulate matter in saline meromictic Lake Abashiri. Limnology 5: 185-189. Yarmohammadi, M., and M. Pourkazemi. 2004. Cytogenetic study of Artemia from Urmiah, Maharloo and Incheborun Lakes. Hydrobiologia 529: 99-104.

12/10/2004	Tunisia announces its commitment to wetland protection including salt lakes and lagoons
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Tunisia recently decided to protect 15 wetland sites under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. The wetlands to be protected total over 750,000ha and several salt lakes are included Go to above URL for full story.

12/10/2004	Rotifer Workshop for Fish and Shellfish Hatchery Producers, September 9, 2005
Contacts	www.UGent.be/aquaculture
Rotifer Workshop for Fish and Shellfish Hatchery Producers September 9, 2005 following the larvi’05 conference (www.UGent.be/larvi) at the Ghent University Aula (Volderstraat 9, 9000 Gent, Belgium) from 10:00 till 16:00 The success of larviculture of marine finfish and several crustacean species still largely depends on the availability of high quality rotifers. A lot of research has been put into the mass production of Brachionus plicatilis. This research combined with observations in the hatcheries and the skills of the farmers, have lead to different culture methods and protocols. Nevertheless, unpredictable crashes still occur. The outcome of several European research projects dealing with rotifer culture and use will be presented with suggestions for best practices. This workshop is envisaged especially for hatchery managers and live feed producers who want to be informed on the latest results of aquaculture-relevant rotifer research. The following themes will be addressed: * Overview of common rotifer culture practices * Use of recirculation systems for rotifer culture * Influence of microbial community on rotifer culture * Diversity of rotifers used at European commercial hatcheries * Effect of culture techniques and/or feeding protocol on the rotifer diversity * Rotifer quality for fish larvae Interested participants are invited to register at http://allserv.UGent.be/aquaculture/rotifer_workshop where practical details can be found. The website will be regularly updated. This is an initiative of the EU research project ROTIGEN ‘Genetic implications in the production of rotifers in commercial finfish hatcheries’ (http://allserv.UGent.be/aquaculture/rend/rotigen/index.html) for more information, contact: Kristof Dierckens Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, Ghent University, Rozier 44, B-9000 Gent, Belgium tel. 32-9-264 38 44 / 264 37 54 fax 32-9-264 41 93 kristof.dierckens@UGent.be www.UGent.be/aquaculture

12/10/2004	L:arvi 2005:4th fish & shellfish larviculture symposium, September 5 - 9, 2005
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As a young industry, aquaculture has been evolving quickly over the past 20 years. This is especially true for the multidisciplinary larviculture sector, which forms the basis of the industry. Following up on the previous larvi symposia (1991, 1995 and 2001), the scope of larvi 2005 is to present the latest developments and challenges in the various disciplines of larviculture research. The aim of larvi 2005 is to bring researchers and professionals together to evaluate recent progress, identify problem areas and stimulate future cooperation in research and industrial production of freshwater as well as marine fish and shellfish larvae.

12/1/2004	November 2004 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (28 new references)
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Amat, F., R. G. Cohen, F. Hontoria, and J. C. Navarro. 2004. Further evidence and characterization of Artemia franciscana (Kellogg, 1906) populations in Argentina. Journal Of Biogeography 31: 1735-1749. Blinn, D. W., S. A. Halse, A. M. Pinder, R. J. Shiel, and J. M. McRae. 2004. Diatom and micro-invertebrate communities and environmental determinants in the western Australian wheatbelt: a response to salinization. Hydrobiologia 528: 229-248. Childress, B., D. Harper, B. Hughes, W. van den Bossche, P. Berthold, and U. Querner. 2004. Satellite tracking Lesser Flamingo movements in the Rift Valley, East Africa: pilot study report. Ostrich 75: 57-65. Dawe, R. S., S. Yule, H. Cameron, H. Moseley, S. H. Ibbotson, and J. Ferguson. 2004. A randomized controlled study of Dead Sea salt balneophototherapy for psoriasis. British Journal Of Dermatology 151: 104-105. Deotare, B. C., M. D. Kajale, S. N. Rajaguru, S. Kusumgar, A. J. T. Jull, and J. D. Donahue. 2004. Palaeoenvironmental history of Bap-Malar and Kanod playas of western Rajasthan, Thar desert. Proceedings Of The Indian Academy Of Sciences-Earth And Planetary Sciences 113: 403-425. Farrimond, P., H. M. Talbot, D. F. Watson, L. K. Schulz, and A. Wilhelms. 2004. Methylhopanoids: Molecular indicators of ancient bacteria and a petroleum correlation tool. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 68: 3873-3882. Feng, J., P. J. Zhou, and S. J. Liu. 2004. Halorubrum xinjiangense sp nov., a novel halophile isolated from saline lakes in China. International Journal Of Systematic And Evolutionary Microbiology 54: 1789-1791. Gillette, D., D. Ono, and K. Richmond. 2004. A combined modeling and measurement technique for estimating windblown dust emissions at Owens (dry) Lake, California. Journal Of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface 109. Grant, S., D. Y. Sorokin, W. D. Grant, B. E. Jones, and S. Heaphy. 2004. A phylogenetic analysis of Wadi el Natrun soda lake cellulase enrichment cultures and identification of cellulase genes from these cultures. Extremophiles 8: 421-429. Helvaci, C., and F. Orti. 2004. Zoning in the Kirka borate deposit, western Turkey: Primary evaporitic fractionation or diagenetic modifications? Canadian Mineralogist 42: 1179-1204. Honty, M., P. Uhlik, V. Sucha, M. Caplovicova, J. Francu, N. Clauer, and A. Biron. 2004. Smectite-to-illite alteration in salt-bearing bentonites (the East Slovak Basin). Clays And Clay Minerals 52: 533-551. Jin, H. L., H. L. Xiao, L. Y. Sun, H. Zhang, Z. Sun, and X. Z. Li. 2004. Vicissitude of Sogo Nur and environmental-climatic change during last 1500 years. Science In China Series D-Earth Sciences 47: 61-70. Jung, D. O., L. A. Achenbach, E. A. Karr, S. Takaichi, and M. T. Madigan. 2004. A gas vesiculate planktonic strain of the purple non-sulfur bacterium Rhodoferax antarcticus isolated from Lake Fryxell, Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Archives Of Microbiology 182: 236-243. Kouraev, A. V., F. Papa, N. M. Mognard, P. I. Buharizin, A. Cazenave, J. F. Cretaux, J. Dozortseva, and F. Remy. 2004. Synergy of active and passive satellite microwave data for the study of first-year sea ice in the Caspian and Aral Seas. Ieee Transactions On Geoscience And Remote Sensing 42: 2170-2176. Krishnaraju, A. V., T. V. Rao, M. Vanisree, and G. V. Subbaraju. 2004. Hypoglycemic activity and brine shrimp lethality of (7E,11E,1R,2S,3R,4R,14S)-14-acetoxy-3,4-epoxycembra-7,11,15-triene-17,2- olide: A metabolite of Lobophytum crassum. Asian Journal Of Chemistry 16: 1311-1314. Liu, X. Q., K. Q. Cai, and S. S. Yu. 2004. Geochemical simulation of the formation of brine and salt minerals based on Pitzer model in Caka Salt Lake. Science In China Series D-Earth Sciences 47: 720-726. Madern, D., M. Camacho, A. Rodriguez-Arnedo, M. J. Bonete, and G. Zaccai. 2004. Salt-dependent studies of NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase from the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii. Extremophiles 8: 377-384. Marques, A., J. Dhont, P. Sorgeloos, and P. Bossier. 2004. Evaluation of different yeast cell wall mutants and microalgae strains as feed for gnotobiotically grown brine shrimp Artemia franciscana. Journal Of Experimental Marine Biology And Ecology 312: 115-136. Nikookar, K., A. Moradshahi, and M. Kharati. 2004. Influence of salinity on the growth, pigmentation and ascorbate peroxidase activity of Dunaliella salina isolated from Maharlu salt lake in Shiraz. Iranian Journal Of Science And Technology 28: 117-125. Roney, J. A., and B. R. White. 2004. Definition and measurement of dust aeolian thresholds. Journal Of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface 109. Shepherd, K. A., M. Waycott, and A. Calladine. 2004. Radiation of the Australian Salicornioideae (Chenopodiaceae)-based on evidence from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. American Journal Of Botany 91: 1387-1397. Simmons, S. L., S. M. Sievert, R. B. Frankel, D. A. Bazylinski, and K. J. Edwards. 2004. Spatiotemporal distribution of marine magnetotactic bacteria in a seasonally stratified coastal salt pond. Applied And Environmental Microbiology 70: 6230-6239. Sinha, R., D. Stueben, and Z. Berner. 2004. Palaeohydrology of the Sambhar Playa, Thar Desert, India, using geomorphological and sedimentological evidences. Journal Of The Geological Society Of India 64: 419-430. Taylor, I. R. 2004. Foraging ecology of the Black-fronted Plover on saline lagoons in Australia: the importance of receding water levels. Waterbirds 27: 270-276. Warner, A. H., E. Pullumbi, R. Amons, and L. Q. Liu. 2004. Characterization of a cathepsin L-associated protein in Artemia and its relationship to the FAS-I family of cell adhesion proteins. European Journal Of Biochemistry 271: 4014-4025. Wheatly, M. G., and Y. P. Gao. 2004. Molecular biology of ion motive proteins in comparative models. Journal Of Experimental Biology 207: 3253-3263. Wilson, P. J., C. M. Wood, P. J. Walsh, A. N. Bergman, H. L. Bergman, P. Laurent, and B. N. White. 2004. Discordance between genetic structure and morphological, ecological, and physiological adaptation in Lake Magadi tilapia. Physiological And Biochemical Zoology 77: 537-555. Zhilina, T. N., R. Appel, C. Probian, E. L. Brossa, J. Harder, F. Widdel, and G. A. Zavarzin. 2004. Alkaliflexus imshenetskii gen. nov sp nov., a new alkaliphilic gliding carbohydrate-fermenting bacterium with propionate formation from a soda lake. Archives Of Microbiology 182: 244-253.

10/29/2004	October2004 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (34 new references)
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Aragao, C., L. E. C. Conceicao, M. T. Dinis, and H. J. Fyhn. 2004. Erratum to "Amino acid pools of rotifers and Artemia under different conditions: nutritional implications for fish larvae" (vol 234, pg 429, 2004). Aquaculture 238: 537-540. Austin, J. E., and W. H. Pyle. 2004. Nesting ecology of waterbirds at Grays Lake, Idaho. Western North American Naturalist 64: 277-292. Burns, D. G., H. M. Camakaris, P. H. Janssen, and A. L. Dyall-Smith. 2004. Combined use of cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent methods indicates that members of most haloarchaeal groups in an Australian crystallizer pond are cultivable. Applied And Environmental Microbiology 70: 5258-5265. Burns, D. G., H. M. Camakaris, P. H. Janssen, and M. L. Dyall-Smith. 2004. Cultivation of Walsby's square haloarchaeon. Fems Microbiology Letters 238: 469-473. Carnevali, O., M. C. Zamponi, R. Sulpizio, A. Rollo, M. Nardi, C. Orpianesi, S. Silvi, M. Caggiano, A. M. Polzonetti, and A. Cresci. 2004. Administration of probiotic strain to improve sea bream wellness during development. Aquaculture International 12: 377-386. Covi, J. A., and S. C. Hand. 2003. Protein evidence for V-ATPase expression in Artemia franciscana gastrulae: Potential role in anoxia signaling. Integrative And Comparative Biology 43: 1036-1036. Denney, D. 2004. North Caspian Project: Challenges and successes. Journal Of Petroleum Technology 56: 64-+. Frutos, M. D., J. Blasco, and A. Gomez-Parra. 2004. Phosphatase activity in salt-ponds of the Bay of Cadiz. Ciencias Marinas 30: 403-416. Hammi, H., J. Musso, A. M'Nif, and R. Rokbani. 2004. Crystallization path of natural brine evaporation using the DPAO method. Desalination 166: 205-208. Hart, W. S., J. Quade, D. B. Madsen, D. S. Kaufman, and C. G. Oviatt. 2004. The Sr-87/Sr-86 ratios of lacustrine carbonates and lake-level history of the Bonneville paleolake system. Geological Society Of America Bulletin 116: 1107-1119. Khodabandeh, S. 2003. The cyst envelope structure and the post-embryonic development of Artemia urmiana (Crustacea): A light and electron microscopic study. Integrative And Comparative Biology 43: 941-941. Klosowska, B. B., S. R. Troelstra, J. E. van Hinte, D. Beets, K. van der Borg, and A. F. M. de Jong. 2004. Late holocene environmental reconstruction of St. Michiel saline lagoon, Curacao (Dutch Antilles). Radiocarbon 46: 765-774. Kolkovski, S., J. Curnow, and J. King. 2004. Intensive rearing system for fish larvae research II - Artemia hatching and enriching system. Aquacultural Engineering 31: 309-317. Liska, A. J., A. Shevchenko, U. Pick, and A. Katz. 2004. Enhanced photosynthesis and redox energy production contribute to salinity tolerance in Dunaliella as revealed by homology-based proteomics. Plant Physiology 136: 2806-2817. Marques, A., J. M. Francois, J. Dhont, P. Bossier, and P. Sorgeloos. 2004. Influence of yeast quality on performance of gnotobiotically grown Artemia. Journal Of Experimental Marine Biology And Ecology 310: 247-264. Martinez-Palacios, C. A., J. C. Morte, J. A. Tello-Ballinas, M. Toledo-Cuevas, and L. G. Ross. 2004. The effects of saline environments on survival and growth of eggs and larvae of Chirostoma estor estor Jordan 1880 (Pisces: Atherinidae). Aquaculture 238: 509-522. Morais, S., M. Lacuisse, L. E. C. Conceicao, M. T. Dinis, and I. Ronnestad. 2004. Ontogeny of the digestive capacity of (Solea senegalensis), with respect to and metabolism of amino acids from Senegalese sole digestion, absorption Artemia. Marine Biology 145: 243-250. Morales-Ventura, J., S. Nandini, and S. S. S. Sarma. 2004. Functional responses during the early larval stages of the charal fish Chirostoma riojai (Pisces: Atherinidae) fed rotifers and cladocerans. Journal Of Applied Ichthyology 20: 417-421. Nol, P., T. E. Rocke, K. Gross, and T. M. Yuill. 2004. Prevalence of neurotoxic Clostridium botulinum type C in the gastrointestinal tracts of tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) in the Salton Sea. Journal Of Wildlife Diseases 40: 414-419. Rhyne, A. L., and J. Lin. 2004. Effects of different diets on larval development in a peppermint shrimp (Lysmata sp (Risso)). Aquaculture Research 35: 1179-1185. Ritar, A. J., G. A. Dunstan, M. M. Nelson, M. R. Brown, P. D. Nichols, C. W. Thomas, E. G. Smith, B. J. Crear, and S. Kolkovski. 2004. Nutritional and bacterial profiles of juvenile Artemia fed different enrichments and during starvation. Aquaculture 239: 351-373. Roncarati, A., A. Meluzzi, S. Acciarri, N. Tallarico, and P. Melotti. 2004. Fatty acid composition of different microalgae strains (Nannochloropsis sp., Nannochloropsis oculata (Droop) Hibberd, Nannochloris atomus Butcher and Isochrysis sp.) according to the culture phase and the carbon dioxide concentration. Journal Of The World Aquaculture Society 35: 401-411. Sanchez, A. M., T. C. Barrera, H. S. Trujillo, J. C. Mejia, R. D. L. Andrade, and G. C. Mejia. 2004. Composition of fat acids in three Mexican populations of Artemia franciscana from epicontinental waters. Revista De Biologia Tropical 52: 297-300. Saygi, Y. 2004. Characterization of parthenogenetic Artemia populations from Camalti (Izmir, Turkey) and Kalloni (Lesbos, Greece): survival, growth, maturation, biometrics, fatty acid profiles and hatching characteristics. Hydrobiologia 527: 227-239. Skjermo, J., and O. Bergh. 2004. High-M alginate immunostimulation of Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus L.) larvae using Artemia for delivery, increases resistance against vibriosis. Aquaculture 238: 107-113. Stein, M., C. Migowski, R. Bookman, and B. Lazar. 2004. Temporal changes in radiocarbon reservoir age in the dead sealake Lisan system. Radiocarbon 46: 649-655. Stolley, D. S., and C. U. Meteyer. 2004. Peracute sodium toxicity in free-ranging black-bellied whistling duck ducklings. Journal Of Wildlife Diseases 40: 571-574. Sun, Y., M. Mansour, J. A. Crack, G. L. Gass, and T. H. MacRae. 2004. Oligomerization, chaperone activity, and nuclear localization of p26, a small heat shock protein from Artemia franciscana. Journal Of Biological Chemistry 279: 39999-40006. Tomoda, T., M. Koiso, H. Kuwada, J. N. Chern, and T. Takeuchi. 2004. Dietary value of marine rotifer Brachionus plicatilis in different population growth stages for larval red seabream Pagrus major. Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi 70: 573-582. Van Anholt, R. D., W. M. Koven, S. Lutzky, and S. E. W. Bonga. 2004. Dietary supplementation with arachidonic acid alters the stress response of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) larvae. Aquaculture 238: 369-383. van der Borg, K., M. Stein, A. F. M. de Jong, N. Waldmann, and S. L. Goldstein. 2004. Near-zero Delta C-14 values at 32 kyr cal BP observed in the highresolution C-14 record from U-Th dated sediment of Lake Lisan. Radiocarbon 46: 785-795. Wolfe, A. F., and G. P. Johnson. 2003. Histochemical and ultrastructural study of Artemia hemocytes. Integrative And Comparative Biology 43: 952-952. Ye, Q., Y. Roh, S. L. Carroll, B. Blair, J. Z. Zhou, C. L. Zhang, and M. W. Fields. 2004. Alkaline anaerobic respiration: Isolation and characterization of a novel alkaliphilic and metal-reducing bacterium. Applied And Environmental Microbiology 70: 5595-5602. Yoshida, T., N. G. Hairston, and S. P. Ellner. 2004. Evolutionary trade-off between defence against grazing and competitive ability in a simple unicellular alga, Chlorelia vulgaris. Proceedings Of The Royal Society Of London Series B-Biological Sciences 271: 1947-1953.

10/4/2004	September 2004 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (36 new references)
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Grant, W. D. 2004. Life at low water activity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 359: 1249-1266. Kaz'min, V. G., L. I. Lobkovskii, and B. G. Pustovitenko. 2004. Present-day microplate kinematics in the Black Sea-South Caspian region. Oceanology 44: 564-573. Zav'yalov, P. O., A. I. Ginzburg, F. V. Sapozhnikov, U. R. Abdullaev, A. K. Ambrosimov, N. I. Andreev, R. Validzhanov, D. P. Ishniyazov, A. A. Koldaev, T. V. Kudyshkin, A. K. Kurbaniyazov, A. A. Ni, M. A. Petrov, O. Y. Stroganov, I. G. Tomashevskaya, and V. M. Khan. 2004. Multidisciplinary expeditionary studies in the western part of the aral sea in October 2003. Oceanology 44: 595-598. Over, S., K. S. Kavak, O. Bellier, and S. Ozden. 2004. Is the Amik Basin (SE turkey) a triple-junction area? Analyses of SPOT XS imagery and seismicity. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25: 3857-3872. Li, Y., M. Zheng, and G. Yue. 2004. Last 30 kyr climate change of Qinghai-Xizhang (Tibet) Plateau recorded by carbon and oxygen stable isotopes of Zabuye Lake sediments. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 68: A355-A355. Suprayudi, M. A., T. Takeuchi, and K. Hamasaki. 2004. Effects of Artemia enriched with eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acid on survival and occurrence of molting failure in megalop larvae of the mud crab Scylla serrata. Fisheries Science 70: 650-658. Raja, R., C. Anbazhagan, V. Ganesan, and R. Rengasamy. 2004. Efficacy of Dunaliella salina (Volvocales, Chlorophyta) in salt refinery effluent treatment. Asian Journal of Chemistry 16: 1081-1088. Marangoni, R., N. Messina, D. Gioffre, and G. Colombetti. 2004. Effects of UV-B irradiation on a marine microecosystem. Photochemistry and Photobiology 80: 78-83. Herzschuh, U., P. Tarasov, B. Wunnemann, and K. Hartmann. 2004. Holocene vegetation and climate of the Alashan Plateau, NW China, reconstructed from pollen data. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 211: 1-17. Janssen, C., R. L. Romer, A. Hoffmann-Rothe, D. Kesten, and H. Al-Zubi. 2004. The Dead Sea transform: Evidence for a strong fault? Journal of Geology 112: 561-575. Latypov, Y. Y. 2004. Succession in the Abra ovata community on soft grounds of a newly flooded area of the Caspian Sea. Russian Journal of Ecology 35: 267-273. Valero-Garces, B. L., P. Gonzalez-Samperiz, A. Navas, J. Machin, A. Delgado-Huertas, J. L. Pena-Monne, C. Sancho-Marcen, T. Stevenson, and B. Davis. 2004. Paleohydrological fluctuations and steppe vegetation during the last glacial maximum in the central Ebro valley (NE Spain). Quaternary International 122: 43-55. Reynolds, J. A., and S. C. Hand. 2004. Differences in isolated mitochondria are insufficient to account for respiratory depression during diapause in Artemia franciscana embryos. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 77: 366-377. Finston, T. L. 2004. Effect of a temporally heterogeneous environment on size and shape of the giant ostracods Mytilocypris (Ostracoda : Cyprididae) from Australian salt lakes. Marine and Freshwater Research 55: 499-507. Briggs, R. W., and S. G. Wesnousky. 2004. Late Pleistocene fault slip rate, earthquake recurrence, and recency of slip along the Pyramid Lake fault zone, northern Walker Lane, United States. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth 109. Diabat, A. A., M. Atallah, and M. R. Salih. 2004. Paleostress analysis of the Cretaceous rocks in the eastern margin of the Dead Sea transform, Jordan. Journal of African Earth Sciences 38: 449-460. Stanev, E. V., E. L. Peneva, and F. Mercier. 2004. Temporal and spatial patterns of sea level in inland basins: Recent events in the Aral Sea. Geophysical Research Letters 31. Selig, U., T. Hubener, R. Heerkloss, and H. Schubert. 2004. Vertical gradient of nutrients in two dimictic lakes - influence of phototrophic sulfur bacteria on nutrient balance. Aquatic Sciences 66: 247-256. van Afferden, M., and A. M. Hansen. 2004. Forecast of lake volume and salt concentration in Lake Chapala, Mexico. Aquatic Sciences 66: 257-265. Zheng, M. P., W. Qi, X. F. Jiang, Y. Y. Zhao, and M. H. Li. 2004. Trend of salt lake changes in the background of global warming and tactics for adaptation to the changes. Acta Geologica Sinica-English Edition 78: 795-807. Tatar, O., J. D. A. Piper, H. Gursoy, A. Heimann, and F. Kocbulut. 2004. Neotectonic deformation in the transition zone between the Dead Sea Transform and the East Anatolian Fault Zone, Southern Turkey: a palaeomagnetic study of the Karasu Rift Volcanism. Tectonophysics 385: 17-43. Yang, X. D., S. M. Wang, C. Kamenik, R. Schmidt, J. Shen, L. P. Zhu, and S. F. Li. 2004. Diatom assemblages and quantitative reconstruction for paleosalinity from a sediment core of Chencuo Lake, southern Tibet. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences 47: 522-528. Hajdas, I., G. Bonani, S. H. Zimmerman, M. Mendelson, and S. Hemming. 2004. C-14 ages of ostracodes from pleistocene lake sediments of the western Great Basin, USA-RESULTS of progressive acid leaching. Radiocarbon 46: 189-200. Cremer, H., D. Gore, N. Hultzsch, M. Melles, and B. Wagner. 2004. The diatom flora and limnology of lakes in the Amery Oasis, East Antarctica. Polar Biology 27: 513-531. Ballot, A., L. Krienitz, K. Kotut, C. Wiegand, J. S. Metcalf, G. A. Codd, and S. Pflugmacher. 2004. Cyanobacteria and cyanobacterial toxins in three alkaline rift valley lakes of Kenya - Lakes Bogoria, Nakuru and Elmenteita. Journal of Plankton Research 26: 925-935. Dotsenko, S. F., I. P. Kuzin, B. V. Levin, and O. N. Solov'eva. 2004. Calculation of the tsunami intensity in the Caspian sea for finite-length sources of submarine earthquakes. Izvestiya-Physics of the Solid Earth 40: 594-601. Garnova, E. S., T. N. Zhilina, T. P. Tourova, N. A. Kostrikina, and G. A. Zavarzin. 2004. Anaerobic, alkaliphilic, saccharolytic bacterium Alkalibacter saccharofermentans gen. nov., sp nov from a soda lake in the Transbaikal region of Russia. Extremophiles 8: 309-316. Banciu, H., D. Y. Sorokin, E. A. Galinski, G. Muyzer, R. Kleerebezem, and J. G. Kuenen. 2004. Thialkalivibrio halophilus sp nov., a novel obligately chemolithoautotrophic, facultatively alkaliphilic, and extremely salt-tolerant, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from a hypersaline alkaline lake. Extremophiles 8: 325-334. Coskun, B. 2004. Arabian-Anatolian plate movements and related trends in Southeast Turkey's oilfields. Energy Sources 26: 987-1003. —. 2004. Aksaray and Ecemis Faults - Diapiric salt relationships: Relevance to the hydrocarbon exploration in the Tuz Golu (Salt Lake) basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey. Energy Sources 26: 1005-1022. Baghel, D. S., W. S. Lakra, and G. P. S. Rao. 2004. Altered sex ratio in giant fresh water prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man) using hormone bioencapsulated live Artemia feed. Aquaculture Research 35: 943-947. Lora-Vilchis, M. C., B. Cordero-Esquivel, and D. Voltolina. 2004. Growth of Artemia franciscana fed Isochrysis sp and Chaetoceros muelleri during its early life stages. Aquaculture Research 35: 1086-1091. Nelson, M. M., B. J. Crear, P. D. Nichols, and D. A. Ritz. 2004. Growth and lipid composition of phyllosomata of the southern rock lobster, Jasus edwardsii, fed enriched Artemia. Aquaculture Nutrition 10: 237-246. Moren, M., I. Opstad, and K. Hamre. 2004. A comparison of retinol, retinal and retinyl ester concentrations in larvae of Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus L.) fed Artemia or zooplankton. Aquaculture Nutrition 10: 253-259. Koizumi, Y., H. Kojima, and M. Fukui. 2004. Dominant microbial composition and its vertical distribution in saline meromictic lake kaiike (Japan) as revealed by quantitative oligonucleotide probe membrane hybridization. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70: 4930-4940. Giri, B. J., N. Bano, and J. T. Hollibaugh. 2004. Distribution of RuBisCO genotypes along a redox gradient in Mono Lake, California (vol 70, pg 3443, 2004). Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70: 5055-5055.

9/8/2004	August 2004 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (25 new references)
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Brown, A., D. M. McKnight, Y. P. Chin, E. C. Roberts, and M. Uhle. 2004. Chemical characterization of dissolved organic material in Pony Lake, a saline coastal pond in Antarctica. Marine Chemistry 89: 327-337. Collins, C. H., and J. S. Clegg. 2004. A small heat-shock protein, p26, from the crustacean Artemia protects mammalian cells (Cos-1) against oxidative damage. Cell Biology International 28: 449-455. Craw, D., and S. Beckett. 2004. Water and sediment chemistry of Sutton Salt Lake, East Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 38: 315-328. Dholakia, J. 2004. Translational Control due to the regulation of GEF activity during development in brine shrimp Artemia. Faseb Journal 18: C277-C277. Haga, Y., T. Takeuchi, and T. Seikai. 2004. Changes of retinoid contents in larval Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus and Artemia nauplii enriched with a large dose of all-trans retinoic acid. Fisheries Science 70: 436-444. Halse, S. A., and J. M. McRae. 2004. New genera and species of 'giant' ostracods (Crustacea : Cyprididae) from Australia. Hydrobiologia 524: 1-52. Hinds, D. J., E. Aliyeva, M. B. Allen, C. E. Davies, S. B. Kroonenberg, M. D. Simmons, and S. J. Vincent. 2004. Sedimentation in a discharge dominated fluvial-lacustrine system: the Neogene Productive Series of the South Caspian Basin, Azerbaijan. Marine and Petroleum Geology 21: 613-638. Immanuel, G., A. Palavesam, V. Sivaram, M. M. Babu, and M. P. Marian. 2004. Feeding trashfish Odonus niger lipid enriched Artemia nauplii on growth, stress resistance and HUFA requirements of Penaeus monodon postlarvae. Aquaculture 237: 301-313. Jordaan, G. R., A. Kirchhofer, and R. A. Acey. 2004. Expression of Artemia metallothionein in bacteria and insect cells. Faseb Journal 18: C173-C173. Kim, B. C., and D. R. Lowe. 2004. Depositional processes of the gravelly debris flow deposits, South Dolomite alluvial fan, Owens Valley, California. Geosciences Journal 8: 153-170. Korotenko, K. A., R. M. Mamedov, A. E. Kontar, and L. A. Korotenko. 2004. Particle tracking method in the approach for prediction of oil slick transport in the sea: modelling oil pollution resulting from river input. Journal of Marine Systems 48: 159-170. Lapesa, S., T. W. Snell, D. M. Fields, and M. Serra. 2004. Selective feeding of Arctodiaptomus salinus (Copepoda, Calanoida) on co-occurring sibling rotifer species. Freshwater Biology 49: 1053-1061. Li, C. X., V. Ivanov, D. D. Fan, V. Korotaev, S. Y. Yang, R. Chalov, and S. G. Liu. 2004. Development of the Volga Delta in response to Caspian sea-level fluctuation during last 100 years. Journal of Coastal Research 20: 401-414. Mensing, S. A., L. V. Benson, M. Kashgarian, and S. Lund. 2004. A Holocene pollen record of persistent droughts from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, USA. Quaternary Research 62: 29-38. Piovano, E. L., D. Ariztegui, S. M. Bernasconi, and J. A. McKenzie. 2004. Stable isotopic record of hydrological changes in subtropical Laguna Mar Chiquita (Argentina) over the last 230 years. Holocene 14: 525-535. Raman, S., and R. Acey. 2004. Purification and characterization of RNA polymerase II from Artemia nuclei. Faseb Journal 18: C49-C49. Rathgeber, C., J. T. Beatty, and V. Yurkov. 2004. Aerobic phototrophic bacteria: new evidence for the diversity, ecological importance and applied potential of this previously overlooked group. Photosynthesis Research 81: 113-128. Simons, A. M., and R. L. Mayden. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships of the western North American phoxinins (Actinopterygii : Cyprinidae) as inferred from mitochondrial 12S and 16S ribosomal RNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 9: 308-329. Traylor, J. J., R. T. Alisauskas, and F. P. Kehoe. 2004. Nesting ecology of White-winged Scoters (Melanitta fusca deglandi) at Redberry Lake, Saskatchewan. Auk 121: 950-962. Vermeesch, P., J. Poort, A. D. Duchkov, J. Klerkx, and M. de Batist. 2004. Lake Issyk-Kul (Tien Shan): Unusually low heat flow in an active intermontane basin. Geologiya I Geofizika 45: 616-625. Weissflog, L., N. Elansky, E. Putz, G. Krueger, C. A. Lange, L. Lisitzina, and A. Pfennigsdorff. 2004. Trichloroacetic acid in the vegetation of polluted and remote areas of both hemispheres - Part II: salt lakes as novel sources of natural chlorohydrocarbons. Atmospheric Environment 38: 4197-4204. Willemse, N. W., O. van Dam, P. J. van Helvoort, R. Dankers, M. Brommer, J. Schokker, T. E. Valstar, and H. de Wolf. 2004. Physical and chemical limnology of a subsaline athalassic lake in West Greenland. Hydrobiologia 524: 167-192. Yousefian, M., and A. E. Kideys. 2003. Biochemical composition of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the southern Caspian Sea. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 29: 127-131. Zeng, Y., X. T. He, and H. A. Yin. 2004. An experimental study on phase equilibrium of quinary system Li+/Cl-, SO42-, CO32-, B4O72--H2O at 298 K. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 20: 946-950. Zhao, L. C., M. E. Collinson, and C. S. Li. 2004. Fruits and seeds of Ruppia (Potamogetonaceae) from the Pliocene of Yushe Basin, Shanxi, northern China and their ecological implications. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 145: 317-329.

8/17/2004	Niger adds Ramsar site with saline/alkaline pools
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“Dallol Maouri” in Gaya (318,966 ha; 12°04’N 003°30’E) is a former north-south tributary of the Niger along the frontier with Nigeria in the southwest, now a complex of permanent saline/alkaline pools and seasonal streams and creeks with an exceptional complex of vegetation including the Palmyra palm Borassus aethiopum and African doum palm Hyphaene thebaïca. Some nine ethnic groups contribute to the human population, and rainy-season agriculture and market gardens, salt extraction, fishing, forestry, and grazing are the principal means of livelihood. A high sustainable tourism potential is seen, and a local research programme, financed by Switzerland, is studying potential development in sustainable livelihoods. As elsewhere in the region, the effects of desertification comprise the most worrying threats to the site. Ramsar site no. 1381.

7/30/2004	July 2004 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (47 new references)
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Banciu, H., D. Y. Sorokin, R. Kleerebezem, G. Muyzer, E. A. Galinski, and J. G. Kuenen. 2004. Growth kinetics of haloalkaliphilic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thioalkalivibrio versutus strain ALJ 15 in continuous culture. Extremophiles 8: 185-192. Begin, Z. B., M. Stein, A. Katz, M. Machlus, A. Rosenfeld, B. Buchbinder, and Y. Bartov. 2004. Southward migration of rain tracks during the last glacial, revealed by salinity gradient in Lake Lisan (Dead Sea rift). Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 1627-1636. Benduhn, F., and P. Renard. 2004. A dynamic model of the Aral Sea water and salt balance. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 35-50. Camargo, W. N., J. S. Ely, G. M. Duran-Cobo, and P. Sorgeloos. 2004. Influence of some physicochemical parameters on Artemia biomass and cyst production in some thalassohaline aquatic environments in the Colombian Caribbean. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 35: 274-283. Connan, J., and A. Nissenbaum. 2004. The organic geochemistry of the Hasbeya asphalt (Lebanon): comparison with asphalts from the Dead Sea area and Iraq. Organic Geochemistry 35: 775-789. Coolen, M. J. L., G. Muyzer, W. I. C. Rijpstra, S. Schouten, J. K. Volkman, and J. S. S. Damste. 2004. Combined DNA and lipid analyses of sediments reveal changes in Holocene haptophyte and diatom populations in an Antarctic lake. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 223: 225-239. De Angelis, M., J. R. Petit, J. Savarino, R. Souchez, and M. H. Thiemens. 2004. Contributions of an ancient evaporitic-type reservoir to subglacial Lake Vostok chemistry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 222: 751-765. de Hoog, G. S., P. Zalar, C. Urzi, F. de Leo, N. A. Yurlova, and K. Sterflinger. 1999. Relationships of dothideaceous black yeasts and meristematic fungi based on 5.8S and ITS2 rDNA sequence comparison. Studies in Mycology: 31-37. Dupraz, C., P. T. Visscher, L. K. Baumgartner, and R. P. Reid. 2004. Microbe-mineral interactions: early carbonate precipitation in a hypersaline lake (Eleuthera Island, Bahamas). Sedimentology 51: 745-765. El-Barmawi, N., A. D. Baxevanis, T. J. Abatzopoulos, G. Van Stappen, and P. Sorgeloos. 2004. Salinity effects on survival, growth and morphometry of four Egyptian Artemia populations (International Study on Artemia. LXVII). Hydrobiologia 523: 175-188. Friedrich, J., and H. Oberhansli. 2004. Hydrochemical properties of the Aral Sea water in summer 2002. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 77-88. Genodepa, J., C. S. Zeng, and P. C. Southgate. 2004. Preliminary assessment of a microbound diet as an Artemia replacement for mud crab, Scylla serrata, megalopa. Aquaculture 236: 497-509. Giri, B. J., N. Bano, and J. T. Hollibaugh. 2004. Distribution of RuBisCO genotypes along a redox gradient in Mono Lake, California. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70: 3443-3448. Gunde-Cimerman, N., P. Zalar, S. de Hoog, and A. Plemenitas. 2000. Hypersaline waters in salterns - natural ecological niches for halophilic black yeasts. Fems Microbiology Ecology 32: 235-240. Hacene, H., F. Rafa, N. Chebhouni, S. Boutaiba, T. Bhatnagar, J. C. Barratti, and B. Ollivier. 2004. Biodiversity of prokaryotic microflora in E1 Golea Salt lake, Algerian Sahara. Journal of Arid Environments 58: 273-284. Hodak, E., A. B. Gottlieb, T. Segal, L. Maron, M. Lotem, M. Feinmesser, and M. David. 2004. An open trial of climatotherapy at the Dead Sea for patch-stage mycosis fungoides. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 51: 33-38. Jarsjo, J., and G. Destouni. 2004. Groundwater discharge into the Aral Sea after 1960. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 109-120. Khan, V. M., R. M. Vilfand, and P. O. Zavialov. 2004. Long-term variability of air temperature in the Aral sea region. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 25-33. Kostianoy, A., and W. Wiseman. 2004. Preface - 35th International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics - Liege, Belgium, May 5-10, 2003 - The Dying Aral Sea. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 1-2. Kouraev, A. V., F. Papa, N. M. Mognard, P. I. Buharizin, A. Cazenave, J. F. Cretaux, J. Dozortseva, and F. Remy. 2004. Sea ice cover in the Caspian and Aral Seas from historical and satellite data. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 89-100. Leenheer, J. A., T. I. Noyes, C. E. Rostad, and M. L. Davisson. 2004. Characterization and origin of polar dissolved organic matter from the Great Salt Lake. Biogeochemistry 69: 125-141. Liu, A., E. Garcia-Dominguez, E. D. Rhine, and L. Y. Young. 2004. A novel arsenate respiring isolate that can utilize aromatic substrates. Fems Microbiology Ecology 48: 323-332. Lyubartsev, V. G., V. L. Vladymyrov, and V. V. Myroshnychenko. 2004. Multidisciplinary marine environmental database for the Aral Sea. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 3-9. Ma, Z. B., Z. H. Wang, J. Q. Liu, B. Y. Yuan, J. L. Xiao, and G. P. Zhang. 2004. U-series chronology of sediments associated with Late Quaternary fluctuations, Balikun Lake, northwestern China. Quaternary International 121: 89-98. Ma, Y. H., Y. F. Xue, W. D. Grant, N. C. Collins, A. W. Duckworth, R. P. van Steenbergen, and B. E. Jones. 2004. Alkalimonas amylolytica gen. nov., sp nov., and Alkalimonas delamerensis gen. nov., sp nov., novel alkaliphilic bacteria from soda lakes in China and East Africa. Extremophiles 8: 193-200. Mirabdullayev, I. M., I. M. Joldasova, Z. A. Mustafaeva, S. Kazakhbaev, S. A. Lyubimova, and B. A. Tashmukhamedov. 2004. Succession of the ecosystems of the Aral Sea during its transition from oligohaline to polyhaline water body. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 101-107. Nambu, Z., S. Tanaka, and F. Nambu. 2004. Influence of photoperiod and temperature on reproductive mode in the brine shrimp, Artemia franciscana. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part a-Comparative Experimental Biology 301A: 542-546. Nezlin, N. P., A. G. Kostianoy, and S. A. Lebedev. 2004. Interannual variations of the discharge of Amu Darya and Syr Darya estimated from global atmospheric precipitation. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 67-75. Ni, A., B. Nurtayev, M. Petrov, A. Tikhanovskaya, and I. Tomashevskaya. 2004. The share of a glacial feeding in water balance of Aral Sea and Karakul Lake. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 143-146. Ntale, M., J. T. Nyangababo, and K. Schroeder. 2004. Drop amalgam voltammetric study of lead complexation by natural inorganic ligands in a salt lake. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia 18: 91-100. Pakzad, H. R., and R. Ajalloeian. 2004. Geochemistry of the Gavkhoni Playa lake brine. Carbonates and Evaporites 19: 67-74. Patra, S. K., and K. S. Mohamed. 2004. Enrichment of Artemia nauplii with the probiotic yeast Saccharomyces boulardii and its resistance against a pathogenic Vibrio (vol 11, pg 505, 2003). Aquaculture International 12. Peneva, E. L., E. V. Stanev, S. V. Stanychni, A. Salokhiddinov, and G. Stulina. 2004. The recent evolution of the Aral Sea level and water properties: analysis of satellite, gauge and hydrometeorological data. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 11-24. Pontes, C. S., and E. R. Andreatta. 2003. Effect of poliunsaturated fatty acid enriched Artemia franciscana nauplii on development of Farfantepenaeus paulensis shrimp post-larvae. Revista Brasileira De Zootecnia-Brazilian Journal of Animal Science 32: 1544-1550. Qiu, Z. J., R. I. Viner, T. H. MacRae, J. K. Willsie, and J. S. Clegg. 2004. A small heat shock protein from Artemia franciscana is phosphorylated at serine 50. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Proteins and Proteomics 1700: 75-83. Roberts, D., A. McMinn, H. Cremer, D. B. Gore, and M. Melles. 2004. The Holocene evolution and palaeosalinity history of Beall Lake, Windmill Islands (East Antarctica) using an expanded diatom-based weighted averaging model. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 208: 121-140. Salokhiddinnov, A. T., and Z. M. Khakimov. 2004. Ways the Aral Sea behaves. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 127-136. Shermatov, E., B. Nurtayev, U. Muhamedgalieva, and U. Shermatov. 2004. Analysis of water resources variability of the Caspian and Aral sea basins on the basis of solar activity. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 137-142. Sirjacobs, D., M. Gregoire, E. Delhez, and J. C. J. Nihoul. 2004. Influence of the Aral Sea negative water balance on its seasonal circulation patterns: use of a 3D hydrodynamic model. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 51-66. Stulina, G., and V. Sektimenko. 2004. The change in soil cover on the exposed bed of the Aral Sea. Journal of Marine Systems 47: 121-125. Tindall, B. J. 2004. Prokaryotic diversity in the Antarctic: The tip of the iceberg. Microbial Ecology 47: 271-283. Vazquez, G., M. E. Favila, R. Madrigal, C. M. del Olmo, A. Baltanas, and M. A. Bravo. 2004. Limnology of crater lakes in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico. Hydrobiologia 523: 59-70. Wang, G. X., W. Q. Tuo, and M. Y. 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7/29/2004	High mercury levels in Walker Lake's Loons (excerpted from Las Vegas Sun, Susan Snyder)
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Tests have shown the birds that rest on the central Nevada lake during migration have high concentrations of mercury in their blood, a U.S. Geological Survey report will say when it is released in about a month. "The concentration of mercury in the loons on Walker Lake was about twice the North American average," Mike Lico, a USGS scientist, said last week. Officials also tested water and sediment samples from the east and west forks of Walker River, the main segment of Walker River and Walker Lake. The water didn't show a significant mercury contamination, but the sediment did, Lico said. Tests in 1996 show the tui chub fish, on which the loons and the lake's Lahontan cutthroat trout subsist, already have higher-than-normal mercury levels. And conditions at Walker Lake are not improving. The lake that sits 10 miles north of Hawthorne on the east side of U.S. 95 faces a host of problems stemming from a constant drop in water level and a constant rise in minerals and salts called total dissolved solids, or TDS. A leftover from prehistoric Lake Lahontan, Walker Lake has no natural outflow and receives water only from snow melt into the Walker River. A century of farm irrigation upstream and a yearslong drought have depleted it 140 feet in the past 100 years. With no fresh water coming in or going out, the TDS level rises dangerously. The TDS level is nearing 17,000 parts per million, which is considered lethal to Lahontan cutthroat trout. The Nevada Department of Wildlife annually stocks Walker with fishery-raised trout. But 70 percent of last year's stock hasn't survived, and wildlife officials haven't decided whether they will stock trout again in March, Chris Healy, agency spokesman, said Friday. "Our concentration is keeping the fishery alive. The tui chub have had trouble reproducing. Statistically, they have really not reproduced at all," Healy said. "The mercury is a secondary issue. And it's not going to be any issue if we don't get some water." Without the tui chub, the loons that rest on Walker Lake's shores and inspire Hawthorne's annual spring loon festival will not have anything to eat. Wildlife officials counted 1,400 loons on the lake's shores in April 1997 and 1,000 in October that same year. In October 2002 the loons numbered 300 at Walker Lake, said Don McIvor, Nevada director of bird conservation for the National and Lahontan audubon society chapters. Mercury affects a loon's ability to reproduce. But Walker Lake's loons nest in Canada's remote interior, so no one knows whether the mercury is affecting reproduction, McIvor said.

7/2/2004	Biologists Uncover New Genus Of Bacteria In Washington Lake
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From DailyScience (5/25/04) The bacteria, “Nitrumincola lacisaponis,” was isolated from a sample of pink-tinted driftwood collected from the shore of Soap Lake by Dr. Melanie Mormile, an environmental microbiologist and associate professor of biological sciences at UMR. “While it is too early to know potential uses of this novel bacterium without further study, we’re excited about the rich microbial diversity of the lake,” Mormile said. With its high pH and salinity, Soap Lake is unique in comparison to other soda lakes in that it has not turned over in more than 2,000 years. Soap Lake’s shape and high bottom salt content prevent it from turning over, trapping those nutrients. “The bottom section of the lake contains so much salt it’s like syrup,” said Mormile. Through an enrichment process, Pedro Dimitriu, one of Mormile’s graduate students, found and isolated four colonies of bacteria from the pink driftwood sample. He then ran basic physiological studies and began genetic testing, extracting and sequencing the DNA of the bacteria samples. By running the sequenced DNA through a BLAST search (the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), a computer explored all available DNA sequence databases, comparing the sample to all known DNA sequences and allowed Dimitriu to determine that one of those colonies of bacteria was a new genus. Dimitriu believes his research has great ecological significance. In just this one sample tested, he found a new genus of bacteria. Dimitriu can only imagine what other biological treasures the lake may hold. “This lake is basically in the middle of the desert,” Dimitriu says. “Finding these new bacteria shows that rain forests aren’t the only sources of biodiversity that need to be protected. Soap Lake needs to be protected, and this will help prove it needs to be in the future.” The Soap Lake Microbial Observatory project is funded by a three-year, $850,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the unique community of life forms found throughout the stratified lake’s water column, including its dense lower layer. Mormile, Dr. Holly Pinkart, of Central Washington University and Dr. Brent Peyton of Washington State University are co-principal investigators. Mormile and Dimitriu also presented their findings at the annual meeting of the Soap Lake Conservancy in early May. In September, they will present more details on the microbial diversity of Soap Lake at technical conferences in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Chesapeake Bay, Va.

6/30/2004	June 2004 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (63 new references)
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Halomonas boliviensis sp nov., an alkalitolerant, moderate halophile isolated from soil around a Bolivian hypersaline lake. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 54: 721-725. Safaian, N., M. Shokri, and B. Jabbarian. 2004. Environmental impact assessment of development in the southern coast of the Caspian Sea (Northern Iran). Polish Journal of Environmental Studies 13: 319-323. Silipo, A., L. Sturiale, D. Garozzo, C. de Castro, R. Lanzetta, M. Parrilli, W. D. Grant, and A. Molinaro. 2004. Structure elucidation of the highly heterogeneous lipid A from the lipopolysaccharide of the gram-negative extremophile bacterium Halomonas magadiensis strain 21 m1. European Journal of Organic Chemistry: 2263-2271. Song, P., and Y. Yao. 2003. Thermodynamics and phase diagram of the salt lake brine system at 298.15 K - V. Model for the system Li+, Na+, K+, Mg2+/Cl-, SO42--H2O and its applications. Calphad-Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry 27: 343-352. Sorokin, D. Y., A. M. Lysenko, and L. L. Mityushina. 1996. Isolation and characterization of alkaliphilic chemoorganoheterotrophic bacteria oxidizing reduced inorganic sulfur compounds to tetrathionate. Microbiology 65: 326-338. Sorokin, D. Y., G. Muyzer, T. Brinkhoff, J. G. Kuenen, and M. S. M. Jetten. 1998. Isolation and characterization of a novel facultatively alkaliphilic Nitrobacter species, N-alkalicus sp. nov. Archives of Microbiology 170: 345-352. Sorokin, D. Y. 1998. On the possibility of nitrification in extremely alkaline soda biotopes. Microbiology 67: 335-339. Sorokin, D. Y., G. A. H. de Jong, L. A. Robertson, and G. J. Kuenen. 1998. Purification and characterization of sulfide dehydrogenase from alkaliphilic chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. Febs Letters 427: 11-14. Sorokin, D. Y., and L. L. Mityushina. 1998. Ultrastructure of alkaliphilic heterotrophic bacteria oxidizing sulfur compounds to tetrathionate. Microbiology 67: 78-85. Sorokin, D. Y., A. Cherepanov, S. de Vries, and G. J. Kuenen. 1999. Identification of cytochrome c oxidase in the alkaliphilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium 'Thioacalomicrobium aerophilum' strain AL 3. Fems Microbiology Letters 179: 91-99. Sorokin, D. Y., T. P. Tourova, and J. G. Kuenen. 2000. A new facultatively autotrophic hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing from an alkaline environment. Extremophiles 4: 237-245. Sorokin, D. Y., B. E. Jones, and J. G. Kuenen. 2000. An obligate methylotrophic, methane-oxidizing Methylomicrobium species from a highly alkaline environment. Extremophiles 4: 145-155. Sorokin, D. Y., L. A. Robertson, and J. G. Kuenen. 2000. Isolation and characterization of alkaliphilic, chemolithoautotrophic, sulphur-oxidizing bacteria. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology 77: 251-262. Sorokin, D. Y., T. P. Tourova, B. B. Kuznetsov, I. A. Bryantseva, and V. M. Gorlenko. 2000. 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P. Tourova, A. M. Lysenko, and J. G. Kuenen. 2001. Microbial thiocyanate utilization under highly alkaline conditions. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67: 528-538. Sorokin, D. Y., T. P. Tourova, T. V. Kolganova, K. A. Sjollema, and J. G. Kuenen. 2002. Thioalkalispira microaerophila gen. nov., sp nov., a novel lithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from a soda lake. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 52: 2175-2182. Sorokin, D. Y., V. M. Gorlenko, T. P. Tourova, A. Tsapin, K. H. Nealson, and G. J. Kuenen. 2002. Thioalkalimicrobium cyclicum sp nov and Thioalkalivibrio jannaschii sp nov., novel species of haloalkaliphilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from hypersaline alkaline Mono Lake (California). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 52: 913-920. Sorokin, D. Y., T. P. Tourova, A. M. Lysenko, L. L. Mityushina, and J. G. Kuenen. 2002. 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Complete denitrification in coculture of obligately chemolithoautotrophic haloalkaliphilic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from a hypersaline soda lake. Archives of Microbiology 180: 127-133. Wormald, R. J., F. D. Eckardt, J. Vearncombe, and S. Vearncombe. 2003. Spatial distribution analysis of pans in Botswana: The importance of structural control. South African Journal of Geology 106: 287-290. Zhou, K. X., M. Q. Xu, and X. C. Yin. 2003. Morphological characterization of sexual Artemia (Branchiopoda) from China. Crustaceana 76: 1331-1346.

6/14/2004	May 2004 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (39 new references)
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Ando, Y., H. Samoto, and Y. Murayama. 2004. Positional distribution of DHA and EPA in triacyl-sn-glycerols (TAG) of Artemia franciscana nauplii enriched with fish oils ethyl esters and TAG. Aquaculture 233: 321-335. Aragao, C., L. E. C. Conceicao, M. T. Dinis, and H. J. Fyhn. 2004. Amino acid pools of rotifers and Artemia under different conditions: nutritional implications for fish larvae. Aquaculture 234: 429-445. Bageshwar, U. K., L. Premkumar, I. Gokhman, T. Savchenko, J. L. Sussman, and A. Zamir. 2004. Natural protein engineering: a uniquely salt-tolerant, but not halophilic, alpha-type carbonic anhydrase from algae proliferating in low- to hyper-saline environments. Protein Engineering Design & Selection 17: 191-200. Baumhauer, R., E. Schulz, and S. Pomel. 2004. Environmental changes in the central Sahara during the Holocene- the mid-Holocane transition from freshwater lake into sebkha in the Segedim depression, NE Niger. Pages 31-45 in W. Smykatz-Kloss and P. Felix-Henningsen, eds. Palaeoecology of Quaternary Drylands. Springer, Berlin. Ben David-Novak, H., E. Morin, and Y. Enzel. 2004. Modern extreme storms and the rainfall thresholds for initiating debris flows on the hyperarid western escarpment of the Dead Sea, Israel. Geological Society of America Bulletin 116: 718-728. Bilio, M., and U. Niermann. 2004. Is the comb jelly really to blame for it all? Mnemiopsis leidyi and the ecological concerns about the Caspian Sea. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 269: 173-183. Bookman, R., Y. Enzel, A. Agnon, and M. Stein. 2004. Late Holocene lake levels of the Dead Sea. Geological Society of America Bulletin 116: 555-571. De Los Rios, P., and G. Gajardo. 2004. The brine shrimp Artemia (Crustacea; Anostraca): a model organism to evaluate management policies in aquatic resources. Revista Chilena De Historia Natural 77: 3-4. Demergasso, C., E. O. Casamayor, G. Chong, P. Galleguillos, L. Escudero, and C. Pedros-Alio. 2004. Distribution of prokaryotic genetic diversity in athalassohaline lakes of the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile. Fems Microbiology Ecology 48: 57-69. Farber, E., A. Vengosh, I. Gavrieli, A. Marie, T. D. Bullen, B. Mayer, R. Holtzman, M. Segal, and U. Shavit. 2004. The origin and mechanisms of salinization of the Lower Jordan River. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 68: 1989-2006. Felix- Henningsen, P. 2004. Genesis and paleo-ecological interpretation of swamp ore deposits at Sahara paleo-lakes of east Niger. Pages 47-72 in W. Smykatz-Kloss and P. Felix-Henningsen, eds. Palaeoecology of Quaternary Drylands. Springer, Berlin. Fitzsimmons, S., S. Saravanan, J. Walden, and G. Arthur. 2004. Effects of delay of onset of feeding and Artemia concentrations on the survival and growth of Stage I European lobsters, Homarus gammarus (Linnaeus). Aquaculture Research 35: 605-607. Grishkan, I., E. Nevo, and S. P. Wasser. 2004. Micromycetes from the saline Arubotaim Cave: Mount Sedom, the Dead Sea southwestern shore, Israel. Journal of Arid Environments 57: 431-443. Hashim, S. O., O. Delgado, R. Hatti-Kaul, F. J. Mulaa, and B. Mattiasson. 2004. Starch hydrolysing Bacillus halodurans isolates from a Kenyan soda lake. Biotechnology Letters 26: 823-828. Hodgson, D. A., W. Vyverman, and K. Sabbe. 2001. Limnology and biology of saline lakes in the Rauer Islands, eastern Antarctica. Antarctic Science 13: 255-270. Kazanci, N., T. Gulbabazadeh, S. A. G. Leroy, and O. Ileri. 2004. Sedimentary and environmental characteristics of the Gilan-Mazenderan plain, northern Iran: influence of long- and short-term Caspian water level fluctuations on geomorphology. Journal of Marine Systems 46: 145-168. Klein-BenDavid, O., E. Sass, and A. Katz. 2004. The evolution of marine evaporitic brines in inland basins: The Jordan-Dead Sea Rift valley. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 68: 1763-1775. Landmann, G., G. M. Abu Qudaira, K. Shawabkeh, V. Wrede, and S. Kempe. 2002. Geochemistry of the Lisan and Damya Formations in Jordan, and implications for palaeoclimate. Quaternary International 89: 45-57. Mihelakakis, A., C. Tsolkas, and T. Yoshimatsu. 2004. Optimization of Artemia metanauplii on growth and survival of gilthead sea bream larvae Sparas aurata. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 35: 87-93. Nicholls, K. H., and H. J. MacIsaac. 2004. Euryhaline, sand-dwelling, testate rhizopods in the Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 30: 123-132. Oremland, R. S., J. F. Stolz, and J. T. Hollibaugh. 2004. The microbial arsenic cycle in Mono Lake, California. Fems Microbiology Ecology 48: 15-27. Oren, A., I. Gavrieli, J. Gavrieli, M. Kohen, J. Lati, and M. Aharoni. 2004. Biological effects of dilution of Dead Sea brine with seawater: implications for the planning of the Red Sea-Dead Sea "Peace Conduit". Journal of Marine Systems 46: 121-131. Owen, R. B., R. W. Renaut, V. C. Hover, G. M. Ashley, and A. M. 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Verleyen, A. Taton, A. Wilmotte, K. Vanhoutte, and W. Vyverman. 2004. Salinity, depth and the structure and composition of microbial mats in continental Antarctic lakes. Freshwater Biology 49: 296-319. Sapozhnikova, Y., O. Bawardi, and D. Schlenk. 2004. Pesticides and PCBs in sediments and fish from the Salton Sea, California, USA. Chemosphere 55: 797-809. Schutt, B. 2004. The chemistry of playa-lake-sediments as a tool for the reconstruction of Holocene environmental conditions- a case study from the central Ebro basin. Pages 5-30 in W. Smykatz-Kloss and P. Felix-Henningsen, eds. Palaeoecology of Quaternary Drylands. Springer, Berlin. Sinha, R., and B. C. Raymahashay. 2004. Evaporite mineralogy and geochemical evolution of the Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan, India. Sedimentary Geology 166: 59-71. —. 2004. Evaporite mineralogy and geochemical evolution of the Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan, India. Sedimentary Geology 166: 59-71. Smith, M., and J. S. Compton. 2004. 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5/10/2004	Extremophiles 2004 - Chesapeake Bay
Contacts	www.asm.org/Meetings/index.asp?bid-19177	orena@shum.cc.huji.ac.il
The meeting "Extremophiles 2004" will be held from September 19-23 in Cambridge, MD on the shore of Chesapeake Bay. It will deal with all aspects of life in extreme environments, including halophilic life. Deadline for the submission of abstracts is May 14.

5/10/2004	April 2004 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (77 new references)
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5/10/2004	Halophiles 2004 - Ljubljana
Contacts	www.uni-lj.si/~bfbhaloph/index.html	orena@shum.cc.huji.ac.il
More than 100 abstracts of contributed papers have thus far been submitted for the Halophiles 2004 meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 4-9. The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to May 17, so it is still possible to submit abstracts for short oral contributions or poster presentations. The program of the meeting can be found on the web site www.uni-lj.si/~bfbhaloph/index.html (for a pdf version of the program look under "Call for Abstracts").

5/7/2004	Scientists corral, band and release over 300 threatened flamingoes for research
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NEW YORK, NY MAY 7, 2004 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- With South America's Mars-like Altiplano region serving as a surreal back-drop, a group of scientists from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) recently braved frigid temperatures, high winds, and altitudes of over 11,000 feet to fit bands on 300 threatened James' flamingoes chicks. Working in Eduardo Avaroa Faunal Reserve in southern Bolivia, the banding effort is part of a multi-nation study on flamingo movements and population dynamics. Collecting hundreds of birds at a time proved challenging for the scientists. They built a large funnel and a "flamingo corral" with wooden stakes and plastic sheeting, then rounded up a large group of chicks, which gather in flocks of several hundred birds called crèches. "Two groups set out, one on each side of the group of chicks, fanned out, then herded them into the funnel," said Dr. Felicity Arengo, WCS assistant director of Latin America Programs. "There was some chaos and running around while we were herding the birds, but once they were in the pen they calmed down." After the chicks were rounded up, each was weighed, measured, and fitted with a plastic numbered tag that will allow scientists to identify individuals, before being released. Blood samples were taken from 70 of the largest chicks to record baseline data on their health. For the past three years, WCS has participated in the banding project, fitting over 500 flamingoes with bands. Both James' and Andean flamingoes are considered vulnerable with total populations estimated at 64,000 and 34,000 respectively. Since 1997, WCS has worked with local partners in flamingo research and conservation, because habitat is becoming more and more impacted by mining and other human activities. The windswept Altiplano region that spans Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Argentina is recognized as one of the world's most inhospitable regions, with extreme dry weather, blistering sunshine and caustic salt lakes dotting the landscape. For flamingoes however, the lakes are rich in microscopic food, while the surrounding wetlands make a perfect breeding ground. "Most people think of flamingoes as delicate birds that live on tropical beaches and palm trees," said Arengo. "In reality these are extremely tough animals adapted to some of the most rugged conditions on earth."

5/7/2004	Important Bird Areas designated at Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA
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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH May 7, 2004 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- The Utah Important Bird Areas (IBA) program, which operates under the auspices of the National Audubon Society, has added ten new IBA sites in Utah: The five major bays on Great Salt Lake - Farmington, Ogden, Bear River, Gilbert (or South Arm), and Gunnison (or North Arm); Provo and Goshen Bay on Utah Lake; Cutler Marsh-Amalga Barrens in Cache County; the Upper Strawberry Watershed in Wasatch County; and, Lytle Preserve in Washington County. These ten new sites add to the five sites recognized last year at this time: Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Ouray National Wildlife Refuge, Deseret Land and Livestock Ranch, Fremont River within Capitol Reef National Park, and Clear Lake Waterfowl Management Area. The announcement comes on the eve of International Migratory Bird Day (May 8, 2004), which highlights the perils and journeys of migratory birds. The announcement also occurs during National Wetlands Month. Important Bird Areas are sites that provide essential habitat for one or more species of bird, and meet criteria established by Utah's IBA Technical Team, which includes many of the state's leading ornithologists. "The IBA program is an excellent way to identify critical areas for birds across the world and in Utah," declares Val Grant, president of Bridgerland Audubon Society and chair of Utah's IBA Technical Team. "The inclusion of specific properties grants no management authority nor enables any landowner restrictions from the IBA program. But by working cooperatively with landowners, the hope is that the areas can continue to be monitored and conserved for the future." Eight of the new IBAs focus mostly on the Great Salt Lake and the Greater Great Salt Lake Watershed. The valuable habitats include the open water of Great Salt Lake, the freshwater at the wildlife management areas, mudflats, playas, riparian areas and uplands. The Upper Strawberry Watershed and Lytle Preserve accentuate the tremendous variety in habitats that are important for birds in Utah - from a high mountain valley and reservoir dominated by sagebrush steppe, mountain riparian, aspen forest and conifer forest to Mojavian Desert, lowland riparian and desert scrub. The eight IBAs in the Greater Great Salt Lake Watershed are being nominated primarily for their value to a tremendous variety and number of waterbirds. The following provides counts for just one bird for each area: 81,927 American Avocets at Farmington Bay; 335,051 Wilson's Phalaropes at Ogden Bay; 200,818 Green-winged Teal at Bear River Bay; 24,154 American White Pelicans at Gunnison Bay; and 778,260 Eared Grebes at Gilbert Bay. Survey data also shows 12,261 Mallards at Provo Bay, 1,390 White-faced Ibis at Goshen Bay, and 30 Great Blue Herons at Cutler Marsh-Amalga Barrens The other two nominations also host a variety of birds including birds that are listed as Utah State Sensitive Species and/or Utah Partners in Flight Priority Species. The Upper Strawberry Watershed provides habitat for more than 100 Greater Sage-Grouse, while Lytle Preserve is home to roughly 100 Gamble's Quails. In addition to being State Important Bird Areas, each of the five bays of Great Salt Lake will also be nominated as Globally Important Bird Area sites. One criterion for becoming a global IBA is to have more than 1 percent of the world's population of a particular bird species. Each bay of the Great Salt Lake easily fulfills this global criterion. There are more than 20 species that have more than 1 percent of their world population on various bays of the Great Salt Lake including: Tundra Swan, Cinnamon Teal, White-faced Ibis, and Marbled Godwit. A good way to find out more is to attend the Great Salt Lake Bird Festival coming up on May 14-22, www.greatsaltlakebirdfest.com. The IBA Program is designed to be proactive, voluntary, science-based, and credible. The Utah program connects to other IBA sites throughout the U.S. through the National Audubon Society, and the world through BirdLife International. Additional information about the national program can be found at www.audubon.org/bird/iba. Wayne Martinson, Utah Important Bird Areas Coordinator for Audubon states, "The 15 announced IBA sites provide a good base for the statewide IBA program. We look forward to designating additional IBAs in Utah in the future." Audubon is dedicated to protecting birds and other wildlife and the habitat that supports them. Our national network of community-based nature centers and chapters, scientific and educational programs, and advocacy on behalf of areas sustaining important bird populations, engage millions of people of all ages and backgrounds in positive conservation experiences.

4/14/2004	Mongolia names five new Ramsar sites including Lake Uvs, the largest salt lake in Mongolia
Contacts	ramsar.org/w.n.mongolia_five.htm
Lake Uvs and its surrounding wetlands. 22/03/04; Uvs Province; 585,000 ha; 50°20'N E 092°45'E. UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The largest saline lake in Mongolia with a small part lying in Russia, a unique wetland in desert-steppe landscape fringed by high mountain ranges; it has a maximum depth of 20m and freezes over from November to May. With reedbeds and river deltas it provides significant nesting and resting areas for 215 migratory waterbird species such as White-headed Duck (Oxyura leucocephala), Swan Goose (Anser cygnoides), both 'endangered' in the Red List of IUCN, and many other nationally and globally threatened flora and fauna species including endemic fish Oreoleuciscus potanini, Oreoleuciscus pewzowi, Oreoleuciscus humilis, are supported. Some nomadic families live along the shorelines using wetlands as pasture and watering points. A joint transboundary protected area is planned in cooperation with Russian authorities. The potential exists for recreation and birdwatching and a management plan is in preparation. Ramsar site no. 1379. (Photo above: courtesy of WWF International/Anton Vorauer)

3/31/2004	UK designates a salt lake (Akrotiri) and marsh in Cyprus as a Ramsar Site
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Akrotiri. 20/03/03; Cyprus (Western Sovereign Base Area); 2,171 ha; 34°37'N 032°58'E. The largest aquatic system in Cyprus, located on Akrotiri Peninsula, the southernmost part of the island. Also listed as an Important Bird Area, the site is of a special European interest because it presents 11 natural habitat types listed in annex 1 of the European Commission Habitats Directive and 45 bird species included on Annex 1 of the EC Birds Directive, and it supports 13 endemic species of plant such as Ophrys kotschyi. It is composed of two distinct areas that are hydrologically connected - the first and largest area is the salt lake and sand flats situated in the centre of the peninsula. Over the past three centuries, this former lagoon has been isolated from the sea and a number of saltmarsh vegetation communities now surround the lake. A eucalyptus forest borders the northern side of the lake and is an important raptor roosting area. The second distinct area, northeast of the salt lake, is the Fassouri marshes made up of a matrix of freshwater habitat types, including grazing marsh and reedbeds. Rain water is the key hydrological input for both areas, though the lake does get occasional input from the sea during storms. The site is part of the UK RAF military Sovereign Base Area; a management plan is under development with local stakeholders. Ramsar Site no. 1375.

3/30/2004	March 2004 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (30 new references)
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Agamaliev, F. G., and I. A. Suleimanova. 2004. New data on infusorian fauna of microbenthos from the northern Absheron Bay and adjacent islands of the Caspian Sea. Zoologichesky Zhurnal 83: 5-12. Altunkaynak, A., M. Ozger, and Z. Sen. 2003. Triple diagram model of level fluctuations in Lake Van, Turkey. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 7: 235-244. Bailey, S. A., I. C. Duggan, C. D. A. Van Overdijk, T. H. Johengen, D. F. Reid, and H. J. MacIsaac. 2004. Salinity tolerance of diapausing eggs of freshwater zooplankton. Freshwater Biology 49: 286-295. Bezrodnykh, Y. P., B. F. Romanyuk, S. V. Deliya, R. D. Magomedov, V. M. Sorokin, O. B. Parunin, and E. V. Babak. 2004. Biostratigraphy and structure of the Upper Quaternary deposits and some paleogeographic features of the North Caspian region. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 12: 102-111. Bossier, P., X. M. Wang, F. Catania, S. Dooms, G. Van Stappen, E. Naessens, and P. Sorgeloos. 2004. An RFLP database for authentication of commercial cyst samples of the brine shrimp Artemia spp. (International Study on Artemia LXX). Aquaculture 231: 93-112. Braby, M. F., and F. Douglas. 2004. The taxonomy, ecology and conservation status of the Golden-rayed Blue: a threatened butterfly endemic to western Victoria, Australia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 81: 275-299. Bradbury, J. P., S. M. Colman, and W. E. Dean. 2004. Limnological and climatic environments at Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon during the past 45,000 years. Journal of Paleolimnology 31: 167-188. Brennwald, M. S., F. Peeters, D. M. Imboden, S. Giralt, M. Hofer, D. M. Livingstone, S. Klump, K. Strassmann, and R. Kipfer. 2004. Atmospheric noble gases in lake sediment pore water as proxies for environmental change. Geophysical Research Letters 31. Brix, K. V., D. K. DeForest, R. D. Cardwell, and W. J. Adams. 2004. Derivation of a chronic site-specific water quality standard for selenium in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23: 606-612. Cristescu, M. E. A., J. D. S. Witt, I. A. Grigorovich, P. D. N. Hebert, and H. J. MacIssac. 2004. Dispersal of the Ponto-Caspian amphipod Echinogammarus ischnus: invasion waves from the Pleistocene to the present. Heredity 92: 197-203. De Wolf, H., T. Backejau, and R. Blust. 2004. Sensitivity to cadmium along a salinity gradient in populations of the periwinkle, Littorina littorea, using time-to-death analysis. Aquatic Toxicology 66: 241-253. Devin, S., C. Piscart, J. N. Beisel, and J. C. Moreteau. 2004. Life history traits of the invader Dikerogammarus villosus (Crustacea : Amphipoda) in the Moselle River, France. International Review of Hydrobiology 89: 21-34. DeVogel, S. B., J. W. Magee, W. F. Manley, and G. H. Miller. 2004. A GIS-based reconstruction of late Quaternary paleohydrology: Lake Eyre, arid central Australia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 204: 1-13. Fritz, S. C., P. A. Baker, T. K. Lowenstein, G. O. Seltzer, C. A. Rigsby, G. S. Dwyer, P. M. Tapia, K. K. Arnold, T. L. Ku, and S. D. Luo. 2004. Hydrologic variation during the last 170,000 years in the southern hemisphere tropics of South America. Quaternary Research 61: 95-104. Gomez-Gil, B., F. L. Thompson, C. C. Thompson, A. Garcia-Gasca, A. Roque, and J. Swings. 2004. Vibrio hispanicus sp nov., isolated from Artemia sp and sea water in Spain. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 54: 261-265. Haase-Schramm, A., S. L. Goldstein, and M. Stein. 2004. U-Th dating of Lake Lisan (late Pleistocene Dead Sea) aragonite and implications for glacial East Mediterranean climate change. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 68: 985-1005. He, D. K., Y. F. Chen, Y. Y. Chen, and Z. M. Chen. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of the specialized schizothoracine fishes (Teleostei : Cyprinidae), with their implications for the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Science Bulletin 49: 39-48. Honninger, G., N. Bobrowski, E. R. Palenque, R. Torrez, and U. Platt. 2004. Reactive bromine and sulfur emissions at Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. Geophysical Research Letters 31. Karpinskii, M. G. 2004. Benthos biocoenoses in the middle and South Caspian Sea (vol 43, pg 376, 2003). Oceanology 44: CP2-CP2. —. 2004. Distribution of benthic trophic groups in the middle and South Caspian Sea (vol 42, pg 239, 2002). Oceanology 44: CP2-CP2. Legesse, D., C. Vallet-Coulomb, and F. Gasse. 2004. Analysis of the hydrological response of a tropical terminal lake, Lake Abiyata (Main Ethiopian Rift Valley) to changes in climate and human activities. Hydrological Processes 18: 487-504. Mankinen, E. A., and C. M. Wentworth. 2004. Mono lake excursion recorded in sediment of the Santa Clara Valley, California. 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Molecular resolution of the family Dreissenidae (Mollusca : Bivalvia) with emphasis on Ponto-Caspian species, including first report of Mytilopsis leucophaeata in the Black Sea basin. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 479-489. Vismara, R., S. Vestri, A. M. Frassanito, L. Barsanti, and P. Gualtieri. 2004. Stress resistance induced by paramylon treatment in Artemia sp. Journal of Applied Phycology 16: 61-67. Vostokov, S. V., V. B. Ushivtsev, B. E. Lisitsyn, and D. M. Solov'ev. 2004. The summer state of the ctenophore population Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Caspian Sea and its relation to the environmental conditions. Oceanology 44: 90-98. Gasol, J. M., E. O. Casamayor, I. Joint, K. Garde, K. Gustavson, S. Benlloch, B. Diez, M. Schauer, R. Massana, and C. Pedrs-Alio. 2004. Control of heterotrophic prokaryotic abundance and growth rate in hypersaline planktonic environments. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 34: 193-206.

3/29/2004	Stopgap river water transfer to help dying Walker Lake, Nevada, USA
Contacts
ASSOCIATED PRESS - Brendon Riley 3/27/2004 11:24 pm Northern Nevada’s Walker Lake, dying a slow death because of drought, evaporation and upstream agriculture along the Walker River, is getting some relief as a result of a federal judge’s approval of a temporary river water transfer. Gov. Kenny Guinn said Thursday the stopgap transfer, approved by U.S. District Judge Edward Reed, will provide 13,588 acre-feet of water for the lake. The water release, which started Tuesday at Bridgeport Reservoir, will be held at Weber Dam closer to the lake and released later in a surge that could reach the lake in a few weeks. Guinn called the transfer a “productive step” while federal, state and local groups continue to work on solutions to Walker Lake’s shrinking water levels — about 140 feet lower than its level in the early 1900s. Biologists say the lake is nearing the point where it won’t be able to support fish. “We know this is a temporary transfer, but we are hopeful that continued negotiations will result in a long-term solution,” Guinn added. The court order is effective through next October. Terry Crawforth, the state’s wildlife chief, said the transferred water would normally go to wetlands in the state-owned Mason Valley Wildlife Management Area near Yerington. “Drought has really forced this issue, and with the Walker Lake ecosystem … on the verge of collapse, we felt it was critical to act,” Crawforth added. Walker Lake is a remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan, which once covered much of the Great Basin. It’s fed by the Walker River that begins in the Sierra Nevada in California. Besides the loss of river water to upstream water users, the lake loses about four feet of water every year to evaporation, which increases the concentration of salts and other impurities in what’s left. Rich Haskins, fisheries chief for the state Department of Wildlife, said any water will help to reduce excessive salinity and alkalinity in Walker Lake. The agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raise threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout in hatcheries for stocking in Walker Lake. But many of the fish die because of the increasing salinity. Water tests conducted in December by the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection showed the lake’s level of total dissolved salts and other solids at more than 15,000 parts per million, up from 13,000 just two years before. Levels of 16,000 ppm are lethal to most cutthroat. Salt levels also threaten the tui chub, whose ability to reproduce falls off dramatically when salinity rises above 12,000 ppm, according to the Wildlife Department. The small fish is the prime food source for cutthroat, as well as for loons and other migratory birds and waterfowl that flock to the lake in huge numbers. Two years ago, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., organized a summit of some 300 state and local officials, tribal leaders, scientists, environmentalists and farmers to seek solutions. That led to mediation talks among all the users. Those negotiations have been under way for about a year, though participants can’t discuss details under a confidentiality agreement.

3/10/2004	February 2004 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (69 new references)
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3/10/2004	Human Impacts on Lake Ecosystems Workshop, Mildura, AUS : 30 September - 3 October 2004
Contacts	www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/ecrc/limpacs/	john.tibby@adelaide.edu.au
I am writing on behalf of the organising committee of the inaugural IGBP-LIMPACS (Human Impacts on Lake Ecosystems) workshop on 'Salinity, Climate Change and Salinisation' to be held in Mildura,Australia, from 30 Sept - 3 October, 2004. We would like to gauge your interest in having the papers presented at this meeting published as a special issue of Hydrobiologia. The aim of the meeting is to bring together saline lake specialists from around the world to address the issue of understanding human induced threats to the health of salt lakes (particularly those resulting from climate change and salinisation). As with other LIMPACS initiatives (see http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/ecrc/limpacs/), although there is a strong emphasis on the use of palaeoenvironmental records to address these issues, we have also invited world leading modellers of saline lake processes and specialists in saline lake biology. This is an invitation-only meeting to set up a working group and to establish global research priorities. We content that, as such, the quality of the papers will be high and their scope broad. Invitees who have demonstrated a strong interest include: Barker, Phil, Dr. (University of Lanscater, UK) Bowler, Jim, Prof. (University of Melbourne, Australia) Chivas, Alan, Prof. (University of Wollongong, Australia) Gasse, Francoise, Prof. (French National Center for Scientific Research, Aix en Provence)Laird, Kate, Dr. (Queens University, Canada)Leavitt, Peter, Prof. (University of Regina, Canada)Metcalfe, Sarah, Prof. (Nottingham University, UK)Ryves, David, Dr. (Loughborough University, UK)Verschuren, Dirk, Dr. (Ghent University, Belgium). While the organising committee consists of: Prof Rick Battarbee (University College London) Prof Sheri Fritz (University of Nebraska, USA) Dr Peter Gell (University of Adelaide, Australia) Dr Jennie Fluin (University of Adelaide, Australia) I hope that you will view our request positively. I am happy to address any questions you have about the proposed special issue. Yours sincerely, Dr John Tibby ARC Research Associate Geographical and Environmental Studies Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Adelaide SA 5005 Room 907, Napier Building Work phone: +61 8 8303-5146 Mobile phone: 0423 085 728 Fax: +61 8 8303-3772 e-mail address john.tibby@adelaide.edu.au http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/socialsciences/people/ges/jtibby.html http://www.adelaide.edu.au/diatoma/

3/2/2004	Special Prepublication offer on DPER books
Contacts	home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~mlast/paleolim/dper.html	Bill Last (wm_last@umanitoba.ca)
Greetings colleagues (apologies for the cross-posting) We are very pleased to announce a special (temporary) PRE-PUBLICATION offer for the purchase of the next three volumes of the DPER (Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research) Series. Volumes 6 through 8, scheduled to be published this September, are NOW available for order at the special price of $55US (Euro50) per book! Please see details of this special offer at the DPER Web site (http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~mlast/paleolim/dper.html) This offer is available only for credit card purchases, and the special order form (available at the above web site) must be completed and returned to Kluwer at the address or fax given on the form. The titles/editors of these three volumes Volume 8: Long-Term Environmental Change in Arctic and Antarctic Lakes Edited by R. Pienitz, M. S. V. Douglas and J. P. Smol Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-2125-9, ~500 pages Volume 7: Image Analysis, Sediments and Paleoenvironments Edited by P. Francus Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-2061-9, 338 pages Volume 6: Past Climate Variability through Europe and Africa Edited by R. W. Battarbee, F. Gasse and C. E. Stickley Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-2120-8, ~600 pages The detailed table of contents for these books are available at the web site above. Stocks of Volumes 1 through 4 in this Series are depleted and these books are currently being reprinted; they should be available in late March, 2004. Please contact us or Ms. Judith Terpos (e-mail: Judith.Terpos@wkap.nl) if you have any questions. Bill Last and John Smol William M. Last, P.Geo.,FGSA Professor, Department of Geological Sciences Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Paleolimnology University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada R3T 2N2 Office telephone: (204) 474-8361 Fax: (204) 474-7623 Internet: WM_Last@UManitoba.ca Home Page: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~mlast/

2/10/2004	SIL: Special Session on Saline Lakes -- Abstracts Due 29 February 2004
Contacts	www.palmenia.helsinki.fi/congress/SIL2004/	jellison@lifesci.ucsb.edu
INLAND SALINE LAKES: BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION, AND MANAGEMENT Inland saline lakes are widespread throughout the arid and sub-arid regions of the world and constitute ~45% of the volume of inland waters. They include a diverse array of aquatic ecosystems of considerable ecological importance, especially to migrating and breeding birds and endemic species. They are also threatened throughout the world by an array of impacts. While the limnology of saline lakes shares much with their freshwater counterparts, this session will address biodiversity, conservation, and management issues specific to saline lakes. ROBERT JELLISON, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A. (jellison@lifesci.ucsb.edu)

2/10/2004	January 2004 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (28 new references)
Contacts
Bahgat, G. 2004. The Caspian Sea: Potentials and prospects. Governance-an International Journal of Policy and Administration 17: 115-126. Baylon, J. C., M. E. A. Bravo, and N. C. Maningo. 2004. Ingestion of Brachionus plicatilis and Artemia salina nauplii by mud crab Scylla serrata larvae. Aquaculture Research 35: 62-70. Benson, L., S. Lund, R. Negrini, B. Linsley, and M. Zic. 2003. Response of North American Great Basin Lakes to Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations. Quaternary Science Reviews 22: 2239-2251. Blum, D. W. 2003. Perspectives on the Caspian Sea dilemma: A framing comment. Eurasian Geography and Economics 44: 617-622. Brouwer, G. 2003. Corps approves devils lake diversion. Civil Engineering 73: 18-19. Burke, M. 2004. Protecting the Caspian Sea. Environmental Science & Technology 38: 33A-33A. Closson, D., N. Abou Karaki, M. J. Hussein, H. Al-Fugha, A. Ozer, and A. Mubarak. 2003. Subsidence and sinkholes along the Jordanian coast of the Dead Sea: contribution of gravitnetry and radar differential interferornetry. Comptes Rendus Geoscience 335: 869-879. Copf, T., N. Rabet, S. E. Celniker, and M. Averof. 2003. Posterior patterning genes and the identification of a unique body region in the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana. Development 130: 5915-5927. dos Santos, V. M. R., J. B. N. DaCosta, and C. M. R. Sant'Anna. 2004. Synthesis, characterization, molecular modeling and biological activity against Artemia salina of new symmetrical bisphosphoramidates. Phosphorus Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements 179: 173-184. Eads, B. D., and S. C. Hand. 2003. Mitochondrial mRNA stability and polyadenylation during anoxia-induced quiescence in the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana. Journal of Experimental Biology 206: 3681-3692. Guevara, M., and C. Lodeiros. 2003. Biochemical composition of nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia sp (Crustacea, Anostraca) from the Araya saltworks, northeastern Venezuela. Ciencias Marinas 29: 655-663. Hart, E. A., and J. R. Lovvorn. 2003. Algal vs. macrophyte inputs to food webs of inland saline wetlands. Ecology 84: 3317-3326. Mees, F. 2003. Salt mineral distribution patterns in soils of the Otjomongwa pan, Namibia. Catena 54: 425-437. Mercier, L., C. Audet, J. de la Noue, B. Parent, C. C. Parrish, and N. W. Ross. 2004. First feeding of winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) larvae: use of Brachionus plicatilis acclimated at low temperature as live prey. Aquaculture 229: 361-376. Mojtahed-Zadeh, P., and M. R. Hafeznia. 2003. Perspectives on the Caspian Sea dilemma: An Iranian construct. Eurasian Geography and Economics 44: 607-616. Rabinowitz, P. D., M. Z. Yusifov, J. Arnoldi, and E. Hakim. 2004. Geology, oil and gas potential, pipelines, and the geopolitics of the Caspian Sea region. Ocean Development and International Law 35: 19-40. Rimmer, A., and G. Gal. 2003. Estimating the saline springs component in the solute and water balance of Lake Kinneret, Israel. Journal of Hydrology 284: 228-243. Roshier, D. A., and R. M. Rumbachs. 2004. Broad-scale mapping of temporary wetlands in arid Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 56: 249-263. Roychoudhury, A. N. 2004. Sulfate respiration in extreme environments: A kinetic study. Geomicrobiology Journal 21: 33-43. Saivetz, C. R. 2003. Perspectives on the Caspian Sea dilemma: Russian policies since the Soviet demise. Eurasian Geography and Economics 44: 588-606. Senler, N. G., K. Bicek, A. Gul, and S. Deger. 2003. A note on endoparasitic fauna in gulls around Lake Van region. Indian Veterinary Journal 80: 830-831. Shadrin, N. V., and V. A. Crintsov. 2003. Hypersaline lake - a new biotope for Oechestia gammarella (Pallas, 1766) (Amphipoda). Marine Ecological J. 2: 80. Shadrin, N. V., and O. G. Naidanova. 2002. Bottom cyanobacteria in hypersaline water bodies of the Crimea. Ecologia moria (in Russian) 61: 36-39. Shapawi, R., and G. J. Purser. 2003. The value of enriched Artemia in supporting growth and survival of juvenile pot-bellied seahorses Hippocampus abdominalis. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 34: 533-541. Shirdhankar, M. M., P. C. Thomas, and S. K. Barve. 2004. Phenotypic estimates and heritability values of Artemia franciscana. Aquaculture Research 35: 35-39. Smith, G. G., A. J. Ritar, and M. R. Brown. 2004. Uptake and metabolism of a particulate form of ascorbic acid by Artemia nauplii and juveniles. Aquaculture Nutrition 10: 1-8. Vargas, V. A., O. D. Delgado, R. Hatti-Kaul, and B. Mattiasson. 2004. Lipase-producing microorganisms from a Kenyan alkaline soda lake. Biotechnology Letters 26: 81-86. Wyrwoll, K.-H., and P. Valdes. 2003. Insolation forcing of the Australian monsoon as controls of Pleistocene mega-lake events. Geophysical Research Letters 30: 2279.

1/27/2004	Syria completes community participation project for Al Jaboul Lake, a small permanent saline lake
Contacts	ramsar.org/sgf_rpts_syria1.htm
We are very pleased to report that the Syrian Arab Republic has completed the SGF 2001 project dedicated to 'Strengthening the participation of local community in the management of Al-Jaboul Lake'. As Atef Deib, the Ramsar National Coordinator and coordinator of the project, reports, the principal objective of this project was to encourage the active and informed participation of local communities in the conservation and wise use of this wetland. The outputs achieved are twofold. First, the personnel of the Ministry of Irrigation have been trained in areas related to wetland management and particularly the participatory practices; and second, the local communities (including women and children) have increased the level of understanding of the impacts from existing activities on the lake's environment, activities that are carried out by stakeholders whose livelihood depends on the resources provided by the wetland, including the local industry, agriculture, hunters and fishermen. Liazzat Rabbiosi, Ramsar's Assistant Advisor for Asia, has prepared a brief report on the project, accompanied by some very nice photos of the salinas or salt works and other village livelihoods, the darling little children’s groups, and the site itself – you’ll find that at http://ramsar.org/sgf_rpts_syria1.htm.

1/27/2004	Flamingo Lakes of Kenya Explored
Contacts
LEICESTER, UK, January 27, 2004 (ENS) - The University of Leicester, in association with Earthwatch Institute Europe, has received Darwin Initiative funding from the British government for three years to further the conservation of lesser flamingo and Kenya's Lake Bogoria National Reserve, a wetland of international importance designated under the Ramsar Convention. The Darwin Initiative provides a means of mobilizing British expertise, in partnership with conservationists from developing countries worldwide, to help safeguard the Earth's biodiversity. Earthwatch programs team amateur volunteers with scientists to further research and exploration. Project leader Dr. David Harper is a senior lecturer in ecology in the Biology Department at the University of Leicester. He has been leading teams of ecologists to study Rift Valley lakes for 20 years. He started working at Bogoria in 2000 and Baringo in 2001. In 2000, Lake Bogoria was designated as a Ramsar wetland. This status requires the development of a conservation management plan, but there is little scientific information concerning the lake's ecology to aid this process. The lake is a vital feeding site for the threatened lesser flamingo, Phoeniconaias minor, and an important Kenyan site for the black-necked grebe, Podiceps nigricollis, and Cape teal, Anas capensis. The lake often holds more than 90 percent of the total number of both species found in Kenya. Dr. Harper says understanding the interaction between these species and between them and the lake ecology is critical to their conservation and development of a sound management plan for Lake Bogoria. The cornerstone of the scientific research is the monthly research expeditions to the three key flamingo lakes in Kenya - Bogoria, Nakuru and Elmenteita. Never before has the ecology of these three lakes been studied concurrently. The research will be carried out by staff from the project's scientific partners in Kenya - Lake Bogoria National Reserve, National Museums of Kenya Ornithology Department, University of Nairobi Zoology Department, Kenya Wildlife Services Naivasha Training Institute, WWF, and Delamere Estates. Theories about why lesser flamingos move between these lakes in an unpredictable manner can now be tested. Some scientists think that it is a decline in food quality at one lake that triggers movement; others think it is a change in environmental stressors. Scientists will attempt to answer some of their questions about lesser flamingos utilizing satellites to track the birds. Dr. Brooks Childress, who is leading the flamingo study, is a research associate of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and at the National Museums of Kenya. He has tagged seven birds to learn their movement patterns. More information about the funding partnerships that have led to satellite-tracking of Kenyan lesser flamingos, as well as the individual birds' movements, are on the WWT website at: http//www.wwt.org.uk. Scientists will try to understand why the lesser flamingos die in large numbers at irregular intervals. They will build up an understanding of the biology of the bird in health, so that a database of knowledge exists when another die-off occurs. They will study body mass, blood cell volume, proportion of different white blood cells and total parasite load. The Darwin Initiative will fund the more expensive analysis, both of blood and environmental samples such as water and sediment from the lakes, in the UK. The Darwin project will identify the essential lake ecosystem properties that sustain these water birds and collect the baseline data needed to help understand the birds' response to changes in these properties. A field laboratory will be established, and the results will also be translated and disseminated to local communities living around the lake who will be responsible for its conservation. The training component funded by the Darwin Project can be seen as an educational pyramid, with formal university training of a few core partners at the pinnacle, leading down to a base stretching out to all the inhabitants of the area of Lake Bogoria through their schools. Five individuals will receive university training under the Lifelong Learning programme at Leicester. Two will be trained to Masters level in biodiversity. Three more will be trained at undergraduate level in ecology and conservation. Nine Kenyans will be invited to apply to fully participate in the Earthwatch research teams at one per team, and 120 Kenyan undergraduate students and scientists will be invited to apply for weeklong workshops. The famous ornithologist, Leslie Brown, who discovered the flamingo breeding site at Lake Natron, wrote in 1979, "Personally, I hope that no one ever will fully rationalize flamingos, and that they will remain the supremely beautiful, elusive, opportunistic, unpredictable beings I like to think they are." To find out more, contact Dr. David Harper at: dmh@le.ac.uk

1/5/2004	December 2003 ISSLR Research Bibliography Update (24 new references)
Contacts
Enzel, Y., R. Bookman, D. Sharon, H. Gvirtzman, U. Dayan, B. Ziv, and M. Stein. 2003. Late Holocene climates of the Near East deduced from Dead Sea level variations and modem regional winter rainfall. Quaternary Research 60: 263-273. Adams, K. D. 2003. Age and paleoclimatic significance of late Holocene lakes in the Carson Sink, NV, USA. Quaternary Research 60: 294-306. Kis-Papo, T., V. Kirzhner, S. P. Wasser, and E. Nevo. 2003. Evolution of genomic diversity and sex at extreme environments: Fungal life under hypersaline Dead Sea Stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100: 14970-14975. Ibrayev, R. A., and D. G. Kurdyumov. 2003. Sensitivity of seasonal variability of the Caspian Sea circulation to the parametrization of vertical mixing in a hydrodynamic model. Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 39: 768-774. Stoynova-Bakalova, E., and T. Toncheva-Panova. 2003. Subcellular adaptation to salinity and irradiance in Dunaliella salina. Biologia Plantarum 47: 233-236. Benison, K. C., and D. A. Laclair. 2003. Modern and ancient extremely acid saline deposits: Terrestrial analogs for martian environments? Astrobiology 3: 609-618. Chou, I. M., and R. R. Seal. 2003. Determination of epsomite-hexahydrite equilibria by the humidity-buffer technique at 0.1 MPa with implications for phase equilibria in the system MgSO4-H2O. Astrobiology 3: 619-630. Radke, L. C., S. Juggins, S. A. Halse, P. De Deckker, and T. Finston. 2003. Chemical diversity in south-eastern Australian saline lakes II: biotic implications. Marine and Freshwater Research 54: 895-912. Derry, A. M., E. E. Prepas, and P. D. N. Hebert. 2003. A comparison of zooplankton communities in saline lakewater with variable anion composition. Hydrobiologia 505: 199-215. Flores-Burgos, J., S. S. S. Sarma, and S. Nandini. 2003. Population growth of zooplankton (Rotifers and cladocerans) fed Chlorella vulgaris and Scenedesmus acutus in different proportions. Acta Hydrochimica Et Hydrobiologica 31: 240-248. MacRae, T. H. 2003. Molecular chaperones, stress resistance and development in Artemia franciscana. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 14: 251-258. Sorokin, D. Y., T. P. Tourova, K. A. Sjollema, and J. G. Kuenen. 2003. Thialkalivibrio nitratireducens sp nov., a nitrate-reducing member of an autotrophic denitrifying consortium from a soda lake. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1779-1783. Brennwald, M. S., M. Hofer, R. Kipfer, and D. M. Imboden. 2003. Paleosalinity reconstruction of Lake Issyk-Kul utilizing dissolved noble gases in sediment pore water. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 67: A45-A45. Lazar, B., R. Ken-Tor, G. S. Burr, Y. Enzel, and M. Stein. 2003. Radiocarbon as a paleohydrological tracer in the Dead Sea. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 67: A246-A246. Oulton, M. M., R. Amons, P. Liang, and T. H. MacRae. 2003. A 49 kDa microtubule cross-linking protein from Artemia franciscana is a coenzyme A-transferase. European Journal of Biochemistry 270: 4962-4972. Risacher, F., H. Alonso, and C. Salazar. 2003. The origin of brines and salts in Chilean salars: a hydrochemical review. Earth-Science Reviews 63: 249-293. Bergman, A. N., P. Laurent, G. Otiang'a-Owiti, H. L. Bergman, P. J. Walsh, P. Wilson, and C. M. Wood. 2003. Physiological adaptations of the gut in the Lake Magadi tilapia, Alcolapia grahami, an alkaline- and saline-adapted teleost fish. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology a-Molecular & Integrative Physiology 136: 701-715. Nielsen, D. L., M. A. Brock, G. N. Rees, and D. S. Baldwin. 2003. Effects of increasing salinity on freshwater ecosystems in Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 51: 655-665. Halse, S. A., J. K. Ruprecht, and A. M. Pinder. 2003. Salinisation and prospects for biodiversity in rivers and wetlands of south-west Western Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 51: 673-688. James, K. R., B. Cant, and T. Ryan. 2003. Responses of freshwater biota to rising salinity levels and implications for saline water management: a review. Australian Journal of Botany 51: 703-713. Davis, J. A., M. McGuire, S. A. Halse, D. Hamilton, P. Horwitz, A. J. McComb, R. H. Froend, M. Lyons, and L. Sim. 2003. What happens when you add salt: predicting impacts of secondary salinisation on shallow aquatic ecosystems by using an alternative-states model. Australian Journal of Botany 51: 715-724. Verkuil, Y., T. M. Van der Have, J. Van der Winden, and Chernichko, II. 2003. Habitat use and diet selection of northward migrating waders in the Sivash (Ukraine): The use of Brine Shrimp Artemia salina in a variably saline lagoon complex. Ardea 91: 71-83. Compton, J. S., R. A. White, and M. Smith. 2003. Rare earth element behavior in soils and salt pan sediments of a semi-arid granitic terrain in the Western Cape, South Africa. Chemical Geology 201: 239-255. Wong, J. M., and J. A. H. Benzie. 2003. The effects of temperature, Artemia enrichment, stocking density and light on the growth of juvenile seahorses, Hippocampus whitei (Bleeker, 1855), from Australia. Aquaculture 228: 107-121.

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