Book chapter
F2.6 Permanent salt and soda lakes
The IUCN global Ecosystem Typology 2.0: Descriptive profiles for biomes and ecosystem functional groups, p.116
IUCN
2020
Abstract
These lakes are united by relatively constant, high inorganic solute concentrations (notably sodium</p><p>ions) and an associated specialist biota. Unlike hypersaline lakes (F2.7), productivity is not suppressed Autotrophs may be abundant, including phytoplankton, cyanobacteria, green algae and submerged and emergent macrophytes. These, supplemented by allochthonous energy and C inputs from lake catchments, support relatively simple trophic networks with few species in high abundance and some regional endemism.
Details
- Title
- F2.6 Permanent salt and soda lakes
- Authors/Creators
- Richard Kingsford (Author)JT Hollibaugh (Author)Belinda J Robson (Author) - Murdoch University, Centre for Sustainable Aquatic EcosystemsRichard Harper (Author) - Murdoch UniversityDavid Keith (Author)
- Contributors
- D. A. Keith (Editor)J.R. Ferrer-Paris (Editor)E. Nicholson (Editor)R.T. Kingsford (Editor)
- Publication Details
- The IUCN global Ecosystem Typology 2.0: Descriptive profiles for biomes and ecosystem functional groups, p.116
- Publisher
- IUCN
- Identifiers
- 991005555066607891
- Copyright
- © 2020 IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems; School of Environmental and Conservation Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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