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Inland saline waters are threatened worldwide by diversion and
pollution of their inflows, introductions of exotic species and
economic development of these ecologically valuable habitats. Since
1979 a series of international symposia on inland saline waters has
served to strengthen and expand the scope of limnological research
on inland saline waters. The seventh conference continued this
tradition and the papers derived from the conference focused on the
ecology of microbial communities, the influence of habitat
geochemistry on biogeography of flora and fauna, physical and
geochemical processes, and the conservation of inland saline
waters. Of particular note are papers on Walker Lake, Nevada (USA),
and the Salton Sea and Mono Lake, California (USA). Continued
local, national and international efforts are required to inform
the public and decision-makers about the environmental problems
faced by saline waters. The papers in this volume will serve this
end and should be of interest to aquatic ecologists, limnologists,
aquaculturalists, and water resource managers.
The Sierra Nevada, California's iconic mountain range, harbors
thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to
sustain agriculture and cities. As climate and air quality in the
region change, so do the watershed processes upon which these lakes
depend. In order to understand the future of California's ecology
and natural resources, we need an integrated account of the
environmental processes that underlie these aquatic systems.
Synthesizing over three decades of research on the lakes and
watersheds of the Sierra Nevada, this book develops an integrated
account of the hydrological and biogeochemical systems that sustain
them. With a focus on Emerald Lake in Sequoia National Park, the
book marshals long-term limnological and ecological data to provide
a detailed and synthetic account, while also highlighting the
vulnerability of Sierra lakes to changes in climate and atmospheric
deposition. In so doing, it lays the scientific foundations for
predicting and understanding how the lakes and watersheds will
respond.
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