Great Salt Lake Biology A Terminal Lake in a Time of Change
Great Salt Lake is an enormous terminal lake in the western United States. It is a highly productive ecosystem, which has global significance for millions of migrating birds who rely on this critical feeding station on their journey through the American west. For the human population in the adjacent...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Water Development, Consumptive Water Uses, and Great Salt Lake
- Chapter 2:Climate Change and Great Salt Lake
- Chapter 3: Relationships between Humans and Great Salt Lake: Dynamics of Change
- Chapter 4: Microbialites of Great Salt Lake
- Chapter 5: Unexpected complexity at salinity saturation: microbial diversity of the north arm of Great Salt Lake
- Chapter 6: Invertebrates and phytoplankton: is salinity the driving factor?
- Chapter 7: Great Salt Lake Artemia: Ecosystem Functions and Services with a Global Reach
- Chapter 8: Importance of Great Salt Lake to Pelagic Birds: Eared Grebes, Phalaropes, Gulls, Ducks, and White Pelicans
- Chapter 9: Great Salt Lake Shorebirds, Their Habitats and Food Base
- Chapter 10: American White Pelicans of Gunnison Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah
- Chapter 11: Amphibians and Reptiles of Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah
- Chapter 12: Shoreline Plants of Great Salt Lake
- Chapter 13: Invasive plants of Great Salt Lake wetlands: what, where, how, and why?
- Chapter 14: Mercury Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification in Great Salt Lake Ecosystems
- Chapter 15: The Rozel Point Tar Seeps and Their Impact on the Local Biology
- Chapter 16: Great Salt Lake as an astrobiology analogue for ancient Martian hypersaline aqueous systems