Methods Manual for Salt Lake Studies

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[edit] A manual of proposed standard methods for studies in brackish to hypersaline aquatic environments

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[edit] Contents

  1. Scope and IntroductionDevelopment stage: 100% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
  2. Describing your lake - hydrogeomorphologyDevelopment stage: 100% (as of Feb 26, 2009)(Feb 26, 2009)
    1. Sequential crystallisation of brine saltsDevelopment stage: 100% (as of Feb 26, 2009)(Feb 26, 2009)
  3. Measuring physical characteristics of the geomorphology
    1. Measuring the hardness of playa crustsDevelopment stage: 50% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
  4. Measuring physical characteristics of the brine
    1. Salinity
      1. Salinity/measuring brine densityDevelopment stage: 75% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
      2. Salinity/measuring electrical conductivityDevelopment stage: 100% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
      3. Salinity/measuring refractive index Development stage: 100% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
      4. Salinity/measuring chloride concentrationDevelopment stage: 100% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
      5. Salinity/evaporating brine and weighing the residue (gravimetry)
    2. Light penetration
    3. Color Development stage: 100% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
    4. Turbidity Development stage: 100% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
    5. Suspended solidsDevelopment stage: 100% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
    6. TemperatureDevelopment stage: 100% (as of Mar 19, 2009)(Mar 19, 2009)
    7. pHDevelopment stage: 100% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
  5. Looking deeper - preparing to analyse Development stage: 100% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
  6. Inorganic chemical characteristics
    1. Dissolved oxygen
    2. Nutrients
      1. Nitrogen Development stage: 100% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
      2. Phosphorus
      3. Other nutrients
    3. Alkalinity
    4. Additional non-metallic substances
    5. Hardness (Calcium & Magnesium) Development stage: 100% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
    6. Additional metals
  7. Organic chemical characteristics
    1. BOD
    2. TOC
    3. Tannins and humic compounds
  8. Biological characteristicsDevelopment stage: 100% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
    1. Emergent macrophyte vegetation and terrestrial fringing vegetation
    2. Submerged aquatic macrophytes and macroalgae
    3. PhytoplanktonDevelopment stage: 75% (as of Mar 1, 2009)(Mar 1, 2009)
    4. PeriphytonDevelopment stage: 25% (as of Mar 1, 2009)(Mar 1, 2009)
    5. Benthic mat communities
    6. Productivity
    7. Zooplankton
    8. MacroinvertebratesDevelopment stage: 75% (as of Feb 26, 2009)(Feb 26, 2009)
    9. VertebratesDevelopment stage: 75% (as of Feb 26, 2009)(Feb 26, 2009)
    10. Bacteriology
    11. Putting it together - integrated biological approachesDevelopment stage: 75% (as of Feb 25, 2009)(Feb 25, 2009)
  9. References
  10. Authors
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