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Methods Manual for Salt Lake Studies
A manual of proposed standard methods for studies in brackish to hypersaline aquatic environments
- Scope and Introduction (Feb 25, 2009)
- Describing your lake - hydrogeomorphology (Feb 26, 2009)
- Effects of salinity on evaporation rate
- Sequential crystallisation of brine salts (Feb 26, 2009)
- Measuring physical characteristics of the geomorphology
- Measuring the hardness of playa crusts (Feb 25, 2009)
- Measuring physical characteristics of the brine
- Salinity
- Measuring brine density (July 9, 2019)
- Measuring electrical conductivity (Feb 25, 2009)
- Measuring refractive index (Feb 25, 2009)
- Measuring chloride concentration (Feb 25, 2009)
- Evaporating brine and weighing the residue (gravimetry)
- Light penetration
- Color (Feb 25, 2009)
- Turbidity (Feb 25, 2009)
- Suspended solids (Feb 25, 2009)
- Temperature (Mar 19, 2009)
- pH (Feb 25, 2009)
- Looking deeper - preparing to analyse (Feb 25, 2009)
- Inorganic chemical characteristics
- Dissolved oxygen
- Nutrients
- Nitrogen (Feb 25, 2009)
- Phosphorus
- Other nutrients
- Alkalinity
- Additional non-metallic substances
- Hardness (Calcium & Magnesium) (Feb 25, 2009)
- Additional metals
- Organic chemical characteristics
- BOD
- TOC
- Tannins and humic compounds
- Biological characteristics (Feb 25, 2009)
- Emergent macrophyte vegetation and terrestrial fringing vegetation
- Submerged aquatic macrophytes and macroalgae
- Phytoplankton (Mar 1, 2009)
- Periphyton (Mar 1, 2009)
- Benthic mat communities
- Productivity
- Zooplankton
- Macroinvertebrates (Feb 26, 2009)
- Vertebrates (Feb 26, 2009)
- Bacteriology
- Putting it together - integrated biological approaches (Feb 25, 2009)
- References
- Authors