Methods Manual for Salt Lake Studies
A manual of proposed standard methods for studies in brackish to hypersaline aquatic environments

Contents

View across the Great Salt Lake
  1. Scope and Introduction
  2. Describing your lake - hydrogeomorphology
    1. Effects of salinity on evaporation rate
    2. Sequential crystallisation of brine salts
  3. Measuring physical characteristics of the geomorphology
    1. Measuring the hardness of playa crusts
  4. Measuring physical characteristics of the brine
    1. Salinity
      1. Measuring brine density
      2. Measuring electrical conductivity
      3. Measuring refractive index
      4. Measuring chloride concentration
      5. Evaporating brine and weighing the residue (gravimetry)
    2. Light penetration
    3. Color
    4. Turbidity
    5. Suspended solids
    6. Temperature
    7. pH
  5. Looking deeper - preparing to analyse
  6. Inorganic chemical characteristics
    1. Dissolved oxygen
    2. Nutrients
      1. Nitrogen
      2. Phosphorus
      3. Other nutrients
    3. Alkalinity
    4. Additional non-metallic substances
    5. Hardness (Calcium & Magnesium)
    6. Additional metals
  7. Organic chemical characteristics
    1. BOD
    2. TOC
    3. Tannins and humic compounds
  8. Biological characteristics
    1. Emergent macrophyte vegetation and terrestrial fringing vegetation
    2. Submerged aquatic macrophytes and macroalgae
    3. Phytoplankton
    4. Periphyton
    5. Benthic mat communities
    6. Productivity
    7. Zooplankton
    8. Macroinvertebrates
    9. Vertebrates
    10. Bacteriology
    11. Putting it together - integrated biological approaches
  9. References
  10. Authors
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