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The Salton Sea

Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology (DIHY, volume 161)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Chemical and physical characteristics of the Salton Sea, California

    • G. Chris Holdren, Andrew Montaño
    Pages 1-21
  3. Chemical evolution of the Salton Sea, California: nutrient and selenium dynamics

    • Roy A. Schroeder, William H. Orem, Yousif K. Kharaka
    Pages 23-45
  4. Characteristics and contaminants of the Salton Sea sediments

    • Richard A. Vogl, Ryan N. Henry
    Pages 47-54
  5. Reconstruction of prehistoric Lake Cahuilla in the Salton Sea Basin using GIS and GPS

    • Joseph E. Buckles, Kazuyuki Kashiwase, Timothy Krantz
    Pages 55-57
  6. Simulation of wind-driven circulation in the Salton Sea: implications for indigenous ecosystems

    • Christopher B. Cook, Gerald T. Orlob, David W. Huston
    Pages 59-75
  7. Flagellate Cryptobia branchialis (Bodonida: Kinetoplastida), ectoparasite of tilapia from the Salton Sea

    • Boris I. Kuperman, Victoria E. Matey, Steven B. Barlow
    Pages 93-102
  8. Metazooplankton dynamics in the Salton Sea, California, 1997–1999

    • Mary A. Tiffany, Brandon K. Swan, James M. Watts, Stuart H. Hurlbert
    Pages 103-120
  9. Freeliving nematodes from the Salton Sea

    • R. M. Warwick, D. M. Dexter, B. Kuperman
    Pages 121-128
  10. Cryptomonads from the Salton Sea, California

    • S. B. Barlow, P. Kugrens
    Pages 129-137
  11. The benthic invertebrates of the Salton Sea: distribution and seasonal dynamics

    • P. M. Detwiler, Marie F. Coe, Deborah M. Dexter
    Pages 139-160
  12. Naked amoebae (Protozoa) of the Salton Sea, California

    • Andrew Rogerson, Gwen Hauer
    Pages 161-177
  13. The diatom flora of the Salton Sea, California

    • Carina B. Lange, Mary Ann Tiffany
    Pages 179-201
  14. Invertebrates of the Salton Sea: a scanning electron microscopy portfolio

    • Boris I. Kuperman, Victoria E. Matey, Deborah M. Dexter, Mary Ann Tiffany
    Pages 203-216
  15. Fish biology and fisheries ecology of the Salton Sea, California

    • Ralf Riedel, Lucille Caskey, Barry A. Costa-Pierce
    Pages 229-244
  16. Biology and migration of Eared Grebes at the Salton Sea

    • Joseph R. Jehl Jr., Robert L. McKernan
    Pages 245-253
  17. The Salton Sea as critical habitat to migratory and resident waterbirds

    • W. David Shuford, Nils Warnock, Kathy C. Molina, Kenneth K. Sturm
    Pages 255-274

About this book

For the first time, an effort to conduct coordinated interdisciplinary research on a vast and complex saline lake has been undertaken for the purposes of providing baseline data to guide restoration project activities. This volume compiles state-of-the-art science for the Salton Sea and will serve as the foundation for the next several generations of scientific inquiry for California's largest lake. The science presented here reveals the Salton Sea to be one of the most productive fisheries in the world, details why the Salton Sea is important to migratory and wintering birds, investigates the microbial world and reports numerous taxa new to science, and documents chemical and physical interactions which make this inland saline lake function.
This book is intended for specialists in saline lake research who are interested in all aspects of saline lake ecology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, USA

    Douglas A. Barnum

  • U.S. Geological Survey, Madison, USA

    John F. Elder, Milton Friend

  • Formerly U.S. Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, USA

    Doyle Stephens

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Salton Sea

  • Editors: Douglas A. Barnum, John F. Elder, Doyle Stephens, Milton Friend

  • Series Title: Developments in Hydrobiology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3459-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0555-8Published: 31 August 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5989-5Published: 18 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3459-2Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 306

  • Additional Information: Reprinted from HYDROBIOLOGIA

  • Topics: Ecology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Geochemistry

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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