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Methods Manual for Salt Lake Studies
A manual of proposed standard methods for studies in brackish to hypersaline aquatic environments
View across the Great Salt Lake
- 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