Methods Manual for Salt Lake Studies

Contents

 * 1) /Scope and Introduction/
 * 2) /Describing your lake - hydrogeomorphology/
 * 3) /Effects of salinity on evaporation rate/
 * 4) /Sequential crystallisation of brine salts/
 * 5) Measuring physical characteristics of the geomorphology
 * 6) /Measuring the hardness of playa crusts/
 * 7) Measuring physical characteristics of the brine
 * 8) /Salinity/
 * 9) Measuring brine density
 * 10) Measuring electrical conductivity
 * 11) Measuring refractive index
 * 12) Measuring chloride concentration
 * 13) Evaporating brine and weighing the residue (gravimetry)
 * 14) /Light penetration/
 * 15) /Color/
 * 16) /Turbidity/
 * 17) /Suspended solids/
 * 18) /Temperature/
 * 19) /pH/
 * 20) /Looking deeper - preparing to analyse/
 * 21) Inorganic chemical characteristics
 * 22) /Dissolved oxygen/
 * 23) Nutrients
 * 24) /Nitrogen/
 * 25) /Phosphorus/
 * 26) /Other nutrients/
 * 27) /Alkalinity/
 * 28) /Additional non-metallic substances/
 * 29) /Hardness/ (Calcium & Magnesium)
 * 30) /Additional metals/
 * 31) Organic chemical characteristics
 * 32) /BOD/
 * 33) /TOC/
 * 34) /Tannins and humic compounds/
 * 35) /Biological characteristics/
 * 36) /Emergent macrophyte vegetation and terrestrial fringing vegetation/
 * 37) /Submerged aquatic macrophytes and macroalgae/
 * 38) /Phytoplankton/
 * 39) /Periphyton/
 * 40) /Benthic mat communities/
 * 41) /Productivity/
 * 42) /Zooplankton/
 * 43) /Macroinvertebrates/
 * 44) /Vertebrates/
 * 45) /Bacteriology/
 * 46) /Putting it together - integrated biological approaches/
 * 47) /References/
 * 48) /Authors/