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Chemical and biological features of the saline Lake Krasnovishnevoye (Baraba, Russia) in comparison with Lake Malinovoe (Kulunda, Russia): a reconnaissance study

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The Baraba and Kulunda steppes are located in southwestern Siberia in an area with an arid continental climate. This paper presents results of the first study of the hypersaline Lake Krasnovishnevoye (Baraba steppe, TDS (total dissolved solids)=297 g/L, pH 7.88). The major chemical, mineralogical and biological features of the lake were studied and compared to those of Lake Malinovoe, a typical saline neutral lake of Kulunda steppe (TDS=396 g/L, pH 7.63). The phytoplankton composition and the culturable diversity of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria from Lake Krasnovishnevoye correspond to the ones in the Kulunda lakes. Nevertheless, the peculiarities of water composition and regime of Lake Krasnovishnevoye reduce the biodiversity to prokaryotes and unicellular algae.

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Authors thank L. M. Kipriyanova for sampling in 2003 and Prof. V. M. Gorlenko for fruitful discussion.

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  1. National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, 123182, Russia

    Anastasia Komova, Anna Melnikova & Zorigto Namsaraev

  2. Central Siberian Botanical Garden of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    Roman Romanov

  3. V. S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    Vera Strakhovenko & Ekaterina Ovdina

  4. Institute for Water and Environmental Problems, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Barnaul, 656038, Russia

    Nadezhda Ermolaeva

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Supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Nos. 17-05-00404, 16-05-00132, 16-34-00346)

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Komova, A., Melnikova, A., Namsaraev, Z. et al. Chemical and biological features of the saline Lake Krasnovishnevoye (Baraba, Russia) in comparison with Lake Malinovoe (Kulunda, Russia): a reconnaissance study. J. Ocean. Limnol. 36, 1993–2001 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-018-7333-0

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