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Saline Lake Ecosystems

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Potentials and Limitations of Ecosystem Analysis

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 61))

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Most of the chapters of this Symposium have dealt with terrestrial ecosystems. However, a limnologist studying a lake ecosystem has a substantial advantage over most of his terrestrially oriented colleagues: he knows the boundary of his system. Of course the situation is somewhat complicated by in- and outflows, so that not even lakes can be regarded as absolutely closed systems. However, the problem is halved for limnologists studying saline lakes, as most sait lakes have no outflow.

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    Helmut Zwölfer

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Vareschi, E. (1987). Saline Lake Ecosystems. In: Schulze, ED., Zwölfer, H. (eds) Potentials and Limitations of Ecosystem Analysis. Ecological Studies, vol 61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71630-0_17

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