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Examples of well-known salinas or inland salt marshes are the chotts in North Africa (Fig.6.1) or the Salinas Grandes in Argentina. The latter extend over more than 250 km from the SW to the NE and across 75 km. However, these salinas are not really within the tropics, at best they are subtropical. Nevertheless, salinas are also found in the tropics. A typical example are the inland salt-marshes near the northern caribbean coast of Venezuela first described briefly by Walter (Walter and Breckle 1984) and later studied ecophysiologically to some detail (Lüttge et al. 1989a,b; Medina et al. 1989; Smith et al. 1989) as summarized in this chapter.
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Lüttge, U. (1997). Salinas. In: Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03340-1_6
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