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Primary production in saline lakes

A review

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Salt Lakes

Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology ((DIHY,volume 5))

Abstract

For more than fifty years man has been trying to measure primary production rates of waters varying from fresh to saline and from inland to marine. From indirect methods such as phytoplankton counts and measurement of chlorophyll concentrations to direct methods employing oxygen and carbon-14 light and dark bottle techniques and even diurnal oxygen changes, scientists have attempted to ascertain the actual and potential productivity of aquatic ecosystems. Not only has there been the problem of what a particular technique is actually measuring, there has also been the problem of how accurately the measurement represents the dynamics of the real system. Considerable controversy has always been associated with the choice of method, the frequency of measurement, the length of production incubations, and the comparison of results employing different methods.

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  1. Dept. of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 0W0

    U. Theodore Hammer

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    W. D. Williams

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Hammer, U.T. (1981). Primary production in saline lakes. In: Williams, W.D. (eds) Salt Lakes. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8665-7_5

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