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There are > 3500 lakes of area >0.1 km2 in Mongolia. Most have salinities > 1 g 1-1 Of these saline lakes, 12 have areas >50km2 each, 10, areas > 100 km2, and 2, areas > 1000 km2. Limnological investigations of salt lakes include morphometric studies, and investigations of bottom sediments, thermal regimes, chemical features, and biological (including fish) characteristics. Data from these investigations now provide a much clearer picture of the limnology of saline lakes in central Asia.
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Egorov, A.N. (1993). Mongolian salt lakes: some features of their geography, thermal patterns, chemistry and biology. In: Hurlbert, S.H. (eds) Saline Lakes V. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 87. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2076-0_2
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