Methods Manual for Salt Lake Studies

Methods Manual for Salt Lake Studies A manual of proposed standard methods for studies in brackish to hypersaline aquatic environments Contents thumb|350px|View across the Great Salt Lake /Scope and Introduction/100% Feb 25, 2009 /Describing your lake - hydrogeomorphology/100% Feb 26, 2009 /Effects of salinity on evaporation rate/ /Sequential crystallisation of brine salts/100% Feb 26, 2009 Measuring physical characteristics of the geomorphology /Measuring the hardness of playa crusts/50% Feb 25, 2009 Measuring physical characteristics of the brine /Salinity/ Measuring brine density75% July 9, 2019 Measuring electrical conductivity100% Feb 25, 2009 Measuring refractive index 100% Feb 25, 2009 Measuring chloride concentration100% Feb 25, 2009 Evaporating brine and weighing the residue (gravimetry) /Light penetration/ /Color/ 100% Feb 25, 2009 /Turbidity/ 100% Feb 25, 2009 /Suspended solids/100% Feb 25, 2009 /Temperature/100% Mar 19, 2009 /pH/100% Feb 25, 2009 /Looking deeper - preparing to analyse/ 100% Feb 25, 2009 Inorganic chemical characteristics /Dissolved oxygen/ Nutrients /Nitrogen/ 100% Feb 25, 2009 /Phosphorus/ /Other nutrients/ /Alkalinity/ /Additional non-metallic substances/ /Hardness/ (Calcium & Magnesium) 100% Feb 25, 2009 /Additional metals/ Organic chemical characteristics /BOD/ /TOC/ /Tannins and humic compounds/ /Biological characteristics/100% Feb 25, 2009 /Emergent macrophyte vegetation and terrestrial fringing vegetation/ /Submerged aquatic macrophytes and macroalgae/ /Phytoplankton/75% Mar 1, 2009 /Periphyton/25% Mar 1, 2009 /Benthic mat communities/ /Productivity/ /Zooplankton/ /Macroinvertebrates/75% Feb 26, 2009 /Vertebrates/75% Feb 26, 2009 /Bacteriology/ /Putting it together - integrated biological approaches/75% Feb 25, 2009 /References/ /Authors/ Earth sciences M 25%