Invertebrates in salt lakes of the Bolivian Altiplano |
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| Authors: | W D Williams T R Carrick I A E Bayly J Green D B Herbst |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Zoology, University of Adelaide, 5005 Adelaide, Australia;(2) Institute of Freshwater Ecology, Far Sawrey, LA22 OLP Ambleside, Cumbria, UK;(3) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Monash University, 3168 Clayton, Australia;(4) 17 King Edwards Grove, TW11 9LY Teddington, Middesex, UK;(5) Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, Star Route 1, Box 198, 93546 Mammoth Lakes, CA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Based upon a short reconnaissance (March 1991), the chemicalnature and principal invertebrate fauna of seven saline lakes on the Altiplano of southern Bolivia are discussed (Lago de Uru-uru, Pastos Grandes, Lago Ramiditas, Lago Hedionda, Lago Cañapa, Laguna Colorado, pool at L. Colorado). Salinities ranged between 4.4 and 156 g L–1. The fauna was depauperate. Except at the lowest salinities (<5 gL–1), rotifers were absent. At high salinities (> 50 g L–1), onlyArtemia, Boeckella poopoensis, ephydrids and a dolichopodid were present. |
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| Keywords: | invertebrates salt lakes Altiplano Bolivia |
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