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Invertebrates in salt lakes of the Bolivian Altiplano

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International Journal of Salt Lake Research

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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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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Adelaide, 5005, Adelaide, Australia

    W. D. Williams

  2. Institute of Freshwater Ecology, Far Sawrey, LA22 OLP, Ambleside, Cumbria, UK

    T. R. Carrick

  3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Monash University, 3168, Clayton, Australia

    I. A. E. Bayly

  4. 17 King Edwards Grove, TW11 9LY, Teddington, Middesex, UK

    J. Green

  5. Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, Star Route 1, Box 198, 93546, Mammoth Lakes, CA, USA

    D. B. Herbst

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Williams, W.D., Carrick, T.R., Bayly, I.A.E. et al. Invertebrates in salt lakes of the Bolivian Altiplano. International Journal of Salt Lake Research 4, 65–77 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01992415

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