The Salton Sea Centennial Symposium (eBook)

Proceedings of a Symposium Celebrating a Century of Symbiosis Among Agriculture, Wildlife and People, 1905–2005, held in San Diego, California, USA, March 2005

Stuart H. Hurlbert (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 2008
VI, 195 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-1-4020-8806-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume deals with many aspects of the physical and chemical limnology of the Salton Sea, California's largest lake and a lake that may soon to be the object of a multi-billion dollar restoration project. Formed in 1905 by an accidental breaching of outtake structures on the Colorado River, and maintained since then by large and steady inflows of agricultural wastewaters, it has long served as an important habitat for fish and waterbirds and as a major recreational area for people. Highlly eutrophic and with a salinity that is steadily rising and now nearly 50 g/L, it is a lake in great trouble. Most fish species have disappeared, and large fish and bird dieoffs have been common in recent decades. Many of the papers in this volume represent studies undertaken with the aim of informing the re-engineering of this ecosystem so that its value to wildlife and man can be restored or enhanced.

Inhalt

TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
Preface 8
Response in the water quality of the Salton Sea, California, to changes in phosphorus loading: an empirical modeling approach 11
Long-term changes in the phosphorus loading to and trophic state of the Salton Sea, California 26
Reducing dissolved phosphorus loading to the Salton Sea with aluminum sulfate 42
Laboratory studies on the coprecipitation of phosphate with calcium carbonate in the Salton Sea, California 50
A linked hydrodynamic and water quality model for the Salton Sea 61
Barnacle growth rate on artificial substrate in the Salton Sea, California 80
Relating fish kills to upwellings and wind patterns in the Salton Sea 88
Properties and distribution of sediment in the Salton Sea, California: an assessment of predictive models 99
Geochemistry of iron in the Salton Sea, California 113
Transport and distribution of trace elements and other selected inorganic constituents by suspended particulates in the Salton Sea Basin, California, 2001 124
Organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, metals, and trace elements in waterbird eggs, Salton Sea, California, 2004 137
Occurrence, distribution and transport of pesticides into the Salton Sea Basin, California, 2001– 2002 150
Evaluation of potential impacts of perchlorate in the Colorado River on the Salton Sea, California 172
Fundamentals of estimating the net benefits of ecosystem preservation: the case of the Salton Sea 179

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.1.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Developments in Hydrobiology
• Reihe/Serie: Developments in Hydrobiology
• Zusatzinfo: VI, 195 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Distribution • ecosystem • eutrophication • Geochemistry • Habitat • lake restoration • Limnology • nutrient cycling • Salt Lakes • Sediment
• ISBN-10: 1-4020-8806-X / 140208806X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-8806-3 / 9781402088063