Hypersaline environments are widely distributed on the earth s continent where they exist either as natural water bodies such as permanent saline lakes, ephemeral saltpans and salt marshes,or as artificial solar salterns (Litchfield and Gillevet; 2002). The microbial diversity of saline lakes has been studied primarily by focusing on the isolation and characterization of individual organisms wi...

Using paleolimnological techniques, I have studied surface-water acidification and the effects of liming in Swedish lakes on a decadal to millennial time-scale. The overall objective was to contribute to the discussion on the fulfilment of goals within the Swedish liming program. One of the main goals of this program is to restore lakes to natural or nearly natural conditions, i.e. to a referen...

Artificial and natural water bodies, such as reservoirs, ponds, rivers lakes, are important components of water-related ecosystems; they also indicators the impact human activities climate change on surface resources. However, due to global regional lack artificial bodies data sets, understanding changes in ecosystems under dual is limited scientific effective protection restoration actions res...