Abstract As one of the largest super-saline lakes in world, Lake Urmia northwestern Iran has been facing severe drying recent years. Drought and rapid expansion agricultural activities are considered to be main driving factors shrinking lake. To address this problem, an analysis spatiotemporal dynamics land use/land cover (LULC) is important. This research implemented a multi-source satellite i...

To reduce requirements for conventional chemical fertilizer and alleviate salinity stress in soils, a glasshouse experiment was conducted to assess the effects of enriched biochar on phosphatase activity, microbial respiration wheat yield non-saline saline soils from Lake Urmia basin (electrical conductivities 2 dS.m−1 15 dS.m−1, respectively). Nine treatments were tested: control, 1:1 mixture ...

Compared with common dust storms, saline dust storms transport high concentrations of fine-grain saline and alkaline material. The saline dust storm differs from common dust storm, especially considering the sources of the suspended particulate matter (PM), chemical composition, grain size, and circulation processes. Atmospheric particulate matters (TSP, PM10, PM2.5, and PM1) and their water-so...

We collected two sediment cores and modern submerged aquatic plants and phytoplankton from two sub-basins of Lake Christina, a large shallow lake in west-central Minnesota, and used stable isotopic and elemental proxies from sedimentary organic matter to explore questions about the pre- and post-settlement ecology of the lake. The two morphologically distinct sub-basins vary in their sensitivit...

Drained thermokarst lake basins accumulate significant amounts of soil organic carbon in the form of peat, which is of interest to understanding carbon cycling and climate change feedbacks associated with thermokarst in the Arctic. Remote sensing is a tool useful for understanding temporal and spatial dynamics of drained basins. In this study, we tested the application of high-resolution X-band...

A sediment core taken from the western edge of the Bonneville Basin has provided high-resolution proxy records of relative lake-size change for the period 45.1e10.5 calendar ka (hereafter ka). Age control was provided by a paleomagnetic secular variation (PSV)-based age model for Blue Lake core BL04-4. Continuous records of d18O and total inorganic carbon (TIC) generally match an earlier lake-l...

In order to understand the pattern and trends of environmental evolution Lake Urmia (Iran), one largest terminal lakes in Western Asia before its level drop over past two decades, sediment cores (Golman 6, 8.0 m; Golman 7, 12.5 m) were collected from recently dried-out southwestern part lake. These represent a continuous sedimentary sequence, composite core, that was extensively studied for gra...

The distributions and abundances of gastropods collected in sediment grab samples in 1978 and 1979 in the southern nearshore zone of the central basin of Lake Erie were compared with earlier gastropod records from throughout the lake. Since the 1920s, 34 species in eight families have been reported for the lake proper. Sixteen species have been reported only once, 13 of them in three reports pr...