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Diatom assemblages are described from surface sediments in thirteen salt lakes located in the southern Bolivian Altiplano. Factor analysis of correspondences and cluster analysis are used to classify the diatom assemblages. New methods are proposed to establish the qualitative and quantitative relationships between diatom floras and ecological parameters. Diatom assemblages are linked more to the ionic elements than to the salinity, pH, depth, temperature or elevation. Environmental variables are divided into three modalities which allow considerations of many different variables not under the same units.
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Servant-Vildary, S., Roux, M. Multivariate analysis of diatoms and water chemistry in Bolivian saline lakes. Hydrobiologia 197, 267–290 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00026956
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