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Relationships among salinity and diversity, abundance, biomass of major biological components of Chany Lake (western Siberia, Russia) are examined across a salinity gradient. As salinity increased from 0.8 to 6.4 g l−1, the species richness of aquatic vascular plants decreased from 16 to 2 species, of phytoplankton from 98 to 52 species, and of zooplankton from 61 to 16 species, but changes in species diversity of zoobenthos were negligible.
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Kipriyanova, L.M., Yermolaeva, N.I., Bezmaternykh, D.M. et al. Changes in the biota of Chany Lake along a salinity gradient. Hydrobiologia 576, 83–93 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-006-0295-9
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