The Vth International Symposium on Inland Saline Lakes was held at Hotel Titikaka on the shores of that lake, 22--29 March 1991 with participants from 16 countries. Twenty-three papers presented by the participants, plus an additional one reporting a microcosm study on salinity effects, constitute the present volume. The papers cover the wide array of subject matters and scales characteristic of our `interdiscipline' and represent the symposium well.
All manuscripts submitted for these proceedings were critically reviewed by at least three referees and are representative of saline lake research, developed around the world in the three-year period since the last symposium.

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Large saline lakes of the former U.S.S.R.: A summary review; N.V. Aladin, I.S. Plotnikov. Mongolian salt lakes: Some features of their geography, thermal patterns, chemistry and biology; A.N. Egorov. Chinese saline lakes; Mianping Zheng, Jiayou Tang, Junying Liu, Fasheng Zhang. The proportions of the major ions in some athalassic South African saline waters; J.A. Day. Formation of manganese oxyhydroxides on the Dead Sea coast by alteration of Mn-enriched carbonates; A. Nishri, A. Nissenbaum. Morphology, distribution, and preservation potential of microbial mats in the hydromagnesite-magnesite playas of the Cariboo Plateau, British Columbia, Canada; R. Renaut. Role of microbial activity on the hydrochemistry and sedimentology of Lake Logipi (Rift Valley, Kenya); S. Castanier, M. Bernet-Rollande, A. Maurin, J.-P. Perthuisot. Physico-chemical characteristics of a permanent Spanish hypersaline lake: La Salada de Chiprana (NE Spain); B. Vidono, B. Martínez, C. Monte, M.C. Guerrero. The Dead Sea - an economic resource for 9000 years; A. Nissenbaum. Quaternary and recent Lamprothamnium groves (Charophytoa) from Argentina; A. Garcia. Dunaliella salina teodoresco (Chlorophyta) from saline environments at the central costs of Peru; H. Montoya, A. Olivera G. Effects of NaCl and KNO3 concentrations on the abscisic acid content of Dunaliella sp.(Chlorophyta); N. Tominaga, M. Takahata, H. Tominaga. Spatial heterogeneity of macrophytes in Lake Gallocanta; F.A. Comín, X. Rodó, M. Menéndez. Nitrogen limitation in a saline, desert lake; J.E. Reuter, C.L. Rhodes, M.E. Lebo, M. Kotzman, C.R. Goldman. A population model for the alkali fly at Mono Lake: Depth distribution and changing habitat availability; D. Herbst, T. Bradley.Salinity tolerance of the copepod Apocyclops dengizicus (Lepeschkin, 1900), a key food chain organism in the Salton Sea, California; D. Dexter. Effects of abiotic and biotic factors on succession in a shallow Spanish saline lake; C. Garcia, F.X. Niell. The fauna of athalassic saline waters in Australia and the Altiplano of South America: Comparisons and historical perspectives; I.A.E. Bayly. The penetration of cladocerans into saline waters; D. Frey. Zooplankton associations in East African lakes spanning a wide salinity range; J. Green. Benthic invertebrate communities in saline lakes of the South Lipez, Bolivia; C. Dejoux. Saline lakes of the Paroo, inland New South Wales, Australia; B.V. Timms. Conservation of salt lakes; W.D. Williams.