This publication is composed of papers presented at an International Symposium on Athalassic (Inland) Salt Lakes, which was hosted by the University of Adelaide, South Australia, during a week in October 1979. The genesis of the Symposium was at the Copenhagen Congress of the International Association of Limnology (S.1. L.) where it was noted that a number of papers concerned with inland saline lakes were distributed throughout sessions in such a way as to make it difficult to attend all of them. A number of participants at the Congress felt that the ecology of salt lakes had greater homogeneity or cohesiveness than this sort of distribution would suggest, and it was decided that a symposium on salt lakes be held. The symposium was the first under the aegis of the S.l. L. to be held in Australia, and it was very well attended, with participants coming from many countries. The week long programme produced a number of lively and interesting sessions on all aspects of athalassic saline lakes. Participants stayed on after the Symposium for an expedition to Lake Eyre, in the nQrth of South Australia, and were given one of the best of all possible introductions to the Australian environment.

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1. Inland Salt Lakes: An Introduction.- 2. Aquatic Plant Communities of Poikilosaline Waters.- 3. The Ecology of Halophytes in the South-East of South Australia.- 4. The Microflora: Adaptations to Life in Extremely Saline Lakes.- 5. Primary Production in Saline Lakes: A Review.- 6. Microbiology of the Great Salt Lake North Arm.- 7. Photosynthetic Activity of Phytoplankton in Tropical African Soda Lakes.- 8. Occurrence of Benthic Microbial Mats in Saline Lakes.- 9. Blood Osmoregulation and Temperature in Crustaceans.- 10. Ostracods of Athalassic Saline Lakes: A Review.- 11. Responses of a Calanoid Copepod to Existence in Saline Waters.- 12. The Interaction of Salinity, Predators, Light and Copepod Color.- 13. A Synopsis of Ecological Information on the Saline Lake Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis Müller 1786.- 14. The Brine Shrimps Artemia and Parartemia: Comparative Physiology and Distribution in Australia.- 15. Animal Communities in Three Victorian Lakes of Differing Salinity.- 16. On the Chemistry of Some Salt Lakes and Ponds in Yugoslavia.- 17. On the Chemistry and Biota of Some Saline Lakes in Western Australia.- 18. The Ecology of Plankton Fauna in Saline River Pools.- 19. The Limnology of Saline Lakes in Western Victoria: A Review of Some Recent Studies.- 20. On the Ecology of Hypersaline Lagoons on Laysan Atoll and Kauai Island, Hawaii, with Special Reference to the Laysan Duck, Anas laysanensis Rothschild.- 21. Kratergöl, a Deep Hypersaline Crater-Lake in the Steppic Zone of Western Anatolia (Turkey), Subject to Occasional Limno-meteorological Perturbations.- 22. Limnology of a Large, Deep, North American Terminal Lake, Pyramid Lake, Nevada, U.S.A..- 23. The Biology of Antarctic Saline Lakes.- 24. Chemistry, Physics and Evolution of Antarctic Saline Lakes: A Review.- 25. Microbial Ecology of an Antarctic Saline Meromictic Lake.- 26. Saline Lakes at Syowa Oasis, Antarctica.- 27. Biotechnology of Solar Saltfields.- 28. Palaebiogeography of Some Salt Lake Faunas.- 29. Late Quaternary Pollen Records and Seasonal Palaeo Climates of Lake Frome, South Australia.- 30. Australian Salt Lakes: A Palaeohydrologic Approach.