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1. Full Text Recent desiccation of Western Great Basin Saline Lakes: Lessons from Lake Abert, Oregon, U.S.A
by Moore, Johnnie N
Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, 06/2016, Volume 554-555, pp. 142 - 154
Although extremely important to migrating waterfowl and shorebirds, and highly threatened globally, most saline lakes are poorly monitored. Lake Abert in the... 
Shorebird habitat | Western Great Basin | Saline lake desiccation | Ecosystem collapse | Water withdrawals | UNITED-STATES | DROUGHT | WATERS | ABUNDANCE | VARIABILITY | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | EPHYDRIDAE | POPULATION DECLINES | CHEMISTRY | ARAL SEA | NORTH-AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS | Earth resources technology satellites | Global temperature changes | Runoff | Ecosystems | Streamflow | Remote sensing | Salinity
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2. Full Text A spaceborne multisensor approach to monitor the desiccation of Lake Urmia in Iran
by Tourian, M.J and Elmi, O and Chen, Q and Devaraju, B and Roohi, Sh and Sneeuw, N
Remote Sensing of Environment, ISSN 0034-4257, 01/2015, Volume 156, pp. 349 - 360
Lake Urmia, a hypersaline lake in northwestern Iran, is under threat of drying up. The high importance of the lake's watershed for human life demands a... 
Satellite imagery | Satellite altimetry | Lake desiccation | GRACE | GROUNDWATER DEPLETION | MANAGEMENT | VOLUME | IMAGING SCIENCE & PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY | SEA | WATER LEVELS | VARIABILITY | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | REMOTE SENSING | ALTIMETRY | BASIN | Water, Underground | Water use | Aquatic resources | Satellite imaging | Groundwater overdraft | Basins | Surface water | Watersheds | Lakes | Monitors | GRACE (experiment) | Altimetry
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3. Full Text Resilience of (seed bank) aerobic methanotrophs and methanotrophic activity to desiccation and heat stress
by Ho, Adrian and Lüke, Claudia and Reim, Andreas and Frenzel, Peter
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, ISSN 0038-0717, 10/2016, Volume 101, Issue October, pp. 130 - 138
In seasonally changing environments, aerobic methanotrophs are exposed to elevated temperatures and drought. Prior exposure to adverse conditions (site... 
Historical contingency | Seed bank | Methane oxidation | pmoA | Heat stress | Aerobic methanotrophs | Resilience | Global environmental change | international | PADDY SOIL | METHANE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA | LAKE CONSTANCE | SP NOV | SOIL SCIENCE | COMMUNITY STRUCTURE | RICE FIELD SOIL | MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | COMPLETE NITRIFICATION | POPULATION-DYNAMICS | COUNTER-GRADIENTS | Methane | DNA microarrays | Lake sediments | Banks (Finance) | Population biology
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4. Full Text Can lake sensitivity to desiccation be predicted from lake geometry?
by Torabi Haghighi, Ali and Menberu, Meseret Walle and Aminnezhad, Mousa and Marttila, Hannu and Kløve, Bjørn
Journal of Hydrology, ISSN 0022-1694, 08/2016, Volume 539, pp. 599 - 610
Declining lake levels (Aral Sea syndrome) can be caused by changes in climate, increased water use or changed regulation patterns. This paper introduces a... 
Lake response time | Lake water balance | Water level fluctuation | Environmental flow | WATER RESOURCES | BALANCE | ENGINEERING, CIVIL | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | ALTIMETRY | BASIN | WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS | EPHEMERAL LAKES | IMPACTS | ARAL SEA | GROUNDWATER | CLIMATE | Reservoirs | Hydrology | Climate | Simulation | Mathematical analysis | Lakes | Water balance | Wetlands
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5. Full Text Crater floor polygons: Desiccation patterns of ancient lakes on Mars?
by El Maarry, M. R and Markiewicz, W. J and Mellon, M. T and Goetz, W and Dohm, J. M and Pack, A
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, ISSN 0148-0227, 10/2010, Volume 115, Issue E10, p. n/a
Global mapping of intermediate‐size (100–200 m) polygonal troughs occurring mainly in impact crater floors was carried out using high‐resolution images from... 
desiccation | Mars | crater lakes | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | IMPACT CRATERS | EVOLUTION | LANDSCAPE | NORTHERN PLAINS | STABILITY | PALEOLAKES | CLASSIFICATION | THERMOKARST | ICE | WATER
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6. Full Text Desiccation-and saline-tolerant bacteria and archaea in kalahari pan sediments
by Genderjahn, Steffi and Alawi, Mashal and Mangelsdorf, Kai and Horn, Fabian and Wagner, Dirk
Frontiers in Microbiology, ISSN 1664-302X, 09/2018, Volume 9, p. 2082
More than 41% of the Earth's land area is covered by permanent or seasonally arid dryland ecosystems. Global development and human activity have led to an... 
Saline pan | Gemmatimonadetes | Kalahari | Halobacteria | Firmicutes | GEN. NOV | NORTHWESTERN CHINA | SODA LAKES | MICROBIOLOGY | HALOPHILIC MICROORGANISMS | COMMUNITY COMPOSITION | saline pan | FAM. NOV | MICROBIAL DIVERSITY | SP-NOV | RAPID METHOD | ORD. NOV | Salt pans (Geology) | RNA sequencing | Halophilic bacteria | Usage | Environmental aspects | Research | Archaeabacteria | Sediments (Geology)
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7. Full Text Desiccation crisis of saline lakes: A new decision-support framework for building resilience to climate change
by Hassani, Amirhossein and Azapagic, Adisa and D'Odorico, Paolo and Keshmiri, Amir and Shokri, Nima
Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, 02/2020, Volume 703, p. 134718
River flow reductions as a result of agricultural withdrawals and climate change are rapidly desiccating endorheic lakes, increasing their salinity and... 
Saline lakes | Ecosystem services | Lake Urmia | Land use management | Lake restoration | Optimal cropping patterns
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8. Full Text Evidence of El Niño driven desiccation cycles in a shallow estuarine lake: The evolution and fate of Africa's largest estuarine system, Lake St Lucia
by Humphries, M.S and Green, A.N and Finch, J.M
Global and Planetary Change, ISSN 0921-8181, 12/2016, Volume 147, pp. 97 - 105
Projections of an increase in drought frequency and intensity over the next century are expected to have severe implications for a number of globally important... 
Climate change | El Niño | Lake St Lucia | Drought | Coastal lake evolution | PACIFIC | PATTERNS | 20TH-CENTURY | OSCILLATION | VARIABILITY | GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | El Nino | RAINFALL | SOUTHERN AFRICA | Estuaries | Droughts | Analysis | Sediments (Geology) | Salinity | Coastal ecosystems | Amplification | Estuarine environments | Moisture | Lakes | Projection | Evolution
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9. Full Text Climate and anthropogenic contributions to the desiccation of the second largest saline lake in the twentieth century
by Chaudhari, Suyog and Felfelani, Farshid and Shin, Sanghoon and Pokhrel, Yadu
Journal of Hydrology, ISSN 0022-1694, 05/2018, Volume 560, pp. 342 - 353
Urmia Lake, once the second largest saline lake in the world, is on the verge of complete desiccation. It has been suggested that the desiccation is caused by... 
Urmia Lake | Human impacts | Land use land cover change | Terrestrial water storage | WATER-RESOURCES | GROUNDWATER DEPLETION | LEVEL CHANGE | GLOBAL ANALYSIS | WATER RESOURCES | POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION | ENGINEERING, CIVIL | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | FAO PENMAN-MONTEITH | REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION | FLOW REGULATION | RIVER SYSTEMS | Hydrology | Climate | Analysis | Rivers | Agricultural land | Streamflow | Lake renewal
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10. Full Text Impact of Middle Eastern dust sources on PM10 in Iran: Highlighting the impact of Tigris‐Euphrates basin sources and Lake Urmia desiccation
by Sotoudeheian, Saeed and Salim, Reza and Arhami, Mohammad
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, ISSN 2169-897X, 12/2016, Volume 121, Issue 23, pp. 14,018 - 14,034
Contribution of different Middle Eastern dust origins to PM10 (PM with aerodynamic diameters less than 10 µm) levels in several receptor large cities in Iran... 
PM10 | Iran | threshold friction velocities | HYSPLIT | Lake Urmia desiccation | UNITED-STATES | ATMOSPHERIC CONTROLS | ENERGY-BALANCE CLOSURE | CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY-LAYER | DIURNAL CYCLE | LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION | MESOSCALE SURFACE HETEROGENEITY | METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | LAND-SURFACE | SOUTHERN GREAT-PLAINS | MOIST CONVECTION | Lakes | Dust | Deserts | Meteorology
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11. Desiccation cracks provide evidence of lake drying on Mars, Sutton Island member, Murray formation, Gale Crater
by N Stein and JP Grotzinger and J Schieber and N Mangold and B Hallet and H Newsom and KM Stack and JA Berger and L Thompson and KL Siebach and A Cousin and S Le Mouélic and M Minitti and DY Sumner and C Fedo and CH House and S Gupta and AR Vasavada and R Gellert and RC Wiens and J Frydenvang and O Forni and PY Meslin and V Payré and E Dehouck
Geology, ISSN 0091-7613, 06/2018, Volume 46, Issue 6, p. 515
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover data are used to describe the morphology of desiccation cracks observed in ancient lacustrine strata at Gale... 
Desiccants | Desiccation | Curiosity (Mars rover) | Strata | Mars climate | Exposure | Climate models | Climatic changes | Density stratification | Climate science | Inland waters | Environments | Cracks | Mars | Climate change | Regional climates | Mars craters | Morphology | Lakes | Mars rovers | Bedding | Stratification | Drying
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12. Full Text Response of the methanogenic microbial communities in Amazonian oxbow lake sediments to desiccation stress
by Conrad, Ralf and Ji, Yang and Noll, Matthias and Klose, Melanie and Claus, Peter and Enrich‐Prast, Alex
Environmental Microbiology, ISSN 1462-2912, 06/2014, Volume 16, Issue 6, pp. 1682 - 1694
Summary Methanogenic microbial communities in soil and sediment function only when the environment is inundated and anoxic. In contrast to submerged soils,... 
RICE FIELD SOIL | OXYGEN GRADIENT | MICROBIOLOGY | CHEMOSTAT COCULTURES | MCRA GENES | DIVERSITY | ANOXIC PADDY SOIL | ARCHAEAL COMMUNITY | ECOSYSTEM | BACTERIAL-POPULATIONS | ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION | Genes, Bacterial | Genes, Archaeal | Methane - biosynthesis | Stress, Physiological | Gene Dosage | Dehydration | Sequence Analysis, DNA | Euryarchaeota - genetics | Geologic Sediments - microbiology | Gram-Positive Endospore-Forming Rods - genetics | Lakes - microbiology | Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length | Microbiota - genetics | Brazil | RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics | Methane | Lake sediments | Estuarine sediments | Analysis | Soil microbiology | Lakes | Genes
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