A team of internationally recognized scientists highlight the growing importance of saline lake research.

In new paper “Ecological impacts of global warming and water abstraction on lakes and reservoirs due to changes in water level and related changes in salinity” scientists discuss how changes in water level and salinity related to climate change and water abstraction affect the ecosystem structure, function, biodiversity and ecological state of lakes and reservoirs.

The map with lakes that were used as a case studies for this paper.

The Freshwater Blog presents good overview of this research paper. This is a good starting point to join the freshwater and saline lake research as saline lake scientists is very often focused on the effect of changing salinity on the ecosystem functioning.