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Saline Lakes’ Response to Global Change

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Acknowledgements

I thank George W. Luther, III, Editor-in Chief, and Associate Editors Fred T. Mackenzie and John W. Morse for proposing this Special Issue and inviting me to edit it. Thanks are due to the authors for their contributions and to the reviewers for giving generously of their time, all of which made this publication possible. Permission of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., to reproduce a map is gratefully acknowledged. This research was in part supported by the NSF Grant OCE-0749404 and Arthur L. Howland Fund of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University.

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Lerman, A. Saline Lakes’ Response to Global Change. Aquat Geochem 15, 1–5 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10498-008-9058-8

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