Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Limnology

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
The Mar Chiquita Salt Lake (Córdoba, Argentina)

  • 167 Accesses

Abstract

One of the distinctive and most interesting characteristics of Mar Chiquita Lake is its high variability in terms of size, water volume, and water salinity. Taking into account that salinity is a key driver of ecology and species diversity of salt lakes, this chapter is structured around comparative analysis of the biodiversity and dynamics during lowstand periods of low water level and high salinity and highstand periods of high water level and lower salinity. The analysis includes physical, chemical, and biological components. In general terms, the lowstand period is characterized by low species diversity but high productivity, whereas in the highstand, biodiversity is higher. In addition to the descriptive sections, additional sections are dedicated to functional aspects of particular interest, including the influence of salinity levels on the lake dynamics, the origin of the organic black mud sediment characteristic of Mar Chiquita, and the effect of the invasion of the lake by the pejerrey silverside fish (Odontesthes bonariensis) during the highland periods.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
eBook
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Abatzopoulus T, Beardmore J, Clegg J, Sorgeloos P (2002) Artemia. Basic and applied biology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, London

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Abril A, Noe L, Merlo C (2010) Grupos metabólicos microbianos de la laguna Mar Chiquita (Córdoba, Argentina) y su implicancia en el ciclado de nutrientes. Ecol Aust 20(1):81–88

    Google Scholar 

  • Bucher EH (ed) (2006) Bañados del Rio Dulce y Laguna Mar Chiquita (Córdoba. Argentina. Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Córdoba, Argentina)

    Google Scholar 

  • Bucher EH, Abril AB (2006) Limnología Biológica. In: Bucher EH (ed) Bañados del Rio Dulce y Laguna Mar Chiquita (Córdoba, Argentina). Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Córdoba, pp 117–137

    Google Scholar 

  • Bucher EH, Bucher AE (2006) Limnología Física y Química. In: Bucher EH (ed) Bañados del Rio Dulce y Laguna Mar Chiquita (Córdoba, Argentina). Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Córdoba, Argentina), Córdoba, pp 79–191

    Google Scholar 

  • Bucher EH, Etchegoin M (2006) El pejerrey como recurso. In: Bucher EH (ed) Bañados del Río Dulce y Laguna Mar Chiquita (Córdoba, Argentina). Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Córdoba, Argentina), Córdoba, pp 201–217

    Google Scholar 

  • Bucher E, Herrera G (1981) Comunidades de aves acuáticas de la Laguna Mar Chiquita (Córdoba, Argentina). Ecosur 8:91–120

    Google Scholar 

  • Bucher EH, Stein AF (2016) Large salt dust storms follow a 30-year rainfall cycle in the Mar Chiquita Lake (Córdoba, Argentina). PLoS One 11(6):e0156672

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Carlson R (1977) A trophic state index for lakes. Limnol Oceanogr 22:361–369

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Cohen RG (1998) Prospección y evaluación del recurso natural Artemia(Crustacea, Branchiopoda) en formade quistes en la Republica Argentina y su utilidad en proyectos de acuicultura para Latinoamérica. Unpublished Technical Report. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires.Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Google Scholar 

  • Collins N (1980) Population ecology of Ephydra cinerea Jones (Diptera, Ephydridae), the only benthic metazoan of the Great Salt Lake, U.S.A. Hydrobiologia 68(2):99–1122

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Durigneaux J (1978) Composición química de las aguas y barros de la Laguna Mar Chiquita en la provincia de Córdoba. Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Córdoba, Argentina), Córdoba

    Google Scholar 

  • Hammer UT (1986) Saline Lake ecosystems of the world. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Boston

    Google Scholar 

  • Jonkers H, Ludwig R, De Wit R, Pringault O, Muy-zer G, Niemann H, Finke N, De Beer D (2003) Structural and functional analysis of a microbial mat ecosystem from a unique permanent hypersaline in-land Lake: La Salada de Chiprana (NE Spain). FEMS Microbiol Ecol 44:175–189

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kanter H (1932) La cuenca cerrada de la Mar Chiquita en el norte de la Argentina. Bol Acad Nac Cienc Córdoba (Argentina) 22:285–232

    Google Scholar 

  • Martinez DE (1991) Caracterización geoquímica de las aguas de la Laguna Mar Chiquita, provincia de Córdoba Dr Thesis, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

    Google Scholar 

  • McGlue MM, Ellis GS, Cohen AS (2015) Modern muds of Laguna Mar Chiquita (Argentina): particle size and organic matter geochemical trends from a large saline lake in the thick-skinned Andean foreland. In: Larsen D, Egenhoff SO, Fishman NS (eds) Paying attention to mudrocks: priceless! The Geological Society of America (Boulder, Colorado), Special Paper 15, p 1–18

    Google Scholar 

  • Oren A (2002) Halophilic microorganisms and their environments. Kluver Academic Publishers, London

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Papeschi AG, Cohen RG, Pastorino XI, Amat F (2000) Cytogenetic proof that the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) is found in Argentina. Hereditas 133:159–166

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Pilati A, Marcellino M, Bucher E (2016) Nutrient, chlorophyll and zooplankton seasonal variations on the southern coast of a subtropical saline lake (Mar Chiquita, Córdoba, Argentina). Int J Limnol 52:263–271

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Piovano EL, Ariztegui D, Damatto Moreiras S (2002) Recent environmental changes in Laguna Mar Chiquita (central Argentina): a sedimentary model for a highly variable saline lake. (Sedimentology, 49.ina): a little known, secularly fluctuating saline lake. Int J Salt Lake Res 5:187–219

    Google Scholar 

  • Piovano EL, Ariztegui D, Bernasconi SM, McKenzie JA (2004) Stable isotopic record of hydrological changes in subtropical Laguna Mar Chiquita (Argentina) over the last 230 years. Holocene 14:525–535

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Reati G, Florin M, Fernandez G, Montes C (1997) The Laguna de Mar Chiquita (Córdoba, Argentina): a little known, secularly fluctuating saline Lake. Int J Salt Lake Res 5:187–219

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Scheffer M (2004) Ecology of Shallow Lakes. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Seckt H (1945) Estudios hidrobiológicos hechos en la Mar Chiquita. Bol Acad Nac Cienc (Córdoba, Argentina) 37:279–309

    Google Scholar 

  • Thorpe S (2004) Langmuir circulation. Annu Rev Fluid Mech 36:55–79

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wallace Gwynn J (2002) Great Salt Lake: an overview of change. Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City

    Google Scholar 

  • Wallace Gwynn J (2004) What causes the foam on Great Salt Lake? http://geology.utah.gov/survey-notes/gladasked/gladfoam.htm. Retrieved 12 Nov 2005

  • Wear R, Haslett S, Alexander N (1986) Effects of temperature and salinity on the biology of Artemia franciscana Kellogg from Lake Grassmere, New Zealand. 2. Maturation, fecundity, and generation times. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 98(1–2):167–183

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wetzel RG (2001) Limnology. Lake and Rivers ecosystems. Academic, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Wurtsbaugh N (1992) Food-web modification by an invertebrate predator in the Great Salt Lake. Oecologia 89(2):168–175

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wurtsbaugh WA, Miller C, Null SE, DeRose Justin R, Wilcock P, Hahnenberger M, Howe F, Moore J (2017) Decline of the world’s saline lakes. Nat Geosci 10(11):816–821

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. IDEA Conicet and Centro de Zoología Aplicada, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

    Enrique H. Bucher

Authors
  1. Enrique H. Bucher
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Appendix 4.1

Appendix 4.1

List of plankton and benthos species identified in the Mar Chiquita Lake, Córdoba, Argentina. Sources: (1): Seckt (1945); (2): Reati et al. (1997); (3): Cohen (1998); (4): Bucher and Abril (2006)

Year

1945

1989

1998

2005–2006

Salinity (g/L)

100

35

45

35

Source

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Cyanophyta (cyanobacteria)

Anabaena spiroides

 

X

 

X

Anabaenopsis circularis

  

X

X

Calothrix parietina

    

Chrococus turgidus

X

   

Clastidium setigerum

X

   

Cyanobium spp.

   

X

Dermacarpa prasina

X

   

Gomphosphaeria sp.

   

X

Lyngbya aestuarii

X

   

Lyngbya hieronymusii

X

   

Lyngbya sp.

X

 

X

X

Merismopedia sp.

   

X

Microcoleus vaginatus

X

   

Microcystis chroococcoidea

x

   

Microcystis sp.

    

Nodularia spumigera

 

X

 

X

Nostoc commune

X

   

Nostoc gelatinosum

X

   

Oscillatoria (Limnothrix) putrida

X

   

Oscillatoria limosa

X

   

Oscillatoria sp.

 

X

X

X

Phormidium sp.

    

Phormidium breve

X

   

Phormidium deflexum

X

   

Phormidium murrayi

X

   

Phormidium simplicissimum

X

   

Phormidium chalybeum

X

   

Pseudanabaena constricta

X

   

Siphonema polonicum

X

   

Tolypothrix sp.

   

X

Trichodesmium iwanoffianum

X

   

Heterokontophyta (diatomeas)

Achnanthes delicatula

X

  

X

Amphora aff. exigua

  

X

 

Amphora copulata

  

X

 

Amphora normanii

X

   

Amphora veneta

    

Amphora sp.

   

X

Anomoneis sphaerophora

X

  

X

Aulacoseira sp.

   

X

Campylodiscus bicostatus

  

X

 

Campylodiscus clypeus

 

X

  

Campylodiscus sp.

   

X

Chaetoceros muelleri

 

X

  

Chaetocerus sp.

  

X

X

Chanantes brevipes

  

X

 

Cocconeis pediculus

X

   

Cocconeis placentula

  

X

 

Cocconeis sp.

   

X

Craticula sp.

   

X

Cyclotella choctawhatcheeana

  

X

 

Cyclotella meneghiniana

X

   

Cyclotella spp.

   

X

Cymatopleura sp.

   

X

Cymbella pusilla

  

X

 

Cymbella ventricosa

X

   

Cymbella spp.

   

X

Diatoma sp.

   

X

Entomoneis alata

 

X

  

Entomoneis sp.

  

X

X

Fragilaria sp.

   

X

Gyrosigma acuminatum

X

   

Gyrosigma macrum

X

   

Gyrosigma strigilis

  

X

 

Gyrosigma sp.

   

X

Hantzschia amphioxys

X

   

Hyalodiscus sp.

   

X

Melosira lineata

 

X

  

Melosira moniliformis

  

X

 

Melosira sp.

 

X

 

X

Navicula cincta

  

X

 

Navicula halophila

X

   

Navicula mutica

  

X

 

Navicula placentula

X

   

Navicula pygmaea

X

   

Navicula recens

  

X

 

Navicula salinarum

X

   

Navicula sp.

 

X

 

X

Nitzschia acicularis

X

   

Nitzschia capitellata

  

X

 

Nitzschia hustedtiana

  

X

 

Nitzschia linearis

X

   

Nitzschia scalpelliformis

  

X

 

Nitzschia spp.

   

X

Pinnularia sp.

   

X

Pleurosira sp.

   

X

Rhopalodia spp.

   

X

Surirella striatula

  

X

 

Surirella sp.

   

X

Synedra tabulata

X

   

Synedra ulna

 

X

  

Tabularia fasciculata

  

X

 

Thalassiosira sp.

   

X

Ulnaria sp.

   

X

Xanthophyta (algas verde-amarillas)

Vaucheria sp.

 

X

  

Chlorophyta (algas verdes)

Binuclearia tetraona

 

X

  

Bulbochaete sp.

X

   

Chlamydomonas sp.

   

X

Cladophora fracta

 

X

  

Closterium pronum

 

X

 

X

Enteromorpha salina

X

   

Enteromorpha intestinalis

X

   

Enteromorpha intestinalis

 

X

  

Mougeotia sp.

X

   

Oocystis spp.

   

X

Pediastrum spp.

   

X

Rhizoclonium hieroglyphicum

X

   

Scenedesmus spp.

   

X

Stigeoclonium falklandicum

X

  

X

Ulothrix limnetica

X

   

Ulothrix pseudoflacca

 

X

  

Ulothrix tenuis

X

   

Ulotrichopsis sp.

   

X

Euglenophyta (euglenas)

Euglena spp.

   

X

Trachelomonas sp.

   

X

Dinophyta (dinoflagelados)

Peridinium spp.

  

X

 

Sarcomastigophora (protozoarios)

Foraminiferida (foraminiferos)

    

Ammonia beccarii parkinsoniana

 

X

  

Ammonia sp.

   

X

Spermatophyta ( plantas superiores )

Ruppiaceae

    

Ruppia maritima

 

X

 

X

Rotifera (rotíferos)

Brachionus sp.

  

X

X

Brachionus plicatilis

   

X

Brachionus angularis

   

X

Brachionus fennica

   

X

Crustacea (crustáceos)

Branchiopoda

    

Artemia franciscana

X

X

X

 

Ostracoda

 

X

  

Cyprideis? sp.

   

X

Copepoda

    

Calanoida

 

X

X

 

Boeckella poopoensis

   

X

Cyclopoida

    

Apocyclops procerus

    

Harpacticoidea

    

Cletocamptus deitersi

   

X

Insecta (insectos)

Diptera

    

Ephydridae

    

Ephydra? sp.

X

   

Dolichopodidae

    

Hydrophorus praecox

 

X

  

Especie indeterminada

   

X

Hemiptera

   

X

Corixidae

    

Molusca (caracoles)

Hidrobiidae

    

Heleobia (Littoridina) sp.

 

X

 

X

Ceratodes sp.

    

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Bucher, E.H. (2019). Limnology. In: The Mar Chiquita Salt Lake (Córdoba, Argentina). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15812-5_4

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation