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Baxter, Bonnie K., author.

The Great Salt Lake food chains : fragility and resiliency / Bonnie K. Baxter.

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2023]

©2023

v, 37 pages ; 22 cm

"Bonnie K. Baxter explains the trophic structure of the Great Salt Lake food chains and resulting impacts from recent years of a shrinking lake and corresponding increases in salinity. Moving from the foundational organisms to brine shrimp, flies, and ten million birds reliant on the lake, Baxter illuminates how salinity and desiccation can affect each level of a complex ecosystem. Presented in the context of current science, she explores the pressures of persistent water diversions and climate change and provides a cautionary tale of a lake on the brink of collapse. Baxter's hopeful tone, sounding the lake ecosystem's inherent resiliency, is a welcome voice in the climate conversation, and a plea to help save a lake that can survive with a little help from its human neighbors"-- Provided by publisher.

Food chains (Ecology) -- Utah -- Great Salt Lake.

Salt lake ecology -- Utah -- Great Salt Lake.

Resilience (Ecology) -- Utah -- Great Salt Lake.

Great Salt Lake (Utah) -- Environmental conditions.

University of Utah. Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment. Annual Symposium (28th : 2023 : Salt Lake City, Utah)

Fragility and resiliency

"This lecture was originally delivered on March 16, 2023, at the 28th annual symposium of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment"--Title page verso.

"Publication of this keepsake edition is made possible in part by the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, S.J. Quinney College of Law, and by the Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

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