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Utah's Great Salt Lake covers 5500 km 2 (2100 mi 2) at its unimpacted elevation and is the eighth largest saline lake in the world. Its highly productive food web supports millions of migratory birds and the economic value of the lake is estimate at $1.5 billion in 2019 U.S. dollars. Droughts and wet cycles have caused huge fluctuations in lake lev...
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... Salt Lake elevation affects lake and wetland biology ( Fig. 8.) Farmington and Bear River Bays, the large bays on the east side of the lake, function as estuaries, with salinity gradients from freshwater near inflows, to hypersaline conditions near their connections with Gilbert Bay. Salinties also vary greatly with droughts and pluvials ). Increasing salinities reduce biodiversity (Hammer 1986) ...
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