caa a22 4500 477096727 CHVBK 20180405111529.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01996035 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01996035 Historical and recent changes in Lake Texcoco, a saline lake in Mexico [Elektronische Daten] [J. Alcocer, W. Williams] Historical and recent changes in the nature of Lake Texcoco, a saline lake in Mexico, are described. These changes are particularly important since they significantly affect water supply, drainage and other urban issues in Mexico City, Mexico's largest city and capital located within the general boundaries of the lake basin and gradually sinking (mean annual sinking rate is 30 cm). After brief reviews of the present status of the lake and background geological, palaeolimnological and climatic features, human activities during historical and recent times are considered. Of particular note have been drainage basin activities, diversion of inflows, pollution and over-exploitation of groundwater and biological resources (especially fish and waterfowl). The major effects of these activities are water shortages, soil erosion, salinization, dust storms, sinking ground, poor water quality and decreased biological resources. Conservation measures are discussed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 conservation nationallicence human impacts nationallicence Lake Texcoco nationallicence Mexico nationallicence saline lake nationallicence Alcocer J. Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, Environmental Conservation and Improvement Project, UIICSE, UNAM Campus Iztacala. Av. de los Barrios s/n, Los Reyes Iztacala, Tlalnepantla Edo. de México, 54090, Mexico City, Mexico aut Williams W. Department of Zoology, University of Adelaide, 5005, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia aut International Journal of Salt Lake Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/1(1996-03-01), 45-61 1037-0544 5:1<45 1996 5 10770 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01996035 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01996035 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Alcocer J. Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, Environmental Conservation and Improvement Project, UIICSE, UNAM Campus Iztacala. Av. de los Barrios s/n, Los Reyes Iztacala, Tlalnepantla Edo. de México, 54090, Mexico City, Mexico aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Williams W. Department of Zoology, University of Adelaide, 5005, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Salt Lake Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/1(1996-03-01), 45-61 1037-0544 5:1<45 1996 5 10770 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer