Sago Pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus L.):
A Literature Review
Table 5
Table 5. Salinities of sago-inhabited waters, arranged according to increasing
maximum observed salt tolerance.
Salinity or total dissolved solids (mg/L)a
Range or single observation Optimum Dominant cations Reference
50-70 Sheffer and Robinson 1939
91 Fraser and Morton 1983
127-141 Crowder et al. 1977
>140 Seddon 1972
<175 Gorman 1979
210 CO3 Jenkin 1936
>210 McCombie and Wile 1971
158-245 Carter et al. 1985b
98-248 Kowalczewski 1975
189-267 Ozimek 1978
>105->260 Merry et al. 1981
192-262 Engel 1984
140-350 Singh 1981
<350 Lohammar 1965
458 Disrud 1968
454 SO4 Gladyshev and Kogan 1977
280-490 Downing 1975
353-546 CO3 Gibbs 1973
490 Ellis 1955
>800 Chapman 1960b
910 Madsen et al. 1988
1,097 SO4 Olson 1979
1,260 HCO3/SO4 Schiemer and Prosser 1976
140-1,300 Smith 1973
1,670 Cl Harrison 1962
840-1,899 Cl Craner 1964
2,200 Dix and Smeins 1967
144-2,573 Cl Spence et al. 1967
3,000 Fletcher et al. 1985
748-3,114 Cl Congdon and McComb 1976
3,160 Anderson and Jones 1976
<320-3,195 Cl Chapman 1960a
1,050-4 000 CO3/HCO3 Paullin 1973
>4,000 CO3/HCO3 Reynolds and Reynolds 1975
3,120-4,070 Cl Zaky 1960
4,300-4,500 Cl Lundegardh-Ericson 1972
<5,000 Cl Haslam et al. 1975
2,000-5,000 Cl Getsinger et al. 1982
3,000-5,000 Cl Ungar et al. 1969
24-5,533 Pip 1984, 1987
612-5,567 4,567 Barker and Fulton 1979
~5,800 Cl Evans 1953
2,800-5,900 Cl Katanskaya 1986
3,000-6,000 Cl Jensen 1940
5,000-6,000 Cl Ravanko 1972
~6,500 Cl Kautsky 1987
1,980-6,870 Cl Bourn and Jenkins 1928
1,000-7,000 Cl Brock and Lane 1983
<7,000 Cl Neely 1962
6,000-7,000 Cl Kornas et al. 1960
7,000 Cl Barnes et al. 1971
4,700-7,050 Cl Verhoeven 1975
35-7,900 SO4 Pip 1979
8,000 Cl Hill et al. 1975
<8,500 Cl Ward 1976
2,000-9,000 Cl Robarts and Allanson 1977
9,000 SO4 Shubert 1982
9,000 Cl Oborn 1964
<9,500 Cl Kiorboe 1980
<10,000 Cl Massart 1922
<10,000 Cl Howard-Williams and Liptrot 1980
<10,000 Cl Klokov and Zimbalevskaya 1974
1,400-10,700 Cl Southwick and Pine 1975
<11,000 Cl Carter et al. 1985a
5,000-11,000 Cl Howard-Williams and Davies 1979
1,030-11,680 Cl Flowers 1934
1,000-12,000 CO3/HCO3 McCarraher et al. 1961
4,000-12,000 Cl Stewart and Davies 1986
5,500-12,000 SO4/Cl Krapu and Duebbert 1974
10,000-12,000 Cl Klavestad 1957
12,000 7,000 Cl Bourn 1932
12,000 Academia Sinica 1979, cited in
Hammer and Heseltine 1988
>=12,000 7,000 Cl Critcher 1949
13,000 Cl Martin and Uhler 1939
2,530-13,010 Cl Verhoeven and Van Vierssen 1978a
7,000-14,000 Cl Sincock 1965
7,500-14,000 Cl Olsen 1945
<14,460 Cl Verhoeven and Van Vierssen 1978a
1,000-15,000 SO4 Sloan 1970
4,000-15,000 Cl Thorne-Miller et al. 1983
97-15,130 Kadono 1982
~16,000 Cl McAtee 1939
<16,260 <5,420 Cl Verhoeven 1980a
10,850-16,550 SO4 Huntsman 1922
200-18,000 Cl Olsen 1950
<18,000 Cl Mathiesen and Nielsen 1956
18,000 Cl den Hartog 1981
6,000-19,000 Drabkova et al. 1978, cited in
Hammer and Heseltine 1988
5,000-20,000 Cl Gerbeaux and Ward 1986
20,000 Cl Spence et al. 1979b
200-20,380 SO4 Rawson and Moore 1944
3,265-20,961 5,421-12,649 Cl Van Vierssen and Verhoeven 1983
2,400-22,400 3,300-7,200 Cl Wright et al. 1949
1,000-24,000 Smeins 1967
3,300-25,000 SO4 Hammer et al. 1975
225-26,400 2,000-15,000 SO4 Stewart and Kantrud 1972
0-31,500 2,000-15,000 SO4 Millar 1976
131-32,637 Sletten and Larson 1984
350-35,873 SO4 Metcalf 1931
<49,918 CO3/HCO3 McCarraher 1977
<53,000 SO4 Hammer and Heseltine 1988
2,300-104,00 SO4 Ungar 1970
a Conductivity was converted to mg/L with the following multipliers:
0-2 mS x 0.7; 2-40 mS x 1.0; >40 mS x 1.5. Chlorinity (o/oo) was converted to
mg/L by multiplying by 1.807 x 10 3; sea strength was considered 31,950 mg/L.
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