SOLAR SALTWORKS WETLAND FUNCTION
Salt is the worlds best-known mineral. Apart from its significance for the creation of life onthe planet it is the chemical substance most related to human civilization history.Man produces salt by solar evaporation since the dawn of human civilization. Nevertheless,recognition of the unique coastal ecosystems that developed in parallel with the SolarSaltworks production process evolution is often lacking. The basic steps of that process, whichas it is shown, has actually transformed Solar Saltworks into saline coastal ecosystems areidentified and analyzed.Coastal saline wetlands are compared with Solar Saltworks ecosystem. We emphasize on thecase of Aliki lake, a natural saline coastal wetland located in Lemnos, a North Aegean Islandin Greece. It is shown that if a Solar Saltworks is constructed in the area of Aliki lake, anupgraded and more stable ecosystem will be created, where both the population and theencountered bird species will be increased significantly!The environmental uniqueness of Solar Saltworks, particularly current operations, is based onthe fact that they are steady state, constructed coastal ecosystems, where regular and hypersaline environments coexist and establish high significant shelters for wildlife.
Solar salt solar saltworks production process biological process salinas wetlands Lemnos Aliki Lake
NICHOLAS A.KOROVESSIS THEMISTOKLES D.LEKKAS
Hellenic Saltworks S.A., Asklipiou 1 str., 10679 Athens, Greece Dept.of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean, 81100 Mytilini, Greece
国际会议
9th International Symposium on Salt(第九届世界盐业大会)
北京
英文
887-899
2009-09-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）