| cyanobacterial diversity and halotolerance in a variable hypersaline environment. | the great salt plains (gsp) in north-central oklahoma, usa is an expansive salt flat (approximately 65 km(2)) that is part of the federally protected salt plains national wildlife refuge. the gsp serves as an ideal environment to study the microbial diversity of a terrestrial, hypersaline system that experiences wide fluctuations in freshwater influx and diel temperature. our study assessed cyanobacterial diversity at the gsp by focusing on the taxonomic and physiological diversity of gsp isolat ... | 2008 | 17653786 |