| potential heterogeneity in crustacean zooplankton assemblages in southern chilean saline lakes. | the chilean saline lakes are distributed mainly in the atacama desert in northern chile and the southern patagonian plains. the scarce studies are restricted mainly to northern chilean saline lakes, and these revealed that the main component in these ecosystems are the halophylic copepod boeckella poopoensis marsh 1906, or the brine shrimp artemia franciscana (kellog, 1906), and both species do not coexist. the present study consisted of field observations in zooplankton assemblages in southern ... | 2010 | 21180909 |