The evolution of the lake also reflects changes in grazing and agricultural practices since the Roman Period associated to the exploitation of nearby salt mining.
This study showed the influence of (1) the level of salt exploitation activity, (2) the density of bank intersections, (3) the extent of area covered by Suaeda vera bushes and (4) the structural heterogeneity.
By approaching this process through its geographical dimension, from the beginning of the 6th millennium BC, one can measure the simultaneity of certain facts, be they social (the affirmation of elites), territorial (the appearance of controlling sites), or technical (first copper metallurgy, intensification of salt exploitation).
The prospective negative environmental impacts of exploitation of the pre-salt oil reserves (Oxford Analytica 2010) may impact environmental quality in this region, especially due to its complex geomorphology and relatively low hydrodynamics, which result in areas that are more likely to retain the oil (Gherardi and Cabral 2007).
The distribution, exploitation [ 26], and physiology of salt tolerance of halophytes are intensively studied [ 16, 27, 28].
The present understanding of salt tolerance mechanisms has facilitated exploitation of spatially located membrane transporters (Zhu 2001; Munns and Tester 2008).
Its use of salt and brackish water larval habitats has allowed for the rapid exploitation of uniform coastal habitats throughout an extensive distribution that spans from Asia to Australia [ 6, 17].
Unplanned exploitation of groundwater from coastal aquifers may cause salt water intrusion in coastal aquifers.
The deep sequencing and exhaustive annotation results will improve genome annotation and facilitate the exploitation of genetic resources that are responsible for salt tolerance in the halophyte H. glomeratus.
