Lake Urmia (or Ormiyeh) is one of the largest hypersaline lakes in …

• Abstract
• Background
• Geology
• Sediments
• Hydrology
• The basin
• Morphometry
• Causeway project
• Hydrochemistry
• Main ions
• Exploitation
• Artemia biology
• Bisexual vs. parthenogenetic Artemia
• Ecology
• Phytoplankton
• Bacteriology
• Conservation and management
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Figures

The authors express their great gratitude appreciation to Prof. J.S. Clegg for his useful reading and helpful discussions in order to improve the quality of manuscript. We are gratefully thankful for Iranian Artemia Research Center which provided us some manuscripts to cover this work. Especial thanks refer to Dr. Abbas Ali Motallebi as a head of IFRO to provide suitable research opportunities for doing more investigations about various aspects of Urmia lake. Financial support was obtained from the Iranian Fisheries Research Organization (IFRO).