hypersalinity
Much of the marshland is in poor condition, holding little except hyper-saline water and very few waterfowl.
Fairy shrimps are aquatic crustaceans found in inland salty or hypersaline waters.
The lagoon is an important hypersaline ecosystem and home to large numbers of red-headed ducks, which spend their winter there.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Water in general
aquatically
aqueous
bathwater
bathymetric
bathymetrically
bathymetry
brackish
briny
distilled water
grey water
hydrosphere
hydrospheric
hypersalinity
non-turbulent
overwater
rainwater
salt water
soft water
storm surge
wet

Examples of hypersaline

hypersaline
Analyses to date indicate the ubiquitous dominance of uncultured organisms of phylogenetic kinds not generally thought to be associated with hypersaline environments.
Survival and growth under these hypersaline conditions are accomplished by maintaining an isoosmotic balance of the cytosol with the surrounding medium.
Hypersaline waters are defined as having salt concentrations greater than that of seawater (3.5 % w/v).
Sulfate-reducing bacteria substantially contribute to the community metabolism and affect the chemical environment of marine and hypersaline microbial mats.
The hypersaline pond is a stable environment with no significant spatial variation in environmental parameters.
Alternatively, their fossils buried in stromatolitic sediments may have been flushed on to or near the surface by relatively recent transient hypersaline flows.
While the absolute diversity was comparable to that in the hypersaline pond, spatial heterogeneity was clearly detected in the inter-tidal area along a desiccation gradient.
Cavernous structures eroded into the seafloor deposits may contain dense, warm, hypersaline brines.
Isolates of cyanobacteria (both unicellular and filamentous types) were collected from stromatolites in thermal springs, hypersaline lakes, and oceanic fringes on two continents.
Conversely, they record evidence for entrapment of immiscible silicate melt and hypersaline liquids.
These results supported the notion that the halophilic isolates from subterranean salt deposits may be the remnants of populations that inhabited ancient hypersaline seas.
Hypersaline lakes dominated by prokaryotic communities, forming lithified stromatolites and microbial mats, are distributed worldwide and are known to be indicators of environmental change.
Hypersaline mats epitomize systems with physical characteristics that may present additional stressors on constituent organisms.
The seafloor and subseafloor crust is probably hypersaline throughout, and may be thermally diverse, including some niches of ordinary temperature and others suited for psychrophilic through hyperthermophilic life.
Hypersaline eucaryal diversity was higher than expected.
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