Intensive culture of Artemia urmiana in semi-flow through system feeding on Algae Dunaliella and Wheat bran Behrooz Atashbar author Naser Agh author Ehsan Kmerani author text article 2010 eng Artemia is a tiny crustacean that lives in salty lakes. Artemia urmiana is one of the important species of it. Its high nutritional values and various forms with many applications have caused this creature to be considered as the most valuable live food for the cultured aquatic animals .Current research was carried out in order to find out the bio-technique for intensive culture of Artemia with semi-flow through system using unicellular algae ( Dunaliella ) and wheat bran as food source. The tanks inoculated with 5000 newly hatched Artemia larvae/liter. Artemia were harvested for 14 days. The average production of live Artemia in each three tanks reached to 7116.7 g. The mean length of Artemia in the last day of culture period was 4.09 mm and mean survival rate 42 percent. It was concluded that partial removal of waste material from culture medium helps in higher production rate of live biomass. Int. J. of Aquatic Science 2008-8019 1 v. 1 no. 2010 3 9 http://www.journal-aquaticscience.com/article_73587_ccc9c513466b37c9bb1bbaae169fa6c1.pdf Different salinities effect on biometry of nauplii and meta-nauplii of two Artemia (Crustacea; Anostraca) populations from Urmia Lake basin Alireza Asem author Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani author text article 2010 eng Int. J. of Aquatic Science 2008-8019 1 v. 1 no. 2010 10 13 http://www.journal-aquaticscience.com/article_73586_8b1e1e578b8ac8255363c70ae7812d42.pdf A 200,000-year record of the brine shrimp Artemia (Crustacea: Anostraca) remains in Lake Urmia, NW Iran Morteza Djamali author Philippe Ponel author Thomas Delille author Alain Thiéry author Alireza Asem author Valérie Andrieu-Ponel author Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu author Hamid Lahijani author Majid Shah-Hosseini author Abdolhossein Amini author Lora Stevens author text article 2010 eng Int. J. of Aquatic Science 2008-8019 1 v. 1 no. 2010 14 18 http://www.journal-aquaticscience.com/article_73588_f633276fb994f1d5f3b37944c5ff261b.pdf The Brine Shrimp Artemia and hypersaline environments microalgal composition: a mutual interaction Fereidun Mohebbi author text article 2010 eng Hypersaline environments are essential, integral and dynamic part of the biosphere. Their management and protection depend on an understanding of the influence of salinity on biological productivity and community structure. The aim of this study was to review the relationships between the two basic biological components of hypersaline environments (micro-algae and Artemia) to provide a better understanding the dynamics of these unique ecosystems. Algal composition as the main food source of Artemia determines Artemia growth, reproduction rates, brood size, density, lipid index and cysts yields. Furthermore, the reproduction mode of Artemia depends on food levels, so that at the low food levels the main reproduction going into cysts. On the other hand, seasonal fluctu-ations of algal abundance influence Artemia population in temperate large hypersaline lakes such as the Great Salt Lake (USA), Urmia Lake (Iran) and Mono Lake (USA). However, Artemia grazing pressure has significant effects on microalgal density. Int. J. of Aquatic Science 2008-8019 1 v. 1 no. 2010 19 27 http://www.journal-aquaticscience.com/article_73589_769d55e750f0bc2b49e63fa33c08e114.pdf The status knowledge of Chilean Artemia populations: Future trends for studies and management Patricio De los Rios author text article 2010 eng Int. J. of Aquatic Science 2008-8019 1 v. 1 no. 2010 28 30 http://www.journal-aquaticscience.com/article_73590_6e512134fe69477ed1f1ec875191d27f.pdf