Saline lakes as barriers against pollution: a multidisciplinary overview: Una visión multidisciplinar

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We are thankful to the Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL) for the award to the best Iberian doctoral thesis in limnology of the period 2018-19, and the opportunity to disseminate the results through this manuscript. Special thanks to David Sanz, Santiago Castano, Dioni Cendon and Michael Schagerl for their comments on previous works leading to the preparation of this paper, as well as to the colleagues from the Biotechnology & Natural Resources Section (University of Castilla-La Mancha) and to the colleagues from the Environmental and Radiochemistry Group (University of Vienna) for their invaluable laboratory and field support. We thank Michael Stachowitsch for English copyediting and valuable comments. This work derived from the doctoral thesis written by Nicolas Valiente and funded by the doctoral grant BES-2012-052256 and the projects CGL2011-29975-C04-02 and CGL2017-87216-C4-2-R from the Spanish government, as well as PEIC-2014-004-P and SB-PLY/17/180501/000296 projects from Castilla-La Mancha Regional Government.