Also, insects normally fed on by the grebes and phalaropes would increase. Such insects could vector diseases. The miserable humans affected by all this would flee northward, flooding cities with immigrants. Yeah, cut to the important stuff. But we still haven't dealt with the paving idea.
Mono Lake covers sixty square miles.
If you pave that much land there may not be enough asphalt left to maintain our highways. Yet gas guzzling machines of every sort will be attracted to the area. Smog, congestion, and noise will cover the hot baking surface of pavement during the summer months. The heat will be so intense that airplanes flying overhead will be buffeted by the rising heat columns. Commercial flights will be forced to circle around the basin to avoid the turbulence.