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    The aquatic ecosystem includes both freshwater and saltwater environments. Freshwater ecosystems include lakes/ponds, rivers/streams, and marshes/swamps. Lakes and ponds have littoral, limnetic and profundal zones. Rivers and streams vary based on factors like current. Marshes are dominated by grasslands while swamps are dominated by trees. These freshwater ecosystems provide habitat and important ecosystem services.

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    The aquatic ecosystem includes both freshwater and saltwater environments. Freshwater ecosystems include lakes/ponds, rivers/streams, and marshes/swamps. Lakes and ponds have littoral, limnetic and profundal zones. Rivers and streams vary based on factors like current. Marshes are dominated by grasslands while swamps are dominated by trees. These freshwater ecosystems provide habitat and important ecosystem services.

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    IT IS ALL ABOUT THE AQUATIC SYSTEM

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    The aquatic ecosystem includes both freshwater and saltwater environments. Freshwater ecosystems include lakes/ponds, rivers/streams, and marshes/swamps. Lakes and ponds have littoral, limnetic and profundal zones. Rivers and streams vary based on factors like current. Marshes are dominated by grasslands while swamps are dominated by trees. These freshwater ecosystems provide habitat and important ecosystem services.

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    AQUATIC

    ECOSYSTEMS
    AQUATIC The aquatic ecosystem definition states
    it is a water-based environment,
    ECOSYSTEM wherein, living organisms interact with
    both physical and chemical features of
    the environment. These living creatures
    whose food, shelter, reproduction, and
    other essential activities depend on a
    water-based environment are known as
    aquatic organisms.
    The most fundamental division in aquatic
    ecology is probably between freshwater
    and saltwater environments.
    Salinity- the concentration of
    dissolved salts (such as
    sodium chloride) in a body of
    water
    FACTORS
    AFFECTING dissolved oxygen
    DISTRIBUTION
    OF ORGANISMS nutrient minerals
    Plankton
    usually small or microscopic organisms; tend to drift or swim
    feebly, so, for the most part, they are carried about at the
    mercy of currents and waves.

    Nekton
    3 MAIN larger, more strongly swimming organisms such as fishes,

    ECOLOGICAL turtles, and whales.

    CATEGORIES Benthos
    OF bottom-dwelling organisms that fix themselves to one spot
    (sponges and oysters), burrow into the sand (worms and

    ORGANISMS clams), or simply walk about on the bottom (crawfish and


    aquatic insect larvae).
    FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS
    include lakes and ponds (standing water ecosystems),
    rivers and streams (flowing-water ecosystems), and
    marshes and swamps (freshwater wetlands). 

    about 2% of Earth’s surface 

    play an important role in the hydrologic cycle:

    Large bodies of fresh water help moderate daily and


    seasonal temperature fluctuations on nearby land regions,
    and freshwater habitats provide homes for many species.
    STANDING-WATER ECOSYSTEM

     A body of fresh water surrounded by land and


    whose water does not flow; a lake or a pond. 

    Zonation is characteristic of standing-water


    ecosystems. 

    3 zones of a large lake: the littoral, limnetic, and


    profundal zones
    Zonation in a Large Lake
    3 zones of a large lake
    FLOWING-WATER ECOSYSTEMS

    are highly variable; surrounding environment changes greatly


    between a river’s source and its mouth

    Certain parts of the stream’s course are shaded by forest, while


    other parts are exposed to direct sunlight.

    Groundwater may well up through sediments on the bottom in one


    particular area, making the water temperature cooler in summer or
    warmer in winter than in adjacent parts of the stream or river
    FLOWING-WATER ECOSYSTEMS
    Organisms vary greatly from one stream to another, depending
    primarily on the strength of the current.

    fast currents: some inhabitants have adaptations such as


    suckers, with which they attach themselves to rocks to prevent
    being swept away.
    With flattened bodies to slip under or between rocks
    fish that are streamlined and muscular enough to swim in the
    current.
    FRESHWATER WETLANDS
    Lands that shallow freshwater covers for at least part of the year;
    wetlands have a characteristic soil and water-tolerant vegetation

    include marshes, dominated by grasslike plants, and swamps,


    dominated by woody trees or shrubs

    Wetland soils: waterlogged for variable periods and are therefore


    anaerobic; are rich in accumulated organic materials

    provide excellent wildlife habitats for migratory waterfowl and other


    bird species, as well as for beavers, otters, muskrats, and game fish.
    FRESHWATER WETLANDS
    Provides ecosystem services

    threatened by pollution, development, agriculture, and dam


    construction

    Ecosystem services- Important environmental benefits, such as


    clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and fertile soil in which
    to grow crops, that the natural environment provides.

    FRESHWATER
    SWAMPS are inland areas
    covered by water
    and dominated by
    trees, such as
    baldcypress

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