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    There are two main types of ecosystems: terrestrial ecosystems, which are found on land, and aquatic ecosystems, which are found in bodies of water. Terrestrial ecosystems include tropical rainforests, deserts, grasslands, deciduous forests, tundra, and taiga, while aquatic ecosystems include lakes, rivers, ponds, wetlands, oceans, and seas. These ecosystems are linked as materials flow between them, for example nutrients from land entering aquatic ecosystems via rivers, and emergent aquatic insects providing an important food source for riparian predators.

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    Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystem

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    There are two main types of ecosystems: terrestrial ecosystems, which are found on land, and aquatic ecosystems, which are found in bodies of water. Terrestrial ecosystems include tropical rainforests, deserts, grasslands, deciduous forests, tundra, and taiga, while aquatic ecosystems include lakes, rivers, ponds, wetlands, oceans, and seas. These ecosystems are linked as materials flow between them, for example nutrients from land entering aquatic ecosystems via rivers, and emergent aquatic insects providing an important food source for riparian predators.

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    There are two main types of ecosystems: terrestrial ecosystems, which are found on land, and aquatic ecosystems, which are found in bodies of water. Terrestrial ecosystems include tropical rainforests, deserts, grasslands, deciduous forests, tundra, and taiga, while aquatic ecosystems include lakes, rivers, ponds, wetlands, oceans, and seas. These ecosystems are linked as materials flow between them, for example nutrients from land entering aquatic ecosystems via rivers, and emergent aquatic insects providing an important food source for riparian predators.

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    There are two main types of ecosystems: terrestrial ecosystems, which are found on land, and aquatic ecosystems, which are found in bodies of water. Terrestrial ecosystems include tropical rainforests, deserts, grasslands, deciduous forests, tundra, and taiga, while aquatic ecosystems include lakes, rivers, ponds, wetlands, oceans, and seas. These ecosystems are linked as materials flow between them, for example nutrients from land entering aquatic ecosystems via rivers, and emergent aquatic insects providing an important food source for riparian predators.

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    Terrestrial and Aquatic

    Ecosystem
    Ecosystem

     is the collection of several communities of


    living organisms interacting with non-living
    things.
     There are two types of ecosystems: terrestrial and
    aquatic ecosystems.
    Terrestrial ecosystems

    are ecosystems found


    only in land; these
    include tropical
    rainforests, deserts,
    grasslands, deciduous
    forests, tundra, and
    taiga.
    Tropical rainforest is a hot, moist biome found near
    Earth's equator. The world's largest tropical rainforests are
    in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Tropical
    rainforests receive from 60 to 160 inches of precipitation
    that is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year.
    Desert is a barren area of landscape where little
    precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are
    hostile for plant and animal life.
    Grasslands a large open area of country covered with grass,
    especially one used for grazing.

    Deciduous forest is a biome dominated by deciduous trees


    which lose their leaves seasonally. The Earth has temperate
    deciduous forests, and tropical and subtropical deciduous
    forests, also known as dry forests
    • Tundra a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and
    North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.
    • Taiga the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern
    latitudes, especially that between the tundra and steppes of
    Siberia and North America.
    Aquatic ecosystems

    • are ecosystems found in


    bodies of water; these
    include lakes, rivers,
    ponds, wetlands, oceans,
    and seas
    •The linkages between
    terrestrial and aquatic
    ecosystems have been
    established in various
    ecosystems.
    Factors That Link the Terrestrial and Aquatic
    Ecosystems
    • Different habitats of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
    are intertwined by the flux of materials within these
    ecosystems.
    Interaction in Land-Sea Interface

    • The land-sea interface or • 1.A food web is formed


    coastal ecotone is a major across the ecotone boundary.
    ecosystem where a Next is an illustration that
    depicts the feeding
    transition area between relationships of different
    the sea and the shoreline organisms within the terrestrial
    is found. It shows how and aquatic ecosystems. For
    factors in two ecosystems instance, humans that live in a
    interact and affect each terrestrial ecosystem can get
    other. their food from a lake where
    fish and arthropods reside.
    Terrestrial subsidies such as nitrogen, organic
    carbon, and phosphorus enter the aquatic
    ecosystems via rivers.
    Emerging Aquatic Insects

    • Emergent aquatic insects are important food sources


    for riparian predators - predators that reside within the
    riparian zone or the interface between land and a body
    of water such as a river. Most of the lifespan of these
    insects are underwater and emerge as adults to breed
    and return back into the water to lay eggs.
    One good example of a riparian predator that feed on aquatic
    insects is the spider. It was studied that the spiders' biomass
    are higher and web densities increase near an edge of a
    stream. When spiders are far from the stream edge, both
    biomass and web densities decreased.

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