Inland Aquatic Enviro

• Types:

  Lotic and Lentic

  Which is flowing? Lotic

  Which is standing? Lentic
• Wetlands:

  What is the deep water called? Limnetic water

  Can be trophogenic (where light reaches) or Tropholytic (light doesn't reach)

  Organisms for this area?

  Plankton and nekton
• Wetlands:

  What is the shallow edge called? Littoral zone

  It is trophogenic (light reaches)

  Organisms for this area?

  Pleuston, macrophytes, periphytons, epiphytes
• Wetlands:

  What is the sediment layer at the bottom called? Benthos

  It is made up of what zones? The littoral and profundal

  Organisms for this area?

  Psammon, decomposers, benthos, detritivores, plants, algae
• Wetlands:

  Whats the area where the light reaches in the limnetic zone called?

  The euphotic zone

  Whats the area where the light doesn't reach called?

  The profundal zone
• Rivers:

  What are the 4 habitats?

  Pools, runs, riffles, margins
• Rivers: Functional feeding groups of macroinvertebrates:

  Shredders

  Collectors

  Scrapers

  Predators