Inland Aquatic Enviro

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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

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