Wetlands 2 Student - Shuswap Watershed Project
... shallow water and moist soil zones. Cattail and bulrush are the two most common emergents associated with marshes though many other species may be present, depending upon local soil and water conditions. A variety of submergent vegetation species is also common to marshes. Freshwater marsh plant com ...
... shallow water and moist soil zones. Cattail and bulrush are the two most common emergents associated with marshes though many other species may be present, depending upon local soil and water conditions. A variety of submergent vegetation species is also common to marshes. Freshwater marsh plant com ...
Removal of large woody debris from NSW rivers and streams
... structural component of streams and rivers, and forms essential habitat for aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Large woody debris provides: • Habitat for benthic plants, algae, invertebrates and microorganisms; • Hiding places (refuges) to avoid predators; • Resting places out of the main river f ...
... structural component of streams and rivers, and forms essential habitat for aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Large woody debris provides: • Habitat for benthic plants, algae, invertebrates and microorganisms; • Hiding places (refuges) to avoid predators; • Resting places out of the main river f ...
Food Web Stability: The Influence of Trophic Flows across Habitats
... trophic levels (above the basal level) alters food web stability. Polis and Hurd (1996) suggest that for their island systems most of the allochthonous inputs are available to detritivores (included in our consumer level). Other systems that are driven by allochthonous inputs into the consumer level ...
... trophic levels (above the basal level) alters food web stability. Polis and Hurd (1996) suggest that for their island systems most of the allochthonous inputs are available to detritivores (included in our consumer level). Other systems that are driven by allochthonous inputs into the consumer level ...
What Scientists are Really Saying about Asian Carp Surviving in the
... What Scientists are Really Saying about Asian Carp Surviving in the Great Lakes The Great Lakes are a phenomenal natural resource that contain 20 percent of all surface freshwater on the planet and comprise the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem. Unfortunately, these magnificent lakes are under si ...
... What Scientists are Really Saying about Asian Carp Surviving in the Great Lakes The Great Lakes are a phenomenal natural resource that contain 20 percent of all surface freshwater on the planet and comprise the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem. Unfortunately, these magnificent lakes are under si ...
The consequences of scale: assessing the distribution of benthic
... of other stressors such as pollutants or high temperatures (Carriker, 1967; Vernberg and Vernberg, 1974). However, salinity may be a proxy for other variables that directly affect organisms, e.g., substrate types or water column turbidity. In some cases it is not the mean salinity that is critical bu ...
... of other stressors such as pollutants or high temperatures (Carriker, 1967; Vernberg and Vernberg, 1974). However, salinity may be a proxy for other variables that directly affect organisms, e.g., substrate types or water column turbidity. In some cases it is not the mean salinity that is critical bu ...
Community and foodweb ecology of freshwater mussels
... importance of mussels as habitat generators extends beyond provision of physical structure and often is consequent to the activities of living mussels. For example, macroinvertebrate densities are higher in mussel beds (aggregations of mussels) than outside beds (Vaughn and Spooner 2006b), and macro ...
... importance of mussels as habitat generators extends beyond provision of physical structure and often is consequent to the activities of living mussels. For example, macroinvertebrate densities are higher in mussel beds (aggregations of mussels) than outside beds (Vaughn and Spooner 2006b), and macro ...
2013_SRBS_v30_n5_Ing_RethinkingSystemsThinking_preprint
... practical description, Ackoff contrasts systems thinking as synthesis preceding analysis with the Machine-Age thinking where the order is reversed. Many self-espoused systems thinkers fail in that emphasis on with the containing whole, instead focusing only on partpart interactions in a reductive st ...
... practical description, Ackoff contrasts systems thinking as synthesis preceding analysis with the Machine-Age thinking where the order is reversed. Many self-espoused systems thinkers fail in that emphasis on with the containing whole, instead focusing only on partpart interactions in a reductive st ...
Consumer versus resource control of producer producer community structure
... of these effects, although ecosystem productivity is thought to strongly influence community responses (9). Resource enrichment in unproductive environments may enhance diversity by allowing rare species to use new resources (10, 11) or persist in larger local populations that are less susceptible t ...
... of these effects, although ecosystem productivity is thought to strongly influence community responses (9). Resource enrichment in unproductive environments may enhance diversity by allowing rare species to use new resources (10, 11) or persist in larger local populations that are less susceptible t ...
Characteristics of fish fauna of the Macintyre and Dumaresq Rivers
... section of the Border Rivers catchment (Table 2). This compares to the more than 35 native and 11 alien fish species in the Murray-Darling Basin, some of which are estuarine, and others are restricted in their distribution to highland habitats (more than 600 metres a.s.l.). Although data collection ...
... section of the Border Rivers catchment (Table 2). This compares to the more than 35 native and 11 alien fish species in the Murray-Darling Basin, some of which are estuarine, and others are restricted in their distribution to highland habitats (more than 600 metres a.s.l.). Although data collection ...
See Offprint - Fundación BBVA
... land streams and continues incrementally until a large river reaches an outlet. Hence, there is a physical continuity between a very large river and the multitude of smallest streams (“headwaters”) spidering across the uplands of the catchment feeding it. Conversely, small headwaters might be very n ...
... land streams and continues incrementally until a large river reaches an outlet. Hence, there is a physical continuity between a very large river and the multitude of smallest streams (“headwaters”) spidering across the uplands of the catchment feeding it. Conversely, small headwaters might be very n ...
View PDF - CiteSeerX
... the clear-water and turbid-water regimes. In the clear-water regime, phosphorus inputs, phytoplankton biomass, and recycling of phosphorus from sediments are relatively low. In the turbid-water regime, these same variables are relatively high. The turbid-water regime provides lower ecosystem service ...
... the clear-water and turbid-water regimes. In the clear-water regime, phosphorus inputs, phytoplankton biomass, and recycling of phosphorus from sediments are relatively low. In the turbid-water regime, these same variables are relatively high. The turbid-water regime provides lower ecosystem service ...
Order Aquatic Coleoptera
... Unlike the Hemiptera, the larvae of Coleoptera are morphologically and behaviourally different from the adults, and their diversity is high. In temperate regions, beetles from most major groups commonly exhibit univoltine life cycles. However, multivoltinism is, as might be expected, more common in ...
... Unlike the Hemiptera, the larvae of Coleoptera are morphologically and behaviourally different from the adults, and their diversity is high. In temperate regions, beetles from most major groups commonly exhibit univoltine life cycles. However, multivoltinism is, as might be expected, more common in ...
REGIME SHIFTS, RESILIENCE, AND BIODIVERSITY IN
... the clear-water and turbid-water regimes. In the clear-water regime, phosphorus inputs, phytoplankton biomass, and recycling of phosphorus from sediments are relatively low. In the turbid-water regime, these same variables are relatively high. The turbid-water regime provides lower ecosystem service ...
... the clear-water and turbid-water regimes. In the clear-water regime, phosphorus inputs, phytoplankton biomass, and recycling of phosphorus from sediments are relatively low. In the turbid-water regime, these same variables are relatively high. The turbid-water regime provides lower ecosystem service ...
Limits on ecosystem trophic complexity: insights from ecological
... mostly share nodes to which they are linked by input and output flows) are present in the network. In this sense, r measures the number of effective trophic levels in that ecosystem; it is also the average number of flows through which an aliquot of medium passes before leaving the system or being r ...
... mostly share nodes to which they are linked by input and output flows) are present in the network. In this sense, r measures the number of effective trophic levels in that ecosystem; it is also the average number of flows through which an aliquot of medium passes before leaving the system or being r ...
Limits on ecosystem trophic complexity: insights from
... mostly share nodes to which they are linked by input and output flows) are present in the network. In this sense, r measures the number of effective trophic levels in that ecosystem; it is also the average number of flows through which an aliquot of medium passes before leaving the system or being r ...
... mostly share nodes to which they are linked by input and output flows) are present in the network. In this sense, r measures the number of effective trophic levels in that ecosystem; it is also the average number of flows through which an aliquot of medium passes before leaving the system or being r ...
Dragonflies and damselflies in your garden
... The four-spotted chaser dragonfly. Dragonflies keep their wings open when at rest. BDS/I. Hulme Above: Female of the same species. BDS/J. Stevens Bottom: Male emerald damselfly. Unusually, this species holds its wings half open when at rest. ...
... The four-spotted chaser dragonfly. Dragonflies keep their wings open when at rest. BDS/I. Hulme Above: Female of the same species. BDS/J. Stevens Bottom: Male emerald damselfly. Unusually, this species holds its wings half open when at rest. ...
pdf - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
... To understand the expected signs and magnitudes of the fertilization effect, herbivore effect and their interaction across the wide range of systems covered in this metaanalysis, we have created a simplified series of models to predict the qualitative effects on autotroph standing biomass associated ...
... To understand the expected signs and magnitudes of the fertilization effect, herbivore effect and their interaction across the wide range of systems covered in this metaanalysis, we have created a simplified series of models to predict the qualitative effects on autotroph standing biomass associated ...
A cross-system synthesis of consumer and nutrient
... To understand the expected signs and magnitudes of the fertilization effect, herbivore effect and their interaction across the wide range of systems covered in this metaanalysis, we have created a simplified series of models to predict the qualitative effects on autotroph standing biomass associated ...
... To understand the expected signs and magnitudes of the fertilization effect, herbivore effect and their interaction across the wide range of systems covered in this metaanalysis, we have created a simplified series of models to predict the qualitative effects on autotroph standing biomass associated ...
Dinger EC, Hendrickson DA, Winsborough BM, Marks JC (2006)
... With discovery of stromatolites in ‘‘nonextreme’’ environments (most prominently in Cuatro Ciénegas) that also harbor diverse metazoans, alternative hypotheses have been posed to explain the global decline of stromatolites include changing sedimentological conditions (Pratt, 1982), changes in seawa ...
... With discovery of stromatolites in ‘‘nonextreme’’ environments (most prominently in Cuatro Ciénegas) that also harbor diverse metazoans, alternative hypotheses have been posed to explain the global decline of stromatolites include changing sedimentological conditions (Pratt, 1982), changes in seawa ...
Porifera_1-18
... There are examples of all 3 of these types of symbiotic relationships occurring in Sponges ...
... There are examples of all 3 of these types of symbiotic relationships occurring in Sponges ...
The three grades of metazoan animals
... There are examples of all 3 of these types of symbiotic relationships occurring in Sponges ...
... There are examples of all 3 of these types of symbiotic relationships occurring in Sponges ...
Recruitment of marine invertebrates - University of California, Santa
... first census by us was shorter than in many studies. The relationship between settlement and recruitment is not strong, nor is it constant between species. A few field studies exist that have documented the mortality of juveniles of a single species (Connell 1961; Denley 1981; Goodbody 1965), but th ...
... first census by us was shorter than in many studies. The relationship between settlement and recruitment is not strong, nor is it constant between species. A few field studies exist that have documented the mortality of juveniles of a single species (Connell 1961; Denley 1981; Goodbody 1965), but th ...
SoE 08 Part 4.3 Inland Waters
... storages and the use of river channels to convey water long distances from where it is stored (see Part 3.2: Water Resources). Large proportions of the total surface water in several basins are extracted for consumption, particularly in dry years. Flow regimes have been heavily modified in these riv ...
... storages and the use of river channels to convey water long distances from where it is stored (see Part 3.2: Water Resources). Large proportions of the total surface water in several basins are extracted for consumption, particularly in dry years. Flow regimes have been heavily modified in these riv ...
River ecosystem
The ecosystem of a river is the river viewed as a system operating in its natural environment, and includes biotic (living) interactions amongst plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (nonliving) physical and chemical interactions.River ecosystems are prime examples of lotic ecosystems. Lotic refers to flowing water, from the Latin lotus, washed. Lotic waters range from springs only a few centimeters wide to major rivers kilometers in width. Much of this article applies to lotic ecosystems in general, including related lotic systems such as streams and springs. Lotic ecosystems can be contrasted with lentic ecosystems, which involve relatively still terrestrial waters such as lakes and ponds. Together, these two fields form the more general study area of freshwater or aquatic ecology. The following unifying characteristics make the ecology of running waters unique from that of other aquatic habitats. Flow is unidirectional. There is a state of continuous physical change. There is a high degree of spatial and temporal heterogeneity at all scales (microhabitats). Variability between lotic systems is quite high. The biota is specialized to live with flow conditions.↑ ↑ ↑ ↑