Aquatic Earth covers all major freshwater ecosystems including lakes, rivers and streams, range and climate of freshwater biomes, plant and animal wildlife, adaptations, threats and freshwater sustainability. Designed to foster comprehension and student engagement, Crack the Books textbooks feature hundreds...
Aquatic communities are the world's major water habitats. Likeland biomes, aquatic communities can also be subdivided based on common characteristics. Two common designations are freshwater and marine communities. Freshwater Communities Rivers and Streamsare bodies of water that continuously move in a s...
Freshwater Biomes Freshwater biomes include lakes and ponds (standing water) as well as rivers and streams (flowing water). They also include wetlands, which will be discussed later. Humans rely on freshwater biomes to provide aquatic resources for drinking water, crop irrigation, sanitation, and ...
Like terrestrial plants, aquatic plants can be found all over the world, in a variety of settings. They also have different requirements. For example, in afreshwater biome, aquatic plants such as water lilies, star grass, and cattails require plenty of sunlight. Other important factors include ...
1 is, in essence, a simplified landscape-scale version of a net ecosystem carbon balance (NECB), sometimes also referred to as net biome production (NBP) when applied at large temporal and spatial scales. These integrated carbon cycling terms were introduced by Chapin et al.20 as a framework...
Malicky, H (1983) Chorological patterns and biome types of European Trichoptera and other freshwater insects. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 96: pp. 223-244 Manconi, R (2008) The genus Ephydatia (Spongillina: Spongillidae) in Africa: a case of Mediterranean vs. Southern Africa disjunct distributio...
services on ecotourism, we measured the aquatic systems and recreational services of PAs considering three sets of variables: i) amount of freshwater supply; ii) type of freshwater, marine and coastal ecosystems; iii) type of recreational services associated with freshwater, marine or coastal ...
Why is freshwater biology important? How does fish farming affect biodiversity? How does overfishing affect biodiversity? How does fishing affect biodiversity? Why are aquatic biome characteristics important? Why do keystone species increase biodiversity? Why are seed banks important in maintaining biodivers...
The Tibetan Plateau supplies water to nearly 2 billion people in Asia, but climate change poses threats to its aquatic microbial resources. Here, we construct the Tibetan Plateau Microbial Catalog by sequencing 498 metagenomes from six water ecosystems (saline lakes, freshwater lakes, rivers, hot ...
The corresponding freshwater ecoregions according to Abell et al. [29] are Eastern Coastal Australia, Bass Strait Drainages, Southern Tasmania, and small parts of the Murray-Darling region. Unlike many other aquatic inver- tebrates, such as crustaceans and gastropods, most spe-...