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Aquatic Ecosystems
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Organic Inputs! Allochthonous organic matter
! Organic matter that is derived from outside the system (in lakes, this is usually leaves, needles, wood, and twigs from terrestrial vegetation)
! Autochthonous organic matter! Organic matter derived within the system (in lakes,
this is usually algae, mosses, and aquatic vascular macrophytes)
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Trophic Properties! Autotrophic - production within the system
exceeds respiration! This is often expressed as the ratio of production to
respiration (P/R)! In autotrophic systems, P/R > 1
! Heterotrophic - respiration within the system exceeds production! In heterotrophic systems, P/R < 1
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Major Habitats of Lentic Ecosystems
! Planktonic - free-floating! Phytoplankton - free-floating algae! Zooplankton - free-floating animals with limited
powers of locomotion! Tychoplankton - Suspended benthic organisms
(not true plankton)! Metaphyton - Phytoplankton existing within the
macrophyte communities of littoral zones
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Nekton
! Nekton - free-swimming! Some organisms (such as larvae of fish) can
shift between planktonic to nektonic existence within their life cycle
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Pleuston! Pleuston - organisms adapted to the habitat of
the air-water interface! Neuston - the microscopic component of the
pleuston! Epineuston or epipleuston are those forms that exist
on top of the water's surface! Hyponeuston or hypopleuston are those forms that
exist under the water's surface but still are associated with the air-water interface
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Benthos
! Benthos - organisms that live on the bottom of a lake, stream, or river
! Benthic is the adjective that is used to describe organisms that live on the bottom
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Benthos! The film of algae, bacteria, fungi, and
microscopic invertebrates that exist on substrates is known as periphyton! Periphyton literally refers to organisms living "on
plants" but is most often used in the more general sense
! The term Aufwuchs is sometimes used synonymously with periphyton
! Aufwuchs is a term derived from the German for "growth upon”
! Biofilm is most common recent term
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Benthic Communities
! Epilithic - living on rock substrates! Epipelic - living on fine organic sediments
("mud")! Epiphytic - living on plants! Epizooic - living on animals! Epipsammic - living on sand grains
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Littoral Zone
! Epilittoral - above the high water level and uninfluenced by spray
! Supralittoral - above the high water level and subject to spray
! Eulittoral - the shoreline region between the highest and lowest seasonal water levels
! Eulittoral plus infralittoral = littoral zone
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Littoral Zone! Infralittoral
! Upper infralittoral - zone where emergent rooted macrophytes exist
! Middle infralittoral - zone where floating-leaved macrophytes exist
! Lower infralittoral - zone where rooted or adnatemacrophytes exist
! Littoriprofundal - zone where only photosynthetic algae and bacteria exist (often associated with the metalimnion)
! Profundal - zone where sediments are free of vegetation
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Measure of Productionand Abundance
! Production - weight of new organic matter formed over a period of time plus any loss due to respiration, excretion, secretion, injury, death, and grazing
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! Productivity - the rate of production
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Quantity! Standing crop - weight of organic matter that
can be sampled or harvested at one time from a given area (not necessarily the whole plant)
! Biomass - the weight of all living matter in a unit area at a given time (must include the whole plant)
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! Yield - Standing crop expressed as a rate!
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Abundance! Estimation of abundance of organisms
! Enumeration! Volume! Weight
• Dry weight - dried in oven at 55ºC for at least 24 hours• Ash-free dry weight - weight of ash (determined by weighing
the residue after burning sample in furnace at 550ºC for at least 4 hours) is subtracted from the dry weight to determine ash-free dry weight
! Cellular constituents - carbon (40-60% for most plants), nitrogen, phosphorus
! Productivity
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P/B Ratios
! Production to biomass ratio (P/B)! High P/B ratio for smaller organisms! P/B generally decreases with increasing size! P/B decreases with increasing trophic level