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Aquatic Ecology
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Biology
Undergraduate 4
03/10/2011
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Acid
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ph less than 7
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Alkalinity
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ability to neutralize acids (phosphate, nitrate, dissolved ammonium)
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Amazon River
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Ammonium oxidation
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Amphipod
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Aral Sea
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Archean
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Aufwachs
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Autotrophic
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Bacillariophycae
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Background drift
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Barbus
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Base flow
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Behavioral drift
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Benthic
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Biofilm
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Blackwater
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Boiling point
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Boundary layer
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Brownian motion
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Caddis flies
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Carbon dioxide solubility
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Carboniferous period
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Carnivores
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Catchment export
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Caves
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Chemoautotroph
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Chichlid
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Cladophora
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Clarias
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Coleoptera
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Collectors
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Colorado River
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Compensation point
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Convergent evolution
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Copepod
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CPOM
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coarse particulate organic matter
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Cyanobacteria
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Denitrification
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Depth profile
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Devonian period
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Diatoms
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Diffusion
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Dimictic
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Diptera
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Divergent evolution
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DOC
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DOM
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Drift
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Emergent
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Empheroptera
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May fly
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Endorheic
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does not flow to ocean. ends in sink or basin. typically salts build up.
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Epigean
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Epilithic
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lives on rocks
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Epipelic
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Epiphytic
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lives on plants
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Equivalents
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Everglades
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Exorheic
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ends at ocean
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Fi
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Food web length
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FPOM
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fine particulate organic matter
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Fv
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Gammarus
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Ganges River
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Gastropids
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Geology and water chemistry
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Gills
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Gross photosynthesis
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Hagfish
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"hyperotreti", jawless, feeds on dead organisms, produces snot-like slime
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Heat of fusion
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Heterotrophic
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must consume organic matter for energy
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Hot springs
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extremophile
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Hubbard brook
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Hydrocotyle ranunculoides
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Hydrogen bonding
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a result of the partial polarity of oxygen and hydrogen in water. gives high specific heat and viscosity.
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Hyphomycetes
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Hyporheic
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I = Ioe^(-kz)
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Igneous
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rock formed from cooling magma
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Ionic potential
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Isotopic fractionation
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Jordan River
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Kryal streams
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fed by meltwaters
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Labile
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easy to break down
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Lag to peak
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Lake Chilwa
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Lake Malawi
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Lake Tanganyika
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Lake Turkan
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Lake Victoria
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Laminar flow
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smooth
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Latitude & fish species
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higher species richness near equator
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Lentic
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lake, pond, or swamp. still water.
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Light budget (Earth)
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Limnetic
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open surface waters of a lake
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Littoral
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