The Ecology of Ponds and Lakes, Streams and Rivers
The site is aimed primarily at students who attend courses at the FSC field centres, in the British Isles, and it is intended to help you both before you attend a course and after you get home. Anyone else is welcome to visit the site and we hope you will find it useful.
- What is Freshwater? It might seem a simple question but the term freshwater refers to several different kinds of habitat, this part explains them all. This section also looks at some of the unique physical and chemical properties of water and tells you why it's good for slimmers (n'eau calories)
- Factors Affecting life in Freshwater Is mineral water a sensible purchase? (Yes, once, then you fill up the bottle from the tap). In the mean time investigate here for more depth on the physical and chemical properties of freshwater habitats.
- Ponds and Lakes - Static Water What manner of trickery lies beneath the placid surface? Do still waters actually run deep? Does a directional change in plant and animal communities occur with time? Do you want to know about zonation and successional changes in lentic systems? Look here……
- Streams and Rivers - Moving water What manner of trickery lies beneath the turbulent surface? Does a lot of water really pass under the bridge? Does a directional change in plant and animal communities down river? Do all the animals just get washed down the swany? Look here……
- Species Information Introducing the creatures from the deep (and not so deep); writhe through this seething menagerie of species and marvel at adaptations
- Feeding Relationships There's no quarter given in the scary world of freshwater invertebrates. Discover their diverse and revolting methods of eating each other in this section.
- Stats for Twits Do numbers send you running for your paint brush? Help is at hand
- Questions and Answers Responses to questions emailed to us by site users. Be the envy of your friends. Ask us a decent question and have it published on the site.
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