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Limnology exam 1

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show Climae, geology, topography  
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catchment attributes   show
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morphometry   show
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show the volume of water or area of sediment where photosynthetically available radiation (PAR) is <1% of the entering water and where plant respiration is larger than plant photosynthesis (R>P)  
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show area of land that drains towards an aquatic system  
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Epilimnion   show
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show deep, cool layer of a stratified lake, charactierized by a greatly reduced turbulence and usually insufficient light to allow algal growth  
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show transition layer of water in which the temp. declines with the increaseing depth  
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show community of multicellular emergent large plants dominating the shallow portions of littoral zones  
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littoral zone   show
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limnetic zone   show
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profundal zone   show
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Bernhardus Varenius   show
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Francois Alphonse Forel   show
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show Lake Classification 1926, the basic conceptual foundations of cycling of nutrients in water and food cycle relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers. 1917, he was appointed director of the Hydrobiological Anstalt at Plön,  
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Einar Naumann   show
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show 1887: The lake as a microcosmHe was among the first to study North American inland lakes.  
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show a professor and administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the pioneers of the study of limnology, the study of inland bodies of water such as rivers and lakes.  
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show one of the two founders of limnology, studied planktonic communities which led to investigations of water column thermal structure, distribution of dissolved gases, and light penetration, along with the mechanisms controlling these features.  
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Pietro Secchi   show
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show Niche concept, Niches are linked into food chains, Pyramid of numbers, Matter flows through “food cycle”  
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Evelyn Hutchinson   show
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oligotrophic   show
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eutrophic   show
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mesotrophic   show
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humic/ brown water lakes   show
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show defectively nourished  
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allochthonous   show
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show sources of carbon from within the system, such as algae and the microbial breakdown of particulate organic carbon  
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