INTRODUCTION
The "father of limnology"
Who is Alphonse Forel?
World's longest
What is the Nile River?
Prokaryotic phytoplankton that contain gas vacuoles
What is cyanobacteria?
Increasing concentration up the food chain
What is bioaccumulation?
Regional-scale units for inland aquatic conservation.
What is a freshwater ecoregion?
Tool for sampling microscopic drifting organisms
What is a plankton net?
Largest freshwater flood wetland that houses many species of flora and fauna in the Southern hemisphere
What is the Pantanal?
Uses carbon dioxide and sunlight to generate energy
What is a photo autotroph?
Chemical pollutant that causes skin lesions on the feet.
What is arsenic?
Apex predator in Amazonian fish communities.
What is Arapaima?
A predicted outcome or answer to a question
What is a hypothesis?
Introduced submerged macrophyte in Singapore's reservoirs
What is Hydrilla?
Groupings of photosynthetic plankton defined by habitat, environmental tolerances/sensitivities
What are phytoplankton functional groups?
Conversion of a heavy metal pollutant under anoxic conditions
What is mercury methylation?
An agreement between different stakeholders involved in a fishery
What is a fishing accord?
Depth on y-axis and temperature on x-axis, this can reveal thermal stratification…or not
What is a vertical temperature profile?
Wetland fed by atmospheric deposition, separated from parent water body... think Sphagnum moss
What is a bog?
Daily up and down movement of zooplankton in the water column in response to predators
What is diel vertical migration?
Sewage, clothes, wastewater treatment plants, urban runoff to water bodies
What are sources of microplastics?
Quantitatively predicting the range of a taxon
What is species distribution modelling?
Small-scale but naturalistic/realistic set-up to manipulate factors under study
What is a mesocosm experiment?
Plant tissue containing air spaces.
What is aerenchyma?
Moderate levels of perturbation promoting the highest levels of species diversity
What is intermediate disturbance hypothesis?
A chemical bound to iron/aluminium/calcium in the sediment.
What is phosphorus?
Streambank restoration, retrofitting of failing septic tanks, native plant restoration, porous pavement installations
What are best management practices (BMP)?