INTRODUCTION
The "father of limnology"
Who is Alphonse Forel?
World's longest
What is the Nile River?
Planktonic primary producer with chlorophyll-a pigment as the main photosynthetic pigment.
What is a chlorophyte?
Increasing concentration up the food chain
What is bioaccumulation?
Regional scale units for conservation.
What is a freshwater ecoregion?
Tool for sampling microscopic drifting organisms
What is a plankton net?
Large freshwater flood wetland that houses many species of flora and fauna in the Southern hemisphere
What is the Pantanal?
Uses carbon dioxide and inorganic compounds to generate energy
What is a chemoautotroph?
Chemical pollutant that causes skin lesions on the feet.
What is arsenic?
Method of planting riparian vegetation to improve water quality
What is streambank restoration?
A predicted outcome or answer to a question
What is a hypothesis?
Nymphaeaceae native to Singapore
What is Barclaya motleyi?
What is reproductive isolation?
Conversion of a metal pollutant under anoxic conditions
What is mercury methylation?
An agreement between different stakeholders involved in a species 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
What is an ombrotrophic bog?
Daily movement in the presence of predation
What is diel vertical migration?
Sewage, clothes, wastewater treatment plants, urban runoff to water bodies
What are sources of microplastics?
Using computer software to predict the distribution 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?
Ingesting of bacteria and other cells for nutrition by phytoplankton
What is phagotrophy?
A chemical bound to iron/aluminium/calcium in the sediment.
What is particulate phosphorus?
Geographically separated but similar taxon, occurring in isolated/discontinuous areas.
What is a disjunct species?