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    ecosystems. Freshwater organisms, vertebrates especially, appear to be at a higher extinction risk from climate change than terrestrial or marine organisms. Freshwater...
    23 KB (2,819 words) - 04:00, 7 October 2024
  • and marine species depend on the surface ecosystem and the organisms found there. Freshwater ecosystems are a subset of Earth's aquatic ecosystems. They...
    15 KB (2,913 words) - 22:31, 16 August 2024
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    Amoeba proteus, a common freshwater organism, widely studied in classrooms and laboratories. The earliest record of an organism resembling Amoeba was produced...
    15 KB (1,662 words) - 02:48, 8 October 2024
  • groups of organisms (macroinvertebrates, macrophytes and fish) and measuring the stream conditions associated with them. Threats to freshwater biodiversity...
    18 KB (2,893 words) - 18:06, 12 September 2024
  • range of salinities. Most freshwater organisms are stenohaline, and will die in seawater, and similarly most marine organisms are stenohaline, and cannot...
    9 KB (917 words) - 19:17, 4 January 2024
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    /əˈmiːbi/), often called an amoeboid, is a type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and retracting...
    41 KB (3,651 words) - 03:14, 10 October 2024
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    and South America) The fossil record of freshwater organisms is typically poor, so few fossils of freshwater crabs have been found. The oldest is Tanzanonautes...
    9 KB (1,001 words) - 18:55, 29 August 2024
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    one of the few so far to show the ingestion of microplastics by freshwater organisms. Bottom feeders, such as benthic sea cucumbers, who are non-selective...
    190 KB (19,786 words) - 22:16, 13 October 2024
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    Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved...
    22 KB (3,627 words) - 10:24, 29 September 2024
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    negatively affecting the chance of an organism's fitness and survival. Higher levels of salinity present in freshwater environments can lead to declining...
    24 KB (2,787 words) - 23:54, 8 October 2024
  • Freshwater phytoplankton is the phytoplankton occurring in freshwater ecosystems. It can be distinguished between limnoplankton (lake phytoplankton),...
    11 KB (1,298 words) - 19:55, 9 August 2024
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    Cosmarium is a genus of freshwater organisms belonging to the Charophyta, a division of green algae from which the land plants (Embryophyta) emerged. In...
    7 KB (523 words) - 00:34, 13 May 2023
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    Microorganism (redirect from Micro-organism)
    A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence...
    74 KB (7,752 words) - 15:36, 7 October 2024
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    Crayfish (redirect from Freshwater crayfish)
    Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Astacidea, which also contains lobsters. Taxonomically, they are members of the superfamilies...
    50 KB (4,907 words) - 16:45, 28 September 2024
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    This is a list of the longest-living biological organisms: the individual(s) (or in some instances, clones) of a species with the longest natural maximum...
    76 KB (7,925 words) - 23:49, 13 October 2024
  • a result of various streptococcal-based infections in marine and freshwater organisms. Streptococosis in fish specifically has proven to be a public health...
    22 KB (2,584 words) - 00:21, 2 August 2024
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    Chlamydomonas. Not all species that possess a contractile vacuole are freshwater organisms; some marine, soil microorganisms and parasites also have a contractile...
    10 KB (1,304 words) - 12:50, 2 July 2024
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    Sponge (redirect from Freshwater sponge)
    many historical species being important reef-building organisms. Sponges are multicellular organisms consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between...
    129 KB (13,202 words) - 07:56, 25 August 2024
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    Benthos (redirect from Benthic organism)
    βένθος 'depth of the sea'. Benthos is used in freshwater biology to refer to organisms at the bottom of freshwater bodies of water, such as lakes, rivers, and...
    25 KB (2,523 words) - 11:22, 24 September 2024
  • Bowengriphus is a freshwater organism known from Late Permian deposits in Australia that reached about 15 cm in length. It was originally interpreted...
    2 KB (125 words) - 02:18, 29 December 2021
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