Biological Integrity – What is the Condition of the Living Part of the Ecosystem?
The basin ecosystem can be thought of as having seven biological compartments
– the open lakes, the coastal shores, coastal wetlands, the lakeplains, tributary
streams and rivers, the upland terrestrial communities and upland wetland
communities. All are linked to one another, although the strength and
importance of the relationships vary. For our purposes – evaluating the biological
consequences of human population pressure on freshwater ecosystems – the
biological condition of the open lake and tributaries is where we will focus.
Closely associated are biological effects in both the coastal and inland wetland
systems, as are changes in the abiotic features of the coastal shore and upland
terrestrial communities.
Biological Integrity – What is the Condition of the Living Part of the Ecosystem?The basin ecosystem can be thought of as having seven biological compartments– the open lakes, the coastal shores, coastal wetlands, the lakeplains, tributarystreams and rivers, the upland terrestrial communities and upland wetlandcommunities. All are linked to one another, although the strength andimportance of the relationships vary. For our purposes – evaluating the biologicalconsequences of human population pressure on freshwater ecosystems – thebiological condition of the open lake and tributaries is where we will focus.Closely associated are biological effects in both the coastal and inland wetlandsystems, as are changes in the abiotic features of the coastal shore and uplandterrestrial communities.
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