Freshwater

What we have is ours! As we know by now that it has been said numerous time that freshwater is becoming liquid gold of 21st century and Canada is abundant by this natural resource. By not selling water and keeping it in its natural state of ecosystem will help not only the environment but the ecosystem it supports. Environment Minister…

The article “Tweak in Gene Expression May Have Helped Humans Walk Upright” found on Science Daily discusses work conducted by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. These researchers have been able to distinguish what gave us humans the ability to walk upright through research conducted on the fish threespine stickleback. The fish has evolved multiple times over time in order to match different environments around the world.…

living organisms and nonliving components (eSchoolToday , 2017). The Bulimba Creek is a freshwater ecosystem. In comparison to marine ecosystems, freshwater ecosystems contain a lower salt content (KidsDoEcology , 2017). A feature of freshwater ecosystems are riparian zones. Riparian zones are areas of land in the immediate vicinity of freshwater ecosystems (WaterNsw, 2017). These zones, as well as the freshwater ecosystem, can support diverse species of plants…

Red-eared slider turtles have become an invasive species and a threat to freshwater turtles around the world. The IUCN list the red eared slider as one of the 100 worst invasive species worldwide (Boudjelas et al 2000.) They can survive and thrive in almost any freshwater ecosystem. They are able to outcompete other species of turtles for nutrients and territory and they threaten to decline the native turtle population wherever they live. A lot of pet turtle owners don’t know the threat…

distribution, Northern Pike fishing is a very popular form of fishing throughout not only North America, but most of the Northern Hemisphere. Pike fishing is regarded as a popular form of freshwater sport-fishing or game-fishing Familiar to both freshwater and brackish waters (saltier or more saline than freshwater, but less saline than saltwater) of the Midwestern and Great Lakes areas of the United States as well as parts of Canada and Europe, Northern Pike is an especially popular game-fish.…

Ecosystem is a biological community of the organisms and their physical environment. There are three Florida's major ecosystems groups: Coastal Ecosystems, Freshwater Wetlands & Aquatic Ecosystems, and Upland Ecosystems. Furthermore, there are more different types of ecosystems as the subgroups. This paper will cover about the name, location, geology, soils, threats of major natural systems and common plants in major ecosystems. It will start with the coastal ecosystems. Coastal ecosystems are…

Today the use of tools such as, fish finders make fishing much more efficient and enjoyable. Efficient and enjoyable because fishermen do not have to look as hard to find fish. Although freshwater bodies of water “hold more gamefish than any time in history” (5), sometimes the fish can still be hard to catch. The United States has a long history of fishing (Hughes 1). This dates way back to the indigenous people of North America, the Native…

the world’s water is freshwater, which is the amount needed for life to survive (2016). The majority of the freshwater is locked up in glaciers and ice caps. The rest of the freshwater is trapped in soil or underground aquifers. It is easily forgotten that water is a finite resource. Due to global warming, reservoirs are getting smaller and melting earlier than expected. According to NASA satellite data, the world’s largest underground aquifers, which is a source of freshwater for hundreds of…

nitrates that should be found in freshwater is less than 1mg/L. As previously shown, the resulting nitrate level is 1.1735mg/L. Therefore showing that the nitrate level is slightly higher than recommended but is still healthy in terms of the biological health of the creek. This could be considered a the outlier of the group in terms of the recommendations as it is the only factor which does not positively correspond with the parameters and recommended data levels for freshwater creeks. This is…

contains seven freshwater swamplands and ten significant riparian remnants. Bulimba creek generally flows northwards into the Brisbane River (refer to the map) and is an example of a riparian zone, which by definition is “the interface between land and a river or creek” (Dictionary.com, 2015). Freshwater creeks such as Bulimba creek are an optimum habitat where fish, invertebrates, plants and birds thrive in it. They provide “feeding, spawning and/or nursery areas for many species of freshwater…