Holomictic lakes are lakes that have a uniform temperature and density from surface to bottom at a specific time during the year, which allows the lake waters to mix in the absence of stratification.
Holomicticlakes are lakes that have a uniform temperature and density from surface to bottom at a specific time during the year, which allows the lake...
A meromictic lake is a lake which has layers of water that do not intermix. In ordinary, holomicticlakes, at least once each year, there is a physical...
Polymictic lakes are holomicticlakes that are too shallow to develop thermal stratification; thus, their waters can mix from top to bottom throughout...
the lake waters to completely mix. Based upon thermal stratification and frequency of turnover, holomicticlakes are divided into amictic lakes, cold...
of holomictic, whereas lakes that do not have interlayer mixing are permanently stratified and thus are termed meromictic. Generally, in a holomictic lake...
Monomictic lakes are holomicticlakes that mix from top to bottom during one mixing period each year. Monomictic lakes may be subdivided into cold and...
dissolved. It is estimated only one meromictic lake exists for every 1,000 holomicticlakes. Finally, a lake must be very deep in order to have sufficiently...
A lake ecosystem or lacustrine ecosystem includes biotic (living) plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (non-living) physical and chemical...
Lake stratification is the tendency of lakes to form separate and distinct thermal layers during warm weather. Typically stratified lakes show three distinct...
strata of the lake's water to circulate vertically. All dimictic lakes are also considered holomictic, a category which includes all lakes which mix one...
is a species of tubificid segmented worm which inhabits the sediments of lakes and rivers on several continents. Tubifex probably includes several species...
epilimnion or surface layer is the top-most layer in a thermally stratified lake. The epilimnion is the layer that is most affected by sunlight, its thermal...
The hypolimnion or under lake is the dense, bottom layer of water in a thermally-stratified lake. The word "hypolimnion" is derived from Ancient Greek:...
profundal zone is a deep zone of an inland body of freestanding water, such as a lake or pond, located below the range of effective light penetration. This is...
the open and well-lit area of a freestanding body of freshwater, such as a lake or pond. Not included in this area is the littoral zone, which is the shallow...
Parashar Lake (also spelled Prashar Lake) is a freshwater lake located at an elevation of 2,730 metres (8,960 ft) in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh...
within the lake. Lake Vanda in Eastern Antarctica Lake Bonney in Victoria Land Lake Vostok in Antarctica Lakes portal Dimictic lakeHolomicticlake Meromictic...
Oeschinen Lake (German: Oeschinensee) is a lake in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of Kandersteg in the Oeschinen valley...
purple sulfur bacteria is also supported by the layering in holomicticlakes. These lakes are thermally stratified; in the spring and summer time, water...
of holomicticlakes during the seasonal transition to stratified conditions, due to the shorter amount of time required for shallow areas of the lake to...
respectively. The lake is an important source of fish and the lotus stem. Nigeen Lake Nundkol Lake Manasbal Lake Wular Lake Gangbal Lake M.A. Khan, Prof...
depending on the lake), the blooms of these bacteria tend not to be visible at the water surface. Regarding the holomicticlakes, here occurs a seasonal...
is the smallest and shallowest Palau lake with registered endemic subspecies of jellyfish. The lake is holomictic - it does not have layers as it is comparatively...
any body of water in which oxygen-rich surface waters are well-mixed (holomictic), no chemocline will exist, as there is no stratification of layers. Chemoclines...
stratified lakes beneath the micro-aerophilic algal layer in anaerobic, light-exposed environments. They have been found worldwide, mostly in holomictic or meromictic...
layers of the lake, when it was suggested to be holomictic and become absent in the youngest layers when green algae become dominant with the lake shifting...
flows into Millstätter See (as Riegerbach) at Radenthein-Döbriach. The holomictic waters reach 23 °C (73 °F) in summer. The surrounding settlements are...
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