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Monomictic lakes are holomictic lakes that mix from top to bottom during one mixing period each year. Monomictic lakes may be subdivided into cold and warm types.

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Monomictic lake

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Monomictic lakes are holomictic lakes that mix from top to bottom during one mixing period each year. Monomictic lakes may be subdivided into cold and...

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Lake stratification

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Lake mixing regimes can shift in response to increasing air temperatures. Some dimictic lakes can turn into monomictic lakes, while some monomictic lakes...

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Lake Berryessa

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amended in 1996. Lake Berryessa is a monomictic lake, which means that the waters of the lake turnover once a year. For monomictic lakes that turnover time...

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Holomictic lake

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Amictic lakes are sealed off by ice and never mix. There are five types of holomictic lakes: Polymictic (mixing many times annually) Cold Monomictic (mixing...

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Polymictic lake

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Meromictic lake Monomictic lake Dimictic lake Thermocline  Lakes portal Lewis, William M. Jr. (1983). "A revised classification of lakes based on mixing"...

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Lake ecosystem

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A lake ecosystem or lacustrine ecosystem includes biotic (living) plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (non-living) physical and chemical...

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Meromictic lake

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monomictic lakes, the mixing occurs once per year; in dimictic lakes, it occurs twice a year (typically spring and autumn), and in polymictic lakes,...

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Lake

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into amictic lakes, cold monomictic lakes, dimictic lakes, warm monomictic lakes, polymictic lakes, and oligomictic lakes. Lake stratification does not...

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Dal Lake

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many other small streams. The lake is classified as 'warm monomictic' under the sub-tropical lake category. Spring sources also contribute to the flow, although...

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Dimictic lake

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Amictic Holomictic Meromictic Monomictic Polymictic Thermocline Lewis, William M. Jr. (1983). "A revised classification of lakes based on mixing" (PDF). Canadian...

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Epilimnion

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throughout the lake. There are different names for these turnovers based on how many times the lake does it in a year. Monomictic lakes flip only once...

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Pangong Tso

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or Pangong Lake (Tibetan: སྤང་གོང་མཚོ; Chinese: 班公错; pinyin: Bān gōng cuò; Hindi: पैंगोंग झील, romanized: Paiṅgoṅg jhīl) is an endorheic lake spanning eastern...

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Dystrophic lake

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A. (1979). "Comments on the phytoplankton and chemistry of three monomictic lakes in Westland National Park, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany...

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Tubifex tubifex

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is a species of tubificid segmented worm which inhabits the sediments of lakes and rivers on several continents. Tubifex probably includes several species...

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Hypolimnion

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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:...

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Amictic lake

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lake Meromictic lake Monomictic lake Polymictic lake Thermocline Hutchinson, G. E.; Löffler, H. (1956). "The Thermal Classification of Lakes". PNAS. 42 (2):...

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Lake Turkana

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desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake. By volume it is the world's fourth-largest salt lake after the Caspian Sea, Issyk-Kul, and Lake Van (passing...

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Mono Lake

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onset of a period of "meromixis" in Mono Lake. In the time prior to this, Mono Lake was typically "monomictic"; which means that at least once each year...

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Profundal zone

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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...

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Sea of Galilee

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also called Lake Tiberias or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel. It is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth and the second-lowest lake in the world...

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Kalamalka Lake

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precipitation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Kalamalka Lake is an oligotrophic, monomictic marl lake with high alkalinity and hardness. From fall to spring...

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Limnetic zone

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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...

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Lake Whatcom

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prepared to support of the five year management program. Lake Whatcom is a monomictic lake. The water body is stratified for part of the year (late spring...

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Lake Matheson

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monomictic lakes in Westland National Park, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 17 (2): 127–134. doi:10.1080/0028825X.1979.10426885. "Lake Matheson...

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Geography of Japan

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largest freshwater lake is Lake Biwa (670.3 km2 (258.8 sq mi)), northeast of Kyoto in Shiga Prefecture. Lake Biwa is an ancient lake and is estimated to...

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Lake Titicaca

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Titicaca. The lake has 41 islands, some of which are densely populated. Having only a single season of free circulation, the lake is monomictic, and water...

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Trophic state index

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holomictic lakes of the monomictic subtype) that allows oxygen to be transported from the epilimnion to the hypolimnion. In this way, oligotrophic lakes can...

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Quamichan Lake

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Quamichan Lake and its sister Somenos Lake were created 11,000 years ago by receding glaciers. Both lakes contribute to Cowichan River. Quamichan Lake's outflow...

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