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Page 1: LAKE BIOME Presented By: Jason Palonis. What is a Lake? Lakes are enclosed basins which can trap standing water Another definition is a body of fresh

LAKE BIOMEPresented By:

Jason Palonis

Page 2: LAKE BIOME Presented By: Jason Palonis. What is a Lake? Lakes are enclosed basins which can trap standing water Another definition is a body of fresh

What is a Lake?• Lakes are enclosed

basins which can trap standing water

• Another definition is a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size that is surrounded by land.

• On Earth a body of water is considered a lake when it is inland, not part of the ocean, and is larger and deeper than a pond.

Page 4: LAKE BIOME Presented By: Jason Palonis. What is a Lake? Lakes are enclosed basins which can trap standing water Another definition is a body of fresh

Most Notable Lakes

• The largest lake by surface area: 117,350 km² is Lake Michigan-Huron.

• The deepest lake is Lake Baikal in Siberia, with a bottom at 1,637 m (approx 1 mile).

• The longest lake is Lake Tanganyika, with a length of about

660 km (410 miles). • The world's oldest lake is Lake Baikal (25 million years old) , followed

by Lake Tanganyika (Tanzania).

• The world's highest lake is the crater lake of Ojos del Salado, at 6,390 meters (20,965 ft).

• The world's lowest lake is the Dead Sea, bordering Israel and Jordan at 418 m (1,371 ft) below sea level. It is also one of the lakes with highest salt concentration.

Page 5: LAKE BIOME Presented By: Jason Palonis. What is a Lake? Lakes are enclosed basins which can trap standing water Another definition is a body of fresh

Structure & Stratification

• Epilimnion- – Water is warmer and typically has a

higher pH and dissolved oxygen concentration than the hypolimnion.

– Freezes in winter.• Metalimnion- (thermo cline)

– Temperature & oxygen changes rapidly with depth

• Hypolimnion. – Typically the coldest layer of a lake in

summer, and the warmest layer during winter.

– 4 °C throughout the year

Page 6: LAKE BIOME Presented By: Jason Palonis. What is a Lake? Lakes are enclosed basins which can trap standing water Another definition is a body of fresh

Zonation•The Littoral zone is the near shore area where sunlight penetrates all the way to the sediment and allows aquatic plants (macrophytes) to grow. In most lakes, the sunlit zone is called the photic zone and occurs within the epilimnion.

•The Limnetic zone is the open water area where light does not generally penetrate all the way to the bottom.

•The bottom sediment, known as the Benthic zone, has a surface layer abundant with organisms.

Page 7: LAKE BIOME Presented By: Jason Palonis. What is a Lake? Lakes are enclosed basins which can trap standing water Another definition is a body of fresh

Types of Lake Organisms

• Note which zone each is found in

• Macrophytes: large leafy plants • Plankton: Suspended small organisms

controlled by currents• Benthos: Bottom dwellers• Nekton: Larger, mobile organisms

Page 8: LAKE BIOME Presented By: Jason Palonis. What is a Lake? Lakes are enclosed basins which can trap standing water Another definition is a body of fresh

Typical Macrophytes Littoral Zone

• submersed

• Floating leaved

• Emergent

Page 9: LAKE BIOME Presented By: Jason Palonis. What is a Lake? Lakes are enclosed basins which can trap standing water Another definition is a body of fresh

Typical Zooplankton Limnetic Zone

Rotifer:grazer on phytoplankton

Water flea: grazer on phytoplankton

Copepod: grazer on phytoplankton

------------------- 0.5 mm

Page 10: LAKE BIOME Presented By: Jason Palonis. What is a Lake? Lakes are enclosed basins which can trap standing water Another definition is a body of fresh

Typical Benthos Benthic Zone

• Midge larvae

• bivalves

Dragonfly nymph

Page 11: LAKE BIOME Presented By: Jason Palonis. What is a Lake? Lakes are enclosed basins which can trap standing water Another definition is a body of fresh

Typical NektonGo where they please..

Bass: a piscivore (fish eater)

Catfish: a detritivore (scavenger)

Bluegill: a planktivore and benthivore

Page 12: LAKE BIOME Presented By: Jason Palonis. What is a Lake? Lakes are enclosed basins which can trap standing water Another definition is a body of fresh

Human Influences

• Usually a negative influence on lake ecology.

• Introduction of nutrients and toxic chemicals.– Industry– Farming

• Introduction of non native flora and fauna to lake ecosystems.– Central American Water Hyacinth – Eurasian Zebra Mussel

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