A look at the freshwater ecosystem and its components, including looking at …

• Freshwater Producers and Consumers
• Freshwater Community Energy Relationships - Producers & Consumers
• Abiotic and Biotic Factors
• Abiotic Factors - Water Conditions
• Freshwater Communities & Lentic Waters
• Freshwater Communities & Lentic Waters
• Still Water Animals
• Freshwater Lentic Communities & Animals
• Still Freshwater & Plants
• Still Water Community Plants
• Running Water Freshwater Communities
• Running Water Freshwater Communities
• Lotic Communities & Algae
• A continuation of a tutorial on freshwater ecology looking at plants in the ecosystem.
• Lotic Communities & Animals
• Freshwater Communities & Plankton
• Pollution in Freshwater Ecosystems

As mentioned on the previous page, larger plants (thus with larger surface areas) find it difficult to occupy the running water environment in light of the water current that thrashes against them. Of the plants that do occupy the running water environment, some are rooted to the ground while others float.

Examples of lotic community plants will be uploaded soon