FRESH

Water
Ecosystem
PRESENTED BY:
QUIJANO
LUMINGKIT
NALAM
FRESH WATER ECOSYSTEM

• A freshwater ecosystem is aquatic system that contains drinkable water or

water of almost no salty content. It has habitats classified by different factors,
including temperature, light penetration and vegetation. Its resources include
lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, reservoirs, wetlands, as well as groundwater.
• Freshwater Ecosystems include standing water or lentic such as lakes, ponds,
marshes and wetlands, and the flowing water or lotic such as spring, streams
and rivers.
Continuation
• This ecosystem is normally if with very low salinity usually between 15 to 30 ppt.
• They are highly variable and their characteristics depend upon the surrounding geology,
land use and pollution levels.
Lakes

• A lake is a very slow flowing body

of open water which occupies a
land depression. This group of
water bodies includes ponds and
impoundments. Lakes are also
part of a larger ecosystem that
extends beyond the lake itself to
the land that surrounds and drains
water into the lake.
Ponds

• A pond is an area filled with

water, either natural or artificial,
that is smaller than a lake. Ponds
may arise naturally in floodplains
as part of a river system or can
simply be an isolated depression
that filled with runoff,
groundwater, or precipitation.
Rivers

• A river is usually cold and full of

oxygen and it runs swiftly
through a shallow riverbed. As
river flows down a mountain, a
river may broaden, become
warmer and decrease in
oxygen.
Streams

• A stream is a body of water with

surface water flowing within the
bed and banks of a channel. The
flow of a stream is controlled by
three inputs – surface water,
subsurface water and
groundwater. The surface and
subsurface water are highly
variable between periods of
rainfall.
Reservoirs

• A reservoir is, most commonly, an

enlarged natural or artificial lake,
pond, or impoundment created
using a dam or lock to store
water.
Wetlands

• May be fresh or brackish

• Freshwater types includes:
• -Marsh
• -Swamp
• -Bog
• -Fen
Groundwater

• Groundwater is the water present

beneath Earth's surface in soil
pore spaces and in the fractures
of rock formations. A unit of rock
or an unconsolidated deposit is
called an aquifer when it can yield
a usable quantity of water
COLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF FRESHWATER ORGANISMS

• Freshwater ecosystem is
classified as to:
• Major niches
• Life form or life habit based on
their mode of life
• Region or habitat
Freshwater ecosystem is classified as to major niches
based on their position in the energy or food chain

Autotrophs
(producers) are green plants and
chemosynthetic microorganisms.
PHAGOTROPS

• (micro consumers) which are the primary,

secondary, herbivores, predators and
parasites.
Saprotrophs

• (micro consumers or
decomposers) are sub
classified according to
nature of the organic
substrate decomposed.
Organisms in water may
be classified as to their life
form or life habit based on
their mode of life as
follows:

• Benthos are organism

attached to resting on the
bottom or living on the
bottom sediments.
• The animal benthos maybe
conveniently subdivided into
filter feeders and deposits
feeders (examples are the
clams and the snails
respectively).
Periphytons

• organisms attached or
clinging to stems and leaves
of rooted plants or other
plants projecting above the
bottom.
Planktons

• floating organisms whose

movement is more or less
dependent on currents. They
are sub classified it no
zooplanktons, netplanktons
and nannoplanktons.
Nektons

• swimming organisms, which

are able to navigate at will.
Examples are fish,
amphibians and swimming
insects.
Neustons

• organisms resting or
swimming on the surface.
Freshwater organisms maybe classified as
to region or habitat.

• Littoral zone - the shallow water

region with light penetration to the
bottom, Limnetic zone - the open
water zone to the depth of effective
light penetration called the
compensation level.
• Euphotic zone is the total illuminated
stratum including littoral and limnetic.
• Profundal zone is the bottom and
deep-water area, which is beyond the
depth of effective light penetration.