aquatic ecosystems = ecological unit, any water environment
Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6) = Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and USA ...
Aquatic ecosystem: Basic ecological unit composed of living and nonliving elements interacting in an aqueous milieu.
Aqueous: Something made up of water.
A aquatic ecosystem
Definition (english only)
Basic ecological unit composed of living and non-living elements interacting in an aqueous milieu.
the ability of an aquatic ecosystem to support and maintain a balanced, adaptive community of organisms having a species composition, diversity, and functional organization comparable to that of natural habitats within a region.
oversupplying an aquatic ecosystem with nutrients and organic materials. This results in high rates of production and decay, with associated ecological problems, such as oxygen depletion.
pollution, thermal.
Biological diversity (biodiversity): The variety of different living organisms from all sources including terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the variety of different ecosystems that they form.
Biological diversity (Biodiversity) means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part: this includes diversity ...
indicators include: ozone concentration in the stratosphere (to indicate the effect of chlorofluorocarbons and an increase in ultraviolet radiation), the number and diversity of organisms in a stream (to indicate whether an aquatic ecosystem is ...
ozone in the stratosphere absorbs nearly all of the biologically damaging solar ultraviolet radiation before it reaches the Earth's surface where it can cause skin cancer, cataracts, and immune deficiencies and can harm crops and aquatic ecosystems.
 See also: Ecosystem, Water, Pollution, Environment, Environmental
  
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