EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Limnology is the integrative, multidisciplinary, scientific study of inland waters. Limnology is built on sub disciplines, including geology, physics, chemistry, biology, and often adopts an ecosystem perspective to address both academic and applied problems.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aquatic ecology includes the study of these relationships in all aquatic environments, including oceans, estuaries, lakes, ponds, wetlands, rivers, and streams. An ecosystem is a community of living organisms and their physical and chemical environment, linked by flows of energy and nutrients.

Detailed explanation-3: -Limnology is the study of the physical, chemical, geological and biological aspects of all naturally occurring fresh water. Freshwater habitats such as lakes, ponds, dams, reservoirs are known as lentic (still) while running water such as rivers, mountain streams are known as lotic (flowing).

Detailed explanation-4: -One of the more important goals of limnology is providing guidelines for water management and water pollution control. Limnologists also study ways to protect the wildlife that lives in lakes and rivers as well as the lakes and rivers themselves.

Detailed explanation-5: -Limnology covers all inland waters, which may be lakes, rivers, and streams, but also reservoirs, groundwater, and wetlands. These are often freshwater systems, but limnology also includes inland salt and brackish, or slightly salty, waters.