CHAPTER
10
THREATS TO AQUATIC ORGANISMS
Coping with erosion
- Tactics for coping with the
erosional force of waves on sea and lake shores
- Attachment mechanisms in streams
and rivers, life under stones and in the hyporheic
- Sandy shores and interstitial
life
Salinity,
heat and cold
- Coping with salinity change
- High temperatures at hydrothermal
vents and hot springs
- Very cold temperatures
- Indirect effects of high temperature
Living
at the water-air interface
- Effects of light and turbulence
at the water surface
- Negative effects of accumulations
at the surface film
The
threat of desiccation
- Strategies for coping with
the short-term threat of desiccation
- Strategies for coping with
the long-term threat of desiccation
- Long-term refuges and life
cycles that avoid dry phases
- Anhydrobiosis
- Conquering land