Definitions
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- adjective Of, relating to, or living in moving water.
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- adjective of a river having swift water; flowing.
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- adjective of or relating to or living in actively moving water
Etymologies
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Examples
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Two major categories of freshwater ecosystems can be defined as lotic (flowing water) and lentic (standing water), but large variation in size, characteristics, and location is exhibited within each.
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Rivers and streams are characterized by flowing waters and are called lotic systems (as opposed to lentic systems, such as lakes).
River 2008
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In this sense the term "river" includes all kinds of watercourses, from the tiniest of brooks to the largest of rivers (the term "streams are characterized by flowing waters and are called lotic systems (as opposed to lentic systems, such as Biodiversity Institute of Ontario)
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Loss of permafrost increases the potential for many northern shallow lotic systems to dry out from a warmer temperature regime.
Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic 2009
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The dynamics of many of the lotic (river) and lentic (lake) environments in the Arctic are related to permafrost, and freezing can reduce or even halt the flow of rivers.
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For the purposes of this assessment, lotic ecosystems include rivers, streams, deltas, and estuaries, where flow regimes are a dominant hydrologic feature shaping their ecology.
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Still smaller types of lotic systems include medium to small rivers that arise wholly within the Arctic.
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The greatest ice-related ecological impacts of climate change on arctic lotic systems are likely to result from changes in breakup timing and intensity.
Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic 2009
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Nutrient availability often determines food availability and lotic productivity, which are believed to be major controlling factors in riverine fish production.
Climate change effects on arctic freshwater fish populations 2009
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Similar to the situation for arctic lotic systems, an enhanced supply of nutrients and organic matter from the more biologically productive contributing basins is likely to boost primary productivity [47].
Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic 2009
qms commented on the word lotic
Think culture is stable and lentic
But those more demotic
Contend it is lotic
And change is more truly authentic.
March 14, 2016