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Aquatic ecosystems
Communities of interdependent organisms living primarily in or on water.
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Benthic ecosystems (3 items)
Estuarine ecosystems (23 items)
Freshwater ecosystems (15 items)
Marine ecosystems (22 items)

Planktonic ecosystems (3 items)
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Leetown Science Center (LSC) Fact sheets [New Window]
Links to Leetown Science Center (LSC) fact sheets on fish, fish diseases, aquatic resources, and other projects and activities.
Leetown Science Center (LSC): view research information by principal investigator [New Window]
Links to Leetown Science Center (LSC) projects and activities listed by principal investigator.
Lower Rio Grande Ecosystem Initiative [New Window]
Description of program and links to information on research related to the biotic resources of the lower Rio Grande (between Elephant Butte Reservoir in New Mexico and extending to the Gulf of Mexico) and its adjacent terrestrial habitats.
Marine Realms Information Bank [New Window]
Introduction to the conceptual design of the Marine Realms Information Bank, a distributed geolibrary that catalogues and provides access to information about marine, coastal, and lake environments, with instructions and access to search interface.
Marine Realms Information Bank: topic search, geographic search [New Window]
Searching by geography and topics to locate scientific information about oceans, lakes, marine environments and coastal environments.
Marine reserves and biological habitats: Monterey Bay, California [New Window]
Brief description of the research program to inventory the natural resources of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary with links to cruises, and publications and products, including an internet map server, imagery, and geologic descriptions.
Mercury Studies Team [New Window]
Home page on hydrology studies on mercury, the most common contaminant of aquatic ecosystems, with links to general information, research team projects and data.
Missouri River InfoLink: a clearinghouse of Missouri River information [New Window]
Portal for Missouri River Infolinks, a clearinghouse to multiple links giving Missouri information, photo gallery, river weather forecast, projects and features, maps, meetings, history, and science research.
Multibeam mapping of the West Florida Shelf, Gulf of Mexico [New Window]
Georeferenced high-resolution mapping of bathymetry of the West Florida Shelf, Gulf of Mexico of areas suspected to be critical benthic habitats for fisheries. Includes links to images, data, metadata, and TIFF image files.
National geologic studies of benthic habitats, northeastern United States : Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Region off Boston, Massachusetts [New Window]
Geological research of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary sea floor are presented in the form of maps, posters, fact sheets, sonar images, and bottom photographs.
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