Witness the year-long transformation of a 5-acre pond, covering various stages of construction and ecological development.
This video shows the entire journey of turning an empty patch of yard into a massive 7200 gallon pond that looks like it belongs in a nature reserve. You will see the digging, shaping, lining, and all ...
Ponds contribute substantially to the maintenance of regional biodiversity. Despite a growing body of literature on biotic-abiotic relationships in ponds, only few generalizations have been made. The ...
A community of animals, plants and microorganisms, together with their habitat is called an ecosystem. For example, a pond ecosystem may consist of a pond habitat, inhabited by aquatic plants, ...
Primary production can be controlled through bottom–up (e.g., resources) or top–down (e.g., predators) constraints. Two key bottom–up resources in small aquatic systems are light and nutrients, and ...
SEATTLE — The Woodland Park Zoo and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists (WDFW) are preparing more than 35 Western Pond turtles for release in the wild. As part of the Western Pond ...
NARRATOR: Here on earth lots and lots of different kinds of plants and animals all live together. And actually, none of them could exist by themselves. TREE: I'm looooooonely!!! NARRATOR: That's not ...