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A. synusia II. Classification with regard to amount of water, kind

of water, etc. A. aquatic habitat 1. acidic habitat a. dystrophic lake (syn. acidic lake) (1) bog lake

(2) brown-water lake (3) humic lake b. fen c. volcanic lake 2. alkaline habitat a. desert-alkali lake (syn. soda lake) b. fen c. volcanic lake 3. brackish habitat a. bay b. beach (syn. coast, shore) (1) back shore (2) fore shore (3) littoral zone (syn. intertidal zone) (4) near-subtidal zone (5) supralittoral zone c. canyon d. cave e. cliff f. creek (syn. gut, run, stream) g. estuary h fluvial plain i. lake j. lagoon k. marsh l. mudflat m. near-subtidal zone n. pond (1) limnetic zone (syn. open-water

zone, submersed-plant zone) (2) littoral zone (a) emergent-plant zone (b) floating-leaf plant zone (3) profundal zone o. ridge p. river q. spring r. sublittoral zone (syn. subtidal zone) s. surface film t. swale u. swamp v. swamp forest w. talus slope x. terrace y. tide pool z. wet prairie 2. freshwater a. bay b. beach (syn. coast, shore) (1) back shore (2) fore shore (3) littoral zone (syn. intertidal zone) (4) near-subtidal zone (5) supralittoral zone c. bog d. canyon e. cave f. cave pool g. cliff h. creek (syn. run, stream) (1) pool zone (2) rapids zone (syn. riffles zone) i. estuary j. everglade k. fen l. fluvial plain

m. geobenthos n. glade o. impoundment p. lake (1) epilimnion (2) eutrophic lake (3) hypolimnion (4) mud (5) oligotrophic lake (6) thermocline (7) volcanic lake q. marsh r. mudflat s. phytobenthos t. pond (1) artificial pond (2) beaver pond (3) bog pond (4) cypress pond (5) farm pond (6) flood-plain pond (7) limnetic zone (syn. open-water

zone, submersed-plant zone) (8) littoral zone (a) emergent-plant zone (b) floating-leaf plant zone (9) meadow-stream pond (10) mill pond (11) mountain pond (12) profundal zone (13) sink-hole pond (14) temporary pond u. ridge v. river w. seep x. swale y. spring z. swamp aa. swamp forest bb. surface film cc. talus slope dd. terrace ee. tide pool ff. wet prairie 3. saltwater habitat a. bay b. beach (syn. coast, shore) (1) back shore (2) fore shore (3) neritic zone (a) littoral zone (syn. intertidal

zone) (b) lower-neritic zone (c) near-subtidal zone (d) subtidal zone (4) supralittoral zone (syn. supratidal

zone) c. cave d. canyon e. cliff f. coral reefb

(1) barren zone (2) breaker zone (3) deep forereef (4) forereef escarpment (5) forereef slope (6) forereef terrace (7) inshore zone

(8) lagoon (9) mixed zone (syn. buttress zone) (10) rear zone (11) reef flat (syn. rubble zone) g. estuary, including salt-marsh estuary h. desert salt lake i. lagoon j. marsh, including tide-land marsh k. mudflat l. ocean (1) abyssal plain (2) abyssopelagic zone (3) abyssobenthic zone (4) bathybenthic zone (5) bathypelagic zone (6) benthos (7) mesopelagic zone (syn. twilight zone) (8) cave (9) canyon (10) cliff (11) continental rise (12) continental shelf (13) continental slope (14) hadobenthic zone (15) pelagic zone, including epipelagic

zone (16) ocean rise (17) ocean floor (18) outer sublittoral zone (19) ridge (20) sea floor (21) seamont (22) talus slope (23) terrace (24) trench m. plain, including fluvial plain n. pond o. sea p. spring q. surface film r. swale s. swamp, including mangrove swamp t. swamp forest u. talus slope v. terrace w. tide pool x. wet prairie B. terrestrial habitat 1. atoll 2. bay 3. beach 4. bush 5. canyon 6. cave 7. cliff 8. coast (syn. shore) 9. dry prairie 10. dune 11. field 12. forest (syn. woods) 13. glade 14. grass bald 15. hammock 16. heath 17. hummock 18. island 19. meadow 20. maqui (syn. garrigue matorral)

21. orchard 22. plain, including alluvial plain 23. ridge 24. savanna (syn. savannah) 25. shale barrens 26. steppe 27. swale 28. talus slope 29. terrace 30. thicket 31. woodland III. Classification with regard to amount of water

movement A. lentic freshwater habitat 1. lake 2. pond 3. stagnant pool B. lotic freshwater habitat 1. river a. pool b. rapids (syn. riffle) 2. stream a. pool b. rapids (syn. riffle) IV. Classification with regard to complexity and size A. macrohabitat (syn. ecosystem, habitat type) B. microhabitat V. Classification with regard to supporting a population A. sink habitat B. source habitat

(e.g., an inlet of the sea) (Michaelis 1963). 2. “A recess of lowland between hills” (Michaelis

1963). 3. In the U.S., land partly surrounded by forest

(Michaelis 1963). 4. An often oval, shallow, wetland depression in the

Eastern Coastal Plain of the U.S. from New Jersey south into Northern Florida (Krajick 1997, 45, illustrations).