Pond

From Palaeos

Pond ecosystem

This is a specific type of freshwater ecosystem that is largely based on the autotrophic algae which provide the base trophic level for all life in the area. The largest predator in a pond ecosystem will normally be a fish; at a smaller scale are smaller insects and microorganisms.

Pond ecosystems may have a scale of organisms from small bacteria to larger animals like insects, fish, and sometimes tetrapods (in the Paleozoic temnospondyli, lepospondyli, reptiliopmorpha and some pelycosauria; in the Cenozoic lissamphibia, water snakes, turtles.

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