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Aquatic System & 8226; Describe Climate Affects Selected Essay

¶ … aquatic system • Describe climate affects selected ecosystem. • Explain, based laws thermodynamics, energy flows selected ecosystem. • Examine matter transported selected ecosystem due biogeochemical cycles, carbon, hydrologic, nitrogen, phosphorus. Aquatic ecosystems

Aquatic ecosystems are mainly responsible for assisting energy transfers across the planet and for making it possible for all life on earth to exist. Depending on the area where it is located and on the substances that it contains, a body of water can have more or less living beings in it. Climate has a strong impact on water and on the organisms that directly depend on it. Climate change has had a severe effect on bodies of water all around the planet and this is obvious especially when...

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This system turns Earth's oceans into a global system by transporting and cooling water from the Atlantic Ocean to the poles. Cold water sinks and most of it accumulates in the Southern Ocean and while it travels around the world it transports both energy in the form of heat and matter in the form of diverse gases and solid bodies.
The Termohaline circulation is one of the principal concepts controlling the planet's temperature. Global warming caused by humanity can thus lead to it being disrupted and thus unable to regulate the amount of sea ice present at the poles. If the Termohaline circulation is stopped this would have terrible consequences on Europe, considering that this…

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Franks, Felix, "Water: A Matrix of Life," (Royal Society of Chemistry, 19.07.2000)

Juuti, Petri, "Environmental History of Water: Global Views on Community Water Supply and Sanitation," (IWA Publishing, 30.01.2007)
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