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Lentic and Lotic

Aside• Posted on February 26, 2022March 4, 2022 by Esther Chase

Lentic is an ecological adjective describing organisms or habitats situated in non-moving fresh water that includes ponds, swamps, bogs, lagoons, and lakes.

The opposite is lotic, which includes moving fresh water as in a run, creek, brook, spring, stream, channel, or river.

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