Talk:Aquatic ecosystem

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Deleted inappropriate statement
...but maybe the person still wanted to be heard:

"Y does this site even have an epsode on ponds? I mean if a science class right now was doing a lab on ecosystems i mean they wouldnt find anything.. I mean rly this sux. Good luck kiddies at finding information on your forest pond ecosystems lab!"

JeffreyGomez 06:21, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks JeffreyGomez. However, I reverted your edit while changing the article back to its 12th August version because the inappropriate statements deleted some of article's content, so I just want to note that your edit wasn't vandalism. Bláthnaid  23:22, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE TO MESS WITH WIKIPEDIA!!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.91.96.27 (talk) 15:27, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Main Picture
Shouldn't the main picture for this article be something like a coral reef, since showing a picture of a mostly above land ecosystem might give the wrong idea about the subject of the article...? Cornellbob (talk) 22:50, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

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Use excerpts more?
I am wondering how other page watchers feel about this suggestion: I'd be inclined to replace some of the sections with excerpts, for example the ones on "marine ecosystem" and "freshwater ecosystem". This would reduce duplication of content and the need to maintain and update the same content on two different articles. I think for an overview article like this one, it could be useful to use the excerpt tool. Compare with the usage of excerpts for the article wastewater treatment which is also a high level overview article. EMsmile (talk) 01:39, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Update: I have now replaced all the sections that were about sub-articles with the excerpts from those sub-articles (I moved content from here to the sub-articles and then replaced that with excerpts). I have also added links to other articles, e.g. the section on "threats" overlaps with the threats listed at ecosystem, freshwater ecosystem, marine ecosystem; so it's important to point people to the relevant other articles about the threats... EMsmile (talk) 13:22, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Remove "further reading" list?
I would be inclined the remove the "further reading" list as none of those publications strike me as particularly relevant. Almost all of them are about marine ecosystems (a subset), and rather specific. Comments? EMsmile (talk) 02:17, 17 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I have now removed the further reading list as there were no objections in 2 months. This is what the list looked like:

EMsmile (talk) 03:56, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Barange M, Field JG, Harris RP, Eileen E, Hofmann EE, Perry RI and Werner F (2010) Marine Ecosystems and Global Change Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-955802-5
 * Boyd IL, Wanless S and Camphuysen CJ (2006) Top predators in marine ecosystems: their role in monitoring and management Volume 12 of Conservation biology series. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84773-5
 * Christensen V and Pauly D (eds.) (1993) Trophic models of aquatic ecosystems The WorldFish Center, issue 26 of ICLARM Technical Reports, volume 26 of ICLARM conference proceedings. ISBN 9789711022846.
 * Davenport J (2008) Challenges to Marine Ecosystems: Proceedings of the 41st European Marine Biology Symposium Volume 202 of Developments in hydrobiology. ISBN 978-1-4020-8807-0
 * Levner E, Linkov I and Proth J (2005) Strategic management of marine ecosystems Springer. Volume 50 of NATO Science Series IV. ISBN 978-1-4020-3158-8
 * Mann KH and Lazier JRN (2006) Dynamics of marine ecosystems: biological-physical interactions in the oceans Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-1118-8

Science 🔬
Provide two examples of an aquatic ecosystem is being adapted to its environment 179.42.228.59 (talk) 19:10, 15 December 2021 (UTC)


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