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Definition of limnology in English: limnologynoun lɪmˈnɒlədʒilimˈnäləjē mass nounThe study of the biological, chemical, and physical features of lakes and other bodies of fresh water. Example sentencesExamples - The distribution, water chemistry, ecology, hydrology, limnology, and invertebrate and amphibian fauna of vernal ponds have been investigated.
- Salinity, temperature, and dissolved oxygen strata were measured in each basin of each lake, again to compare abiotic limnology across lakes and over time at Ogac Lake.
- The choice is made on the basis of their international significance in terms of ecology, botany, zoology, limnology, or hydrology.
- One of the more intriguing and challenging developments in ecology and in limnology and oceanography is the expansion of the temporal and spatial scales that are being addressed by current work.
- The Chinese societies for palaeontology, oceanography and limnology, and geophysics are later creations, dating from the late 1940s.
Derivatives adjectivelɪmnəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)lˌlɪmnəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l A problem with so doing is that geological, limnological, or biological processes may mix the strata in which diapausing organisms are deposited, and obscure ancestor-descendant relationships. Example sentencesExamples - These references are listed by category, e.g., limnological methods, abiotic frame, food web interactions.
- Total consumption rates on benthos were divided by the littoral area based on hypsometric and limnological data.
- For the nine core streams, we measured limnological parameters in the field.
- Improvements in the information used to construct mass-balance models can be expected to improve model output, and hence help clarify the role of fish in limnological nutrient cycles.
nounlɪmˈnɒlədʒɪstlɪmˈnɑlədʒəst Remote sensing lets limnologists assess the biological and chemical features of large numbers of lakes. Example sentencesExamples - After reviewing the data, the limnologists went back to the village to discuss their results.
- Bob is one the very best comparative limnologists in the history of the subject.
- Although many limnologists are freshwater ecologists, physical, chemical, geological, and engineering limnologists all participate in this branch of science.
- Derek, 62, is a retired limnologist who worked for the Sydney Water Authority for 33 years while simultaneously rising from private to lieutenant colonel in the Australian army reserve.
Origin Late 19th century: from Greek limnē 'lake' + -logy. Definition of limnology in US English: limnologynounlimˈnäləjē The study of the biological, chemical, and physical features of lakes and other bodies of fresh water. Example sentencesExamples - Salinity, temperature, and dissolved oxygen strata were measured in each basin of each lake, again to compare abiotic limnology across lakes and over time at Ogac Lake.
- The Chinese societies for palaeontology, oceanography and limnology, and geophysics are later creations, dating from the late 1940s.
- The distribution, water chemistry, ecology, hydrology, limnology, and invertebrate and amphibian fauna of vernal ponds have been investigated.
- One of the more intriguing and challenging developments in ecology and in limnology and oceanography is the expansion of the temporal and spatial scales that are being addressed by current work.
- The choice is made on the basis of their international significance in terms of ecology, botany, zoology, limnology, or hydrology.
Origin Late 19th century: from Greek limnē ‘lake’ + -logy. |