What is Aquatic habitat
A habitat is a place where an organism lives. Aquatic habitat is a body of water in which certain organism live naturally or aquatic habitat are habitat or places that relates to lives in water. Organism that live in water are called aquatic organisms.
Types of aquatic habitats
- Marine or salt water habitats
- Fresh water habitats
- Estuarime or brackish water habitats
Examples of aquatic organisms
- Fish, Crabs, Toads, spirogyra, water lily, water hycinth, water lettuse, water weeds, star fish, mud skippers, water snail, shrimps etc
Factors affecting aquatic habitat
- Relative humidity
- Wind
- Temperature
- Salinity
- Rainfall
- sunlight
- Topography
- Water current
- PH
- Light levels
- turbidity
- water flow rate
characteristics of aquatic habitat
- flow regime
- chemical variables (water quality)
- biotic interactions
- energy (food) sources
- physical habitat structure