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POOL HABITAT [3 records]

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Record 1 2024-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
CONT

Glides and runs are intermediate habitat types that fall between riffles and pools. A glide is an area where the flow is... slow-moving [and] nonturbulent..., similar to that in a shallow canal. A glide is too shallow to be a pool, but the water velocity is too slow to be a run.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
CONT

Le plat est une zone de transition entre la fosse et le seuil. Il se situe souvent dans les portions rectilignes des cours d'eau. On peut diviser les plats en deux classes selon le type de courant présent, soit le plat courant [...] et le plat lentique [...] Le plat lentique est souvent situé en amont d'un obstacle ou d'un seuil. La vitesse de courant est faible et il y a peu ou pas de turbulence à la surface [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
CONT

Univariate habitat differences among redside dace population status groups were evident; with the greatest contrasts between stable and extirpated populations... In comparison to extirpated populations, greater amounts of fine sediment, shallow pool and glide habitats, instream cover, riparian grasses, and vulnerable banks were measured at stable sites.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 3 1997-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecosystems

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écosystèmes

Spanish

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