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Ältasjön

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Ältasjön (Swedish: "Lake of Älta") is a lake in southern Stockholm, Sweden, located north-east of Lake Flaten and named for the vicinity to the urban district Älta. [1]

77 relations: Amphibian, Aquatic plant, Astacus astacus, Älta, Bathing, Biomass, Bird, Birdwatching, Caddisfly, Camping, Carapace, Chlorophyll, Common bream, Common goldeneye, Common merganser, Common pochard, Common snipe, Common tern, Common toad, Copepod, Crayfish plague, Crucian carp, Cyanobacteria, Dammtorpssjön, Deciduous, Diatom, Eurasian coot, Flagellate, Flaten, Gastropoda, Geography of Stockholm, Great crested grebe, Green algae, Hardwood, Horned grebe, Järlasjön, Källtorpssjön, Lake, Leech, Lesser spotted woodpecker, List of lakes of Sweden, Mayfly, Moor frog, Motorcycle speedway, Myriophyllum spicatum, Nacka, Nacka Municipality, Nitrogen, Northern pike, Nuphar lutea, ..., Odonata, Perch, Phosphorus, Phragmites, Phytoplankton, Rotifer, Ruffe, Rutilus, Söderbysjön, Schoenoplectus, Sicklasjön, Signal crayfish, Smew, Stockholm, Stockholm Municipality, Stratiotes aloides, Surface runoff, Sweden, Swedish language, Taxon, Tench, Tufted duck, Ulvsjön, Water skiing, Water supply network, Zander, Zooplankton. Expand index (27 more) »

Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.

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Aquatic plant

Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater).

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Astacus astacus

Astacus astacus, the European crayfish, noble crayfish, or broad-fingered crayfish, is the most common species of crayfish in Europe, and a traditional food source.

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Älta

Älta is a locality situated in Nacka Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 9,989 inhabitants in 2010.

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Bathing

Bathing is the washing of the body with a liquid, usually water or an aqueous solution, or the immersion of the body in water.

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Biomass

Biomass is an industry term for getting energy by burning wood, and other organic matter.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Birdwatching

Birdwatching, or birding, is a form of wildlife observation in which the observation of birds is a recreational activity or citizen science.

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Caddisfly

The caddisflies, or order Trichoptera, are a group of insects with aquatic larvae and terrestrial adults.

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Camping

Camping is an outdoor activity involving overnight stays away from home in a shelter, such as a tent.

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Carapace

A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises.

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Chlorophyll

Chlorophyll (also chlorophyl) is any of several related green pigments found in cyanobacteria and the chloroplasts of algae and plants.

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Common bream

The common bream, freshwater bream, bream, bronze bream or carp bream (Abramis brama), is a European species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae.

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Common goldeneye

The common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is a medium-sized sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes.

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Common merganser

The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Eurasian) (Mergus merganser) is a large duck of rivers and lakes in forested areas of Europe, northern and central Asia, and North America.

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Common pochard

The common pochard (Aythya ferina) is a medium-sized diving duck.

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Common snipe

The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World.

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Common tern

The common tern (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird in the family Laridae.

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Common toad

The common toad, European toad, or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the toad (Bufo bufo, from Latin bufo "toad"), is an amphibian found throughout most of Europe (with the exception of Ireland, Iceland, and some Mediterranean islands), in the western part of North Asia, and in a small portion of Northwest Africa.

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Copepod

Copepods (meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat.

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Crayfish plague

Crayfish plague, Aphanomyces astaci, is a water mold that infects crayfish, most notably the European Astacus which dies within a few weeks of being infected.

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Crucian carp

The crucian carp (Carassius carassius) is a medium-sized member of the common carp family Cyprinidae.

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Cyanobacteria

Cyanobacteria, also known as Cyanophyta, are a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis, and are the only photosynthetic prokaryotes able to produce oxygen.

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Dammtorpssjön

Dammtorpssjön is a lake of Södermanland, Sweden.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/dɪˈsɪdʒuəs/) means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Diatom

Diatoms (diá-tom-os "cut in half", from diá, "through" or "apart"; and the root of tém-n-ō, "I cut".) are a major group of microorganisms found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world.

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Eurasian coot

The Eurasian coot (Fulica atra), also known as the common coot, is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae.

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Flagellate

A flagellate is a cell or organism with one or more whip-like appendages called flagella.

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Flaten

Flaten is a lake in southern Stockholm, Sweden, located just north of Lake Drevviken.

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Gastropoda

The gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca, called Gastropoda.

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Geography of Stockholm

The City of Stockholm is situated on fourteen islands and on the banks to the archipelago where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea.

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Great crested grebe

The great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) is a member of the grebe family of water birds noted for its elaborate mating display.

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Green algae

The green algae (singular: green alga) are a large, informal grouping of algae consisting of the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta, which are now placed in separate divisions, as well as the more basal Mesostigmatophyceae, Chlorokybophyceae and Spirotaenia.

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Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from dicot trees.

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Horned grebe

The horned grebe or Slavonian grebe (Podiceps auritus) is a relatively small waterbird in the family Podicipedidae.

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Järlasjön

Järlasjön is a lake of Södermanland, Sweden.

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Källtorpssjön

Källtorpssjön is a lake of Södermanland, Sweden.

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Lake

A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.

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Leech

Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worm-like animals that belong to the phylum Annelida and comprise the subclass Hirudinea.

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Lesser spotted woodpecker

The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor) is a member of the woodpecker family Picidae.

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List of lakes of Sweden

The list of lakes in Sweden contains the major lakes in the nation of Sweden.

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Mayfly

Mayflies (also known as Canadian soldiers in the United States, and as shadflies or fishflies in Canada and the upper Midwestern U.S.; also up-winged flies in the United Kingdom) are aquatic insects belonging to the order Ephemeroptera.

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Moor frog

The moor frog (Rana arvalis) is a slim, reddish-brown, semiaquatic amphibian native to Europe and Asia.

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Motorcycle speedway

Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit.

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Myriophyllum spicatum

Myriophyllum spicatum (Eurasian watermilfoil or spiked water-milfoil) is native to Europe, Asia, and north Africa.

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Nacka

Nacka is the municipal seat of Nacka Municipality and part of Stockholm urban area in Sweden.

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Nacka Municipality

Nacka Municipality (Nacka kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element with symbol N and atomic number 7.

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Northern pike

The northern pike (Esox lucius), known simply as a pike in Britain, Ireland, most of Canada, and most parts of the United States (once called luce when fully grown; also called jackfish or simply "northern" in the U.S. Upper Midwest and in Manitoba), is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox (the pikes).

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Nuphar lutea

Nuphar lutea, the yellow water-lily, or brandy-bottle, is an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia.

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Odonata

Odonata is an order of carnivorous insects, encompassing the dragonflies (Anisoptera) and the damselflies (Zygoptera).

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Perch

Perch is a common name for fish of the genus Perca, freshwater gamefish belonging to the family Percidae.

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Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a chemical element with symbol P and atomic number 15.

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Phragmites

Phragmites is a genus of four species of large perennial grasses found in wetlands throughout temperate and tropical regions of the world.

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Phytoplankton

Phytoplankton are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of oceans, seas and freshwater basin ecosystems.

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Rotifer

The rotifers (Rotifera, commonly called wheel animals) make up a phylum of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.

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Ruffe

The Eurasian ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua), also known as ruffe or pope, is a freshwater fish found in temperate regions of Europe and northern Asia.

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Rutilus

Rutilus is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Eurasia.

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Söderbysjön

Söderbysjön is a lake of Södermanland, Sweden.

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Schoenoplectus

Schoenoplectus (club-rush, bulrush or tule) is a genus of plants in the sedges with a cosmopolitan distribution.

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Sicklasjön

Sicklasjön (Swedish: "Lake of Sickla") is a lake in eastern central Stockholm, Sweden.

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Signal crayfish

The signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) is a North American species of crayfish.

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Smew

The smew (Mergellus albellus) is a species of duck, and is the only living member of the genus Mergellus.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Stockholm Municipality

Stockholm Municipality or the City of Stockholm (Swedish: Stockholms kommun or Stockholms stad) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden.

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Stratiotes aloides

Statiotes aloides, commonly known as water soldiers or water pineapple, is a submerged aquatic plant native to Europe and northwestern Asia.

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Surface runoff

Surface runoff (also known as overland flow) is the flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater, meltwater, or other sources flows over the Earth's surface.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 9.6 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language), and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Tench

The tench or doctor fish (Tinca tinca) is a fresh- and brackish-water fish of the cyprinid family found throughout Eurasia from Western Europe including the British Isles east into Asia as far as the Ob and Yenisei Rivers.

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Tufted duck

The tufted duck (Aythya fuligula) is a small diving duck with a population of close to one million birds.

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Ulvsjön

Ulvsjön is a lake of Södermanland, Sweden.

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Water skiing

Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski.

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Water supply network

A water supply system or water supply network is a system of engineered hydrologic and hydraulic components which provide water supply.

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Zander

The zander (Sander lucioperca) is a species of fish from freshwater and brackish habitats in western Eurasia.

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Zooplankton

Zooplankton are heterotrophic (sometimes detritivorous) plankton.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ältasjön

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