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THE ROLE OF INSECT LIFE IN ONTARIO STREAMS AND LAKES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

William J. K. Harkness
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Toronto

Extract

There is in Ontario a water area of approximately 80,000 square miles which is about one-fifth of the total area of the province. As this water area is so great in extent the life of whiich it cointains is significant economically as well as biologically.

In every body of water, stream, pond, or lake there is a community of living organisms the individuals of which are practically independent of life outside of the water but which are absolutely inter-dependent upon one another.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1935

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