Littoral zone

Litoral ( to Latin litus " shore ", " coast " ) is called the shore region of a lake or river as well as the coastal region of the Sea. The corresponding adjective is litoral. The rand for union, by exposed soil zone ( benthic ) of a water body belonging area above the trophic level compensation is biologically highly productive and contains a rich variety of flora and fauna with a high population density. Not the actual soil zone belongs upcountry Epilitoral, where the influence of the water is only indirectly effective. In waters that are influenced by tides (ebb and flood ), the name intertidal zone may be applied by analogy to littoral.

Uferzonierung to the lake and river

In the sunlit Litoral most of the photosynthetic activity takes place. Facilities located in this habitat animals are spatially bounded organizational groups. In the littoral of a lake is the reed, floating plants or submerged plants zone. Below, separated by the trophic compensation level is low, the dark region, the profundal.

• Epilitoral, alder belt, willows zone

• Supralittoral, splash zone

• Intertidal, surf zone

• Infralittoral and sublittoral

Zoning of the sea coast

The designation of zoning of the littoral of a seashore depends on the water depth and the presence of tidal influence ( tidal, tidal ).

• Epilitoral

• Supralittoral or Supratidal

• Intertidal, Hydrolitoral, littoral or intertidal

• Subtidal or Subtidal