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Freshwater Shrimp

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Through the duration of the experiment there was a noticeable trend of the Dissolved Oxygen levels decreasing, this can be connected to the necessary respiration of the primary producers, both the shrimp in the first week and the freshwater snail for the rest of the time. By extension the carbon dioxide that is produced through their respiration's then taken in by the plants in the ecosystem and undergo photosynthesis and in turn increases the overall pH of the ecosystem. with the sudden death of the shrimp, what is known of the species is that it is not able to tolerate high levels of pH, The freshwater shrimp could have died as some species are unable to tolerate elevated pH levels (Closs et al. 2004), thus, the connection made was that the

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