Biology, Ecology and Management of Aquatic Plants

Propagule bank and plant emergence of macrophytes in artificial channels of a temperate irrigation area in Argentina.- Modelling Potamogeton pectinatus: for better or for worse.- Effects of Cyprinus carpio on Potamogeton pectinatus in experimental culture: the incidence of the periphyton.- Survival strategy of Pistia stratiotes L. in the Djoudj National Park in Senegal.- Comparative ecology of Monochoria korsakowii and M. vaginalis.- Competition between three submerged macrophytes, Elodea canadensis Michx, Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) St John and Lagarosiphon major (Ridl.) Moss.- Metals in sediment and water of three reed (Phragmites australis (Cay.) Trin. ex Stend) stands.- Heavy metal content of common reed (Phragmites australis (Cay.) Trin, ex Steudel) and its periphyton in Hungarian shallow standing waters.- Gas transfer in wetland plants controlled by Graham’s law of diffusion.- Aquatic plants in the rice fields of the Tagus Valley, Portugal.- Plant communities of the lagoons of the Portuguese Coastal Superdistrict — a multivariate approach.- The use of isozymes and PCR-based DNA polymorphism in aquatic weed management: a case-study on introduced and native clones of a hybrid complex.- Methodologies for surveying plant communities in artificial channels.- Interrelations of river ship traffic with aquatic plants in the River Nile, Upper Egypt.- River plants from an Iberian basin and environmental factors influencing their distribution.- Macrophyte cover and standing crop in the River Scorff and its tributaries (Brittany, northwestern France): scale, patterns and process.- Relationships of some ecological factors with the associations of vegetation in British rivers.- Distribution of the morphological groups of aquatic plants for rivers in the U.K..- Macrophytefunctional variables versus species assemblages as predictors of trophic status in flowing waters.- Vegetation dynamics in a fishpond littoral related to human impact.- Aquatic macrophyte distribution in relation to water and sediment conditions in the Itaipu Reservoir, Brazil.- Influence of water level fluctuation on the structure and composition of the macrophyte vegetation in two small temporary lakes in the northwest of Spain.- Environmental factors related to the establishment of algal mats in concrete irrigation channels.- Invertebrate hydraulic microhabitat and community structure in Callitriche stagnalis Scop. Patches.- Habitat conditions of nymphaeid associations in Poland.- Classification of Danube Delta lakes based on aquatic vegetation and turbidity.- The distribution in bankside habitats of three alien invasive plants in the U.K. in relation to the development of control strategies.- Azolla filiculoides Lamarck (Pteridophyta: Azollaceae), its status in South Africa and control.- Loss of native aquatic plant species in a community dominated by Eurasian watermilfoil.- Spartina patens as a weed in Galician saltmarshes (NW Iberian Peninsula).- Phenology and long-term control of Heracleum mantegazzianum.- Aquatic weeds and their management in Portugal: insights and the international context.- Integrated submerged aquatic vegetation management in an urban New Zealand river.- Succession of Egeria densa in a drinking water reservoir in Morbihan (France).- Typha control efficiency of a weed-cutting boat in the Lac de Guiers in Senegal: a preliminary study on mowing speed and re-growth capacity.- Aquatic plant management: ecological effects in two streams of the Swiss Plateau.- Submerged macrophyte control with herbivorous fish in irrigation channels of semiarid Argentina.- Lysathia n.sp. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a host-specific beetle for the control of the aquatic weed Myriophyllum aquaticum (Haloragaceae) in South Africa.- Fate of dichlobenil in the River Ivel. 1: Determination of the residues of dichlobenil in sediment and water.- Fate of dichlobenil in the River Ivel. 2: Effects of dichlobenil residues on hydroponically grown lettuce.- Resistance of Alisma plantago aquatica to sulfonylurea herbicides in Portuguese rice fields.- Ecology, distribution and chemical control of Hydrocotyle ranunculoides in the U.K..- Chemical control of common reed (Phragmites australis) by foliar herbicides under different spray conditions.- Effect of prior common reed (Phragmites australis) cutting on herbicide efficacy.- Long-term algal control in a reservoir using barley straw.- Filamentous algal control using barley straw.- Preliminary observations on the control of algal growth by magnetic treatment of water.- Biomass characterization on Azolla filiculoides grown in natural ecosystems and wastewater.- Residual effects of herbicide-treated Eichhornia crassipes used as a soil amendment.- A simple model for evaluating the costs and benefits of aquatic macrophytes.