Distribution of aquatic plants in the Northern Vosges rivers: Implications for biomonitoring and conservation

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 619-632

  Demars, B O L ^a   Thiebaut G ^b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Alkalinity; Carbon dioxide; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Species dispersal

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; AQUATIC PLANT; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; MACROPHYTE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; RECOLONIZATION; RIVER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TESTING METHOD; TROPHIC STATUS; WATER CHEMISTRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; VOSGES [(MNR) FRANCE]; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 50149107196     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.844     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. AFNOR. 1990. Recueil de Normes Françaises. Eaux. Méthodes d'Essais. Association Française de Normalisation: Paris.
2. AFNOR. 2003. Détermination de l'indice biologique macrophytique en rivière (IBMR). NF T 90-395, Association Française de Normalisation, Saint-Denis La Plaine.
3. Amoros C, Bornette G, Henry CP. 2000. A vegetation based method for ecological diagnosis of riverine wetlands. Environmental Management 25: 211-227.
4. Boedeltje G. 2005. The establishment of aquatic vegetation. PhD thesis, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
5. Braun-Blanquet J. 1932. Plant Sociology: The Study of Plant Communities. McGraw-Hill: New York.
6. Butcher RW. 1927. A preliminary account of the vegetation of the River Itchen. Journal of Ecology 15: 55-65.
7. Butcher RW. 1933. Studies on the ecology of rivers. I. On the distribution of macrophytic vegetation in the rivers in Britain. Journal of Ecology 21: 58-91.
8. Carbiener R. 1965. Les conséquences biologiques de la pollution des eaux. Bulletin de l'Association Philomatique d' Alsace et de Lorraine 12: 116-152.
9. Carbiener R. 1969. Aperçu sur quelques effets de la pollution des eaux douces de la zone tempérée sur les biocénoses aquatiques. Bulletin de la Section de Geographie du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques 80: 45-132.
10. Carbiener R, Ortscheit A. 1987. Wasserpflanzengesellschaften als Hilfe zur Qualitatsuberwachung eines der grossten Grunwasser-vorkommens Europas (Oberrheinebene). In Proceedings of the International Symposium in Tokyo, Vegetation Ecology and Creation of New Environments, Miyawaki A, Bogenrieder A, Okuda S, White J (eds). Tokai University Press: Tokyo; 283-312.
11. Carbiener R, Trémolières M, Mercier JL, Ortscheit A. 1990. Aquatic macrophyte communities as bioindicators of eutrophication in calcareous oligosaprobe stream waters (Upper Rhine plain, Alsace). Vegetatio 86: 71-88.
12. Dawson HF, Szoszkiewicz K. 1999. Relationships of some ecological factors with the associations of vegetation in British rivers. Hydrobiologia 415: 117-122.
13. Dawson FH, Newman JR, Gravelle MJ, Rouen KJ, Henville P. 1999. Assessment of the trophic status of rivers using macrophytes. R&D Technical Report E39, Environment Agency, Bristol.
14. Demars BOL. 1996. Using aquatic macrophytes for assessing water trophic level in a lowland river system. MSc thesis, Leicester University, Leicester, UK.
15. Demars BOL, Harper DM. 1998. The aquatic macrophytes of an English lowland river system: assessing response to nutrient enrichment. Hydrobiologia 384: 75-88.
16. Demars BOL, Harper DM. 2005. Distribution of aquatic vascular plants in lowland rivers: separating the effects of local environmental conditions, longitudinal connectivity and river basin isolation. Freshwater Biology 50: 418-437.
17. Dodkins I, Rippey B, Hale P. 2005. An application of canonical correspondence analysis for developing ecological quality assessment metrics for river macrophytes. Freshwater Biology 50: 891-904.
18. Engel R, Kapp E. 1964. Contribution à l'étude de la flore des Vosges du Nord. Bulletin de l'Association Philomatique d'Alsace et de Lorraine 11: 309-325.
19. Fritz B, Massabuau JC, Ambroise B. 1984. Physico-chemical characteristics of surface waters and hydrological behaviour of a small granitic basin (Vosges massif, France): annual and daily variations. In Proceedings of a Symposium, Hydrochemical Balances of Freshwater Systems, Eriksson E (ed.). IAHS-AISH Publication no. 150, IAHS-AISH: Uppsala; 249-261.
20. Garbey C, Thiébaut G, Muller S. 2004. Protection et prolifération: deux notions antagonistes? Exemple de la Renoncule peltée (Ranunculus peltatus) dans la Réserve de Biosphère Vosges du Nord-Pfälzerwald. Revue d'Ecologie (Terre et Vie) 59: 135-146.
21. Haslam SM. 1978. River Plants. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
22. Haury J. 1995. Patterns of macrophyte distribution within a Breton brook compared with other study scales. Landscape and Urban Planning 31: 349-361.
23. Haury J, Muller S. 1991. Variations écologiques et chorologiques de la végétation macrophytique des rivières acides du Massif Armoricain et des Vosges du Nord (France). Revue des Sciences de l'Eau 4: 463-482.
24. Haury J, Thiébaut G, Muller S. 1995. Les associations rhéophiles des rivières acides du Massif Armoricain, de Lozère et des Vosges du Nord, dans un contexte Ouest-Européen. In Collogues Phytosociologiques XXIII, Bailleul, 1994, Large Area Vegetation Surveys, Génu J-M (ed.). Cramer: Berlin; 145-167.
25. Haury J, Peltre M-C, Trémolières M, Barbe J, Thiébaut G, Bernez I, Daniel H, Chatenet P, Muller S, Dutartre A, Laplace-Treyture C, Cazaubon A, Lambert-Servien E. 2006. A new method to assess water trophy and organic pollution: the Macrophyte Biological Index for Rivers (IBMR). Its application to different types of rivers and pollution. Hydrobiologia 570: 153-158.
26. Holmes NTH. 1983. Typing British Rivers According to their Flora. Nature Conservancy Council: Shrewsbury.
27. Holmes NTH. 1996. The use of riverine macrophytes for the assessment of trophic status: review of 1994/95 data and refinements for future use. Report to the National Rivers Authority Anglian Region, National Rivers Authority, Peterborough.
28. Holmes NTH, Newbold C. 1984. River Plant Communities - Reflectors of Water and Substrate Chemistry. Nature Conservancy Council: Shrewsbury.
29. Holmes NTH, Newman JR, Chadd S, Rouen KJ, Saint L, Dawson FH. 1999a. Mean Trophic Rank: a user's manual. R&D Technical Report E38, Environment Agency, Bristol.
30. Holmes NTH, Boon PJ, Rowell TA. 1999b. Vegetation Communities of British Rivers: A Revised Classification. Joint Nature Conservation Committee: Peterborough.
31. House WA, Duplat D, Denison FH, Henville P, Dawson FH, Cooper DM, May L. 2001. The role of macrophytes in the retention of phosphorus in the River Thame, England. Chemistry and Ecology 17: 271-291.
32. Hutchinson GE. 1975. A Treatise on Limnology. Volume III. Limnological Botany. John Wiley: New York.
33. Jongman RHG, ter Braak CJF, van Tongeren OFR. 1995. Data Analysis in Community and Landscape Ecology. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
34. Kohler A, Schneider S. 2003. Macrophytes as bioindicators. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Supplement 147: 17-31.
35. Kohler A, Vollrath H, Beisl E. 1971. Zur Verbreitung, Vergesellschaftung und Ökologie der Gefäss-Makrophyten im Fliessgewassersystem Moosach (Münchener Ebene). Archiv für Hydrobiologie 69: 333-365.
36. Kohler A, Wonneberger R, Zeltner G. 1973. Die Bedeutung chemischer und planzlicher 'Verschmutzungindikatoren' im Fliessgewässersystem Moosach (Münchener Ebene). Archiv für Hydrobiologie 72: 533-549.
37. Ladle M, Casey H. 1971. Growth and nutrient relationships of Ranunculus penicillatus var calcareus in a small chalk stream. In Proceedings of the European Weed Research Council. 5th International Symposium on Aquatic Weeds. European Weed Research Society: Oxford; 53-62.
38. Lambinon J, De Langhe JE, Delvosalle L, Duvigneaud J, Vanden Berghen C. 1992. Nouvelle Flore de la Belgique, du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, du Nord de la France et des Régions Voisines (Ptérìdophytes et Spermaphytes), 4th edn. Patrimoine du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique: Meise.
39. Mainstone C, Gulson J, Parr W. 1994. Phosphates in freshwater. Standards for nature conservation. English Nature research report no. 73, English Nature, Peterborough.
40. Muller S. 1990. Une séquence de groupements végétaux bio-indicateurs d'eutrophisation croissante des cours d'eau faiblement mineralisés des Basses Vosges gréseuses du Nord. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris, Sérié III 310: 509-514.
41. Neal C, House WA, Jarvie HP, Eatherall A. 1998. The significance of dissolved carbon dioxide in major lowland rivers entering the North Sea. The Science of the Total Environment 210/211: 187-203.
42. Newbold C, Palmer M. 1979. Trophic adaptations of aquatic plants. NCC CST Notes no. 18, Nature Conservancy Council, Peterborough.
43. Newbold C, Holmes NTH. 1987. Nature conservation: water quality criteria and plants as water quality monitors. Water Pollution Control 86: 345-364.
44. Paal J, Trei T. 2004. Vegetation of Estonian watercourses; the drainage basin of the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland. Annates Botanici Fennici 41: 157-177.
45. Palmer MA, Bell SL, Butterfield I. 1992. A botanical classification of standing waters in Britain: applications for conservation and monitoring. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 2: 125-143.
46. Ricklefs RE. 1987. Community diversity: relative roles of local and regional processes. Science 235: 167-171.
47. Robach F, Thiébaut G, Trémolieres M, Muller S. 1996. A reference system for continental running waters: plant communities as bioindicators of increasing eutrophication in alkaline and acidic water in north-east France. Hydrobiologia 340: 67-76.
48. Sculthorpe CD. 1967. The Biology of Aquatic Vascular Plants. Edward Arnold: London.
49. Smith AJE. 1992. The Liverworts Flora of Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
50. Smith AJE. 1996. The Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
51. Stumm W, Morgan JJ. 1970. Aquatic Chemistry. An Introduction Emphasizing Chemical Equilibria in Natural Waters, 1st edn. Wiley-Interscience: New York.
52. Tansley AG. 1911. Types of British Vegetation. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
53. ter Braak CJF, Šmilauer P. 2002. CANOCO Reference Manual and User's Guide to Canoco for Windows: Software for Canonical Community Ordination (version 4.5). Microcomputer Power: Ithaca, NY.
54. Thiébaut G. 1997. Effets des perturbations liées à l'eutrophisation et l'acidification des cours d'eau des Vosges du Nord sur les phytocénose aquatiques. Approche spatio-temporelle et expérimentale. PhD thesís, Metz University, Metz.
55. Thiébaut G. 2005. Does competition for phosphate supply explain the invasion pattern of Elodea species? Water Research 39: 3385-3393.
56. Thiébaut G, Muller S. 1995. Nouvelles données relatives à la séquence de bioindication de l'eutrophisation dans les cours d'eau faiblement minéralisés des Vosges du Nord. Acta Botanica Gallica 142: 627-638.
57. Thiébaut G, Muller S. 1998. The impact of eutrophication on aquatic macrophyte diversity in weakly mineralised streams in the Northern Vosges mountains (N-E France). Biodiversity and Conservation 7: 1051-1068.
58. Thiébaut G, Muller S. 1999. A macrophyte communities sequence as an indicator of eutrophication and acidification levels in weakly mineralised streams in north-eastern France. Hydrobiologia 410: 17-24.
59. Thiébaut G, Guérold F, Muller S. 1995. Impact de l'acidification des eaux sur les macrophytes aquatiques dans les eauxfaiblement minéralisées des Vosges du Nord. Premiers résultats. Acta Botanica Gallica 142: 617-626.
60. Thiébaut G, Rolland T, Robach F, Trémolières M, Muller S. 1997. Quelques conséquences de l'introduction de deux espèces de macrophytes, Elodea canadensis Michaux et Elodea nuttallii St. John, dans les écosystèmes aquatiques continentaux: exemple de la plaine d'Alsace et des Vosges du Nord (Nord-Est de la France). Bulletin Français de la Pêche et de la Pisciculture 344/345: 441-452.
61. Thiébaut G, Giamberini L, Muller S. 2002a. Can Potamogeton polygonifolius be considered as a bioindicator species of eutrophication and of acidification in low mineral waters? Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie 28: 582-585.
62. Thiébaut G, Guérold F, Muller S. 2002b. Are trophic and diversity indices based on macrophyte communities pertinent tools to monitor water quality? Water Research 36: 3602-3610.
63. Thiébaut G, Garbey C, Muller S. 2004. Suivi biologique par les macrophytes aquatiques de la qualité des cours d'eau de la réserve de biosphère Vosges du Nord-Pfälzerwald. Revue d'Ecologie (Terre et Vie) 59: 123-133.
64. Westlake DF. 1968. The biology of aquatic weeds in relation to their management. In Proceedings of the 9th British Weed Control Conference. British Weed Control Council: Brighton; 371-381.
65. Westlake DF, Casey H, Dawson FH, Ladle M, Mann RHK, Marker AFH. 1972. The chalk-stream ecosystem. In Proceedings of the IBP-UNESCO Symposium, Kazimiera Dolny 1970, Productivity Problems of Freshwaters, Kajak Z, Hillbricht-Ilkowska A (eds). Polish Scientific Publishers: Warsaw; 615-635.
66. Wiegleb G. 1984. A study of habitat conditions of the macrophytic vegetation in selected river systems in western lower saxony (Federal Republic of Germany). Aquatic Botany 18: 313-352.