Restoring macrophyte diversity in shallow temperate lakes: Biotic versus abiotic constraints

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 710, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-37

  Bakker, Elisabeth S ^a   Sarneel, Judith M ^a   Gulati, Ramesh D ^a   Liu, Zhengwen ^b,c   van Donk, Ellen ^a,d  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aquatic plants; Biodiversity; Dispersal; Germination; Herbivory; Water transparency

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUATIC PLANT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GERMINATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; HERBIVORY; MACROPHYTE; PROPAGULE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TRANSPARENCY;

EUROPE;

CHARACEAE; CHARALES;

EID: 84876558217     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1142-9     Document Type: Review

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