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Monika Tarkowska-Kukuryk, Antoni Grzywna
Macrophytes are one of the biological elements for assessing the ecological status. Macrophyte communities were studied in six artificial (drainage canal and ditches) or modified watercourses (regulated rivers). In order to assess the ecological status of the watercourses, studies were carried out with the use of the…
Misha Tseitlin, Jorge García-Girón, Julie Crabot, Xiaoming Jiang + 2 more
Freshwater monitoring programmes like the European Union’s Water Framework Directive (WFD) provide a wealth of data on European lake status, including water quality and macrophytes (aquatic plants) as critical habitat features that support health of humans and wildlife. Easier WFD data access can enable external…
Wei Li, Yujie Li, Jiayou Zhong, Hui Fu + 2 more
Phosphorus (P) is a limiting element in many aquatic ecosystems. Excessive P input often leads to cyanobacterial bloom, thus triggering ecological imbalances and a series of environmental problems. Submerged macrophytes have a strong ability to absorb P and play important roles in maintaining aquatic ecosystem…
Willem Kaijser, Verena S. Brauer, Christian Schürings, Armin W. Lorenz + 1 more
'Armin W. Lorenz' 'Mehrnoush Aminisarteshnizi'] Macrophytes in lowland rivers have traditionally been studied with a focus on surface water chemistry, particularly nutrients. However, unlike in lakes, the relationship between macrophytes and surface water nutrients in rivers is generally weaker, especially in highly…
Aloïs Revéret, Dilli P. Rijal, Peter D. Heintzman, Antony G. Brown + 2 more
Environmental DNA is increasingly being used to reconstruct past and present biodiversity including from freshwater ecosystems. Here, we first review and compare studies that use metagenomics, targeted capture, and various barcoding and metabarcoding markers, in order to explore how each of these methods can be used to…
Mandy Velthuis, Luca Zoccarato, Annelies J. Veraart, Michael T. Monaghan + 4 more
'Michael T. Monaghan' 'Elisabeth Funke' 'Piet Verdonschot' 'Hans-Peter Grossart' 'Sabine Hilt'] Microbial biofilms are important components in macrophyte decomposition, and their composition depends on the decomposition stage and host plant quality. Here, we investigated how macrophyte tissue quality (i.e., C:N:P…
Mingjun Feng, Peiyu Zhang, Haowu Cheng, Thijs Frenken + 2 more
'Min Zhang'] Title: Abstract Submerged macrophytes play a key role in maintaining a clear-water phase and promoting biodiversity in shallow aquatic ecosystems. Since their abundance has declined globally due to anthropogenic activities, it is important to include them in aquatic ecosystem restoration programs.…
Paolo Villa, Monica Pinardi, Rossano Bolpagni, Jean-Marc Gillier + 3 more
Thanks to the improved spatial and temporal resolution of new generation Earth Observation missions, such as Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2, the potential of remote sensing techniques in mapping land surface phenology of terrestrial biomes can now be tested in inland water systems. We assessed the capabilities of dense time…
Qijuan Cheng, Liangfang Li, Xuhui Dong, Yan Li + 2 more
'Viktor Oláh'] Aquatic macrophytes are one of the important biotic components of shallow lake ecosystems. Understanding the long-term evolution of the macrophyte community is crucial for lake management. Huanggai Lake, a typical shallow lake in the middle reach of the Yangtze River, was selected as the research site…
Andrew Lee, Jude Clapper
Population increase and rapid urbanization are two major factors for scarcity of clean water in 21st century societies across the world. Modern sewage water treatment plants and filtration systems require a lot of economic and land resources which many "lesser developed countries" do not have, leading to large amounts…
Cesar Macedo Lima Filho, Allan Amorim Santos, Daniel Vinícius Neves de Lima, Luan de Oliveira Silva + 2 more
Emergent macrophytes are commonly used to control eutrophication in Constructed Floating Wetlands (CFW) systems. However, tropical emergent macrophyte species, particularly from South America, are underrepresented in these applications. This study aims to investigate the potential of five emergent macrophytes…
Paolo Villa, Rossano Bolpagni, Monica Pinardi, Viktor R. Tóth
Macrophytes are key players in aquatic ecosystems diversity, but knowledge on variability of their functional traits, among and within species, is still limited. Remote sensing is a high-throughput, feasible option for characterizing plant traits at different scales, provided that reliable spectroscopy models are…
Kirstine Thiemer, Bart Immerzeel, Susanne Schneider, Keneilwe Sebola + 7 more
Mass developments of macrophytes occur frequently worldwide and are often considered a nuisance when interfering with human activities. It is crucial to understand the drivers of this perception if we are to develop effective management strategies for ecosystems with macrophyte mass developments. Using a comprehensive…
Hidekazu Yoshioka, Motoh Tsujimura, Futoshi Aranishi, Tomomi Tanaka
Environmental management and restoration should be designed such that the risk and uncertainty owing to nonlinear stochastic systems can be successfully addressed. We apply the robustified dynamic Orlicz risk to the modeling and analysis of environmental management and restoration to consider both the risk and…
Yasmine Meroz
Plants solve complex problems without centralized control, relying instead on growth-driven dynamics to sense, navigate, and optimize resource acquisition. This review presents a unified physical framework for understanding plant behavior through three complementary principles: distributed physical computation…
Arezki Boudaoud, Annamária Kiss, Mariya Ptashnyk
How morphogenesis depends on cell properties is an active direction of research. Here, we focus on mechanical models of growing plant tissues, where microscopic (sub)cellular structure is taken into account. In order to establish links between microscopic and macroscopic tissue properties, we perform a multiscale…
Raymond E. Goldstein, Jan-Willem van de Meent
Organisms show a remarkable range of sizes, yet the dimensions of a single cell rarely exceed 100 µm. While the physical and biological origins of this constraint remain poorly understood, exceptions to this rule give valuable insights. A well-known counterexample is the aquatic plant Chara, whose cells can exceed 10…
Pierre Couteron, Fabien Anthelme, Marcel G. Clerc, Daniel Escaff + 2 more
'C. Fernandez-Oto' 'Mustapha Tlidi'] We propose here to interpret and model peculiar plant morphologies (cushions, tussocks) observed in the Andean altiplano as localized structures. Such structures resulting in a patchy, aperiodic aspect of the vegetation cover are hypothesized to self-organize thanks to the interplay…
Gaurav Singh, Ahsan I. Nawroj, Aaron M. Dollar
Modular Active Cell Robots (MACROs) are a design paradigm for modular robotic hardware that uses only two components, namely actuators and passive compliant joints. Under the MACRO approach, a large number of actuators and joints are connected to create mesh-like cellular robotic structures that can be actuated to…