Abstract Background: Podostemaceae is the largest family of strictly aquatic angiosperms. Species of this family possess unusual morphological and reproductive characters, grow attached to rocks in rivers with strong currents, and have a life cycle tightly linked to seasonality. Due to its reduced floral structures, which characterizes most species...
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management
Under current European Union regulation, the risks to aquatic organisms must be assessed for uses of plant protection products (PPPs) that may result in exposure to the environment. For herbicidal PPPs, aquatic macrophytes are often the most sensitive taxa. For some herbicidal modes of action, macrophytes may be affected only while they are activel...
Published in The Science of the total environment
Shallow lakes are typically dominated by macrophytes, which have important functional roles regulating trophic conditions and creating biological habitat. Macrophytes have been shown to strongly influence water chemistry and shape microbial communities in shallow lakes. In Florida, many large, shallow lakes are dominated by alien invasive, submerse...
Published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
The experiment was conducted in the field of the College of Agriculture, University of Tikrit, for the period from 14/6/2022 to 14/8/2022 inside a semi-exposed building (gable) with four treatments. Each treatment included three replicates, and each replicate included (6) fishes in a closed bio-aquatic system, by weight 14.15±1.22, 13.8±0.72,13.9±0...
Published in Environmental toxicology and chemistry
A variety of processes, both natural and anthropogenic, can have a negative impact on surface waters, which in turn can be detrimental to human and environmental health. Few studies have considered the ecotoxicological impacts of concurrently occurring contaminants, and that is particularly true for mixtures that include contaminants of emerging co...
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international
Excess nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients in the aquatic environment result in the growth of algal cells and water eutrophication, which adversely affect the aquatic environment and human health. Therefore, discovering a safe and efficient algae suppression method is necessary to ensure the ecological safety of water. Recently, the allelopathic effe...
Published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
This study aims to determine some physical and chemical factors and their impact on the abundance and distribution of some submersible aquatic plants for four selected stations in the southern marshes, two stations in the Eastern Hammar marshes (Al-Burga and Al-Sada) and two stations in the Al-Chebiyesh marshes (Abu-Sobat and Al-Baghdadia). Water a...
Published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
The improvement of water quality through aquatic plants’ nutrient uptake is one of the crucial elements in achieving a sustainable ecosystem. Water quality is affected by a variety of variables, including dissolved oxygen concentrations, nutrient overabundance, bacterial populations, salt content, and the number of suspended particles in the water....
Fish pond systems are managed with different practices. Among them, a dry period with one year without water is applied in some cases to promote mineralization of the sediments and control the development of pathogenic bacteria. This dry period induces a drastic disturbance on the plant communities. The objective of this work was to study the influ...
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international
For the ecological risk assessment of heavy metals and microplastics in Marala wetlands in Sialkot, Pakistan, samples of sediments, water, aquatic plants (Alternanthera philoxeroides, Typha latifolia, and Ipomoea carnea), and fish (Labeo rohita) were studied from five different locations. Pb, Cd, and Cr concentrations were above permissible limits ...
