Facilitating the restoration of aquatic plant communities in a Ramsar wetland

Human activities such as land clearing and intensive land use around water bodies, particularly wetlands, have a detrimental impact on water quality and quantity, aquatic plant communities, and associated wetland fauna. Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert are internationally significant Ramsar wetlands...

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Published in:Restoration ecology 2016-07, Vol.24 (4), p.528-537
Main Authors: Jellinek, Sacha, Te, Thai, Gehrig, Susan L., Stewart, Hafiz, Nicol, Jason M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aquatic plants
Breakwaters
Community composition
Drought
Environmental regulations
Environmental restoration
Freshwater
Indigenous plants
Lakes
Land clearing
Land use
Plant communities
Plant species
planting structure
Recolonization
restore
river club-rush
Rivers
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
sedge
Species richness
Water quality
wetland flora
Wetlands
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Summary:Human activities such as land clearing and intensive land use around water bodies, particularly wetlands, have a detrimental impact on water quality and quantity, aquatic plant communities, and associated wetland fauna. Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert are internationally significant Ramsar wetlands located at the terminus of the Murray River, Australia's longest river system. Agriculture, water regulation, and extraction and droughts have had a detrimental impact on native plant communities in the lakes. We studied the influence of young (
ISSN:1061-2971
1526-100X
DOI:10.1111/rec.12355