<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>With its diversity of water body types, the Danube Delta offers large possibilities for studies of aquatic macrophytes, their ecological requirements, ecological amplitude and communities. Sensitive to changes in water quality and physical parameters due to human intervention in the natural ecological network, aquatic macrophytes are used as quality indicators. Using the example of the system of channels and lakes of the Gorgova-Isac-Uzlina complex and some examples from the neighboring area, the aquatic macrophytes and their communities are presented and discussed in relation to the characteristics of the habitats and the changes of the environment in the course of decades, since human intervention in the delta.</p></abstract>

With its diversity of water body types, the Danube Delta offers large possibilities for studies of aquatic macrophytes, their ecological requirements, ecological amplitude and communities. Sensitive to changes in water quality and physical parameters due to human intervention in the natural ecological network, aquatic macrophytes are used as quality indicators. Using the example of the system of channels and lakes of the Gorgova-Isac-Uzlina complex and some examples from the neighboring area, the aquatic macrophytes and their communities are presented and discussed in relation to the characteristics of the habitats and the changes of the environment in the course of decades, since human intervention in the delta.

Aquatic Macrophyte Communities of the Gorgova-Isac-Uzlina Area (Danube Delta, Romania)

Karlsruhe Institute for Technology – University of Land Baden-Württemberg and Research Center of the Helmholtz Society, Institute for Geography and Geoecology, Department Auen-Institut/Institute for Wetlands Ecology

Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research

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With its diversity of water body types, the Danube Delta offers large possibilities for studies of aquatic macrophytes, their ecological requirements,...

Aquatic Macrophyte Communities of the Gorgova-Isac-Uzlina Area (Danube Delta, Romania)

Published Online: May 30, 2018

Page range: 39 - 56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/trser-2018-0018

Keywords
types of channels and lakes, macrophyte communities, quality indicators, ecological gradients, human-induced changes

© 2018 Erika Schneider-Binder, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Aquatic Macrophyte Communities of the Gorgova-Isac-Uzlina Area (Danube Delta, Romania)

Published Online: May 30, 2018

Page range: 39 - 56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/trser-2018-0018

Keywordstypes of channels and lakes, macrophyte communities, quality indicators, ecological gradients, human-induced changes

© 2018 Erika Schneider-Binder, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
types of channels and lakes, macrophyte communities, quality indicators, ecological gradients, human-induced changes