Environmental challenge vis a vis opportunity: the case of water hyacinth

A Malik - Environment international, 2007 - Elsevier
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is a noxious weed that has attracted worldwide
attention due to its fast spread and congested growth, which lead to serious problems in …

Regime shifts between free-floating plants and phytoplankton: a review

P de Tezanos Pinto, I O'Farrell - Hydrobiologia, 2014 - Springer
Field studies evidence shifts between phytoplankton and free-floating plant regimes; yet, it is
unclear what drives these shifts and if they are critical transitions (alternative stable states) …

The structuring role of free-floating versus submerged plants in a subtropical shallow lake

M Meerhoff, N Mazzeo, B Moss, L Rodríguez-Gallego - Aquatic Ecology, 2003 - Springer
In shallow temperate lakes many ecological processes depend on submerged macrophytes.
In subtropical and tropical lakes, free-floating macrophytes may be equally or more …

Allelopathic Effects of Water Hyacinth [Eichhornia crassipes]

SMM Shanab, EA Shalaby, DA Lightfoot, HA El-Shemy - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) Solms is an invasive weed known to out-compete native plants
and negatively affect microbes including phytoplankton. The spread and population density …

Laboratory study on the survival of water hyacinth under several conditions of heavy metal concentrations

ME Soltan, MN Rashed - Advances in environmental research, 2003 - Elsevier
To study the survival and behaviour of water hyacinth [Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms]
under varying conditions of heavy metal concentrations, groups of the plants were grown in …

An experimental study of habitat choice by Daphnia: plants signal danger more than refuge in subtropical lakes

M Meerhoff, C Fosalba, C Bruzzone… - Freshwater …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
In shallow temperate lakes, submerged plants often provide refuge for pelagic zooplankton
against fish predation, a mechanism with potential strong cascading effects on water …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of aquatic macrophytes in a eutrophic tropical shallow lake

T Swe, P Lombardo, A Ballot, JE Thrane, J Sample… - Limnologica, 2021 - Elsevier
Inlay Lake is the second largest natural lake in Myanmar. Located in Shan State, in the
eastern part of the country, it is a known biodiversity hotspot. The lake is negatively affected …

Modelling Occurrence of Invasive Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in Wetlands

R Zarkami, J Esfandi, R Sadeghi - Wetlands, 2021 - Springer
Eichhornia crassipes is one of the most ubiquitous invasive aquatic species in the world that
negatively impact on native fauna and flora. The information on the occurrence of such …

Effect of Free-Floating Macrophyte, Azolla pinnataon Water Physico-Chemistry, Primary Productivity, and the Production of Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.), and Common …

M Abdel-Tawwab - Journal of Applied Aquaculture, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
In subtropical fish ponds, many ecological processes depend on aquatic macrophytes,
especially free-floating plants. The hypothesis that different free-floating macrophytes would …

[PDF][PDF] 大水面放养水葫芦对太湖竺山湖水环境净化效果的影响

刘国锋, 张志勇, 严少华, 张迎颖, 刘海琴, 范成新 - 环境科学, 2011 - en.jaas.ac.cn
利用水葫芦等生长快, 生物量高的漂浮植物来净化污染水体, 已成为目前水体生态修复的一种
快捷有效的方法. 在太湖竺山湖放养水葫芦后对水体营养盐吸收和水质净化效果的影响进行了 …