Response of Macrophyte Diversity in Coastal Lakes to Watershed Land Use and Salinity Gradient.

ABSTRACT: Coastal lakes are subject to multiple stressors, among which land use, hydrological connectivity, and salinity have the greatest effect on their biodiversity. We studied the effects that various land cover types (CORINE) of coastal lake watersheds had on macrophyte diversity in ten coastal lakes along the southern Baltic coast as characterised by twelve phytocenotic indices: these being a number of communities, Shannon-Wiener diversity, evenness, and indices of taxonomic distinctiveness of plant communities: vegetation coverage; colonisation index; share of the phytolittoral area in the total lake area, as well as shares of nympheides, pondweeds, charophytes, marine, emerged and submerged communities in the total lake area. The effects were checked for three groups of lakes distinguished b

SUBMITTER: Grzybowski M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9779085 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature