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Virtual Issue: Marine macrophytes in a changing world

Key papers that have shed light on the responses of #seagrasses and habitat-forming #macroalgae to environmental change.

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1469-8137.marine-macrophytes
December 28, 2024 at 11:00 AM
drkevinwood.bsky.social
Contrasting Effects of Increasing Invasive Crayfish Densities on Competing Submerged #Macrophytes in Shallow Lakes

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Contrasting Effects of Increasing Invasive Crayfish Densities on Competing Submerged Macrophytes in Shallow Lakes
Non-native crayfish are among the most widespread aquatic invasive species worldwide. High densities of crayfish in lakes can potentially cause complete loss of macrophytes through herbivory, phys...
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January 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
carlsayer.bsky.social
Aquatic plants to love from a small Dorset lake. How many can you get? @uclgeography.bsky.social MSc Aquatic Macrophytes course 2025.
May 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
carlsayer.bsky.social
The @uclgeography.bsky.social MSc Aquatic Conservation, Ecology & Restoration "Aquatic Macrophytes" field module in Dorset in full swing!!!
May 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
drkevinwood.bsky.social
Asexual reproduction of aquatic #macrophytes via stem fragments: A review on determinants of plant fragmentation and propagule dispersal

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Asexual reproduction of aquatic macrophytes via stem fragments: A review on determinants of plant fragmentation and propagule dispersal - Hydrobiologia
Many species of aquatic macrophytes rely on asexual reproduction to maintain populations and recover after disturbances. Stem fragments are relevant asexual propagules for numerous macrophyte species....
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August 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
15nswells.bsky.social
Pretty nice day for exploring field sites in Arthur’s Pass National Park 👩‍🔬This summer we’re kicking off some new work using a braided river spring complex to figure out how (if?) invasive plants affect stream energy
Small stream with clear water green macrophytes growing in it. The stream run through a tussock grassland with mountains on either side.
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
palustris.bsky.social
Water pH is highly dynamic so to say a pond or small lake "has a pH of X" is misleading. At the moment I'm getting a lot of unexpectedly high readings. This is due to intense photosynthesis in strong sunshine - plants (macrophytes or algae) use up dissolved CO2 (H2CO3), reducing acidity/raising pH.
July 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
voltcenter.bsky.social
We start the week at @voltcenter.bsky.social with an update from our PhD student Ellen Slater on her project on #volatilomes of #macrophytes from #lake #geneva!
February 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
drkevinwood.bsky.social
Herbivory on aquatic macrophytes by geese and swans - a review of methods, effects, and management

doi.org/10.34080/os....

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#ornithology
Herbivory on aquatic macrophytes by geese and swans—a review of methods, effects, and management | Ornis Svecica
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August 13, 2024 at 10:48 AM
freshwaterau.bsky.social
@edevardtdanielsen.bsky.social, @tubabucak.bsky.social, @etileter.bsky.social and @thosdavidson.bsky.social launched Ed’s PhD project at the Lemming mesocosms! We study how nutrients, temperature, and macrophytes affect oxygen dynamics and GHGs in aquatic systems. Excited to see what we uncover!
March 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
newphyt.bsky.social
#Marine macrophytes in a changing world: mechanisms underpinning responses and resilience to environmental stress.

Check out this Editorial from Dan Smale & Nathan King introducing the #VirtualIssue 'Marine macrophytes in a changing world' 👇
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Marine macrophytes create vital habitats across the global coastline, where they mediate ecological processes and underpin ecosystem service delivery. Subtidal kelp forests (left), intertidal fucoid beds (centre) and shallow seagrass meadows (right) represent particularly important macrophyte-dominated habitats but are threatened by a range of concurrent stressors.
November 8, 2024 at 10:15 AM
ingenium.bsky.social
today it's a river monster
A few drawings of a river monster with a human-like face, long dark hair, and short finned limbs. It has a long sinuous body and an eel-like tail and is coloured like an Arctic char fish. Some freshwater macrophytes are caught in its hair. One line drawing shows it opening its mouth very wide, with the skull visible to show how far back the jaw hinges. Handwritten text reads: "It cannot easily support itself out of the water. It rarely swims actively mostly walks on the bottom. It seems to resent you." Two sketches of a fish-like monster with four stubby legs, a large eel-like tail, and a long sinuous body. It has a human-like face and long ragged hair with plants tangled into it. In one of the sketches it is swimming, in the other it's just standing side-on.
June 14, 2026 at 3:14 PM
ivanakomendic.bsky.social
Can't wait to continue my field work this summer on Macrophyte Attached Zebra Mussels (MAZM). Macrophytes, though often overlooked as a substrate, are capable of supporting dense mussel populations. Featured below: Myriophyllum spicatum (image 1) and Potamogeton robbinsii (image 2).
February 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
umeaunimarine.bsky.social
Deploying underwater light and temperature sensors in the Baltic! 🌊 The goal is to better understand the light field environment that affects benthic macrophytes and their productivity.🌿🔬
#MarineResearch #BenthicMacrophytes #EnvironmentalScience #BalticSea #Photophysiology
April 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
briellecomartin.bsky.social
A great week at Lac Témiscouata for @ivanakomendic.bsky.social fieldwork investigating zebra mussel associations with different substrates & macrophytes
Zebra mussels on collector plates. Zebra mussels on plastic macrophytes. Lac Témiscouata. Zebra mussels fouling on a unionid.
August 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
dansmale1.bsky.social
Check out our Editorial for a new virtual issue in
@newphyt.bsky.social in which we pull together recent papers on "Marine macrophytes in a changing world: mechanisms underpinning responses and resilience to environmental stress" nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 8, 2024 at 4:07 PM
aquatoya.bsky.social
And macrophytes right?!! So happy to have you close by!♥️
August 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
drkevinwood.bsky.social
A review of the ecological role of aquatic #macrophytes on freshwater fish

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A review of the ecological role of aquatic macrophytes on freshwater fish - Hydrobiologia
Macrophytes play a central role in the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems. In this paper, we review the role of macrophytes in shaping fish attributes. By acting as physical barriers, mac...
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May 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
fburdon.bsky.social
Indirect ecological interactions are everywhere in nature, with species influencing another through a third species or the environment. Such interactions are rarely connected to rapid evolutionary change. Here, aphid-driven herbivory of duckweed drove adaptive evolutionary change in Daphnia.
Aphid herbivory on macrophytes drives adaptive evolution in an aquatic community via indirect effects | PNAS
Indirect ecological effects occur when the impact of one species on another is mediated by a third species or the shared environment. Although indi...
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August 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
zarahpattison.bsky.social
Food-Web Impacts of Controlling Macrophytes and Algal Blooms Using Herbicides and Algicides in Invaded Aquatic Systems
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Food‐Web Impacts of Controlling Macrophytes and Algal Blooms Using Herbicides and Algicides in Invaded Aquatic Systems
Given the expansion of aquatic plants (i.e., macrophytes) that can occur with eutrophication, lakes and ponds are often managed with herbicides to kill large areas of undesired plants. In doing so...
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July 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
anurag-asclepias.bsky.social
New plant for me, water smartweed Persicaria amphibia #Polygonaceae (along with spinach and buckwheat) ... said to be native in much of the Northern Hemisphere - with distinct ecotypes; found w/ beetles eating #wetland #plants #wildflower
Pond with substantial macrophytes Flowering pink spike emerging from 3 broad leaves Flowering pink spike emerging from 3 broad leaves
June 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
ap3489.bsky.social
Fascinating talk from @sarabenelli.bsky.social about the role of macrophytes and macrofauna in controlling freshwater #biogeochemistry and keeping methane locked into #sediments. Really interesting seeing this next to our marine work!

@bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
drkevinwood.bsky.social
Invasive Hydrilla verticillata impacts native aquatic plants at family and species levels

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#PlantScience #Macrophytes
Invasive Hydrilla verticillata impacts native aquatic plants at family and species levels - Aquatic Ecology
This study examines how the invasion of Hydrilla verticillata affects native submerged macrophytes in the Rosana Reservoir, focusing on its impact at both species and family levels. The research analy...
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March 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
idril-rosado.bsky.social
Pontederia crassipes
#botany #macrophytes #brazil
October 15, 2024 at 1:43 PM
thackers.bsky.social
How are freshwater species richness, human stressors, and habitat connectivity associated across Great Britain? Well, it varies among macrophytes, molluscs, beetles, dragonflies, fish & birds!

#freshwater #connectivity #ecology #biodiversity #UKCEH_AquaEco 🧪
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Plots showing smooth relationships between the diversity of freshwater organism species groups and environmental variables
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM