Coastal vegetation ecology

This publication is a course of lectures prepared for biology students. It deals with the classification and description of coastal aquatic plants in water bodies, methods of collection, mapping, determination of biomass and plant production from ecological and hydrobiological points of view. The trophic and ecological role of plants in the system of aquatic biocenoses is considered. Particular attention is paid to the role of coastal aquatic plants in the self-purification of water bodies, assessment of water pollution by indicator plants, protection and rational use of coastal aquatic plants, their cultivation, restoration, etc. Describes how to grow aquarium and ornamental aquatic plants. The book is intended for students of hydrobiology, students of other biological and ecological specialties, university teachers, teachers and schoolchildren, specialists working in the field of ecology and environmental protection, decorative landscape science.

This publication is a course of lectures prepared for biology students. It deals with the classification and description of coastal aquatic plants in water bodies, methods of collection, mapping, determination of biomass and plant production from ecological and hydrobiological points of view. The trophic and ecological role of plants in the system of aquatic biocenoses is considered. Particular attention is paid to the role of coastal aquatic plants in the self-purification of water bodies, assessment of water pollution by indicator plants, protection and rational use of coastal aquatic plants, their cultivation, restoration, etc. Describes how to grow aquarium and ornamental aquatic plants. The book is intended for students of hydrobiology, students of other biological and ecological specialties, university teachers, teachers and schoolchildren, specialists working in the field of ecology and environmental protection, decorative landscape science.