The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) for qualitative species inventories offers great potential as a cost-effective tool identification. This requires that the target release DNA, reference information is available and detection methods exist. Environmental analyses are currently used routinely to inventory fish fauna (Wang et al. 2021), molluscs (Klymus 2017) or insects (Uchida 2020). For other...

Calcification by charophytes improves the quality of water, although most studies on calcification have only examined ecorticate species. We investigated the formation and relationship of alkalines and acids with regard to calcification on internodal cells in Chara corallina, an ecorticate species, and Chara globularis, a corticate species. We observed that alkaline and acidic areas with distin...

Submerged macrophytes play a key role in north temperate shallow lakes by stabilizing clear-water conditions. Eutrophication has resulted in macrophyte loss and shifts to turbid conditions in many lakes. Considerable efforts have been devoted to shallow lake restoration in many countries, but long-term success depends on a stable recovery of submerged macrophytes. However, recovery patterns var...