The allelopathic potential of exudates from the aquatic macrophyte Stratiotes aloides on the growth of phytoplankton was investigated. A selection of phytoplankton species, occurring in habitats similar to that of Stratiotes, was used: two cyanobacterial strains (toxic and non-toxic Microcystis aeruginosa), one green alga (Scenedesmus obliquus) and one eustigmatophyte (Nannochloropsis limnetica...

Aeshna viridis, a dragonfly generally considered to be a specialist as it in most cases chooses Stratiotes aloides as its habitat, have suffered badly from habitat loss and fragmentations throughout Europe under the last century as the human demand of land use have grown. It ́s thereby considered near threatened on EU red list and is included in the Habitat Directive. This means that it is prote...

aquatic plants have a major influence upon other aquatic organisms, by altering both water chemistry and spatial structure of the habitat in shallow water bodies. some of them, such as stratiotes aloides l., may suppress algal growth. but how aquatic plants would ultimately influence the heterotrophic community and the aquatic ecosystem as a whole is far from clear. our microcosm-based study de...

Aeshna viridis, a species of dragonfly the family Aeshnidae, is listed in Appendix II Bern Convention as well Annex IV Habitats Directive. The decline range and abundance A. viridis associated with strong dependence this on presence Stratiotes aloides water body results from decrease number suitable habitats. So far, attempts to develop monitoring methodology for have been made several European...

Climate change is expected to alter biotic interactions, and may lead to temporal and spatial mismatches of interacting species. Although the importance of interactions for climate change risk assessments is increasingly acknowledged in observational and experimental studies, biotic interactions are still rarely incorporated in species distribution models. We assessed the potential impacts of c...