Floating-leaved vegetation alters the flow structure through the combined action of floating
leaves, stems, and the channel bed. This study investigated the vertical distribution of …

The leaf-beetle Galerucella birmanica is a potential biocontrol herbivore for water chestnut,
Trapa natans in North America. During our assessments of effectiveness and safety of G …

Overgrown macrophytes are recognized as a major issue of the ecosystem management in
many shallow and eutrophic lakes of the world. Dense vegetations often cause the problems …

Although lacustrine food webs have been extensively studied, food webs formed on floating-
leaved macrophytes are poorly understood. In recent years, lotus Nelumbo nucifera, which …

Water chestnut, Trapa natans, is a non-native aquatic plant with floating rosettes of leaves
that has established and continues to spread in northeastern North America. Growing in …