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Aquatic Macrophytes Occurrence in Mediterranean Farm Ponds: Preliminary Investigations in North-Western Sicily (Italy)

Paolo MadoniaPatrizia PanzecaAngelo Troia

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inland waters0106 biological sciencesFloracarbon isotopeBiodiversityPlant ScienceZannichellia palustris010501 environmental sciences01 natural sciencesArticleparasitic diseasesaquatic florabioindicatorEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics0105 earth and related environmental scienceshydrophytewater geochemistryEcologybiologyEcologySettore BIO/02 - Botanica Sistematica010604 marine biology & hydrobiologyStuckenia pectinatafungiBotanyconservationbiology.organism_classificationSettore GEO/08 - Geochimica E VulcanologiaMacrophyteHabitat destructionGeographyhydrophytescarbon isotopesinland waterQK1-989bioindicatorsSettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E ApplicataThreatened speciesMediterranean floraPotamogeton pusillus

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Mediterranean wetlands are severely affected by habitat degradation and related loss of biodiversity. In this scenario, the wide number of artificial farm ponds can play a significant role in the biodiversity conservation of aquatic flora. In the present contribution we show the preliminary results of a study on Mediterranean farm ponds of north-western Sicily (Italy), aimed to investigating the environmental factors linked to the occurrence of submerged macrophytes (vascular plants and charophytes). We studied the aquatic flora of 30 ponds and determined the chemical and isotopic composition of their water bodies on a subset of the most representative 10 sites. Results show that (1) farm ponds host few but interesting species, such as Potamogeton pusillus considered threatened at regional level

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2021-06-01Plants
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10071292