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Acta Botanica Gallica
Botany Letters
Volume 142, 1995 - Issue 6
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Phosphorus sources for aquatic macrophytes in running waters: water or sediment?

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Pages 719-731 | Published online: 27 Apr 2013
 

Summary

In the Alsace Rhine floodplain, a good relation between the macrophyte communities and the nutrient concentrations in water was established, arguing the importance of the water column in the nutrition of aquatic plants. In this paper, we precise the relative importance of the water column and the sediment in the phosphorus nutrition of three aquatic macrophytes in running water system: Elodea nuttallii, Elodea canadensis, Callitriche obtusangula. We study the relation between the total phosphorus in plant, the phosphorus content in sediment and the phosphate concentrations in water. We show that the annual mean value of phosphorus content in plant is strongly correlated to the annual mean concentration of phosphate in water, for all the three species. In contrast, there is no definite relation between P-plant tissue and the concentration of total P in the sediment.

Résumé

Dans la plaine du Rhin en Alsace, il a été établi une bonne corrélation entre les associations de macrophytes aquatiques et les concentrations de nutriments dans l'eau, ce résultat démontrant l'importance de la phase aqueuse pour la nutrition minérale des plantes aquatiques. Il s'agit de préciser ici l'importance de la phase aqueuse par rapport à la phase sédimentaire pour la nutrition phosphorée de 3 macrophytes d'eau courante, Elodea nuttallii, Elodea canadensis et Callitriche obtusangula. Nous avons mesuré le phosphore total de la plante, le phosphore du sédiment et la concentration en o-phosphates de l'eau afin d'établir une relation entre ces 3 compartiments d'un écosystème d'eau courante. La teneur moyenne annuelle des teneurs en P des plantes est fortement corrélée avec la concentration en phosphates de l'eau pour les 3 espèces étudiées. En revanche, il n'y a aucune corrélation entre phosphore de la plante et phosphore du sédiment.

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