| Abstract: | Macrophytes compete with planktonic algae directly for nutrients which are solved in the pelagic region and impede the planktonic algae development indirectly by increasing sedimentation in the macrophyte populations and by reducing the supply of littoral detritus into the deeper zones of the lake by whirling-up in the period of vegetation, This leads to a reduced release of nutrients from the sediment and to the promotion of the development of a coenosis in the littoral zone living on pelagic seston. Therefore, waters with an extensive macrophyte vegetation have a relatively good water quality. By the artificial removal of macrophytes the planktonic coenosis is changed as by a measure of eutrophication. |
