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Stoneworts (Characeae) and associated macrophyte species as indicators of water quality and human activities in the Pays-de-la-Loire region, France

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Macrophytes in Aquatic Ecosystems: From Biology to Management

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The distribution of Characeae vegetation from the Pays-de-la-Loire region was studied in ponds and standing waters (e.g. gravel pits, quarries, oxbows) in relation to water quality, other existing algae or macrophyte competition, and human activities. The potential of using stoneworts to characterise the type of biotope is presented and stoneworts show some possibility for use as general bioindicators of trophic quality in ponds and other still waters.

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  1. Centre d’Etude et de Recherche sur les Ecosystèmes Aquatiques I.B.E.A./I.R.F.A./U.C.O., B.P. 10 808, 44, rue de Rabelais, 49008, Angers Cedex 01, France

    E. Lambert-Servien & G. Clemenceau

  2. Carrefour des Mauges/CPIE Loire et Mauges, Maison de Pays, La Loge, BP 25, 49 600, Beaupreau, France

    O. Gabory & E. Douillard

  3. Agrocampus Rennes, U.M.R. INRA-Agrocampus Ecobiologie et Qualité des Hydrosystèmes Continentaux, 65, rue de Saint Brieuc, CS 84215, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    J. Haury

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  1. Central Fisheries Board, Dublin, Ireland

    J. M. Caffrey

  2. Cemagref, Cestas Cedex, France

    A. Dutartre

  3. Agrocampus Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France

    J. Haury

  4. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    K. J. Murphy

  5. European Weed Research Society, St Ives, UK

    P. M. Wade

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Lambert-Servien, E., Clemenceau, G., Gabory, O., Douillard, E., Haury, J. (2006). Stoneworts (Characeae) and associated macrophyte species as indicators of water quality and human activities in the Pays-de-la-Loire region, France. In: Caffrey, J.M., Dutartre, A., Haury, J., Murphy, K.J., Wade, P.M. (eds) Macrophytes in Aquatic Ecosystems: From Biology to Management. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 190. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5390-0_16

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