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Hygrophilous Vegetation

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The Vegetation of the Maltese Islands

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In the Maltese Archipelago although it is represented by small islands with almost absent water basins and very limited watercourses, the freshwater plant communities are quite frequent and well diversified. Within the hygrophilous vegetation it is possible to distinguish perennial and annual associations linked to stagnant or slowly flowing waters, as well as to running waters. They are mostly differentiated by helophytes, pleustophytes and submerged hydrophytes, which belong to various phytosociological classes, such as Magnocarici elatae-Phragmitetea australis, Molinio-Arrhenatheretea, Potametea and Lemnetea.

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    Salvatore Brullo, Cristian Brullo, Salvatore Cambria & Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo

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Brullo, S., Brullo, C., Cambria, S., Giusso del Galdo, G. (2020). Hygrophilous Vegetation. In: The Vegetation of the Maltese Islands . Geobotany Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34525-9_10

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