Talk:Aquatic plant

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Edits

I edited the 'All Aquatic Plants' part to be grammatically correct.--MysticEndevor 20:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Plant-related material dumped on Aquatic

This stuff belongs in this article, not Aquatic, if it belongs anywhere. It looks like someone's class notes.

• Endangered aquatic species survive by depending on wetlands.
• Aquatic plants are distributed around the world
• There are three types of leaves in aquatic plants: submersed leaves, floating leaves, and emersed leaves.
• Submersed leaves are thin and narrow and often highly dissected and are very flexible. They often receive low levels of sunlight because the light energy diminishes while passing though a water column.
• Floating leaves are broader leaves that are firm or leathery but flexible enough to resist tearing by wave action
• Emersed leaves such as aerial leaves are similar to typical leaves of terrestrial plants living nearby
• Some aquatic species have high ratios of surface to volume for having 1 to 2 cell layer construction
• Examples of highly dissected submersed leaves are: parrots feather and European milfoil, pondweed, thread-leaved water-nymph and rice-field water nymph, hornwort
• Examples of slightly wider but very thin submersed leaves: elodea, mare's tail
• Examples of thread-like undivided leaves: horned-pondweed, ditch-grass, quillwort, pilularia americana
• Floating leaves are broader, without major lobing and remain flat on the water, taking advantage of full sun. The upper leaf surface tends to have a very prominent cuticle therefore permitting water to roll off and not interfering with photosynthesis or growth of epiphytic algae. They have well-developed air chambers (lacunae) which provides buoyancy and have hard cells (sclereids) in the mesophyll and provide toughness for the leaf and prevents the layer from collapsing.
• Examples of floating leaves are: water lily, yellow pong-lily, cape-pondweed, pondweed, Victorian water lily, water-chestnut, floating heart, water-shield, frog-bit.
• Emersed leaves are like typical leaves of herbaceous angiosperms that inhabit full-sun environments. They are from the water and have a waxy cuticle. Many are amphistomatic and have well-developed leaf mesophyll in order to take advantage of the abundant light.
• Examples of Emersed leaves: cattails, wetland irises, buttercups, grass species, giant reed, sacred lotus, species of y yellow pond-lily, skunk cabbage, arrow leaf, knotweed, lizard's tail, yerba mansa, bur-reed, pickerelweed, thalia geniculata.
• For aquatic plants, the are rooted in the mud of muck (amphibious plant) however floating plants are not attached to the mud or bottom

J. Spencer 01:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

copy-paste

I see there was a revert and I support the revert as the text, in addition to not being integrated into the rest of the article, seems to be a WP:COPYVIO from [1].

add a couple of links

For mesophytes and xerophytes, link to the respective wikipedia articles. 67.161.43.89 (talk) 23:46, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Done, thanks. --Tryptofish (talk) 15:04, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Terminology

I am from Estonian wikipedia and i was writing terms for aquatic plant types, like isoetids (small bottom plants), elodeids (rooted plants with leaves and stem in the water body) and helophytes (we consider it partially lake ecosystem). Can i ask why arent those terms even in english wikipedia (not to mention, in this article)? I have too weak english and knowledge to write anything on my own in this massive system (compared to very small Estonian wikipedia).--MärgRätik (talk) 15:47, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to the English Wikipedia! We have an article on Helophyte, but not on the other two. I'm actually not familiar with these terms, but I hope someone else will comment here who is. Offhand, I don't see any reason why we couldn't add some information about these classifications to this page. What do other editors think about doing that? --Tryptofish (talk) 22:53, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

I can provide a source. Isoetids, elodeids, nympheid. Sadly those 3 are only one i can find to have reliable source in english, other terms (for floating plants, weakly rooted elodeids) i could not find english translation. Lookslike the links are not working as intended, you need to type in the term yourself.--MärgRätik (talk) 11:16, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I found another source, and will add it now to the page. --Tryptofish (talk) 17:07, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Histology of Aquatic Plants

Hello everyone, I am new to wiki and doing this as part of project in Histology. Was wondering if it was okay if I put up a section on the histology of aquatic plants in comparison to other plants. I was thinking of putting up a micrograph of an aquatic plant under the microscope and showing cell structures specific to aquatic plants. Thank you!! Bioham (talk) 16:58, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. And thanks for asking before making the edits to the page. Yes, I think that would be helpful. But I think the key advice that I would give you is to keep it brief enough so that it isn't out of balance with the rest of the page, and to avoid making it too scientifically technical. And of course, please make sure that everything is reliably sourced. --Tryptofish (talk) 00:16, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Introducing Myself

Hello, My name is Michael. I go to Wells College in Aurora New York and I'm an Environmental Science major. I'm taking Advanced Ecology which is Wetland Ecology. I will be making some editing changes to this article. I have 6 different articles below I will be selecting information from over the course of the next 12 or so weeks. Let me know what you guys think.

Bornette, Gudrun; Amoros, Claude; Lamouroux, Nicolas (1998). "Aquatic plant diversity in riverine wetlands: the role of connectivity". Freshwater Biology. 39 (2): 267–283. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2427.1998.00273.x. ISSN 1365-2427.

Nutrient Concentration of Aquatic Plants: Patterns Across Species

Light Attenuation and Photosynthesis of Aquatic Plant Communities

Evolutionary processes in aquatic plant populations Light and Nutrients in the Control of Aquatic Plant Community Structure. II. In Situ Observations

Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the United States — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mike Compagni (talk • contribs) 20:57, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

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