Aquatic Plants Diversity Conservation

Aquatic plants are important components of wetland ecosystems and aquatic ecosystems and play a very important role in maintaining biodiversity, ecosystem structure, and function. The spatial pattern of species diversity and its formation mechanism is one of the core topics in the fields of biogeography and ecology, and its research can provide an important reference for the conservation of global and regional species diversity, which is of great significance for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use. Compared with terrestrial ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems have clear and stable boundaries, which are more suitable for testing the hypothesis of domain effect in the distribution pattern of species diversity.

Threats to Aquatic Plant Diversity

With the degradation of wetlands, flooding and damage aggravates, the species of aquatic vegetation in wetlands decrease, wetland biodiversity decreases significantly, the distribution area of dominant species shrinks, the community structure changes, rare and endangered species decrease or become extinct, and the ecological environment even deteriorates in local areas.

The eutrophication of water bodies caused by the massive input of nutrients worldwide is one of the manifestations of global environmental drastic changes. Along with the intensification of water eutrophication, the species and abundance of aquatic plants have been significantly reduced.

Wetland degradation

Eutrophication of water bodies

Global warming

Invasive alien species

Global warming accelerates the global hydrological cycle, increases precipitation, and increases extreme events such as floods and droughts, gradually changing the pattern of the water environment on which aquatic vegetation depends, leading to the degradation of wetlands and the invasion of exotic species This has led to the degradation of wetlands and the invasion of exotic species, which seriously threaten the survival of aquatic vegetation and community maintenance.

Compared with other taxa, the proportion of exotic species in aquatic plant groups is much higher due to their special life history characteristics and ecological adaptations, and the connectivity of water habitats makes the damage of aquatic plant invasion often sudden and global, which is more difficult to predict and control.

Our Initiatives

Lifeasible attempts to explain the importance of aquatic plant diversity conservation, global climate change response, the impact of invasive alien species, the physiological ecology of aquatic plants, aquatic plant diversity in lakes, and the ecology of aquatic plant communities, and to develop conservation studies of diversity.

Species composition and distribution characteristics (dominant species)
Community structure characteristics (density and biomass)
Spatial and temporal changes in community structure (functional community succession)
Analysis of community species diversity (biodiversity index and evenness, diversity comparison)
Correlation analysis of community species diversity with aquatic environmental factors
Analysis of the state of the water environment
Fundamental research on the conservation of aquatic plant diversity
Genetic diversity of aquatic plants
Soil seed bank
Maintenance of aquatic plant seed viability

Our Mission

Compared to research and practice on the conservation of terrestrial plant germplasm resources, aquatic plants have received far less attention than they need for their diversity conservation. Lifeasible has recognized that freshwater lakes are valuable wetland resources that serve multiple functions such as storage, irrigation, aquaculture, drinking water, transportation, and ornamental purposes, and have important ecological and economic benefits. Aquatic plants are the main primary producers of lakes and purifiers of aquatic ecosystems, and the rich diversity of aquatic plants is the guarantee for the production and quality of lake aquatic products, which are not only good baits for herbivorous fish, spawning sites, and habitats for aquatic animals, and food sources for microorganisms, but also can improve the dissolved oxygen status and transparency of water bodies.

However, due to the aggravation of various influencing factors, the diversity of aquatic plants has been seriously lost, which leads to the serious deterioration of the lake ecosystem, the depletion of aquatic species, and the decline of quality, which not only threatens the sustainable development of aquaculture but also affects the agricultural production and This threatens the sustainable development of aquaculture, agricultural production and the daily life of people living along the lake. Therefore, Lifeasible believes that the conservation of aquatic plant diversity has become an important issue for sustainable development, and we have been making efforts to this end.

The services provided by Lifeasible cover all aspects of plant research, please contact us to find out how we can help you achieve the next research breakthrough.

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