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Phytosociological and habitat studies on the riparian vegetation in the river-lake systems of Krutynia River and upper Szeszupa River (north-eastern Poland) typical of the postglacial lakelands, were conducted. It was demonstrated that the riparian vegetation is composed of communities from the classes: Phragmitetea, Scheuchzerio-Caricetea fuscae, Artemisietea, Molinio-Arrhenatheretea, Alnetea glutinosae and Querco-Fagetea. In the land/water ecotone, these communities are spatially differentiated and often from a zonal pattern. In the waters from the rhizome-root layer (pore waters), the differences in nutrient concentration on transects from riparian plant communities reflect the communities' ability to modify the habitat. The decrease in nutrient concentration while passing through broad zones of either sedge communities or alderwóod and sedge communities may result from nutrient uptake by the components of those communities. The patterns in which sedge communities are forming floating mats, adjoined to the typical littoral or river bed, could be favourable for the protection of river and lake waters. The floating mats reacts elastically to wave action and changes in water level.
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Kłosowski, S. The shore vegetation in selected lakeland areas in northeastern Poland. Hydrobiologia 251, 227–237 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00007182
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