The study focused on the large-flowered waterweed (Egeria densa), a macrophyte or aquatic plant native to Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Macrophytes like this serve an array of ecosystem ...

The study, titled "Microplastics enhance the invasion of exotic submerged macrophytes by mediating plant functional traits, sediment properties, and microbial communities," is published in the ...

that will block the light from reaching the substrate restricting the growth of macrophytes underneath it (Madsen et al. 1991). EWM grows early and elongates rapidly, thus giving it a competitive ...