Abstract

The most significant biotic constituent in a lake ecosystem is represented by macrophytes in their diverse forms. Macrophytes, because of their capacity to integrate environmental changes over periods of a few years, and reflect the cumulative effects of successive disturbances, are considered excellent indicators of the ecological state of water bodies Macrophytes are by far the most investigated group used for exploring the effects of water level fluctuation on biological organisms in aquatic ecosystems . In lake ecosystems, Overall 31 species of aquatic macrophytes were reported from Anchar Lake with different morphology, which consisted of emergent (14), rooted floating leaf type (08), submerged (06) and free floating (03). The efforts mainly focus on the relationships between water level fluctuation and the presence, species richness, distribution and cover of macrophytes.

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