The evaluation of river pollution using vegetation in the Maltese islands

Authors
Haslam, SM
Citation
Sm. Haslam, The evaluation of river pollution using vegetation in the Maltese islands, FR ENV BULL, 9(5-6), 2000, pp. 347-351
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Environment/Ecology
Journal title
FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN
ISSN journal
10184619 → ACNP
Volume
9
Issue
5-6
Year of publication
2000
Pages
347 - 351
Database
ISI
SICI code
1018-4619(200005/06)9:5-6<347:TEORPU>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Water plants are very sensitive to the conditions in which they live, and s o their occurrence, abundance and habit can be used to interpret these cond itions. Even in the extremely dried and damaged Maltese rivers, it is possible (in the limited reaches and seasons where there is enough water) to use aquatic macrophytes as pollution indicators. A grading on an (up to) 8-point scale can be obtained.