Xiang Wan

Jan 14, 2025 | mdpi.com | Lei Zhang |Xiaodong Ma |Weishuai Xu |Xiang Wan

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Aug 8, 2023 | mdpi.com | Xiang Wan |Guoxiang Wang |Yueming Zhu

Abstract:Brownification denotes increasing water color, partly caused by increasing dissolved organic matter of terrestrial origin in freshwater. Brownification has become a wide-spread environmental problem because water color alters the physicochemical environment and biological communities in aquatic ecosystems. However, our understanding of its ecological effects on aquatic macrophytes is limited.