increasing industrial activities lead to entrance of different pollutants into the environment, especially water resources. because of their persistency and non-biodegradation, metals can pose a threat to health of human and other organisms. sediment, fish (lucioperca stizostedion and cyprinus carpio), and common reed (phragmites australis) samples were collected from sattarkhan dam for investi...

Fungal endophytes mainly belong to the phylum Ascomycota and colonize plants without producing symptoms. We report on the isolation of seed-borne fungal endophytes from Phragmites australis (common reed) that were ascribed to the genus Stagonospora. Nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays revealed that a Stagonospora sp. regularly colonized reed as shown for a period of three years. In sp...

Invasive plants continue to spread in riparian ecosystems, causing both ecological and economic damage. This research investigated the impacts of common reed, purple loosestrife, riparian shrubland, and riparian woodlands on the quality and quantity of sandhill crane roosting habitat in the central Platte River, Nebraska, using a discrete choice model. A more detailed investigation of the impac...

during the visits of common reed [phragmites australis (cav.) trin. ex steud] in different locations of west azerbaijan province during 2015–16, symptoms of fungal infections was frequently observed. among the isolated and studied fungi, deightoniella arundinacea (corda) s. hughes was commonly observed. based on available literatures, this species was found new to mycobiota of iran.