Nature. Fishing for aquatic plants

These are flowering plants, mosses, lichens, and algae. These plants have developed characteristics related to their environment, such as leaves that can elongate to adapt to the current, or translucent leaves to better capture light through the water. Their shapes vary: submerged ribbon-like leaves, large leaves, or small lenses floating on the surface, etc.

They are few, because it is complex to conduct surveys in the water and identify them. To help fill these gaps, the National Botanical Conservatory (CBN) of the Paris Basin has embarked on a program with the Seine-Normandy Water Agency to draw up an inventory of the...

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