aquatic plants are divided into four main categories. Submersed plants, as their name suggests, live all their lives completely underwater, while the new growth of emergent plants peeps above the ...

The azure damselfly (Coenagrion puella) spends its larval stages underwater, before climbing an emergent ... The abundance of water means some aquatic plants have abandoned conventional root ...

The meadows are vital habitats for a variety of aquatic wildlife ... seagrasses do the same underwater. Then, as the carbon-filled parts of the plants die, they can wind up buried in the sediment ...