Impacts of artificial barriers on the connectivity and dispersal of vascular macrophytes in rivers: A critical review

Macrophytes play important functional roles in river ecosystems, providing habitat and food, as well as influencing flow, water chemistry, and sediment dynamics. They also represent an important component of river biodiversity. Artificial river barriers have the potential to disrupt macrophyte dispersal, and compromise their distribution and persistence, but little information is available compared to barrier impacts on fish and...