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1-s2.0-S0380133014000902-mainSubmergedmacrophytecommunitiesandthecontrollingfactorsinlarge,shallowLakeTaihu(China):SedimentdistributionandwaterdepthBaiLiDong,BoQiangQin⁎,GuangGao,XianLeiCaiTaihuLaboratoryforLakeEcosystemResearch,StateKeyLaboratoryofLakeScienceandEnvironment,NanjingInstituteofGeographyandLimnology,ChineseAcademyofSciences,Nanjing210008,ChinaabstractarticleinfoArticlehistory:Received20May2013Accepted3March2014Availableonline15May2014CommunicatedbyAnettTrebitzIndexwords:DepthShallowlakeSedimentconsistencyLakeTaihuEutrophicationLakeTaihu,thethirdlargestlakeinChina,issubjectedtosevereeutrophicationandcyanobacterialbloomsasaresultofdevelopmentandurbanization.Inordertorestorethedegradedlakeecosystem,itisimportanttoidentifywhichenvironmentalfactorscontrolthesubmergedmacrophyteswhichdeclinedduringeutrophication.Tocharacterizecommunitystructureofsubmergedmacrophytesandtoassesstheplant–environmentalrelationshipsinLakeTaihu,amonthlyinvestigationwasconductedfromMaytoOctoberin2010.A