Dear Colleagues,

Water saturation, soil anoxia and flooding are widely considered stressful to plants. However, numerous wetland plant species are highly productive in flood-prone areas and wetlands harbor an important compliment of regional plant diversity across the world’s biomes and climate zones. In wetlands, multiple and complex ecological gradients shape pattern at all scales of biological organization, from individuals, species, and populations, to entire communities. Temporarily or permanent anoxia, dynamic fluvial processes, specific wetland microclimates and the provision of wet dispersal corridors are only few examples of environmental factors that shape biological organization differently than those operating in strictly terrestrial habitats. Moreover, wetland plants also provide numerous ecosystem services in terms of provisioning material goods, regulating biochemical cycles, providing habitat and sustaining cultural practices. However, in the face of ongoing species loss due to climate change and human land- and water-use, a critical challenge is to understand the environmental and geographic patterns and causes of freshwater plant diversity, and how wetland plants and communities are affected through habitat loss and environmental degradation. Studies on the composition, diversity and distribution of wetland plants from local habitats to regional and even global scales in natural and man-made environments are relevant to diverse areas of scientific inquiry. This Special Issue of Plants will contribute to knowledge of wetland plants from several perspectives, such as:

• Germination and Establishment
• Diversity and Distribution
• Climate Change
• Biomass, Growth and Productivity
• Habitat Destruction and Fragmentation
• Population and Community ecology
• Adaptation and Stress physiology
• Morphology and Anatomy
• Biogeography
• Ecosystem Services
• Restoration ecology

Prof. Dr. Florian Wittmann
Guest Editor

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• Wetland plants
• Biodiversity
• Plant functioning
• Adaptation
• Wetland Degradation and Restoration