The role of aquatic macrophytes in organic substance circulation in the foothill lake Big Miassovo (South Ural)

Production indicators of dominant model phytocenoses of aquatic vegetation in Big Miassovo lake are investigated. The contribution of representatives of various ecological groups of macrophytes in synthesis of organic substance is estimated. It is shown that macrophyte vegetation plays large role in carbon circulation in the lake ecosystem being rather undisturbed standard of group of foothill lakes in South Ural.