Phragmitis karka

Thank you Sir. Can you please provide any literature supporting that? I am writing a review and unable to find any

Pushan,

I attached a paper by Mahapatro et al (2012) that may shed some light on your question. I am not 100% sure what you mean by “more sediments in the aquatic habitat”. Do you mean: 1) depth of sediments; 2) sedimentation rates; 3) water turbidity, or something else entirely?

Abhijit may be correct if you use turbidity of the water column as your criteria for “more sediments”, since S. littoralis in the study by Mahapatro et al (2012) was found in the region of the lagoon with much lower turbidity levels. Higher turbidity in the zone where P. karaka was found was probably due higher portion of silt in bottom sediments. Silt in sediments is more easily re-suspended by wave action than clay that we would expect higher turbidity levels.

Ghosh (2008) in his paper (see attached) points out that P. karka is considered as a highly invasive species, and as such would most likely outcompete S. littoralis in more turbid environments.

Hope this helps a bit.

Tomas

Thank you Tomas, I meant silt sediments brought by rivers