References to Ranunculus Ecology in the scientific literature


This file contains references to papers referring to various aspects of the biology of Ranunculus. Most are to the aquatic species in the sub-species Batrachium, and most are about the ecology of members of the genus and the communities in which it grows. 

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Admiraal W., Van Der Velde G., Smit H., & Cazemier W.G. 1993 The rivers Rhine and Meuse in The Netherlands: present state and signs of ecological recovery. Hydrobiologia 265, 97-128.

Aidara L.G. 1986 Biomasse, production, phénométrie et composition minérale de quelques macrophytes des cours d'eau bretons. PhD Thesis, University of Rennes. pp 135.

Arber A. 1919 Heterophylly in water plants. The American Naturalist 53, 272-278.

Arber A. 1920 Water Plants - A Study of Aquatic Angiosperms. Cambridge University Press, London, pp 436

Arber A. 1936 Vascular supply to the nectary of Ranunculus. Annals of Botany, London 50, 305-319.

Arts G.H.P., Den Hartog C. 1990 Phytogeographical aspects of the West European soft-water macrophyte flora. Acta Botanica Neerlandica 39(4), 369-378.

Arts G.H.P., Leuven R.S.E.W. 1988 Floristic changers in shallow soft waters in relation to underlying environmental factors. Freshwater Biology 20, 97-111.

Arts G.H.P., Roelofs J.G.M. & Delyon M.J.H. 1990 Differential tolerances among soft-water macrophyte species to acidification. Canadian Journal of Botany 68, 2127-2134

Babington C.C. 1855 On the Batrachian Ranunculi of Britain. Annual Magazine of Natural History, Series 2, 16, 385-404

Babington C.C. 1855 On Ranunculus tripartitus. Journal of Botany 7, 38-39.

Babington C.C. 1956 On the Batrachian Ranunculi of Britain. Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 5, 65-84

Bai Y, MH Benn, W Majak, R Mcdiarmid 1996 Extraction and HPLC determination of ranunculin in species of the buttercup family. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 44: 2235-2238

Baker J.H. & Orr D.R. 1986 Distribution of epiphytic bacteria on freshwater plants. Journal of Ecology 74(1), 155-165

Barbour, M., Solomesch, A., Witham, C., Holland, R., McDonald, R., Cilliers, S., Molina, J.A., Buck, J., Hillman, J., 2003. Vernal pool vegetation of California, variation within pools. Madroño 50, 129–146.

Benson L. 1942 North American Ranunculi IV Torrey Botanical Club Bulletin 69,298-316, 373-86

Benson L. 1948 A treatise on the North American Ranunculi, Subgenus Batrachium (DC) A. Gray. American Midland Naturalist 40, 229-246.

Bernatowicz S. 1965 Wplgw kozzenia na wystepowenie jeziorze Dyal Maly - Effects of mowing on the occurance of macrophytes in the Dgal Maly Lake. Acta hydrobiol 7(1), 71-82

Best E.P.H. 1993 The impact of mechanical harvesting regimes on the species composition of Dutch ditch vegetation: a quantitative approach. Journal of Aquatic Plant Management 31, 148-154.

Bickerton M., Petts G., Armitage P. & Castella E. 1993 Assessing the ecological effects of groundwater abstraction on chalk streams: three examples from Eastern England. Regulated Rivers: Research and Management 8, 121-134.

Blackmore S. 1985 Buttercups. Shire Natural History no. 6, Shire Publications Ltd, Aylesbury Bucks. pp24

Boeger R.T. 1992 The influence of substratum and water velocity on growth of Ranunculus aquatilis L. (Ranunculaceae). Aquatic Botany 42, 351-359

Bonis A., Grillas P., van Wijk C., Lepart J. 1993 The effect of salinity on the reproduction of coastal submerged macrophytes in experimental communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 4, 461-468.

Bonis A., & Lepart J. 1994 Vertical structure of seed abnks and the impact of depth of burial on recruitment in two temporary marshes. Vegetatio 112, 127-139.

Bornette G. & Amoros C. 1991 Aquatic vegetation and the hydrology of a braided river floodplain. Journal of Vegetation Science 2, 497-512.

Bostrack J.M. & Millington W.F. 1962 On the determination of leaf form in aquatic heterophyllous species of Ranunculus. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 89(1), 1-20

Bouxin G. 1993 Ranunculus penicillatus subsp. pseudofluitans var pseudofluitans à Bergilers (environs de Warmme, Province de Liège). Naura Mosena 46, 62-65.

Braithwaite B.F 1993 Kelso Water-Crowfoot rediscovered Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 45, 249

Brian A. 1983 The effects of man-made structures on the distribution of plants growing in the River Lugg. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 44 (2)

Brooker M.P., Morris D.L. & Wilson C.J. 1978 Plant-flow relationships in the River Wye Catchment Proceedings of the European Weed Research Society's 5th Symposium on Aquatic Weeds, 1978, 63-70

Bruni NC, JP Young, NG Dengler 1996 Leaf developmental plasticity of Ranunculus flabellaris in response to terrestrial and submerged environments Canadian Journal of Botany 74: 823-837

Butcher R.W. 1927 A preliminary account of the vegetation of the River Itchen. Journal of Ecology 15, 55 - 65

Butcher R.W. 1933 Studies on the ecology of rivers. I. On the distribution of macrophyte vegetation in the rivers of Britain. Journal of Ecology 21, 58 - 91

Butcher R.W. 1940 Diversity in the reaction of submergence in Batrachian Ranunculi. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 152, 180-189.

Butcher R.W. 1960 Notes on water buttercups. The Naturalist, Hull 1960, 123-125

Caffrey J. 1985 A scheme for the assesment of water quality using aquatic macrophytes as indicators. Journal of Life Sciences, Royal Dublin Society 5, 105-111

Caffrey J. 1990 The Classification, Ecology and Dynamics of Aquatic Plant Communities in some Irish Rivers. PhD Thesis, University College, Dublin. 254pp

Cao B-J., Meng Q-Y., & Ji N. 1991 Analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of Ranunculus japonicus extract. Planta Medica 58, 485-574.

Cao B.J., Meng Q.Y. & Ji N. 1992 Analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of Ranunculus japonics extract. Planta Medica 58, 496-498.

Carr O.J. 1988 Fish-farm effluents and their effects on river biology. PhD Thesis, University of Hull

Carr O.J. & Goulder R. 1990 Fish-farm effluents in rivers - I. Effects on bacterial populations and alkaline phosphatase activity. Water Research 24, 631-638.

Carr O.J. & Goulder R. 1990 Fish farm effluents - 2. Effects of inorganic nutrients, algae and the macrophyte Ranunculus penicillatus. Water Res 24(5), 639-647

Casey H., Downing A. 1976 Levels of inorganic nutrients in Ranunculus penicillatus var calcareus in relation to water chemistry. Aquatic Botany 2, 75 - 79

Casey H., Ladle M. 1976 Chemistry and biology of the South Winterbourne, Dorset, England. Freshwater Biology 6,1-12

Casey H., Westlake D.F. 1974 Growth and nutrient relationships of macrophytes in Sydling Water, a small unpolluted chalk stream. Proceedings of the European Weed Research Council 4th international symposium on aquatic weeds pp69 - 76

Cheshire wildlife trust 2000. A local biodiversity action plan for the ivy-leaved water-crowfoot. http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/cheshire/ilwcbap.htm

Chicken E. 1996 Dewponds in VC 61 - vegetation, succession and mapping. BSBI News April 1996, pp 37-41.

Cole, S. M. (1977). Ranunculus repens L. in Europe. Watsonia, 11, 353-366.

Cook C.D.K. 1962 The Ranunculus penicillatus group. Proceedings of the Botanical Society of the British Isles 6, 366-67

Cook C.D.K. 1963 Studies in Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium (DC.) A. Gray. II. General morphological considerations in the taxonomy of the subgenus. Watsonia 5(3), 294-303

Cook C.D.K. 1966 Studies in Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium (DC.) A. Gray. III. Ranunculus hederaceus L. and R. omiophyllus Ten.. Watsonia 6, 246-59

Cook C.D.K. 1966 A monographic study of Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium (D.C.) A. Gray. Mitteilung Bototanik Saatssammlung München 6,47 - 237

Cook C.D.K. 1967 Emendations to a monographic study of Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium (DC.) A. Gray.. Mitt. Botan. Munchen 6, 621-22

Cook C.D.K. 1969 On the determination of leaf form in Ranunculus aquatilis. New Phytologist 68, 469-480

Cook C.D.K. 1970 Hybridization in the evolution of Batrachium. Taxon 19, 161-166

Cook C.D.K. 1975 Subg. Batrachium (DC.)A.Gray. In Stace C.A. (ed) Hybridization and the flora of the British Isles. pp125-129. Academic Press, London

Cook S.A. & Johnson M.P. 1986 Adaptations to heterogenous environments I. Variation in heterophylly in Ranunculus flammula L.. Evolution 22, 496 - 516

Crivelli A.J. 1983 The destruction of aquatic vegetation by carp. Hydrobiologia 106, 37 - 41

Crowder A.A., Bristow J.M. & King M.R. 1977 The aquatic macrophytes of some lakes in southeastern Ontario. Naturaliste Canada 104, 457 - 464

Cuppen J.G.M. 1979 Ranunculus hederaceus L. in Noord-Limburg. Gorteria 9, 228-232

Dahlgren G. 1991 Karyological investigations in Ranunculus subg. Batrachium (Ranunculaceae) on the Aegean islands. Plant Systematics & Evolution 177, 193-211

Dahlgren G. 1992 Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium on the Aegean Islands and adjacent areas: nectary types and breeding system Nordic Journal of Botany 12, 299-310

Dale H.M. & Miller G.E. 1978 Changes in the aquatic macrophyte flora of Whitewater Lake, near Sudbury, Ontario from 1947 to 1977 Canadian Field Naturalist 92(3), 264 - 270

Davy A.J. 1990 Book Review. Comparative Plant Ecology: A Functional Approach to Common British Species Biological Conservation 51, 163-166

Dawson F.H. 1973 The production ecology of Ranunculs penicillatus var. calcareus and its relation to organic input into a chalk stream. PhD Thesis, University of Aston in Birmingham.

Dawson F.H. 1976 The annual production of the aquatic macrophyte Ranunculus penicillatus var. calcareus (R.W. Butcher) C.D.K. Cook. Aquatic Botany 2, 51 - 73

Dawson F.H. 1978 Aquatic plant management in semi-natural streams: the role of marginal vegetation. Journal of environmental management 6, 213 - 221

Dawson F.H. 1979 Ranunculus calcareus and its role in lowland streams. Report FBA, 47, 60 - 69

Dawson F.H. 1980 Flowering of Ranunculus penicillatus (Dum.) Bab. var calcareus (R.W.B.) C.D.K. Cook in the River Piddle (Dorset, England). Aquatic Botany 9, 145 - 157

Dawson F.H. 1981 The reduction of light as a technique for the control of aquatic weeds - an assesment. Proceedings Aquatic Weeds & their Control, 1981, pp 157 - 164

Dawson F.H. 1981 The downstream transport of fine material and the organic matter balance for a section of a small chalk stream in southern England. Journal of Ecology 69, 367-380

Dawson F.H. 1989 The ecology and management of water plants in lowland streams. FBA Annual Report 1989, 43 - 59

Dawson F.H. & Charlton F.G. 1988 Bibliography on the hydraulic resistance or roughness of vegetated watercourses. Freshwater Biological Association, Occasional Publication No. 25. Dorset, England.

Dawson F.H., Clinton E.M.F. & Ladle M. 1991 Invertebrates on cut weed removed during weed cutting operations along an English river, the River Frome, Dorset. Aquaculture & Fisheries Management 22, 113-121

Dawson F.H., Hallows H.B. 1983 Practical applications of a shading material for macrophyte control in watercourse. Aquatic Botany 17, 301 - 308

Dawson F.H., Kern-Hansen U. 1979 The effect of natural and artificial shade on the macrophytes of lowland streams and the use of shade as a management technique. Int. Revue ges. Hydrobiol. Hydrogr. 64(4), 437 - 455

Dawson F.H., Kern-Hansen U. & Westlake D.F. 1982 Water plants and the oxygen and temperature regimes of lowland streams. In: J.J. SYMOENS, S.S. HOOPER & P. COMPERE (Eds.) Studies on Aquatic Vascular Plants. Royal Botanical Society of Belgium, Brussels, 214 - 221

Dawson F.H., Robinson W.N. 1984 Submerged macrophytes and the hydraulic roughness of a lowland chalkstream. Verh. int. Verein. theor. angew. Limnol (Proceedings of the international association for pure and applied limnology) 22, 1944 - 1948

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Décamps O. 1985 Germination et croissance de deux renoncules aquatiques. [Germination and growth of two aquatic Ranunculus species]. Annales de Limnologie 21, 13 - 18

De La Haye M.A.A. 1992 Worden groei, overleving en kieming van de Vlottende waterranonkel (Ranunculus fluitans Lam.) in Maaswater Beïnvloed door watersrandfluctuaties? Semi-veldexperimenten. Report of the Project "Ecological Rehabilitation of the River Meuse" Nr 8-1992. pp 54.

De La Haye M.A.A. 1994 Heeft Vlottende waterranonkel een toekomst in de Grenmaas? Report of the Project "Ecological Rehabilitation of the River Meuse" Nr 18-1994. pp 32.

De La Haye M.A.A. & Botterweg J. 1994 Perspectives for the rehabilitation of the aquatic macrophyte Ranunculus fluitans (Lamarck) (water crowfoot) in the polluted River Meuse in The Netherlands. Verh. Internat. Veirein. Limnol. 25, 2296-2300.

De La Haye M., Coops H., & Kerkhofs S. 1994 Vlottende waterranonkel, een toekomst in de grensmaas? Project waterplanten grensmaas 1991 en 1992. Natuurhistorisch maanblaad 83, 2-7.

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Dethioux M. 1982 Donnees sur l'ecologie de R. penicillatus (Dum) Bab et R. fluitans Lam. en Belgique. [Studies on the ecology of R. penicillatus (Dum) Bab and R. fluitans in Belgium]. In: J.J. SYMOENS, S.S. HOOPER & P. COMPERE (Eds.) Studies on Aquatic Vascular Plants. Royal Botanical Society of Belgium, Brussels, 187 - 191

Dethioux M. & Noirfalise A. 1985 Les groupments rhéophiles à renocules aquatiques en moyenne et haute Belgique. In: Mitteilungen der Floristisch-soziologischen arbeitsgemeinschaft Nr. 5 (Ed Dierschke), pp 31-38.

Didry N., Dubreuil L. & Pinkas M. 1990 New proceedure for direct bioautogrphic TLC assay as applied to a tincture of Ranunculus bulbosus. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 29, 283-290.

Didry N., Dubruil L. & Pinkas M. 1993 Microbiologycal properties of protoanemonin isolated from Ranunculus bulbosus. Phytotherapy Research 7, 21-24.

Diemer M 1996 The incidence of herbivory in high-elevation populations of Ranunculus glacialis: A re-evaluation of stress-tolerance in alpine environments Oikos 75:486-492

Diemer M. 1992 Population dynamics and spatial arrangement of Ranunculus glacialis L., and alpine perennial herb, in permanent plots. Vegetatio 103, 159-166

Dietz F. 1972 The enrichment of heavy metals in submerged plants. Advances in water pollution research. Proc. Intern. Conf. (Jerusalem) 6, 53-62

Diosdado J.C. & Pastor J.E. 1992 Citotanomía de la especies vivaces del Género Ranunculus L. sect. Chrysanthe (Sphach) L. Benson en la Península Ibérica. Candollea 47, 555-576.

Diosdano J.C. & Pastor J. 1993 Karyological studies of some orophyte taxa of the genus Ranunculus L. from the Iberian Peninsula. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 111, 23-35.

Diosdano J.C. Pastor J., & Valde/S B. 1993 Contributions to the karyological study of the genus Ranunculus L. subgenus Batrachium (DC.) A Gray from the Iberian Peninsula. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 112, 75-87.

Doust-Lesley-Lovett. 1987 Population dynamics and local specialization in a clonal perennial (Ranunculus repens). Responses to light and nutrient supply. The Journal of Ecology 75, 555-68.

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Eichenberger E. & Weilenmann H.U. 1982 The growth of Ranunculus fluitans Lam. in artificial canals. In: J.J. SYMOENS, S.S. HOOPER & P. COMPERE (Eds.) Studies on Aquatic Vascular Plants. Royal Botanical Society of Belgium, Brussels, 324 - 332

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