Aspectos Ecológicos de Macrófitas Aquáticas num corpo d´água antropizado no município de São Gabriel - Rio Grande do Sul/ Brasil

Abstract

The hydrophytes also called macrophytes have strong relationship with the environment in which they occur.Due to this factor, they are strong bioindicator of aquatic and terrestrial environment that surrounds it.Thus, the Sanga da Rivera, water body under study in the municipality of São Gabriel, was analyzed in order to know where the ecological situation is based on bioindicators present in four points along its route that cuts through the city direction south to north.Profiles were also performed from the midpoint of each collection station stream to have more than one factor supporting evidence.Based on the results might have notion of the situation you are in the water body under study.There was a highly anthropic stream, where often unaware that this was a stream.