Impacts of regional climate condition variations on physiological and biochemical properties of aquatic plants in Napahai Wetland

Plateau wetland provides an ecological protection barrier for the safety of watershed. As appearance of global climate warming and climatic anomaly, to understand the physiological and biochemical response of aquatic plants in the plateau region to the climate change and the harms under the temperature stress is critical for maintaining the plateau ecosystem and dealing with the climate change. Four dominant plant species of Scirpus tabernaemontani, Zizania caduciflora and Heleocharis liouana, Sparganium simplex with their original soils in the lakeside of Napahai, a typical wetland in plateau region of northwestern Yunnan were selected to study the impacts of regional climate condition variations on physiological and biochemical properties of those plants. Thus, the potential ecological risk behind the maintaining of plateau wetland ecosystem was revealed.