Luxury Uptake and Removal of Phosphorus from Water Column by Representative Aquatic Plants and Its Implication for Wetland Management

Table 2

Relationship between total P (TP) in plant biomass with DIP in water (DP) and total P in sediment (SP) of Kabar. The squared multiple of correlation coefficient (𝑅²) and F statistics are also shown with multiple regression analysis.

Plants of Kabar wetland	Regression equation	R^2	𝐹
E. crassipes	TP = 1.10 − 1.267DP + 0.804SP	0.76^ns	14.48^c
E. plantaginea	TP = 0.2 + 0.481DP + 0.380SP	0.64^ns	8.11^b
H. verticillata	TP = 3.16 − 0.931DP + 0.587SP	0.41^b	3.16^ns
P. stratiotes	TP = 0.83 − 0.848DP + 1.063SP	0.53^b	5.12^a

R² and 𝐹 values are significant: ^a𝑃<0.05, ^b𝑃<0.01, ^c𝑃<0.001 with d.f. 2,9 for E. crassipes, E. plantaginea, H. verticillata and P. stratiotes
^ns Not significant.