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Water soldier turions at varying stages of growth. Beginning as a small bud (far left) and growing into a turion, ready for release (far right).

Water soldier turions at varying stages of growth. Beginning as a small bud (far left) and growing into a turion, ready for release (far right).

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Invasive aquatic plants can create negative ecological economic, and social impacts when they displace local vegetation, interfere with navigation, and disrupt recreational activities. In 2008, the invasive plant Stratiotes aloides (water soldier) was identified in the Trent River. The purpose of this research was to: measure net growth of invasive...

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... aloides has three types of reproductive structures: seeds from flowers, offsets, and turions, the latter being the focus of this thesis (Figure 3.). The plant is dioecious, but male plants tend to be more temperature sensitive, thus leaving female plants forming large clonal populations in cold climates (Canning and Sager, 2015). ...