Changes in vegetation of restored water-land ecotone of lake Bikcze Polesie Lubelskie Region, Eastern Poland in the years 1993-1998

Ecotone zones are very interesting objects for the investigations of the ecological succession of plant communities. The main aim of the present study was to analyse the rate and direction of changes in ecotone vegetation caused by changes in a level of groundwater table. In the studies carried out during years 1993-1998 a generally accepted method of a belt transect was applied. Transect 5m wide ran across all aquatic, litoral and land phytocenoses. Most visible changes took place in the aquatic and littoral phytocenoses. Some of them disappeared and then reconstructed themselves within a new range, in others the species composition was changed.