A floating mat (German: Schwingrasen) is a layer of mosses and other, especially stoloniferous, plants that grows out from the shore across the surface...

and can be many hectares in size. Natural floating islands are composed of vegetation growing on a buoyant mat of plant roots or other organic detritus...

Switzerland. Its surface area is 1.2 ha (3.0 acres). Lake has grass floating mat at it shores. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Seeweidsee. Seeweidsee...

natural obstacles, Bangal Saab managed to cross the river by using a floating mat, allowing the two spiritual leaders to meet daily. Bhoj is known as the...

sphagnum moss anchored by sedges (such as Carex lasiocarpa), forms a floating mat approximately half a meter thick on the surface of water or above very...

plants resemble specks of cornmeal floating on the water. They often float together in pairs or form floating mats with related plants, such as Lemna...

there is likely to be open water several miles wide. Shelf ice is a floating mat of ice, but unlike a pond or a small lake that freezes over, the shelf...

ground, in standing water up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) or so deep, or even as a floating mat. The erect stems grow to 2–4 m (6+1⁄2–13 ft) tall, with the tallest plants...

of biodiversity. Another example is Sargassum, which creates unique floating mats of seaweed in the tropical waters of the Sargasso Sea that serve as...

population is thought to have inadvertently rafted to the island on a floating mat of vegetation, although hypotheses for land bridges and island hopping...

blueberry bushes, and floating mats of sphagnum moss. Pinhook Bog is about 580 acres (2.3 km2), a quarter of which is a floating mat of sphagnum peat moss...

and is used in live-bearing tanks. It can be found floating in ponds, and often forms thick mats on and under the water surface. It normally grows quickly...

inspection turns out to be a 'quaking bog' (Schwingrasen or Schwingmoor) - a floating mat of moss and other plants, under which there is presumably no homogeneous...

A microbial mat is a multi-layered sheet or biofilm of microbial colonies, composed of mainly bacteria and/or archaea. Microbial mats grow at interfaces...

houses or in a hole in a mud bank. In one instance, a nest was found on a floating mat of Water hyacinth leaves and another observer noted a pair nesting inside...

submerged in or exposed to an aqueous solution, although they can form as floating mats on liquid surfaces and also on the surface of leaves, particularly in...

creates and enclosed drainage system. There will usually be a floating mat of peat moss. On this mat, there will be low heath shrubs. If the bog is old, larger...

United States. Surfaces of ponds, reservoirs, and lakes are covered by a floating mat 10–20 cm (in some rare cases up to 60 cm) thick. The plant's growth clogs...

are known as lampuga or capone; there they are fished using nets and floating mats of palm leaves under which they collect. Mahi-mahi are carnivorous,...

circumstances cause such drastic overgrowth that algal blooms develop and form floating mats. Typical examples include where hypertrophication or high mortality...

bettas and gouramis, spawning involves a male building a bubble nest (a floating mat of saliva-coated air bubbles, often incorporating plant matter) and attracting...

"worst aquatic plant" as they grow so abundantly that they create large floating mats of plants that quickly reproduce. By 2013 she had won a grant from the...

Peat moss floating mat on a silted-up raised bog kolk...

made conventional foundations impossible. Adler and Mueller designed a floating mat of crisscrossed railroad ties, topped with a double layer of steel rails...

many palm and papyrus swamps along the edges of the river and pool. Floating mats of Eichhornia plants move on the river and drift through the pool. Most...

scaup nest near water, typically on islands in northern lakes or on floating mats of vegetation. They begin breeding at age two, but start building nests...

would otherwise return via the decomposition of decaying plant matter. Floating mats of cattails remove nutrients from eutrophied bodies of freshwater. For...

Chicago Press. p. 625. ISBN 978-0-226-07658-4. Water hyacinth forms large floating mats.. Under ideal conditions populations may double in size every 6–18 days...

also temporarily monopolize aquatic ecosystems when they form dense, floating mats in the water. Ingestion of Lyngbya is potentially lethal. Most commonly...

solely in freshwater or subaerial habitats. Species typically exist as floating mats in stagnant water in ditches and ponds, but some also grow in moving...