The Role of Plants as a Canopy in the Inland Waters: Basic Information for Application in Iraq

The water temperature of stream can limit the growth and endurance of aquatic biota, while covering of the plantation on the stream catchments plays a vital role in inhibiting river warming. Water temperature directly responded to air temperature and cloudiness. Removal of plantation especially those with large leaves can upsurge solar radiation in the stream catchment area as well as wind speed and disclosure to air, which can increase during air in summer, soil, and stream temperatures and decrease in relative humidity. Stream temperature upsurges and subsequent removal of plantation are not only chiefly organized by variations in separation but also governed by stream hydrology and channel shape.