Dr. Gyula Lakatos Department of Applied Ecology Kossuth University H-4010 Debrecen, P.O.Box: 22 Hungary Hydrobiologia, 415: pp. 47-53 Heavy metal content of common reed (Phragmites australis /Cav./ Trin. ex Steudel) and its periphyton in Hungarian shallow standing waters G. Lakatos 1 , M. Kiss 1 & I. Mészáros 2 1 Department of Applied Ecology , Kossuth University, H-4010 Debrecen, P.O.Box: 22, Hungary 2 Department of Botany, Kossuth University, H-4010 Debrecen, P.O.Box: 14, Hungary Key words: common reed, periphyton, heavy metal content