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80 years of limnologic research at the Institute of Limnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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This monograph celebrates 80 years of freshwater science research at Russia's Institute of Limnology, covering work on lake and river ecosystems, water quality, and pollution. The Institute's research tradition includes monitoring of emerging pollutants like microplastics in Russia's vast freshwater systems.
This monograph is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Institute of Limnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The most important stages of development of the Institute are described. The main directions of research conducted at present are presented, as well as the most important scientific and applied results obtained during the last decades. They include the assessment of modern water resources of Russia and the world, advances in the study of hydrological, hydrochemical, hydrobiological and geological-geomorphological processes in the largest freshwater body of water in Europe - Lake Ladoga as well as in small lakes of the Northwest and the Arctic zone of Russia, successes of paleolimnological research. In addition, the results of studies on metabolomics of aquatic organisms, causes of toxic "blooming" of water and development of ways to combat it, evaluation of water pollution by microplastics and development of methods for mathematical modeling of heat and mass transfer processes in the "watershed-watercourse-water body" system are presented. Materials contained in the book can be of interest for the general scientific community engaged in the issues of study, protection and rational use of water bodies.
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