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Conservation Value and Habitat Diversity of Fluvial Lakes and Gravel Pits in River-Floodplain Systems

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This study aimed to review habitat diversity and conservation value of small fluvial and gravel pit lakes along river-floodplain systems in the Western Balkans. Aquatic habitat types were presented according to the EU Habitats Directive and the Bern Convention, while the physical habitat properties were evaluated following the standard approach for hydromorphological assessment of lakes in Europe. Habitats considered as conservation priorities are present in both types of small water bodies, covering a wide range of water trophic gradient and hydromorphological conditions. This phenomenon, coupled with macrophytes’ physical structural heterogeneity, creates extremely diverse habitats for other aquatic communities. Hence, fluvial and gravel pit lakes along the river-floodplains can be considered as hot spots of aquatic habitat diversity in the Western Balkans. However, these ecosystems are subjected to various human pressures such as alteration of hydrological regime, artificial land use of the riparian zone, sediment erosion, shoreline modification, and eutrophication in the entire region.

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This study was partly supported by the Rufford grant No. 28388 (Toward Cost-Effective UAV-Assisted Multimetric System for Detection of Freshwater Patches of High Conservation Value within the Danube Floodplain in Serbia) and by the Project of Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (grant number 43002 (451-03-68‬/2020-14‬/200125, 451-03-68/2020-14/200124).‬‬‬‬‬‬

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Cvijanović, D. (2022). Conservation Value and Habitat Diversity of Fluvial Lakes and Gravel Pits in River-Floodplain Systems. In: Pešić, V., Milošević, D., Miliša, M. (eds) Small Water Bodies of the Western Balkans. Springer Water. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86478-1_3

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