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Macrophytes as indicators of the ecological state of small rivers in Minsk Region

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The ecological state of 18 small rivers in Minsk Region was for the first time estimated by jointly used macrophyte-based characteristics, including saprobity index, biological macrophyte index for rivers, and a scale of cenotic/supercenotic organization of aquatic and coastal-aquatic plants. Rivers with relatively safe ecological status were shown to dominate, while other rivers are in a safe and satisfactory state. The proposed approach to determining the ecological quality of watercourses is based on the calculation of a complex characteristic, i.e., an integral macrophyte index of small river ecological status; this index has been developed in the context of a classification scheme of surface water quality in the National Environmental Monitoring System of the Republic of Belarus.

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Original Russian Text © K.L. Savitskaya, 2017, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2017, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 663–672.

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Savitskaya, K.L. Macrophytes as indicators of the ecological state of small rivers in Minsk Region. Water Resour 44, 840–848 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807817060070

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