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Water Quality Estimation Based on the Structural Analysis of Diatomic Complexes

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Two types of plots characterizing the undisturbed structure of the biotopic spectrum of diatom algae are recognized. The first of them has a hyperbolic form and the second is a sigmoid curve (normal distribution). It was shown that, under adverse external impact, both types of plots change their shape and the extent of their distortion reflects the general level of anthropogenic load on this water body or its part. The proposed method of graphical comparison was developed for lakes of Kola Peninsula. Later it was successfully used in the biomonitoring of watercourses of the Volga–Akhtuba interfluve area (Astrakhan Province) and in paleoenvironmental reconstruction for Galichskoe Lake (Kostroma Province).

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Razumovskii, L.V. Water Quality Estimation Based on the Structural Analysis of Diatomic Complexes. Water Resources 31, 689–697 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:WARE.0000046908.35501.88

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