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Studying the potential of food chain filterers in the processes of de-eutrophication of water bodies

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The functioning of running-water ecosystem is shown to be related to the realization of the potential of large-size zooplankton as a natural filter of blue-green algae and to be an important link in the processes of de-eutrophication of water bodies.

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    T. N. Gerasimova & P. I. Pogozhev

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Original Russian Text © T.N. Gerasimova, P.I. Pogozhev, 2008, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2008, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 370–379.

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Gerasimova, T.N., Pogozhev, P.I. Studying the potential of food chain filterers in the processes of de-eutrophication of water bodies. Water Resour 35, 353–362 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807808030111

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