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Seasonal biogeochemical and microbiological studies of small lakes in taiga zone of northwestern Russian (Arkhangelsk Province)

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The results of biogeochemical and microbiological studies of three small lakes in southwestern Arkhangelsk province are presented. The lakes differ in their morphometric characteristics, thermal and oxygen regimes, and the extent of anthropogenic impact they experience. In the periods of summer and winter stratification, anaerobic water layers with higher phosphates, ammonium, and sulfide sulfur (hydrogen sulfide) are found to form in the bottom horizon of deep-water zones of the lakes. The highest concentrations of sulfide sulfur (150–210 μg dm−3) were recorded in the shallow Beloe Lake during winter low-water period, while in summer, sulfide concentration did not differ from those obtained in other lakes (∼10 μg dm−3). The abundance of sulfate-reducing bacteria in lake bottom sediments varied from 10 to 100000 cell cm−3, and the rate of sulfate reduction process varied from 29 to 3746 μg S dm−3 day−1. Seasonal variations were revealed in hydrogen sulfide distribution over the water column and in the rate of sulfate reduction process in the upper horizons of bottom sediments in the examined lakes.

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  1. Institute of Environmental Problems of the North, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, nab. Severnoi Dviny 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russia

    N. M. Kokryatskaya, O. Yu. Moreva & T. Ya. Vorobjeva

  2. Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, prosp. 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7, korp. 2, Moscow, 117312, Russia

    S. A. Zabelina & A. S. Savvichev

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Original Russian Text © N.M. Kokryatskaya, S.A. Zabelina, A.S. Savvichev, O.Yu. Moreva, T.Ya. Vorobjeva, 2012, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 78–91.

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Kokryatskaya, N.M., Zabelina, S.A., Savvichev, A.S. et al. Seasonal biogeochemical and microbiological studies of small lakes in taiga zone of northwestern Russian (Arkhangelsk Province). Water Resour 39, 105–117 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S009780781201006X

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