1. What is the extent of water brownification in Lake Onego, Russia?
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Nataliia Kalinkina, Mikhail Zobkov, Elena Tekanova, Alexander Ryzhakov, and Andrew Korosov
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0106 biological sciences ,Hydrology ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Ecology ,Correlation coefficient ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,010501 environmental sciences ,Aquatic Science ,01 natural sciences ,Tributary ,Spring (hydrology) ,Environmental science ,Linear correlation ,Bay ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
In the past 26 years the transport of allochthonous matter into Lake Onego has increased. Water brownification in Petrozavodsk Bay, a northwestern bay in Lake Onego, and in the Shuya River, a tributary of the bay, was shown earlier to begin in spring. The goal of this paper was to find out whether brownification spreads from Petrozavodsk Bay to the central part of the lake in summer. Spearman’s correlation coefficient and linear correlation coefficient confirm a significant (p
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- 2020
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