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HABITATS LOST: ANALYSIS OF THE EUTROPHICATION MAGNITUTE AT A PROTECTED COASTAL LAKE IN BULGARIA USING SATELLITE AND DRONE IMAGERY
(STEF92 Technology, 2021-12-20, Bogdan Prodanov, Radoslava Bekova, Iliyan Kotsev, Viktoriya Vachkova)
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Transitional (brackish) water bodies host extremely vulnerable ecosystems. They are highly sensitive to pollution, changes in the water currents, nutrient levels, etc. Over the course of the 20th century in Bulgaria, many of them were purposely drained or strongly altered. Today, these fragile ecosystems account for just 0.1% of Bulgaria’s area, and hence they are listed among the country’s top priority nature conservation sites. The long-term preservation and survival of numerous rare or threatened hydrobionts de...
Ecology and Environmental Protection2021