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Great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo are frequent nesting in colonies in trees next to water bodies or on islands of Latvia?s lakes. The present study was done to evaluate the effect of great cormorant colonies on the soil chemical composition and vegetation on two islands of Lake Kanieris in a long term, 2010-2017. While great cormorants were distributed unevenly, two different sites on each island were set up, one representing a site without vegetation, the other ? a site with vegetation. To characterize the back...