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The long-term response of aquatic vegetation of shallow freshwater ecosystems to the anthropogenic impacts (water level changes, pollution by heavy metals) was studied in 1999-2018 at two water bodies of Leningrad region, Russia: the Rakovye lakes and Neva bay of the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea. The researches included the analysis of satellite images from 1970 to 2018, and the study of the characteristics of the aquatic plants of different ecological groups (halophytes, floating and submerged plants) -the spa...

The most widespread objects of industrial construction in the Leningrad region are waste landfills and roads. The anthropogenic load of industrial facilities, such as solid waste landfill and construction sites of two express roads on the soil and vegetation cover of Leningrad region was studied. One of the main pollutants of the soil and plants are heavy metals. The accumulation and distribution of heavy metals in the "soil-plant" system depending on the properties of the soil and vegetation cover was investigate...