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An assessment of the ecological state of the small Shava River (Kstovskii raion, Nizhnii Novgorod oblast) subjected to oil pollution as a result of a pipeline accident in 2007 is presented. On the basis of physical and chemical characteristics of water quality and the results of a study of hydrobiont communities, the degree of the river pollution has been determined and a conclusion about the rehabilitation of communities as a result of the complex effect of recultivation measures and self-purification processes has been made. Criteria for recultivation activity completion have been defined according to hydrobiological indicators (phytoplankton, zooplankton, and zoobenthos).
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Original Russian Text © N.M. Mingazova, O.Yu. Derevenskaya, O.V. Palagushkina, E.G. Nabeeva, L.V. Blatt, 2014, published in Biologiya Vnutrennikh Vod, 2014, No. 3, pp. 12–20.
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Mingazova, N.M., Derevenskaya, O.Y., Palagushkina, O.V. et al. Criteria of rehabilitation of biotic communities in oil-polluted small rivers (by example of the Shava River, Nizhnii Novgorod oblast). Inland Water Biol 7, 192–200 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082914030134
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