Estuarine Response of the Pechora River to the External Ecological Impacts from Oil and Mining Activities

• Main Author: Lemenkova, Polina
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Sciences exactes et naturelles; Sciences de la terre et du cosmos; Géographie physique; Aménagement du territoire; Océanographie physique et chimique; Géochimie; Océanographie biologique; Environnement et pollution; Technologie de l'environnement; contrôle de la pollution; Méthodologie de la recherche scientifique; environmental monitoring; environmental assessment; climate; environment; Arctic; Polar region; Barents Sea; Pechora; Pechora Sea
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/364485; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/364485/3/Lemenkova_Estuarine_Response.pdf

The Pechora Sea and Pechora river are parts of the Barents Sea located in the Russian Arctic. The unique environment of the Pechora Sea ecosystems should be maintained and protected for nature conservation. However, the negative impacts caused by the excesses anthropogenic activities cause serious environmental consequences. Current paper reported geographic characteristics of this geographic area, detailed some of the current environmental challenges and contributed to the monitoring of the vulnerable Russia Arctic region. Among all Arctic seas, the Barents Sea is singled out for its unique environment and its high biodiversity. At the same time, parts of the Gulf Stream current transfers its waters directly into this area bringing along different contaminants from Northern Sea. info:eu-repo/semantics/published