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Transformation into shallow lakes can be a major post-harvesting land-use option for cutaway peatlands. We focused on lakes created on areas of a cutaway bog in the Seda Mire, Latvia, and the aim of our study was to analyse factors influencing water quality and communities in the cutaway lakes. It has been found that the residual peat amount and the lake feeding conditions (the balance between ground...
Lake Gudera, a highland lake, is highly degraded by agricultural activity, but still serves the local community for irrigation and livestock watering. Preliminary investigations indicated chemical composition of NO3 (0.7 mg dm-3), turbidity (26 NTU) and conductivity (78 μs cm-1) with poor floristic and faunistic composition. The Community Elders explained that the wetland encroachment started in 1986/1987,...
The paper presents a review of research on functioning of agricultural landscape, mainly on protection of ecosystem services, carried out by the Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences in Turew in the period of 1970-2009. The paper concentrates on water balance and water pollution control and the protection of biodiversity in an agricultural landscape. The results...
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