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Lake Baikal Endangered by Pollution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Peter Nijhoff
Peter Nijhoff
Affiliation:
Director, Netherlands Association for Environmental Conservation, Noordereinde 60, 1243 JJ's-Graveland, The Netherlands
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In Lake Baikal in southeastern Siberia during an evolution of some 25 million years, a unique, rich, and highly diverse, biocoenosis has developed, in which some three-quarters of the ca 2,400 plant and animal species are endemic. Conditions for its survival include stability of the chemical composition and water temperature of, particularly, the deeper parts of the Lake. Recently the large-scale development of wood-processing industries has had, as described in the present paper, an increasingly destructive influence on this biocoenosis. This destruction seems irreversible as the deeper parts of the Lake, which goes down to 1,620 metres, cannot be renewed.

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Main Papers
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , Summer 1979 , pp. 111 - 115
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1979

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