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• About the Centre
• Valaam Archipelago
• Location
• Climate
• Geological origin
• Relief
• Quaternary sediments
• Soils
• Flora
• Fauna
• Aquatic system
• Hydrobiological characteristics
• Anthropogenic impact
• News
• Programs
• Research programs
• Complex monitoring of land and water environments
• Typification of the inner lakes of the Valaam Archipelago according to the main limnological parameters and the characteristic features of the catchment areas
• Bays of the Valaam Archipelago as a model object for indicating the state of the deep-water part of Lake Ladoga
• Ecological state of the Valaam Archipelago water area under undisturbed conditions and under anthropogenic load
• A complex study of the distribution of organic matter in small lakes
• Regional atlases of species
• Restoration of the Valaam depth gauge
• Bibliography of natural scientific studies at the Valaam Archipelago
• GPS study of the geodynamics of the Baltic shield
• Development of the "Valaam Archipelago" GIS
• The study the Lake Ladoga littoral communities with an emphasis on the ecology and biology of the amphipod Gmelinoides fasciatus Stebb., the invader from Lake Baikal
• Elaboration of the method of distant space determination of the phytoplankton productivity and composition for the purpose of eutrophication development control

Educational programs

• Field practice in ecology for the students of the Faculty of Ecology and Physics of the Natural Environment (RSHU)
• Field practice for the students of the Department of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development of Regions (the Geographical Faculty of the St. Petersburg State University)
• Scientific products
• Bibliography of natural scientific studies at the Valaam Archipelago and in the Northern Ladoga region
• Natural and cultural landscapes of the Valaam Archipelago: history and present-day state. (Physical-geographical characteristic of the Valaam Archipelago)
• History of natural scientific studies (PDF, 122 KB)
• Geology
• Littoral zone of the Valaam Archipelago and the adjoining water area of Lake Ladoga
• Inner lakes of the Valaam Archipelago (PDF, 162 KB)
• Soils
• Vegetation
• Fauna
• Scientific basis of the nature conservation activities at Valaam Archipelago
• Name index (PDF, 108 KB)
• Phytoplankton of the inner lakes of the Valaam Archipelago and of the Lake Ladoga water area adjoining the archipelago (PDF, 546 KB)
• The distribution of chemical elements in the soils of Valaam Island (PDF, 443 KB)
• The significance of the Baikal amphipod Gmelinoides fasciatus in the littoral macrozoobenthos structure of Valaam Island (Lake Ladoga) (PDF, 270 KB)
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