Baltic and Eastern Continental Rivers

Ilga Kokorīte; Henn Timm; Agnija Skuja; Agrita Briede; Ivars Druvietis; Gunta Spriņģe; Elga Biruta Parele; Ģertrūde Gavrilova; Gaumiga Ritma; Lapinska Malgorzata; Maciej Zalewski

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-102612-0.00020-1

Baltic and Eastern Continental Rivers

Ilga Kokorīte
, Henn Timm
, Agnija Skuja
, Agrita Briede
, Ivars Druvietis
, Gunta Spriņģe
, Elga Biruta Parele
, Ģertrūde Gavrilova
, Gaumiga Ritma
, Lapinska Malgorzata
, Maciej Zalewski

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Abstract

The four major rivers that flow into the eastern Baltic Sea (the Vistula, the Nemunas, the Western Dvina, and the Narva) are described. All of these are lowland rivers. Most of the Vistula catchment is located in Poland, the Nemunas catchment-mainly in Belarus and Lithuania, the Western Dvina catchment-mainly in Russia, Belarus, and Latvia, and the Narva catchment-mainly in Russia and Estonia. The main human threats to these rivers are point and nonpoint pollution, water abstraction, flow regulation, and sediment loads. Several nonnative macroinvertebrate and fish species inhabit the basins. The largest cities near the rivers are Warszawa (at the Vistula), Kaunas (at the Nemunas), Riga (at the Western Dvina), and Pskov (at the Narva).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Rivers of Europe
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	813-852
Number of pages	40
ISBN (Electronic)	9780081026120
ISBN (Print)	9780081026137
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102612-0.00020-1
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2022

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 14 Life Below Water

OECD Field of Science

1.5 Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Keywords

Narva
Europe
Nemunas
Western Dvina
Vistula
Rivers

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