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Background The bed of the river Mura that flows through NE Slovenia is well preserved, especially in the middle and lower stream, where it is characterised by embankment erosion, deposition of the sand, flooding and side-channels. Deepening of the riverbed due to send accumulation behind the dams of hydropower stations in Austria, however, has resulted in ...

Background Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite. Slovenia is very rich in karstic landscape. Its intermittent lakes - turloughs - are listed in Annex I of the Habitats Directive and include Cerknica Lake, the largest and one of the most impor ...