“…Plant pigments are considered integral indicators of the trophic state; their concentrations reflect almost all stages of the synthesis and transformation of OM, from primary to final production (Swain, 1985;Leavitt, 1993;Sigareva, 2012). In hydroecology, data on the spatiotem-poral distribution of pigments in bottom sediments (BS's) are widely used (Sigareva et al, 2021). According to the vertical profile of pigments in sediment cores, the history of reservoir productivity and, accordingly, the dynamics of the trophic state of its ecosystem are restored (Möller and Scharf, 1986;Szymczak-Żyła and Kowalewska, 2009;Tsugeki et al, 2017).…”