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Hydrobiological Journal

ISSN for PRINT: 0018-8166

Institutional price:	$1994.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2006, Volume42

107 pages

Issue price - $398.00

Present-Day State of Macrophytobenthos of Shelf Zones of the Black Sea (Southeastern Crimea)

N. S. Kostenko
Karadag Nature Reserve, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kurortne, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

Ye. A. Dikiy
Karadag Nature Reserve, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kurortne, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

A. A. Zakletskiy
National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

Based on the analysis of samplings obtained at the depths 0.5−15 m, the description of macrophytobenthos in the southeastern coastal zone of Crimea is given. It is shown that autochthonous oligotrophyc plant communities are persisted in the area of Karadag although they are partially transformed because of anthropogenic eutrophication. Original oligotrophyc phytocenoses are preserved also in some places of Feodosiya Bay, the aquatic area subjected to high anthropogenic impact. Currently, maximally undisturbed native phytocenoses still occur near the Meganom Peninsula that may be considered as a standard.