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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

2003, Volume39

120 pages

Issue price - $369.00

Use of the Indices of Macrozoobenthos Diversity as Indicators of the State of Aquatic Ecosystems

A. V. Lyashenko
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

The state of macrozoobenthos of the Kanev reservoir was studied on the basis of results of investigations of biodiversity. Water quality was assessed using biotic, saprobic, and ecological and sanitary indices. Water quality assessment in terms of these indices produced somewhat different results. Changes in the structural characteristics of communities and populations of hydrobionts occurring in the littoral zone in response to anthropic load should be taken into account in monitoring water bodies.