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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

2004, Volume40

116 pages

Issue price - $369.00

Long-Term Dynamics of the Distribution of Phytoperiphyton in the Cooling Pond of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station

T. F. Shevchenko
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

Comparison of original data on periphytic algae of the cooling-pond of the Chernobyl NPS before and after the accident, and also after its removal from operation, made it possible to reveal essential changes in the structure of their communities. After the accident, and also after the removal of the Chernobyl NPS from operation, the species composition and taxonomic structure of periphytic algae changed, whereas the number of their species essentially decreased. Significant changes were registered in the complex of leading species. All species of blue-green algae belonging to facultative thermophytes disappeared.