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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

Fouling of Hydroengineering Structures with Mussels as a Natural Biofilter Component in the Coastal Zone of the Black Sea

I. A. Govorin
Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Odessa, Ukraine

V. V. Adobovskiy
Odessa brahch of Intitute of Biology of the Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Odessa, Ukraine

Ye. I. Shatsillo
Odessa brahch of Intitute of Biology of the Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Odessa, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

A comparative evaluation has been made on the abundance, dimensions, and filtration potential of the Black Sea mussel Mytilis galloprovicialis Lam. settlements on natural bottom grounds and artificial substrates on the hydroengineering structures of different types.