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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

2002, Volume38

140 pages

Issue price - $369.00

Macrophytes of the Exclusion Zone of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station: the Formation of Plant Communities and Peculiarities of Radioactive Contamination of the Left-Bank Floodplain of the Pripyat River

D. I. Gudkov
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

L. N. Zub
Institute of Hydrobiology National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Ecology, National Ecological Center of Ukraine, Institute of Botany National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Kiev, Ukraine

A. L. Savitskiy
Institute of Hydrobiology National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Ecology, National Ecological Center of Ukraine, Institute of Botany National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Kiev, Ukraine

A. B. Nazarov
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

A. Ye. Kaglyan
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

The construction of a complex of flood protective dams on the left bank of the floodplain of the Pripyat river was responsible for changes in the hydrological regime of its water bodies, and also in the character of thickets of higher aquatic plants.
Results of the study of the content of ⁹⁰Sr and ¹³⁷Cs in higher aquatic plants made it possible to reveal the peculiarities of accumulation of radionuclides by various species of macrophytes, and also to distinguish those species of macrophytes which can be used as indicators of radioactive contamination. The peculiarities of accumulation of radionuclides by various species of higher aquatic plants can essentially influence their contribution to the total content of radionuclides.