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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

111 pages

Issue price - $398.00

Communities of Invertebrates of the Cooling Pond of the Chernobyl NPS. Report 3. Communities of Zoobenthos, Their Composition and Structure

A. A. Protasov
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

A. A. Silayeva
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

The composition and biocenotic structure of zoobenthos of the cooling pond of the Chernobyl NPS were studied after its removal from service. Data on the structure of the distinguished communities are presented. Unimodal relationship was established between the indices of zoobenthos diversity and water saprobity. The prediction of changes in the structure of zoobenthos communities in the case of partial drainage of the cooling pond was elaborated.