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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

2008, Volume44

106 pages

Issue price - $399.00

Phytophilous Macrofauna as the Index of the Ecological State of Water Bodies of the Kiliya Delta of the Danube River

S. A. Afanas'yev
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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

E. E. Zorina-Sakharova
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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

ABSTRACT

The structural characteristics of phytophilous complexes of aquatic invertebrates, the intensity of their development, species diversity, and their biotic indices were investigated. Comparison of the studied indices with retrospective data, and also with material of original preliminary investigations, has shown that hydrotechnical construction adversely influences the development of cenoses, which manifests itself in the decrease of the number of their species, of their total numbers and biomass, and also in the decrease in the absolute values of biotic indices.