International Journal on Algae

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2002, Volume4

Issue 3

130 pages

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I. V. Sysoeva
A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, NAS of Ukraine, 2. NakhimovPr., 99011 Sevastopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

A. A. Sysoev
A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, NAS of Ukraine, 2. NakhimovPr., 99011 Sevastopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

A. F. Popova
N.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, NAS of Ukraine, 2, Tereshchenkovskaya St., 01001 Kiev, Ukraine

R. B. Kemp
Institute of Biological Sciences, Edward Lloyd Building, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DA, Wales, United Kingdom

Fluctuations in adenylate energy charge (AEC) have been detected in the different size fractions of the marine microorganisms classified as microplankton sampled from four stations in Sevastopol Bay that opens into the Black Sea. The results revealed that AEC level depended on the water regime, the level of pollution by oil products in sediment and the stages of seasonal succession. It was found that the AEC index for the large-sized fractions of microplankton. which are basically represented by phytoplankton, underwent the most significant changes. The AEC level was lower in this fraction where there was pollution of the water by oil products and when the population was at the peak water bloom due to the mass development of algae. The smaller fraction of microplankton, the bacterioplankton, showed the most stable AEC at all four Sevastopol Bay stations as well as in the period when its concentration increased before the peak of water bloom. From these results, it is recommended that the level of the AEC, predominantly in the microfraction represented by the phytoplankton, be taken as a successful estimation of the degree of water pollution.

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