Search academic texts

Information × Registration Number 0305U003898, 0104U004632 , R & D reports Title Biological pollution as threat for Black Sea ecosystem stability popup.stage_title Вивчення біологічного забруднення як загрози стабільності екосистеми Чорного моря Head Boltachev A.R., Registration Date 02-11-2005 Organization Kovalevsky Institute of biology of the southern seas, NAS of Ukraine popup.description2 Our participation in the UNESCO Programme permitted to continue monitoring of the sea water in commercial ports and their vicinities aimed to detect formerly unknown and not described species; to collect hydrobiological samples from ballast tanks of mechant ships in search of exotic species and to make a tentative forecast about their potential spreading. Samples of bacterio-,phyto-and zooplankton, meio- and macrozoobenthos, macrophytobenthos, fish and parasites were collected during the series of expeditions to the sea and on the coast The extent of biological invasion of the alien species was estimated. The list of exotic aquatic species was complied, and role the alien species play in biological diversity of the examined ecosystems was assessed. Product Description popup.authors popup.nrat_date 2020-04-02 Close