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A Decade of Observations of Intertidal Benthic Communities at the Water Area of Vitino Specialized Marine Oil Port (Northern Part of Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea): A Methodological View

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Studies of the intertidal benthos of the water area of the Vitino Specialized Marine Oil Port using typical hydrobiological methods were carried out for more than ten years. From the analysis of the structure of intertidal communities using different mathematical methods, a quasi-cyclic dynamics of their biomasses was found. The dynamics of the main features of the intertidal blue mussel bed was found at one particular sampling site. In addition, some analytical approaches to the expert assessments of the state of sea floor ecosystem are discussed specifically regarding the diagnostics of the anthropogenic influence. It was shown that a single sampling cannot serve as reliable assessment due to permanent quasi-cyclic processes taking place in the intertidal communities, and the applied methods based on a sampling taking into account the shifting alongside K-, r-axis should be used only with great precaution. Long-term monitoring is needed to make the proper conclusions. The number of samplings at each station should be set in a way that can help outweigh the aggregated distribution of particular species.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was carried out on the initiative of Mr. V.V. Chutchenko, Director General of Vitino Specialized Marine Oil Port, and was financed under contracts for carrying out research on monitoring the state of the environment; these contracts were signed between the OOO Vitino Specialized Marine Oil Port and the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences in 2002, 2007, and 2011. This study was also supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant no. 15-29-02507-ofi_m. The authors acknowledge the employees of the White Sea Biological Station, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences: K.E. Nikolaev, M.V. Fokin, and V.V. Khalaman, as well as a number of students of St. Petersburg State University for their help in collecting the material. We are grateful to A.I. Azovskii, Professor of Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), and V.O. Mokievskii, Head of the Laboratory of Ecology of Coastal Bottom Communities, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) for constructive discussions and for a number of very useful remarks. Studies at station no. 3 located in the territory of Kandalaksha State Nature Reserve were carried out with assistance and permission on the basis of the Treaties on the Scientific Commonwealth; the authors appreciate the Administration of the Nature Reserve. We are grateful to its Deputy Director A.S. Koryakin (deceased) for the opportunity to conduct investigations in the protected area. In addition, the work at control station no. 4 was conducted with the active participation of the young naturalists of the Laboratory of Marine Benthos Ecology and Hydrobiology, St. Petersburg State Palace of Youth Creativity, St. Petersburg, Russia, during their annual White Sea expeditions, and we express our gratitude to all of them. Special thanks go to the crew of the R/V Professor Vladimir Kuznetsov and captains Ya.E. Stel’makh and S.V. Mokhov.

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Naumov, A.D., Savchenko, O.N., Aristov, D.A. et al. A Decade of Observations of Intertidal Benthic Communities at the Water Area of Vitino Specialized Marine Oil Port (Northern Part of Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea): A Methodological View. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 45, 921–936 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359018080113

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