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Contemporary condition of macrozoobenthos in ultrashallow zone of Taman Bay, Sea of Azov

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The distribution of macrozoobenthic communities was studied in a vast ultrashallow (0–1.2 m deep) zone of northwestern Taman Bay (separated from the Kerch Strait by Chushka spit) in 2008–2009. Fifty-two species of benthic invertebrates were recorded. The species number, as well as Shannon and Pielou diversity indices, increased along Chushka spit from base to tip. The usual inhabitants of lagoons and estuaries of the Mediterranean Basin and the open Sea of Azov dominated in benthic communities: mollusks Abra segmentum and Hydrobia acuta and polychaetes Heteromastus filiformis and Hediste diversicolor (the latter only in summer). Changes in the community structure were largely determined by the seasonal dynamics of dominant species populations, which was similar to their dynamics in certainother transitional water bodies of the Mediterranean Basin. These changes indicate normal running of seasonal processes in the macrobenthic communities of Taman Bay in 2008 rather than the consequences of a catastrophic black oil spill in the Kerch Strait in November 2007.

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Spiridonov, G.A. Kolyuchkina, N.A. Belyaev, A.B. Basin, V.V. Kozlovsky, 2016, published in Okeanologiya, 2016, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 266–277.

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Spiridonov, V.A., Kolyuchkina, G.A., Belyaev, N.A. et al. Contemporary condition of macrozoobenthos in ultrashallow zone of Taman Bay, Sea of Azov. Oceanology 56, 248–258 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437016020193

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