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Bryozoans as Biological Indicators and Their Role in Arctic Research

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The Arctic Ocean ecosystems are the most recent on the globe, and knowledge of their structure and function provides information for understanding the results of large-scale changes in the biosphere. This study considers trends in the distribution of the bryozoan fauna of the Eurasian shelf of the Arctic seas in modern conditions. Bryozoa serve as precise biological indicators. Changes in the species composition of their regional fauna corresponded to changes of water masses with different hydrological characteristics. Comparison of the literature data and our own data allowed us to get general across of the stability of biocenoses in some areas of the Laptev Sea during more than a century of the research history.

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Gontar, V.I. Bryozoans as Biological Indicators and Their Role in Arctic Research. Paleontol. J. 56, 797–807 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030122070061

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