Interagency field research of the consequences of the wreck of the tanker Volgoneft-139 in the Kerchenskii Strait

Fashchuk, D. J.; Флинт, М. В.; Panov, B. N.; Koluchkina, G. A.

doi:10.1134/s0001437010030124

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“…In this study, we encountered approximately 15% of the fauna of the major groups of benthic invertebrates of the Sea of Azov, which number 329 species [5]. The values of the diversity index and the evenness index for the species abundance distribution were similar to the mean values of these indices for the benthos of the Kerch Strait in 2010 [22] and benthic communities (10-30 m) of the North Caucasian coast of the Black Sea in years 2001-2005 [23], although the number of species in the bay was 1.5-2 times lower than in the above-mentioned areas. This discrepancy may be due to the insufficient sample size, because the expected total number of species at the studied stations with the Chao2 correction for the occurrence of rare species was 62 ± 7.…”

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“…This discrepancy may be due to the insufficient sample size, because the expected total number of species at the studied stations with the Chao2 correction for the occurrence of rare species was 62 ± 7. The Pielou index corresponded to the values characteristic of the Black Sea coast [23] but was 1.5 times lower than in the Kerch Strait [22]. Thus, by the indices of biodiversity and quantitative characteristics, the communities of the ultrashallow zone, in general, do not differ significantly from the communities of different depths in neighboring regions.…”

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“…The catastrophic black oil spill as a result of the wreck of tanker Volgoneft 139 on , had a significant visible impact on the coast of the Kerch Strait and Taman Bay [16,21] as well as on a number of components of the ecosystem, in particular, mussels [37] and waterbirds [21]. This environmental disaster stimulated hydrobiological studies in Taman Bay and the Kerch Strait [11, 16, 22,38] and led to the setting (albeit belated) the task of understanding the specific problems of ecosystem functioning and monitoring of the coastal zone.…”

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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

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