Species Diversity and Trophic Structure of Macrobenthos Communities in Lagoon Ecosystems (Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea)

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 887-896
Author(s):  
A. P. Stolyarov
Author(s):  
Андрей Павлович Столяров

Изучены видовое разнообразие, пространственная и трофическая структура макробентосных сообществ сублиторали и нижних горизонтов литорали в 5-ти лагунных экосистемах Кандалакшского залива Белого моря. Всего в исследованных экосистемах было обнаружено 52 вида бентосных беспозвоночных животных и 6 видов морских трав и водорослей. В сублиторали наибольшим видовым разнообразием, общей плотностью и биомассой макробентоса характеризуется наиболее открытая к морю лагуна, расположенная на выходе из кутовой области Кислой губы, а наименьшим - наиболее закрытая и заиленная лагуна Никольской губы, где преобладали солоноватоводные и морские эвригалинные виды. Промежуточное положение занимали лагуна Ермолинской губы, лагуна, расположенная рядом с Ершовским озером и лагуна на Зеленом мысу. В нижней литорали общие показатели структуры сообщества макробентоса (общая плотность, биомасса и в меньшей степени видовое разнообразие) в отличие от сублиторали увеличивались от менее зарегулированных и открытых экосистем к более закрытым системам. Исключением является лагуна Никольской губы, значительное заиление которой приводит к существенному уменьшению видового разнообразия и снижению общей плотности и биомассы сообщества макробентоса. The species diversity, spatial and trophic structure of macrobenthos communities in the sublittoral and lower littoral horizons in five lagoon ecosystems of the Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea have been studied. In total, 52 species of benthic invertebrates and 6 species of sea grasses and algae were found in the studied ecosystems. In the sublittoral zone, the highest species diversity, total density and biomass of macrobenthos is characterized by the lagoon most open to the sea, located at the exit from the innermost area of Kislaya Bay. The lowest diversity is found in the most closed and silted lagoon of Nikolskaya Bay, where brackish water and marine euryhaline species predominated. The lagoon of the Ermolinskaya Bay, the lagoon located next to the Ershov Lake and the lagoon on Cape Verde hold an intermediate position. In the lower littoral zone, the general indicators of the structure of the macrobenthos community (total density, biomass, and, to a lesser extent, species diversity), in contrast to the sublittoral one, increased from less regulated and open ecosystems to more closed systems. An exception is the lagoon of Nikolskaya Bay, the significant siltation of which leads to a significant decrease in species diversity and a decrease in the total density and biomass of the macrobenthos community.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. A. Boltacheva ◽  
M. V. Makarov ◽  
L. V. Bondarenko ◽  
M. A. Kovaleva

During 2015–2106 the macrozoobenthos under the clam farm located in the area of Sevastopol was investigated. The aim of the study is to consider species composition, density and biomass of macrozoobenthos in the area of the clam farm. The samples were taken using standard benthic techniques. Relatively low species diversity was observed, with 56 species of macrozoobenthos identified. The density was 500–975 ind. per m², the biomass varied from 0.8 to 381.1 g·m-2. The community of the bivalve mollusk Lucinella divaricata (Linnaeus, 1758) was found. Trophic structure of the community with high quantity of detritus feeders dominated by small polychaetes was determined. The dominating, typical and rare species were identified. Comparison with the data obtained in 1957 in Evpatoriya – Sevastopol area at the same depths and sediments was made.


Author(s):  
A. P. Stolyarov ◽  
M. V. Mardashova

Features of the species and spatial structure of macrobenthic sublittoral communities in a lagoon ecosystem on the Green Cape (the White Sea) were studied. 31 invertebrate species and 3 species of sea grasses and algae (Zostera marina, Cladophora sericea, and Fucus vesiculosus) were found in the sublittoral of the surveyed lagoon. The data on the species composition, diversity and spatial structure of macrobenthos communities indicate the predominance of littoral brackish-water and marine euryhaline macrobenthos species (Hydrobia ulvae, Tubificoides benedii, Chironomus salinarius, and Macoma balthica) in the coastal region of the lagoon, marine euryhaline littoral and sublittoral species (mainly polychaetes Heteromastus filiformis, Polydora ciliata, and Capitella capitata) in the central deeper region, and marine sublittoral less euryhaline species (Pontoporeia femorata, Anonyx nugans, Nereimyra punctata, Terebellides stroemi, Astarte montagui, Micronephthys minuta, and Atylus carinatus) at the exit from the lagoon. The ecosystem of the Green Cape lagoon belongs to lagoons significantly fenced off from the sea with depleted specific fauna (many littoral species) and largely influenced by carbon load and salinity. The reduced connection of the lagoon with the sea due to the continued rise of the White Sea coast (4 mm per year in this area) will contribute to a decrease in the species diversity and the predominance of few small eurytopic invertebrate species resistant to organic load, oxygen deficiency, and desalination.


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