Investigation of the living substance of reservoirs with the aid of measure spectres

The object of investigation: communities of hydrobionts. The work is aimed at searching the alternative methods for description of the integral natural communities of the water ecological systems. Developed has been a grapho-analytic model - ideal minimal ecological system, as well as the allometric equations intended for calculation of the metabolic surface of the organisms. The evaluation of the summing quantity of the microorganism adenosine triphosphate has been obtained. The field of application: modelling the water communities, hydrobiology, theoretical ecology, rational nature utilizationAvailable from VNTIC / VNTIC - Scientific & Technical Information Centre of RussiaSIGLERURussian Federatio

Phytoplankton dynamics in the Gulf of Aqaba (Eilat, Red Sea): A simulation study of mariculture effects

none8siThe northern Gulf of Aqaba is an oligotrophic water body hosting valuable coral reefs. In the Gulf, phytoplankton dynamics are driven by an annual cycle of stratification and mixing. Superimposed on that fairly regular pattern was the establishment of a shallow-water fish-farm initiative that increased gradually until its activity was terminated in June 2008. Nutrient, water temperature, irradiation, phytoplankton data gathered in the area during the years 2007-2009, covering the peak of the fish-farm activity and its cessation, were analyzed by means of statistical analyses and ecological models of phytoplankton dynamics. Two datasets, one from an open water station and one next to the fish farms, were used. Results show that nutrient concentrations and, consequently, phytoplankton abundance and seasonal succession were radically altered by the pollution originating from the fish-farm in the sampling station closer to it, and also that the fish-farm might even have influenced the open water station.openLaiolo, L.; Barausse, A.; Dubinsky, Z.; Palmeri, L.; Goffredo, S.; Kamenir, Y.; Al Najjar, T.; Iluz, D.Laiolo, L.; Barausse, A.; Dubinsky, Z.; Palmeri, L.; Goffredo, S.; Kamenir, Y.; Al Najjar, T.; Iluz, D