Ecosystem Transformation (), 130-154

Current state of macrozoobenthos of the rocky marine environment of Karadag Nature Reserve (Black Sea, Crimea)

Kopiy V.G. , Kovaleva M.A., Makarov M.V., Timofeev V.A.

In 2021–2022, 106 macrozoobenthos species were found in the fouling communities of the rocky marine environment of Karadag Nature Reserve at a 0–5-m depth. In the reserve, several rocks (Kuzmichev Kamen’, Ivan Razboynik, Zolotye Vorota, Lev, and Mayak) and two bays, the Barakhta Bay and Serdolikovaya Bay, were studied. The average macrozoobenthos abundance ranged as 35355 ± 9958 ind./m2, biomass, 2678.38 ± 909.73 g/m2. The highest abundance was recorded in the periphyton communities at Mayak Rock (54878 ind./m2), the highest biomass, in the periphyton at Lev Rock (5712.62 g/m2). In fouling communities of the Serdolikovaya Bay, crustaceans made a significant contribution to the total abundance (54%), while in other areas, these were mollusks (from 49 to 86%). Based on the functional abundance index, community of Mytilaster lineatus (Gmelin, 1790) was identified in the study area. Onmivorous species predominated by the species number, sestonophagous species, by abundance and biomass. Sestonophagous bivalve mollusk M. lineatus contributed significantly to total abundance and biomass (98% and 86% respectively).

V. G. Kopiy
A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences
Prospect Nakhimova St. 2, Sevastopol, 299011 Russia

kopiy@ibss-ras.ru

M. A. Kovaleva
A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences
Prospect Nakhimova St. 2, Sevastopol, 299011 Russia


M. V. Makarov
A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences
Prospect Nakhimova St. 2, Sevastopol, 299011 Russia


V. A. Timofeev
A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences
Prospect Nakhimova St. 2, Sevastopol, 299011 Russia

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