PREDICTIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE ECOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE UKRAINIAN SECTOR OF THE BLACK SEA BASED ON CHANGES IN MORPHOFUNCTIONAL INDICATORS OF AUTOTROPHIC COMMUNITIES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATIC FACTORS ND THE CONSEQUENCES OF MILITARY ACTIONS (PART 1. DIAGNOSIS)
Journal: Marine Ecological Journal
Year: 2025

In this study, for the first time for the northwestern part of the Black Sea (NWBS), an analysis was conducted of statistically significant relationships between the mean monthly volumes of the spring river runoff of the Danube and the Dnipro (March–June) and the morphofunctional indicators of phytoplankton, macro- and microphytobenthos, as well as the primary production indicator – chlorophyll-a based on long-term datasets from 2000–2024. The main objective of the research is to obtain the coef