MODERN GEOECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE KERCH STRAIT ECOSYSTEM
Journal: Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Year: 2019

The distribution, structure, and dynamics of the bottom communities of the Kerch Strait macrozoobenthos were studied based on an analysis of literary sources in 1934 and 1955, archival data of hydrobiological field studies by the Southern Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (YugNIRO, Kerch) in 1986 and 1989, and the results of a joint Russian–Ukrainian benthic survey of the Kerch Strait (47 stations) carried out by the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)