THE INFLUENCE OF MARINE ENVIRONMENT VARIABILITY TO THE DYNAMIC OF THE BLACK SEA PHILLOPHORA AREA (ZERNOV FIELD)
Journal: Odesa National University Herald Geography and Geology
Year: 2015

Red algae of the genus Phyllophora is located in the central part of the Black Sea shelf. Congestion of this algae is unique and named Zernov field. Phyllophora is important in the pharmaceutical and food industries. In a period of euthrophpication (1970 – 90) and effect of near bottom hypoxia – as a consequence, there was degradation of the field and decreasing of algae biomass. The negative factors of influence are: decreasing of water transparence, silting of sediments, irrational expatiation