Bioassay of the estuary waters of the Chernaya River (Bay of Sevastopol, Black Sea) using the brine shrimp Artemia (Crustacea: Brachiopoda)
Journal: Ecosystem Transformation
Year: 2019

The area of Sevastopol Bay is a heterogeneous system, with the estuary of the Chernaya River in the apical part. To assess the eco logical status of various parts of the bay and estuary in the summer season of 2018, we determined the oxygen content, salinity, pH, Eh, as well as the proportion of nauplii hatched from the cysts of Artemia sp. in water samples from seven coastal areas, differing in location, hydrological conditions and level of anthropogenic influ ence. For different areas, hydroch