Email this article Analysis of the Patterns of Organization of Species Complexes of Ponto-Caspian and Ponto-Azovian Macrozoobenthos in the Middle and Lower Volga Reservoirs
- Authors: Kurina E.M.1, Seleznev D.G.2
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin
- Panin Institute of the Biology of Inland Waters
- Issue: Vol 50, No 1 (2019)
- Pages: 65-74
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/1067-4136/article/view/226924
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413619010053
- ID: 226924
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Abstract
The study of macrozoobenthos in the Middle and Lower Volga reservoirs has revealed stable cenotic complexes of Ponto-Caspian and Ponto-Azovian species, which are characterized by consortium interactions. It has been shown that the leading environment-forming role in bottom communities is played by dominant mollusk species: Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771) and D. bugensis (Andrusov, 1897). Patterns of the formation of interconnected pairs of species in the Ponto-Caspian and Ponto-Azovian complexes in waterbodies of different types are analyzed.
About the authors
E. M. Kurina
Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin
Author for correspondence.
Email: ekaterina_kurina@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Togliatti, 445003
D. G. Seleznev
Panin Institute of the Biology of Inland Waters
Email: ekaterina_kurina@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Borok, 152742
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