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Spatial and temporal variability of coastal benthic communities in the Keretsky Archipelago area and in the Velikaya Salma Strait (Karelian coast, the White Sea)

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Studies were performed in 2009 in the Keretsky Archipelago area and in the Velikaya Salma Strait (Karelian coast, the White Sea). The macrobenthic communities were studied for a number of stations where previous observations were performed in 1953–1954. The communities where the bivalve mollusks Arctica islandica and, to a lesser extent, Serripes groenlandicus dominate by biomass have been maintained in the same areas of the sea bottom (102 m−2 scale) for at least half a century. In some cases (in the vicinity of Pezhostrov Island), even the ratio of the dominating taxa (Bivalvia, Polychaeta, and Tunicata) remains nearly the same.

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Original Russian Text © M.V. Chikina, V.A. Spiridonov, M.V. Mardashova, 2014, published in Okeanologiya, 2014, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 60–72.

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Chikina, M.V., Spiridonov, V.A. & Mardashova, M.V. Spatial and temporal variability of coastal benthic communities in the Keretsky Archipelago area and in the Velikaya Salma Strait (Karelian coast, the White Sea). Oceanology 54, 54–65 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437013060027

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