The Ussuri Bay: shallow water pollution by heavy metals and its assessment using brown algae. N.K. KHRISTOFOROVA, A.D. KOBZAR, R.A. GRIGOROV

Authors

  • Надежда Константиновна ХРИСТОФОРОВА (Дальневосточный федеральный университет, Владивосток; Тихоокеанский институт географии ДВО РАН, Владивосток),
  • Анна Дмитриевна КОБЗАРЬ
  • Роман Андреевич ГРИГОРОВ (Дальневосточный федеральный университет, Владивосток)

Keywords:

the Ussuri Bay, Peter the Great Bay, pollution, heavy metals, bioindication, Sargassum pallidum, S. miyabei, Stephanocystis crassipes

Abstract

The Ussuri Bay: shallow water pollution by heavy metals and its assessment using brown algae. N.K. KHRISTOFOROVA1,2, A.D. KOBZAR1, R.A. GRIGOROV1 ( 1Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok; 2Pacific Institute of Geography, FEB RAS, Vladivostok).

Based on the data on the content of Fe, Zn, Cu, Cd, and Ni in macrophyte brown algae Sargassum pallidum, S. miyabei, and Stephanocystis crassipes, as accumulating bioindicators collected in July 2017 along the coast of the Ussuri Bay, an impression on the conditions of the coastal waters of the Bay was gained. It was established that the concentrations of heavy metals at most stations are within the background range for the species under study in the northwestern part of the Sea of Japan. It was also shown that a significant excess of the background of some metals, primarily Fe and Cu, is observed in the algae of the impact areas – Geller Cape and Muravyiny Cape at the top of the Bay, in the Promezhutochnaya Bay and Desantnaya Bay in the urban zone of Vladivostok.

Author Biographies

Надежда Константиновна ХРИСТОФОРОВА, (Дальневосточный федеральный университет, Владивосток; Тихоокеанский институт географии ДВО РАН, Владивосток),

доктор биологических наук, профессор, заслуженный деятель науки РФ

Анна Дмитриевна КОБЗАРЬ

старший преподаватель,

Роман Андреевич ГРИГОРОВ, (Дальневосточный федеральный университет, Владивосток)

магистрант

Published

2020-07-03

How to Cite

ХРИСТОФОРОВА, Н. К., КОБЗАРЬ, А. Д., & ГРИГОРОВ, Р. А. (2020). The Ussuri Bay: shallow water pollution by heavy metals and its assessment using brown algae. N.K. KHRISTOFOROVA, A.D. KOBZAR, R.A. GRIGOROV. Vestnik of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, (3), 116–125. Retrieved from http://vestnikdvo.ru/index.php/vestnikdvo/article/view/584

Issue

Section

World’s specially protected marine natural areas