LIGNINSIMILAR COMPONENTS FROM ALGAE
I.V. Dovgan
Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine
INTRODUCTION
Consistency and properties of nonhydrolysed components from sea algae have been studied by us with the purpose of scientific control of the complex use and all-round utilization.
Red and brown sea-algae Cystoseira barbata, Fucus vesiculosus, Zostera noltii, Phyllophora nervosa, Gracilaria verrucosa /of natural planting and mагуculture/ are used as the object of the scientific investigation.
The result of this research allow to arrive to conclusion, that a Continue Reading »
towardS PROTECTION OF THE DNIESTER RIVER LOWer STREAM WETLANDS OF mOLDOVA1
P. Gorbunenko, A. Andreev, I. Trombitsky
BIOTICA Ecological Society, Chisinau, Moldova
1. History. The consortium of Moldavian environmental NGOs (ALTAIR, BIOTICA, CHIMECO, FAUNA, INQUA-MOLDOVA, MOLD-ECO, TERRA NOSTRA) had initiated the talks with Environmental Department of Moldova and certain state institutions (State University of Moldova, Fishery Research Station), regarding the elaboration of large project on the Dniester River biodiversity conservation and its water quality improvement. In 1997 BI Continue Reading »
THE INFLUENCE OF LONG PERIOD CHANGES OF OCEANOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS ON THE FUNCTIONING OF MARINE FARMS IN OPEN COASTAL WATERS
V.V. Adobovsky
Odessa Branch Institute of biology of Southern Seas, National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
The coastal zone of the northwestern Black Sea (NWBS) is in a state of active economic development. Recently, efforts have been made for developing marine farming in this area.
Marine farming in the NWBS is hindered that favorable coastal areas protected from storms are either subject to frequent mass mortalities (Tendrovsky and Egorlitsky Bays) or have been industrially Continue Reading »
CONCERNING THE SUCCES EARTHQUAKE
PREDICTION IN THE BLACK SEA REGION
A.B. Kapochkina
YEGORAN (Young Ecological Group Odessa’s Regional Academy of Science)
The earthquakes prediction problem is exceptively actual so far as earthquakes themselves and natural disasters connected with them are the most destroying according to a number of killed people caused loss and possible ecological consequences. Under earthquakes threat there are the spacious dense populated areas. Still in antiquity Aristotel, Lukretsiy, Strabon, Pliniy and others expressed an opinion about the possibility of eart Continue Reading »
Functioning of THE sexual system in THE Black Sea mussels in conditions of anthropogenic influence
E.V. Kholodkovskaya, O.Yu. Kudinsky
Odessa Branch Institute of biology of Southern Seas, National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
The northwestern part of the Black Sea is subject to significant anthropogenic loading from drainage of Dnieper, Dnestr and Danube rivers, and also such industrial centers as Odessa and Nikolaev. The sexual system reacts first of all to negative changes of the environment to hydrobionts. The sexual cycle of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis Lmk..on all of its length from the coast of Continue Reading »
THE ROLE OF ZOOPLANKTON IN NUTRITION
OF THE BLACK SEA MUSSEL
M.M. Danilova
Odessa Branch Institute of biology of Southern Seas, National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
One of the factors determining the selection of locations and assessment of their dimensions for mussel mariculture is supply of nutrition. Thus, special attention should be paid to the role of animal food in the nutrition of the mussel as contradictory opinions on this matter have been put forth. Several authors [1,3,4,5] have observed the presence of animal food in mollusks in great quantities. Garba et al., 1977 [2] noted a slight amo Continue Reading »