Features of the Distribution of Chlorophyll-a Concentration along the Western Coast of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago in Spring

Makarevich, Pavel R.; Vodopianova, Veronika V.; Bulavina, Aleksandra S.; Vashchenko, Pavel S.; Ishkulova, Tatiana G.

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Features of the Distribution of Chlorophyll-a Concentration along the Western Coast of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago in Spring

Pavel R. Makarevich

Veronika V. Vodopianova

Aleksandra S. Bulavina

Pavel S. Vashchenko

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Tatiana G. Ishkulova

Murmansk Marine Biological Institute (MMBI), 183010 Murmansk, Russia

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Academic Editors: Zita Gasiunaite, Piotr Margonski and Javier Gilabert

Water 2021, 13(24), 3648; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243648

Received: 12 November 2021 / Revised: 14 December 2021 / Accepted: 16 December 2021 / Published: 18 December 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plankton Ecology in Shallow Coastal Waters)

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In spring 2016, the thermohaline characteristics of water masses and the distribution of chlorophyll-a concentration in the pelagic zone of the eastern part of the Barents Sea were studied. For the first time, in the conditions of an abnormally warm year and the absence of ice cover, a complex of hydrobiological works was carried out on a section crossing the Barents Sea from south to north along the western coast of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. High concentrations of chlorophyll-a > 1 ˂ 6 mg/m³ at all stations of the transect indicate a stage of spring bloom in the successional cycle of microalgae. Significant differences in the content of chlorophyll-a in waters of various origins were revealed. The highest concentrations of chlorophyll-a corresponded to Arctic surface water (5.56 mg/m³). Slightly lower values were observed in the transformed Atlantic waters of the Novozemelskoe and Kolguevo–Pechorskoe currents (3.53 ± 0.97–3.71 ± 1.04 mg/m³), and the lowest was in the Barents waters (1.24 ± 0.84–1.45 ± 1.13 mg/m³). View Full-Text

Keywords: chlorophyll-a; Barents Sea; Novaya Zemlya archipelago; spring bloom

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Makarevich, P.R.; Vodopianova, V.V.; Bulavina, A.S.; Vashchenko, P.S.; Ishkulova, T.G. Features of the Distribution of Chlorophyll-a Concentration along the Western Coast of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago in Spring. Water 2021, 13, 3648. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243648

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Makarevich PR, Vodopianova VV, Bulavina AS, Vashchenko PS, Ishkulova TG. Features of the Distribution of Chlorophyll-a Concentration along the Western Coast of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago in Spring. Water. 2021; 13(24):3648. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243648

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Makarevich, Pavel R., Veronika V. Vodopianova, Aleksandra S. Bulavina, Pavel S. Vashchenko, and Tatiana G. Ishkulova. 2021. "Features of the Distribution of Chlorophyll-a Concentration along the Western Coast of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago in Spring" Water 13, no. 24: 3648. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243648

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Pavel R. Makarevich

Pavel R. Makarevich was born on 05.08.1957. He graduated from Mordovian State University with a degree in biology in 1982. Currently, he holds a doctorate degree in biology and is a professor at Murmansk State Technical University. His main research interests are in the field of marine biology and ecology, as well as ocean and coastal zone management. He is currently focused on the status of Arctic marine ecosystems, biological resources and bioproductivity in arctic seas, and environmental impact assessment. He has been working at the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute since the 1980s. During his scientific career, he was a participant in many cruises to the Arctic seas, researching the annual succession cycle of marine algal communities and production processes in the marine environment. He is an author and co-author of more than 200 scientific publications.

Veronika V. Vodopianova

Veronika V. Vodopyanova was born on 31.05.1980. In 2002, she graduated from the Ecological and Biological Faculty of Petrozavodsk State University, Russia, with a degree in Biology. Since 2003, she has been working as a research scientist of the Plankton Laboratory at the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2007, she successfully defended her PhD thesis in Oceanology entitled "Photosynthetic pigments in phytoplankton of estuarine pelagic ecosystems of the Barents Sea (on the example of the Kola Bay)". Her main research interests focus on studying the composition and content of photosynthetic pigments in microalgae of the Arctic seas. She is currently working on the research project "Features of the organization of Arctic plankton communities under modern climatic fluctuations (the Barents, Kara and Laptev Seas)". She is an author and co-author of more than 30 scientific publications.

Aleksandra S. Bulavina

Aleksandra S. Bulavina was born on 22.11.1990. She is a graduate of Petrozavodsk State University (former Karelian State Pedagogical University) with a master’s degree in natural sciences (2007–2012). Currently, she holds a PhD in oceanography (2020). She attended a postgraduate course in physical geography at the Murmansk Arctic State University, Murmansk, Russia (2014–2018). Since 2016, she has been working at the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute as a research scientist at the Laboratory of Oceanography. Her research interests focus on issues related to marine pollution and marine frontal zones. She is an author and co-author of more than 20 scientific papers, most of which are devoted to studying the impact of river runoff on the marine environment. She also supports education and training activities for early career researchers.

Pavel S. Vashchenko

Pavel S. Vashchenko was born on 01.05.1984. In 2008, he graduated from the Biological Department of Murmansk State Technical University, Russia, with a degree in Biology. Since 2008, he has been working as a research scientist of the Environmental Engineering Laboratory at the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. His main research interests focus on studying environmental impact assessment during human activities in Arctic seas. He is currently working on a research project entitled "Vulnerability assessment and environmental monitoring of Arctic ecosystems during shelf development". He is an author and co-author of more than 15 scientific publications in the last 5 years.

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