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Abstract
A study of planktonic ciliate species diversity in the Caspian littoral of Absheron was conducted in 2014–2018. Fifty-seven ciliate species belonging to 21 families were revealed. A correlation has been established between the planktonic ciliates’ species richness and the organic pollution degree at the coastal zone. The status of some ciliate species as indicators of varying saprobity was clarified. The most precise indication using ciliates was obtained for alpha-meso and alpha-polysaprobic zones. We explain this fact by the more accurate data on ciliates indicators of more polluted zones and the erroneous certification of many ciliate species, currently considered as indicators of beta-alpha-mesosaprobic zone.
ProtistologyAgricultural and Biological Sciences-Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
CiteScore
1.50
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5
期刊介绍:
Protistology is one of the five "organism-oriented" journals for researchers of protistan material. The Journal publishes manuscripts on the whole spectrum of lower Eukaryote cells including protozoans, lower algae and lower fungi. Protistology publishes original papers (experimental and theoretical contributions), full-size reviews, short topical reviews (which are supposed to be somewhat "provocative" for setting up new hypotheses), rapid short communications, book reviews, symposia materials, historical materials, obituary notices on famous scientists, letters to the Editor, comments on and replies to published papers. Chronicles will present information about past and future scientific meetings, conferences, etc. THE PECULIARITIES OF THE JOURNAL - reviews, overviews and theoretical manuscripts on systematics, phylogeny, evolution and ecology of protists are favourably accepted - the manuscripts on multicellular organisms concerning their phylogenetic and taxonomic relationships with protists are also accepted - the size of manuscripts is usually not limited