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Macrozoobenthic Communities of the Piedmont and Lowland Watercourses of the Lower Amur Region

  • ZOOPLANKTON, ZOOBENTHOS, AND ZOOPERIPHYTON
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On the basis of 120 original stations, macrozoobenthic communities of rivers from two adjacent areas of the Lower Amur Region (Khabarovsk krai) have been described. Rivers basins are characterized by contrasting landscape conditions: the Anyuy River basin in the piedmonts of the Sikhote-Alin mountain range and the Simmi River basin on the Amur Lowland. About 250 taxa of macroinvertebrates have been found; 16 types of communities have been described. The principal differences in both benthic fauna and macrozoobenthic communities in the basins of the Anyuy River (cold-water rheophilic fauna as well as ritral and crenal communities predominate) and the Simmi River (warm-water limnophilic fauna and phytal communities predominate) are shown. We discuss the reasons for these differences, specific features of the fauna and communities of the whole region, and the biogeographical position of the region.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to the staff of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Zapovednoe Priamurye, Anyuysky National Park, and the Bolon Nature Reserve for their help in organization of the expeditionary work. We also thank the members of the expedition—M.V. Roshchin, N.A. Aseeva, A.Kh. Vinarskaya, and Yu.A. Timoshina—for their assistance in sampling and M.N. Vinarskii for moral support.

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The study of macrozoobenthos was supported by Russian Science Foundation, project no.14-50-00029 “Scientific Basis for Creating a National Depository Bank of Living Systems.”

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  1. Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    M. V. Chertoprud, E. S. Chertoprud, D. M. Palatov, A. N. Tsyganov & I. S. Reshetov

  2. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    E. S. Chertoprud & D. M. Palatov

  3. Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Moscow, Russia

    L. V. Vorob’eva & N. P. Kovacheva

  4. Penza State University, Penza, Russia

    A. N. Tsyganov

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Chertoprud, M.V., Chertoprud, E.S., Vorob’eva, L.V. et al. Macrozoobenthic Communities of the Piedmont and Lowland Watercourses of the Lower Amur Region. Inland Water Biol 13, 51–61 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082920010046

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