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Spatial Distribution of the Diatoms Dactyliosolen fragilissimus and Cerataulina pelagica in the Autumn Phytoplankton of the Southeastern Baltics in 2020–2021

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The mass development of diatoms Dactyliosolen fragilissimus and Cerataulina pelagica, atypical algae for the southeastern Baltic Sea (SEB) water area, were registered along the Sambia peninsula coastline in the middle of October 2020. Both species were found in the coastal zone off the western and northern coast of the Sambia peninsula from the Baltic Strait to port Pionerskiy at depths reaching 32 m. In early November 2021, C. pelagica bloomed both in the shallow coastal zone of the northern coast of the Sambia peninsula and in the deepwater zone of the SEB. The biomass of this species reached 2.8 g/m3. Both diatom species were abundant within the entire Russian exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The prevailing hydrological situation during the study period probably facilitated the penetration of the species into the study area by surface transport from the Arkona Basin.

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We thank M.A. Gerb and A.A. Volodina (Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences) for assistance in phytoplankton collection.

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The study was done with a support of the state assignment of IO RAS (Theme No. FMWE-2024-0025).

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  2. Atlantic branch of the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Kaliningrad, Russia

    O. A. Dmitrieva

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ABBREVIATIONS

SEB, southeast Baltic;

UQL, upper quasi-homogeneous layer;

EEZ, exclusive economic zone;

PCG 1–PCG 4, phytocenotic groups 1–4;

ANOSIM, Analysis of similarities;

SIMPER, Similarity Percentages.

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Melnik, A.S., Dmitrieva, O.A., Eshova, E.E. et al. Spatial Distribution of the Diatoms Dactyliosolen fragilissimus and Cerataulina pelagica in the Autumn Phytoplankton of the Southeastern Baltics in 2020–2021. Inland Water Biol 17, 115–125 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082924010115

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