Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Modiolus modiolus Communities of Onega Bay, White Sea: How Stable Are They over Time and Space?

  • Published:
Biology Bulletin Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Macrozoobenthic communities of Onega Bay of the White Sea were studied in 2010 at ten stations, which repeated the survey sites performed in the 1950s and 1980s by the staff of the White Sea Biological Station, USSR Academy of Sciences. Benthic communities where bivalve mollusks dominated by biomass were observed at all sites investigated in 2010. The stations were divided into two main groups; Modiolus modiolus was the dominant species in the first one, Clinocardium ciliatum in combination with various bivalve species as subdominants dominated in the second. There were also communities in which Hiatella arctica and Macoma calcarea dominated; each community was recorded at only one station. Due to the inability to follow accurately the sampling methods and the peculiarities of primary processing used in the historical surveys, the comparison of the data was carried out using only bivalves, because this was the most reliably defined group that unquestionably dominated in all communities. No significant changes were found in bivalve dominance. The replacement of the blue mussel settlement with a Hiatella arctica community was observed at a shallow depth (13 m). Deeper than 40 m, the dominants changed: Clinocardium ciliatum by Mya truncata (1952), Elliptica elliptica by Macoma calcarea (1981), and Clinocardium ciliatum by Macoma calcarea (2010); these changes were most likely associated with the patchy distribution of these key forms. Modiolus modiolus communities, observed in Onega Bay in 1952 and 1981 at depths of less than 40 m, were found in the same places in 2010. The stability of macrobenthic communities, where large, long-lived bivalves dominated (in particular, Modiolus), was most likely due to the absence of significant changes in the environmental conditions and of an anthropogenic load in Onega Bay during at least the second half of the XX century and the early XXI century.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 4.

Similar content being viewed by others

REFERENCES

  1. Ahn, I.Y., Kang, Y.C., and Choi, J.W., The influence of industrial effluents on intertidal benthic communities in Panweol, Kyeonggi Bay (Yellow Sea) on the West Coast of Korea, Mar. Pollut. Bull., 1995, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 200–206.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Andrew, N.L. and Mapstone, B.D., Sampling and the description of spatial pattern in marine ecology, Oceanogr. Mar. Biol., Annu. Rev., 1987, vol. 25, pp. 39–90.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Anwar, N.A., Richardson, C.A., and Seed, R., Age determination, growth rate and population structure of the horse mussel Modiolus modiolus, J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U. K., 1990, vol. 70, pp. 441–457.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Ashik, I.M., Karklin, V.P., Kirillov, S.A., Radionov, V.A., and Timokhov, L.A., Vtoroi Otsenochnyi doklad Rosgidrometa ob izmeneniyakh klimata i ikh posledstviyakh na territorii Rossiiskoi Federatsii (The Second Assessment Report of Roshydromet on Climate Changes and Their Consequences on the Territory of the Russian Federation), section 5: Vozdeistvie izmeneniya klimata na morskie prirodnye sistemy (Impact of Climate Change on Marine Natural Systems), ch. 5.1: Arkticheskie morya Rossii (Arctic Seas of Russia), 2014, pp. 590–614.

  5. Babkov, A.I., Gidrologiya Belogo morya (Hydrology of the White Sea), St. Petersburg: Belomor. Biol. St. Zool. Inst. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 1998.

  6. Basova, L., Begum, S., Strahl, J., et al., Age dependent patterns of antioxidants in Arctica islandica from six regionally separate populations with different life spans, Aquat. Biol., 2012, vol. 14, pp. 141–152.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Berger, V.Y. and Naumov, A.D., General features, in White Sea. Ecology and Environment, Berger, V. and Dahle, S., Eds., St. Petersburg and Tromsø: Derzhavets Publisher, 2001, pp. 9–22.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Boyd, S.E., Barry, J., and Nicholson, M., A comparative study of a 0.1 and 0.25 m2 Hamon grab for sampling macrobenthic fauna from offshore marine gravels, J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U. K., 2006, vol. 86, pp. 1315–1328.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Chikina, M.V., Macrozoobenthos of loose soils of the North Caucasian coast of the Black Sea: spatial structure and long-term dynamics, Cand. Sci. (Biol.) Dissertation, Moscow: Inst. Okeanol., Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2009.

  10. Chikina, M.V. and Kucheruk, N.V., Long-term changes in the structure of coastal benthic communities in the northeastern part of the Black Sea: influence of alien species, Oceanology, 2005, vol. 45, suppl. 1, pp. 176–182.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Chikina, M.V., Spiridonov, V.A., and Mardashova, M.V., Spatial and temporal variability of coastal benthic communities in the Keretsky Archipelago area and in the Velikaya Salma Strait (Karelian Coast, the White Sea), Oceanology, 2014, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 54–65.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Clare, D.S., Robinson, L.A., and Frid, C.L.J., Community variability and ecological functioning: 40 years of change in the North Sea benthos, Mar. Environ. Res., 2015, vol. 107, pp. 24–34.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  13. Clarke, K.R. and Warwick, R.M., Change in Marine Communities: An Approach to Statistical Analysis and Interpretation, 2nd ed., Plymouth, UK: Primer-E, 2001.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Cusson, M., Archambault, P., and Aitken, A., Biodiversity of benthic assemblages on the arctic continental shelf: historical data from Canada, Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 2007, vol. 331, pp. 291–304.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Denisenko, S.G., Bioraznoobrazie i bioresursy makrozoobentosa Barentseva morya. Struktura i mnogoletnie izmeneniya (Biodiversity and Bioresources of Macrozoobenthos in the Barents Sea. Structure and Changes over Years), St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2013.

  16. Dinesen, G.E. and Morton, B., Review of the functional morphology, biology and perturbation impacts on the boreal, habitat forming horse mussel Modiolus modiolus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae: Modiolinae), Mar. Biol. Res., 2015, vol. 10, pp. 845–870.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. Ekologo-ekonomicheskoe obosnovanie organizatsii Solovetskogo kompleksnogo prirodnogo landshaftno-morskogo zakaznika (Ecological and Economic Substantiation of the Organization of the Solovetskii Complex Natural Landscape–Marine Reserve), Cherenkova, N.N., Comp., Moscow: Proekt GEF—PROON “Ukreplenie morskikh i primorskikh osobo okhranyaemykh territorii Rossii,” (Strengthening of marine and coastal specially protected areas of Russia) 2013.

  18. Eleftheriou, A. and Moore, D.C., Macrofauna techniques, in Methods for the Study of Marine Benthos, 3rd ed., Elefheriou, A. and McIntyre, A., Eds., Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, pp. 160–228.

  19. Filatov, N.N., Nazarova, L.E., Salo, Ju. A., and Tolstikov, A.V., Climate of the white sea catchment scenarios of climate and river runoff changes, in White Sea. Its Marine Environment and Ecosystem Dynamics Influenced by Global Change, Filatov, N.N., Pozdnyakov, D.V., and Johannessen, O.M., Eds., Chichester: Springer-Praxis Publishing, 2005, pp. 53–72.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Filatov, N.N., Pozdnyakov, D.V., Ingebeikin, Yu.I., Zdorovenov, R.E., Melentyev, V.V., Tolstikov, A.V., and Pettersson, L.H., Oceanographical regime, in White Sea. Its Marine Environment and Ecosystem Dynamics Influenced by Global Change, Filatov, N.N., Pozdnyakov, D.V., and Johannessen, O.M., Eds., Chichester: Springer-Praxis Publishing, 2005a, pp. 73–154.

    Google Scholar 

  21. Ganmanee, M., Narita, T., and Sekuchi, H., Long-term investigation of spatio-temporal variations in faunal composition and species richness of megabenthos in Ise Bay, Central Japan, J. Oceanogr., 2004, vol. 60, pp. 1071–1083.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  22. Gerasimova, A.B. and Maksimovich, N.V., The patterns of the organization of populations of mass species of bivalves in the White Sea, Vestn. St.-Peterb. Gos. Univ., 2009, no. 3 (3), pp. 82–97.

  23. Gerasimova, A.V. and Maximovich, N.V., Age–size structure of common bivalve mollusk populations in the White Sea: the causes of instability, Hydrobiologia, 2013, vol. 706, pp. 119–137.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  24. Gerasimova, A.V., Kuznetsova, E.K., and Maksimovich, N.V., On the long-term dynamics of the structure of the populations of Arctica islandica L. (Mollusca, Bivalvia) and the peculiarities of the spatial distribution of macrobenthos in the region of the Keretsky Archipelago (White Sea), in Materialy XI nauchnoi konferentsii Belomorskoi biologicheskoi stantsii MGU: Sbornik statei (Proceedings of the XI Scientific Conference of the White Sea Biological Station of Moscow State University: Collection of Articles), Moscow: Grif i Ko, 2008, pp. 34–37.

  25. Golikov, A.N., Babkov, A.I., Golikov, A.A., Novikov, O.K., and Sheremetevskii, A.M., Ecosystems of the Onega Bay and adjacent areas of the White Sea Basin, in Ekosistemy Onezhskogo zaliva Belogo moray (Ecosystems of the Onega Bay, the White Sea), Issled. Fauny Morei, Leningrad: Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1985, vol. 33 (41), pp. 20–87.

  26. Gray, J.S. and Elliott, M., Ecology of Marine Sediments: From Science to Management, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  27. Grebmeier, J.M. and Barry, J.P., The influence of oceanographic processes on pelagic–benthic coupling in polar regions: a benthic perspective, J. Mar. Systems, 1991, vol. 2, pp. 495–518.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  28. Hammer, Ø., Harper, D.A.T., and Ryan, P.D., PAST: Paleontological statistics software package for education and data analysis, Palaeontol. Electron., 2001, vol. 4, no. 1. http://palaeo-electronica.org/2001_1/past/issue1_01.htm.

  29. Hughes, D.J., Shimmiled, T.M., Black, K.D., and Howe, J.A., Ecological impacts of large-scale disposal of mining waste in the deep sea, Sci. Rep., 2015, vol. 5, p. 9985.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  30. Isachenko, A.I., Tsetlin, A.B., and Mokievskii, V.O., The structure of the Arctica islandica population in the water area of the Rugozerskaya Bay (White Sea) and its long-term dynamics, Zool. Zh., 2013, vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 143–153.

    Google Scholar 

  31. Ivanova, S.S., Qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the benthos of the Onega Bay, the White Sea, in Materialy po kompleksnomu izucheniyu Belogo morya (Materials for a Comprehensive Study of the White Sea), Moscow: Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1957, no. 1, pp. 355–380.

  32. Kaiser, M.J., Edwards, D.B., Armstrong, P.J., and Radford, K., Changes in megafaunal benthic communities in different habitats after trawling disturbance, ICES J. Mar. Sci., 1998, vol. 55, pp. 353–361.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  33. Kautsky, N., Growth and size structure in a Baltic Mytilus edulis population, Mar. Biol., 1982, vol. 68, pp. 117–133.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  34. Kenchington, E.L., Kenchington, T.J., Henry, A.-A., Fuller, S., and Gonzales, P., Multi-decadal changes in the megabenthos of the Bay of Fundy: the effects of fishing, J. Sea Res., 2007, vol. 58, pp. 220–240.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  35. Krasnov, Yu.V., Seabirds: current state of populations, distribution and trophic relationships, in Biologicheskie resursy Belogo morya: izuchenie i ispol’zovanie (Biological Resources of the White Sea: Study and Use), Issled. Fauny Morei, Berger, V.Ya., Ed., St. Petersburg: Zool. Inst. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2011, no. 69 (77), pp. 244–260.

  36. Kremenetsky, V.V., Oceanological observations during the cruise aboard the R/V Professor Vladimir Kuznetsov to the southeastern part of Onega Bay, in Kompleksnye issledovaniya podvodnykh landshaftov v Belom more s primeneniem distantsionnykh metodov (Comprehensive Studies of Underwater Landscapes in the White Sea Using Remote Sensing Methods), Tr. Belomorsk. Biostantsii Mosk. Gos. Univ., Mokievskii, V.O., Spiridonov, V.A., Tsetlin, A.B., and Krasnova, E.D., Eds., Moscow: Tov. Nauchn. Izd. KMK, 2012, vol. 11, pp. 121–126.

    Google Scholar 

  37. Kröncke, I., Reiss, H., Egleton, J.D., et al., Changes in North Sea macrofauna communities and species distribution between 1986 and 2000, Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., 2011, vol. 94, pp. 1–15.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  38. Kuderskii, L.A., The “Modiolus modiolus” benthic community of the Onega Bay of the White Sea, Tr. Karel. Fil. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1962, no. 33, pp. 67–81.

  39. Kuderskii, L.A., The benthic community of the Onega Bay of the White Sea, Tr. Karel. Otd. GosNIORKh, 1966, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 204–371.

    Google Scholar 

  40. Kuderskii, L.A., Studies in the White Sea at the initial stage of the history of the Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Severnaya Evropa v XXI veke: priroda, kul’tura, ekonomika. Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii, posvyashchennoi 60-letiyu KarNTs RAN (Northern Europe in the 21st Century: Nature, Culture, and Economics: Proceedings of the International Conference Dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Petrozavodsk: Kar. Nauchn. Tsentr Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2006, pp. 11–16.

  41. Lesser, M.P. and Kruse, V.A., Seasonal temperature compensation in the horse mussel, Modiolus modiolus: metabolic enzymes, oxidative stress and heat shock proteins, Comp. Biochem. Physiol., Part A: Mol. Integr. Physiol., 2004, vol. 137, pp. 495–504.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  42. Lukanin, V.V., Naumov, A.D., and Fedyakov, V.V., Study of the benthos of the White Sea. General history of the study of the benthos of the White Sea, in Gidrologicheskie i ikhtiologicheskie issledovaniya v Belom more (Hydrological and Ichthyological Research in the White Sea), Leningrad: Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1987, pp. 51–63.

  43. Lukanin, V.V., Naumov, A.D., and Fedyakov, V.V., Features of the distribution of benthos in the Onega Bay, in Beloe more. Biologicheskie resursy i problemy ikh ratsional’nogo ispol’zovaniya (White Sea. Biological Resources and Problems of Their Sustainable Use), Berger, V.Ya., Ed., St. Petersburg: Zool. In-t RAN, 1995, part 1, pp. 227–232.

  44. Lyubin, P.A., Comparative analysis of the selectivity of the methods of washing quantitative samples of benthos used in studies on the Kola Meridian section, Tr. Kol’sk. Nauchn. Tsentra Ross. Akad. Nauk, Ser. Okeanol., 2016, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 44–64.

    Google Scholar 

  45. Lyubina, O.S., Strelkova (Anisimova) N.A., Lyubin P.A., et al., Current quantitative distribution of zoobenthos in the Kola Meridian section, Tr. Kol’sk. Nauchn. Tsentra Ross. Akad. Nauk, Ser. Okeanol., 2016, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 64–91.

    Google Scholar 

  46. Maksimova, M.P., Hydrochemistry of the White Sea, in Gidrometeorologiya i gidrokhimiya morei SSSR (Hydrometeorology and Hydrochemistry of the Seas of the USSR), vol. 2: Beloe more (White Sea), Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat, 1991, part 1, pp. 8–193.

  47. Mann, H.B. and Whitney, D.R., On a test of whether one of two random variables is stochastically larger than the other, Ann. Math. Statistics, 1947, vol. 18, pp. 50–60.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  48. Materials of processing benthos, R/V Professor Mesyatsev, voyages I and II. Onega Bay, 1952, Nauchno-Issled. Arkhiv Kar. Nauchn. Tsentr Ross. Akad. Nauk, 1953, f. 20, op. 2, ed. khran. 232.

  49. McConnaughey, R.A., Mier, C.L., and Dew, C.B., An examination of chronic trawling effects on soft-bottom benthos of the eastern Bering Sea, ICES J. Mar. Sci., 2000, vol. 57, pp. 1377–1388.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  50. Mendes, C.L.T., Tavares, M., and Soares-Gomes, A., Taxonomic sufficiency for soft-bottom sublittoral mollusks assemblages in a tropical estuary, Guanabara Bay, Southeast Brazil, Mar. Pollut. Bull., 2007, vol. 54, pp. 377–384.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  51. Moiseenko, T.I., Pollution of catchment surface waters and the key anthropogenically caused processes, in Sistema Belogo moray (The System of the White Sea), vol. 1: Prirodnaya sreda vodosbora Belogo morya (Natural Environment of the White Sea Catchment Area), Lisitsyn, A.P., Ed., Moscow: Nauchnyi mir, 2010, pp. 301–333.

  52. Mokievsky, V.O. and Kotel’nikov, K.A., Benthic communities of the sublittoral zone of the Rugozerskaya Bay (Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea): the current state and the changes over 60 years, in Trudy VI Mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii “Morskie issledovaniya i obrazovanie (MARESEDU-2017)”, Moskva, 30.10.2017–02.11.2017 (Proceedings of the VI International Scientific and Practical Conference “Marine Research and Education (MARESEDU-2017)”, Moscow, October 30, 2017–November 2, 2017), Tver: PoliPRESS, 2017, pp. 471–476.

  53. Naumov, A.D., Benthos, in White Sea. Ecology and Environment, Berger, V. and Dahle, S., Eds., St. Petersburg, Tromso: Derzhavets Publisher, 2001, pp. 41–53.

    Google Scholar 

  54. Naumov, A.D., Dvustvorchatye mollyuski Belogo morya. Opyt ekologo-faunisticheskogo analiza (Bivalves of the White Sea: Experience of Ecological and Faunistic Analysis), St. Petersburg: Zool. Inst. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2006.

  55. Naumov, A.D., Long-term fluctuations of soft-bottom intertidal community structure affected by ice cover at two small sea bights in the Chupa Inlet (Kandalaksha Bay) of the white sea, Hydrobiologia, 2013, vol. 706, pp. 159–173.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  56. Naumov, A.D., Mokievsky, V.O., Isachenko, A.I., Savchenko, O.N., Biyagov, K.L., and Aristov, D.A., Sublittoral communities of macrobenthos of the Bab’e Sea, in Kompleksnye issledovaniya Bab’ego morya, poluizolirovannoi belomorskoi laguny. Geologiya, gidrologiya, biota: izmeneniya na fone transgressii beregov (Complex Studies of the Bab’e Sea, a Semi-Isolated White Sea Lagoon: Geology, Hydrology, and Biota: Changes Against the Background of Coastal Transgression), Tr. Belomor. Biostants. Mosk. Gos. Univ., Mokievskii, V.O., Isachenko, A.I., Dgebuadze, P.Yu., Tsetlin, A.B., Eds., Moscow: Tov. Nauchn. Izd. KMK, 2016, vol. 12, pp. 121–143.

  57. Naumov, A.D., Savchenko, O.N., Aristov, D.A., and Bijagov, K.L., A Decade of Observations of Intertidal Benthic Communities at the Water Area of Vitino Specialized Marine Oil Port (Northern Part of Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea): A Methodological View, Biol. Bull. (Moscow), 2018, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 921–936.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  58. Nevesskii, E.N., Medvedev, V.S., and Kalinenko, V.V., Beloe more. Sedimentogenez i istoriya razvitiya v golotsene (White Sea: Sedimentogenesis and History of Development in the Holocene), Moscow: Nauka, 1977.

  59. Olsgard, F. and Somerfield, P.J., Surrogates in benthic investigations. Which taxonomic unit to target?, J. Aquat. Ecosystem Stress Recovery, 2000, vol. 7, pp. 25–42.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  60. Olsgard, F., Brattegard, T., and Holthe, T., Polychaetes as surrogates for marine biodiversity: lower taxonomic resolution and indicator groups, Biodiversity Conserv., 2003, vol. 12, pp. 1033–1049.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  61. Oug, E., Sundet, J.H., and Cochrane, S.C.J., Structural and functional changes of soft-bottom ecosystems in northern fjords invaded by the red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus), J. Mar. Syst., 2018, vol. 180, pp. 255–264.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  62. Pantyulin, A.N., Dynamics, structure, and water masses, in Sistema Belogo morya (The White Sea System), vol. 2: Vodnaya tolshcha i vzaimodeistvuyushchie s nei atmosfera, kriosfera, rechnoi stok i biosfera (Water Column and the Atmosphere, Cryosphere, River Runoff, and Biosphere Interacting with It), Nemirovskaya, I.A., Ed., Moscow: Nauchnyi mir, 2012, pp. 309–379.

  63. Pearson, T.H. and Rosenberg, R., Macrobenthic succession in relation to organic enrichment and pollution of the marine environment, Oceanogr. Mar. Biol.: Annu. Rev., 1978, vol. 16, pp. 229–311.

    Google Scholar 

  64. Pogrebov, V.B., Assessment of the ecological state of the west arctic shelf by benthos, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Arctic Contamination Arctic Research of the United States, Anchorage, Alaska: Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee, 1993, vol. 8, pp. 290–294.

  65. Voyage logs, the White Sea area of work: Onega Bay, voyages I and II of the R/V Professor Mesyatsev, 1952, Nauchno-Issled. Arkh. Karel. Nauchn. Tsentra Ross. Akad. Nauk, 1952, f. 20, op. 2, ed. khr. 117.

  66. Revkov, N.K., Petrov, A.N., Kolesnikova, E.A., and Dobrotina, G.A., Comparative analysis of long-term alterations in structural organization of zoobenthos under permanent and antropogenic impact (case study: Sevastopol Bay, Crimea), Morsk. Ekol. Zh., 2014, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 38–49.

    Google Scholar 

  67. Rogacheva, A.V., Benthos of the eastern part of Onega Bay according to bottom grab survey dat, in Kompleksnye issledovaniya podvodnykh landshaftov v Belom more s primeneniem distantsionnykh metodov (Complex Studies of Underwater Landscapes in the White Sea Using Remote Sensing Methods), Tr. Belomorsk. Biostants. Mosk. Gos. Univ., Mokievskii, V.O., Spiridonov, V.A., Tsetlin, A.B., and Krasnova, E.D., Eds., Moscow: Tov. Nauchn. Izd. KMK, 2012, vol. 11, pp. 144–166.

  68. Rosenberg, R., Gray, J.S., Josefson, A.B., and Pearson, T.H., Petersen benthic stations revisited. 2. Is the Oslofjord and eastern Skagerrak enriched?, J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 1987, vol. 105, pp. 219–251.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  69. Sapozhnikov, V.V., Arzhanova, N.V., and Mordasova, N.V., Hydrochemical characteristics of bioproductivity and production-destruction processes in the White Sea, in Sistema Belogo moray (The White Sea System), vol. 2: Vodnaya tolshcha i vzaimodeistvuyushchie s nei atmosfera, kriosfera, rechnoi stok i biosfera (Water Column and the Atmosphere, Cryosphere, River Runoff, and Biosphere Interacting with It), Nemirovskaya, I.A., Ed., Moscow: Nauchnyi mir, 2012, pp. 433–473.

  70. Solovyev, B., Spiridonov, V., Onufrenya, I., et al., Identifying a network of priority areas for conservation in the Arctic seas: practical lessons from Russia, Aquat. Conserv. Mar. Freshwater Ecosyst., 2017, vol. 27, suppl. 1, pp. 30–51.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  71. Solyanko, E.Yu., Comparative characteristics of the fauna and communities of the sublittoral macrobenthos of the Gorlo and Onega Bay of the White Sea, Cand. Sci. (Biol.) Dissertation, Moscow: Inst. Okeanol. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2010.

  72. Solyanko, K., Spiridonov, V., and Naumov, A., Biomass, commonly occurring and dominant species of macrobenthos in Onega Bay (White Sea, Russia): data from three different decades, Mar. Ecol., 2011, vol. 32, pp. 36–48.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  73. Spiridonov, V.A., Naumov, A.D., Chikina, M.V., and Simakova, U.V., Resilience capacity in the White Sea ecosystem, in Abstracts of the 50th European Marine Biological Symposium, Helgoland, September 21–25, 2015, Helgoland, Germany: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, 2015, p. 27.

  74. Spiridonov, V.A., Mokievsky, V.O., and Solyanko, E.Yu., Expeditionary work and some results of oceanological and hydrobiological studies in the southeastern part of Onega Bay on the R/V Professor Kuznetsov in July 2006, in Kompleksnye issledovaniya podvodnykh landshaftov v Belom more s primeneniem distantsionnykh metodov (Comprehensive Studies of Underwater Landscapes in the White Sea Using Remote Sensing Methods), Tr. Belomorsk. Biostantsii Mosk. Gos. Univ., Mokievskii, V.O., Spiridonov, V.A., Tsetlin, A.B., and Krasnova, E.D., Eds., Moscow: Tov. Nauchn. Izd. KMK, 2012, vol. 11, pp. 112–120.

  75. Stasenkov, V.A., Herring, in Biologicheskie resursy Belogo morya: izuchenie i ispol’zovanie (Biological Resources of the White Sea: Study and Use), Issled. Fauny Morei, Berger, V.Ya., Ed., St. Petersburg: Zool. Inst. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2011, vol. 69 (77), pp. 159–163.

  76. Swane, I. and Ompi, M., Patch dynamics in beds of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis L.: effects of site, patch size, and position within a patch, Ophelia, 1993, vol. 37, pp. 187–202.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  77. Terzhevik, A.Y., Litvinenko, A.V., Druzhinin, P.V., and Filatov, N.N., Economy of the white sea watershed, in White Sea. Its Marine Environment and Ecosystem Dynamics Influenced by Global Change, Filatov, N.N., Pozdnyakov, D.V., and Johannessen, O.M., Eds., Chichester: Springer-Praxis Publishing, 2005, pp. 241–301.

    Google Scholar 

  78. Underwood, A.J. and Chapman, M.G., Design and analysis in benthic surveys, in Methods for the Study of Marine Benthos, 3rd ed., Elefheriou, A. and McIntyre, A., Eds., Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, pp. 1–42.

  79. Usov, N., Kutcheva, I., Primakov, I., and Martynova, D., Every species is good in its season: do the shifts in the annual temperature dynamics affect the phenology of the zooplankton species in the White Sea?, Hydrobiologia, 2013, vol. 706, no. 1, pp. 11–33.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  80. Usov, N.V., Seasonal and long-term dynamics of the abundance of zooplankton in the coastal zone of the Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea due to changes in water temperature, Extended Abstract of Cand. Sci. (Biol.) Dissertation, St. Petersburg: Zool. Inst. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2015.

  81. Wlodarska-Kowalczuk, M. and Kedra, M., Surrogacy in natural patterns of benthic distribution and diversity: selected taxa versus lower taxonomic resolution, Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 2007, vol. 351, pp. 53–63.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  82. WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Astarte J. Sowerby, 1816. Ciliatocardium Kafanov, 1974, 2018. http://www.marinespecies.org. Accessed May 8, 2018.

  83. Zolotarev, V.N., Sklerokhronologiya morskikh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov (Sclerochronology of Marine Bivalves), Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 1989.

Download references

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to D.A. Aristov, A.A. Vedenin, D.V. Kondar’, and N.V. Usov, who participated in the research aboard the R/V Professor Vladimir Kuznetsov, the captain and crew of this research vessel, and E.Yu. Solyanko for the help in planning the survey in 2010. This work could not have been carried out without the support of the management and staff of the Scientific Research Archives, Karelian Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, who provided access to the materials of the survey performed in 1952. The cruise work was supported by the White Sea Biological Station, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Funding

The data analysis and preparation of the manuscript were supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project nos. 18-05-60053 “Benthos of the Shelf of the Seas of the Western Sector of the Russian Arctic as an Indicator of the State of Marine Ecosystems in Modern Conditions” and 18-04-00206 “Multiscale Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Marine Benthos Communities.”

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997, Moscow, Russia

    M. V. Chikina & V. A. Spiridonov

  2. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    A. D. Naumov

Authors
  1. M. V. Chikina
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. V. A. Spiridonov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. A. D. Naumov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to M. V. Chikina.

Ethics declarations

Statement on the welfare of animals. This article does not contain any studies involving animals or human participants performed by any of the authors.

Conflict of interest. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Additional information

Translated by D. Martynova

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Chikina, M.V., Spiridonov, V.A. & Naumov, A.D. Modiolus modiolus Communities of Onega Bay, White Sea: How Stable Are They over Time and Space?. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 47, 1099–1114 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359020090058

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359020090058

Keywords:

Search

Navigation