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Seasonal dynamics of abundance and biomass of cyanobacteria in the periphyton and epilithon in Karantinnaya Bay (northern Black Sea) in relation to physicochemical factors of the environment

Ekaterina Miroshnichenko https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7985-9747 A * , Sergey Kapranov A , Natalia Rodionova A and Anastasiia Blaginina A
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A A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, Nakhimov Avenue, 2, Sevastopol, Russian Federation.

* Correspondence to: essmiroshnichenko@ibss-ras.ru

Handling Editor: Daniel Roelke

Marine and Freshwater Research 76, MF24202 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF24202
Submitted: 13 September 2024  Accepted: 16 April 2025  Published: 6 June 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

Context

The influence of environmental factors on the quantitative characteristics and structure of cyanobacterial communities within marine microbial mats remains understudied.

Aims

A comparative analysis of the community structure and seasonal dynamics of quantitative parameters of cyanobacteria in periphyton and epilithon in Karantinnaya Bay in the Black Sea, linking them to the environmental factors.

Methods

The total number and biomass of cyanobacteria were quantified on the basis of established methods for the benthic cyanobacteria.

Key results

The abundance and biomass of cyanobacteria were 0.38 × 106–4.20 × 106 cells cm−2 in periphyton and 0.004 × 106–0.158 × 106 cells cm−2 in epilithon, 0.0035–0.160 mg cm−2 in periphyton and 0.00002–0.004 mg cm−2 in epilithon. Maximum values were recorded in November for periphyton and August for epilithon; minimum values were recorded in March. Thin filamentous cyanobacteria are more responsible for changes in abundance, and biomass is determined by thick filamentous species, and in their absence, by unicellular cyanobacteria.

Conclusions

Cyanobacterial communities in periphyton and epilithon differed in density, seasonal dynamics, dominant species composition and response to the nutrient contents. Nitrogen, phosphorus and their ratio at optimal pH were most important for cyanobacteria, but the requirements for certain nutrients varied between biotopes.

Implications

This study will clarify microbial assemblages’ ecological roles in coastal ecosystems and their utility as sensitive biomonitoring indicators.

Keywords: biofilms, Black Sea, coastal zone, cyanobacteria, morphological groups, partial least squares regression, quantitative parameters, redundancy analysis.

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