Yu. V. Doroshenko
A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Marine Biological Research of RAS, Sevastopol, Russia
Abstract
The results of microbiological research of coastal sediment of the Pesochnaya Bay (Black Sea, Sevastopol region) are conducted. The data on the number of bacteriobenthos indicate on absence of chronic oil pollution, but point to a significant contamination of organic nature during heavy recreational load.
Keywords
heterotrophic and oil-oxidizing bacteria, oil pollution, ecological statement, the Black Sea