Solonenko A. Algae of hyperhaline water bodies of the North-Western coast of the Azov sea and their part in the formation of mud sulfide peloids

It was investigated that macroscopic growths of halophylic amphibian cyanoprocaryota play the main role in the process of high-quality peloids formarion in the North-West coast of the Azov sea. Cyanobacterial mats define the efficiency of the biota's organic matter biologic transformation system to the biological active compounds of peloids, and conservation of this compounds. It has been found that the bulk of the biomass, which is included in the processes of peloids formation, is generated by benthic blue-green, green and diatomic algae. It has been defined that the destruction of organic substance of algae develops at different rates and involves different groups of bacteria-destructors, depending on the dominant composition of algae. For the first time the significant differences in the rate of destruction of green algae mortmass and cyanoprokaryota have been shown and a possible connection of this process speed with barrier function of cyanobacterial mats in the process of peloids formation has been demonstrated.