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Presented State Organization "Institute for Evolutionary Ecology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine"
Authors:
1. PROKOPUK, Mariana Serhiivna – Candidate of Biological Sciences, Researcher at the State Organization "Institute for Evolutionary Ecology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine"
To develop conservation assessments and recommendations, vulnerability categories of macrophytes at the local level in urbanized transformed environments have been determined in accordance with international IUCN approaches. Additionally, a ranking of risks for the extinction of certain aquatic plant species in the water bodies of Kyiv and its outskirts has been proposed.
A comprehensive analysis of the impact of various anthropogenic factors on the state of macrophyte complexes in aquatic ecosystems of Ukraine has been conducted, and the main ecological risks causing a decline in species and cenotic diversity of higher aquatic plants have been identified. The dependence of macrophyte species richness on the ecological state of water bodies has been studied, and the trophic preferences of several macrophyte species (including alien ones) have been assessed. For the first time, research has been carried out on the viability of reproductive structures of certain macrophyte species in radiation-contaminated water bodies within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Indicator species for assessing anthropogenic eutrophication have been proposed, as well as approaches for using the male gametophyte of macrophytes as a highly sensitive bioindicator of radionuclide contamination in aquatic ecosystems. Current trends in the spread of invasive macrophytes, their habitat specificity, ecology, and behavioral strategies in secondary ranges have been established. The relationship between production indicators of coenopopulations of invasive species, phenotypic variability, hydrological, and trophic regimes of habitats has been analyzed, and possible spread scenarios have been predicted. The proposed methodological approaches for assessing the invasion potential of alien macrophytes were used in the development of the "Methodological Recommendations for Assessing the Existing and Potential Impact (Risks) of Invasive Alien Species," as well as in the compilation of the list of invasive plants of Ukraine for official approval within the relevant research agreement of the "IEE NASU".
Number of publications: 1 collective monograph, 12 articles in journals indexed in category "A" (including 12 foreign publications), and 5 articles in journals indexed in category "B", 5 abstracts of reports. The total number of citations of the authors’ publications according to databases is: Web of Science 8/2, Scopus 30/4, Google Scholar 101/7.
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