Laboratory of Ecology of Coastal Bottom Communities
Head: Prof. Vadim Mokievsky
Marine Ecology

The main directions of study:
Identification of regularities in the spatial organization and temporal dynamics of benthic communities, analysis of changes in the species composition, trophic and functional structure of communities in various regions of the World Ocean.
The object of research is the main size-ecological blocks of bottom ecosystems: micro-, meio- and macrozoobenthos, macrophyte algae and microphytobenthos.