Head of Laboratory - V.V. Kirillov, Ph.D. in Biology

A specialist in the field of system ecology, integrated studies of composition, structure, functioning and evolution of water ecosystems, monitoring and assessment of ecological risks and safety, and multipurpose use of surface water

tel.: (3852)240214

There are 12 collaborators including 1 Dr. Sc. and 7 Ph.D.

The laboratory is engaged in the study of space-temporal organization of biohydrocenoses of the Asian Russia, biodiversity of inland water bodies at the cytogenetic, species, biocenotic and ecosystem levels.

Major trends of research:

• Study of taxonomic composition, development, spatial distribution, seasonal and long-term dynamics of phytoplankton, phytobenthos, phytoperiphyton, macrophytes, zooplankton, zoobenthos, zooperiphyton and fish in running and still water;
• Study of chlorophyll quantity and other pigment characteristics of aquatic algocenoses using the contact and remote methods;
• Electron microscopic studies of diatoms and yellow-green algae, aquatic invertebrates and cysts of Artemia;
• Development of methods of biological assessment of ecological state, water quality and bottom sediments of rivers, reservoirs and lakes using bioindication and biotesting methods;