Konstantin A. Lutaenko

BIODIVERSITY RESEARCHES IN THE INSTITUTE OF MARINE

BIOLOGY FEB RAS

Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in 1967 by

Prof. Alexey V. Zhirmunsky as Marine BiologyDepartment of the Far Eastern Division, Siberian Branch of the

RAS. On January 1, 1970, the department was reorganized into the institute

THE MAJOR RESEARCH OBJECTIVES THE MAJOR RESEARCH OBJECTIVES OF THE INSTITUTE OF THE INSTITUTE

• the study of flora, fauna, ecology, and production of biota in the shelf zones of the seas;

• research on conservation, reproduction, and management of biological resources;

• the study of adaptation, ontogenesis and evolution of marine organisms

LIST OF LABORATORIES

• Chorology• Ecology of Shelf

Communities• Planktonology• Production Biology• Embryology• Invertebrate Ecology • Benthos Ecology • Genetics• Fish Population Biology

• Ichthyology• Physiology• Pharmacology• Cytophysiology• Comparative Cytology• Comparative

Biochemistry• Cell Biophysics• Aquatic Plant

Physiology

Major animal groups under taxonomic and faunal study in the IMB: Foraminifera,

Anthozoa, Cephalorhyncha, Nematoda, Nemertini, Polychaeta, Sipunculida, Mollusca (Gastropoda and Bivalvia), Isopoda, Ostracoda, Cumacea, fishes, and

Reptilia (Serpentes)

Biota of the Russian Waters of the Sea of Japan Vol. 1: Crustacea (Cladocera, Leptostraca, Mysidacea, Euphausiacea) and Pycnogonida

Vol. 2: Prokaryota

Vol. 3: Brachiopoda and Phoronida

Vol. 4: Amphipoda – Caprellidea

Vol. 5: Crustacea (Thoracica and Facetotecta)

6500

4800950

2000

2700

2900

Species richness of marine invertebrates

Peter the Great Bay

A wide variety of environments

Peter the Great Bay

52 phyla; 104 classes;840 families; 1855 genera;

3800 species

Cyanophyles – 130Rodophyles – 147Dinophyles – 183Phaeophyles – 72

Diatomophyles – 331Chlorophyles – 76Ciliophora – 157

Fungi – 68Cnidaria – 96

Plathelminthes – 222Nemathelminthes – 178

Annelida – 277Mollusca – 330

Crustacea – 620Echinodermata – 74

Chordata - 332

IMB

Vostok BayMarine Reserve

M a r i n e l I f e o f P e t e r t h e G r e a t B a y

M a r I n e l i f e o f P e t e r t h e G r e a t B a y

M a r I n e l i f e o f P e t e r t h e G r e a t B a y

Oyster community occupies a major part of bottom in semi-enclosed bays and lagoons

Crassostrea gigas

Annual and seasonal long-time VIDEO-MONITORING of underwater landscapes, their dynamics, and marine biodiversity along the constant underwater transects

mounted in the protected (no-touch) water areas of Peter the Great Bay have been conducted since 2002 to assess and visualize any environmental and biotic changes

(Drs. A. Adrianov and V. Tarasov research teams)

Peter the Great Bay

Vostok Bay

Marine Reserve

Institute of Marine Biology

Video-monitoring of marine landscapesalong the constant underwater transects in Peter the Great Bay

TREDA -"Tumen River

Development Area"

Integrated investigations ofmarine biological diversity,hydrological and hydro-chemical regimes have beenconducted using dredges,multi-corers, box-corers, planktonic nets, diving, multi-functional probe and loggers.

River mouth

What is the APN?Inter-governmental network in the AsiaPacific Region with the priority goals of:

Increasing developing country participation in global change research through networking and capacity building

Fostering global change through regional cooperation and partnerships

Strengthening interactions between the natural and social sciences in global change with the policy- and decision-making community

The Global Change Community

Scientific Community Inter- Governmental

Networks

START

IGBP

IHDP

WCRP

DIVERSITAS

IAIIAI

Programmes

APNAPN

EUEU

Climate Variability and Human Climate Variability and Human Activities in Relation to Activities in Relation to

Northeast Asian Land-Ocean Northeast Asian Land-Ocean Interactions and their Interactions and their

Implications for Coastal Zone Implications for Coastal Zone

ManagementManagement APN Project 2004-18-NMY APN Project 2004-18-NMY

APN/START Project 2005-05-CMY APN/START Project 2005-05-CMY

Participating countries: Participating countries: China, Republic of Korea and Russian China, Republic of Korea and Russian

Federation Federation

Vladivostok APN/START 2002 SymposiumVladivostok APN/START 2002 Symposium

W O R K S H O P, Nanjing, China, December 4-8, 2004

CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES IN RELATION TO NORTHEAST ASIAN AND-OCEAN INTERACTIONS AND

THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT

Vladivostok 2003 APN Workshop and field

excursion to Razdolnaya River mouth

Ecological Studies and State of the Ecosystem of Amursky Bay and Estuarine Zone of the Razdolnaya River (Sea of Japan). Vol. 1

EDITORS: Konstantin A. Lutaenko and Marina A. Vashchenko O.N. Pavlyuk, Yu.A. Trebukhova

The Razdolnaya River impact on the composition of meiobenthos in the northern part of Amursky Bay

(Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan)

T.S. Tarasova

Long-term changes in composition and distribution of the Recent benthic Foraminifera in the eastern part

of Amursky Bay (Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan)

M.B. Ivanova, L.S. Belogurova, A.P. Tsurpalo

Composition and distribution of the intertidal communities in the estuarine zone of the inner part of

Amursky Bay (Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan)

I.R. Levenets, A.V.Skriptsova

Benthic flora of the innermost part of Amursky Bay

A.V. Chernyshev

Fauna of nemerteans of Amursky Bay and the adjacent areas

L.A. Tsareva, A.A. Kepel

Cumacea of the inner part of Amursky Bay (Sea of Japan)

M.A. Zenina, E.I. Schornikov

Ostracod assemblages of the freshened part of Amursky Bay and lower reaches of Razdolnaya

River (Sea of Japan)

M.A. Zenina, E.I. Schornikov

Ostracod assemblages of the freshened part of

Amursky Bay and lower reaches of Razdolnaya

River (Sea of Japan)

A.V. Chernyshev

Fauna of nemerteans of

Amursky Bay and the adjacent areas

APN Project (2007-2008)

ARCP2007-12NMY

MARINE BIODIVERSITY OF THE COASTAL ZONES IN THE NW PACIFIC: STATUS, REGIONAL THREATS, EXPECTED

CHANGES AND CONSERVATION

to collect information about overall species diversity and to compile species lists of biota as a basis for monitoring of expected changes

to develop the method of videomonitoring of marine biota along the long-term fixed transects

to inspect and study the species composition and ecological characteristics of the biofouling communities and ballast waters of ships

to summarize data on biodiversity loss and modifications on tidal flats in three involved countries

Meiobenthic studies in the IMB involve both taxonomic and ecological aspects

A.V. Adrianov, V.V. Malakhov

Cephalorhyncha of the World Ocean

Treatise on morphology and taxonomy of

Priapulida, Loricifera, Kinorhyncha and Nematomorpha

Marine fish fauna of the Primorye region is estimated about 306 species,103 of them being south migrants entering our waters in warm years

13 species of tropical and subtropical fishes, new for Russian waters, entered the bay within the last 10 years. 9 tropical species have been caught

within the last 5 years (2000-2004) because of the warming of surface waters

1. Coryphaena equisetis (dorado) 2. Brama japonica (Japanese bream) 3. Micracanthus striatus (striated micracanth)

4. Girella punctata (spotted girella) 5. Pictiblennius yatabei (Yatabe blenniform fish) 6. Chirolophis saitone

(Saito blenniform fish) 7. Hyperogliphe japonica

(Japanese gyperogliph) 8. Hexagrammos otakii (Japanese greenling)

9. Liparis punctulatus (striped sea-snail) 10. Histrio histrio (frogfish)

11. Sphaeroides pachygaster (ball fish) 12. Seriola dumerili (greater amberfish)

13. Parupeneus spilurus (Japanese goat-fish)

Annual and seasonal long-time monitoring of fish fauna in the Peter the Great Bay (Dr. A. Sokolovsky’s research team)

All these species are at the first stages of acclimatization; still there are no stable populations naturalized into local communities.

Some warm-water species – garfish,half-beaks, thread herring, Japanese

anchovy, mullet – extend their area ofdistribution and have been involved into

fishery process in the Peter the Great Bay

At the same time, some cold-waterspecies valuable for fishery – walleyepollock, Pacific herring, saffron cod,

plaices – often migrate from the Peter the Great Bay to north for reproduction

Histrio histrio

Sphoeroides pachygaster

Trigla kumu

Annual and seasonal long-time monitoring of fouling marine organisms introduced to the Peter the Great Bay with warm water currents,

ships, and ballast waters. (Dr. A. Zvyagintsev’s research team)

16 species of tropical and subtropical sessile invertebrates (hydrozoans,cirripedes, amphipods, polychaetes, bryozoans, tunicates) introduced inour waters are found being in the process of acclimatization in the local

communities of the Peter the Great Bay within the last few years.All of them are found as component of fouling on hydrotechnic

constructions (HTC)of the ports and harbors in Peter the Great Bay

Crustacean Balanus amphitrite, worm Hydroides elegans, and ascidian Molgulamanhattensis cause significant changes in benthic communities and are close to

so-called “ecological explosion”

Solitary ascidian (Tunicata), Molgula manhattensis,introduced in 1999, became dominant in the fouling

community after 4 months of immersion of the test plates in the Golden Horn

Inlet (Vladivostok port)

Yu.Ya. Latypov, T.N. Dautova

CORALS – SCLERACTINIANS

OF VIETNAM

5 volumes published

356 species described and illustrated

Studies of the intertidal biota and

communities

Prof., Academician

Oleg G. Kussakin

O.G. Kussakin

Marine and Brackish-Water Isopods of the Cold and Temperate

Waters of the Northern Hemisphere

5 volumes (1979-2003)

Annual seasonal monitoring of phytoplankton including toxic microalgae

25 potentially toxic species were found in Peter

the Great Bay

Alexandrium insuetum

Dinophysis rotundata

Institute of Marine Biology is headquarters of the

RUSSIAN FAR EAST MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY

(established in 1994 by

Prof. A.I. Kafanov)

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About 40 members including foreign (China, Korea, Japan,

USA)

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A medium published – the Bulletin of the RFEMS (10 volumes since

1996) and distributed to more than 100 libraries, museums and institutions around the world

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2 meeting held including one international in 2004

BIOLOGIYA MORYA

and its simultaneous translation into English – RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF MARINE BIOLOGY – are

official journals of the Russian Academy of

Sciences published since 1975

(founder – Prof. Alexey V. Zhirmunsky)

T H A N K Y O U !

© International Cooperation Department, IMB FEB RAS, 2007