Water Plants Ecology and Toxicology

Head of the department

Petro Klochenko

Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Professor

Collaborators of the department:

Klochenko P. - Head of the department, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Professor
Shevchenko T. – PhD (Biol.), Senior researcher
Gorbatyuk L. – PhD (Tech.), Senior researcher
Pasichna O. - PhD (Biol.), Senior researcher
Nezbrytska I. – PhD (Biol.), Senior researcher, Scientific secretary of the department
Medved’ V. – PhD (Biol.), Researcher
Kharchenko G. – PhD (Biol.), Researcher
Platonov M. – PhD (Biol.), Researcher
Gorbunova Z. – Junior researcher
Burmistrenko S. – Leading engineer

Collaborators of the Department of Ecology of Aquatic Plants and Toxicology (from left to right):
Klochenko P.D., Platonov M.O., Shevchenko T.F., Bilous O.P., Gorbatyuk L.O., Musiy T.O., Medved’ V.O., Nezbrytska I.M., Pasichna O.O., Gorbunova Z.N., Burmistrenko S.P, Arsan O.M.))

Research Areas:
Results
Illustrations
Selected publications

Fundamental investigations:
The main direction – studies of the regularities of the formation aquatic plant communities, their inventory, classification, and use as synbioindicators of the ecological and toxicological state of aquatic ecosystems and its changes under the influence of anthropogenic load.

Applied investigations:
1. Laboratory cultivation of freshwater blue-green and green algae.
2. Assessment of the influence of agricultural preparations (pesticides, fertilizers, etc.) on the vital activity of hydrobionts ov various trophic levels (fish, invertebrate animals, and algae).

Main results of scientific investigations:

Physiological and biochemical mechanisms of adaptation of microalgae widely distributed in water bodies of Ukraine to global climatic changes, including the increase in water temperature and in the intensity of UV-radiation, have been revealed.
Allelopathic interaction between freshwater algae was investigated. It has been found that their interaction is accompanied by the transformation of cell metabolism, including the intensity of photosynthesis, respiration, organic matter excretion, enzyme activity, protein fractional composition, and exometabolite spectrum.
The species composition and abundance of phytoplankton of the upper and middle reaches of the Southern Bug River were investigated. The ecological state of the studied sections of the river was assessed on the basis of the above-mentioned characteristics of phytoplankton and their bioindication characteristics, and also with regard of the content of inorganic compounds of nitrogen and phosphorus in the water.
The optimal conditions for obtaining the biomass of green microalgae with a high content of valuable biochemical compounds were selected. They included the duration of exposure, nutrient medium, temperature, and illumination.
The mechanisms of adaptation of hydrobionts of various trophic levels (fish, invertebrate animals, and macrophytes) to the influence of toxic substrates differing in their chemical nature (heavy metals, oil products, inorganic phosphorus, chlorine- and phosphorus organic pesticides) were elucidated.
Ecological and toxicological state of water bodies of various types, including the Dnieper reservoirs, the Dniester estuary, the Danube River, the Ros River, the Sasyk Reservoir, and the Shatsk lakes, was assessed. Ecological problems of the Kiev water bodies and adjacent territories subjected to the influence of megapolis were determined.
Response of epiphytic algae to heavy pollution of water bodies by inorganic and organic substances was revealed for the first time.
Peculiarities of the influence of hydrodynamic factors (current, water level fluctuations, and wind driven wave) on the structure of epiphyton occurring on macrophytes of various ecological groups in the Kanev Reservoir have been revealed.
Ecological and toxicological state of the Kanev reservoir to the influence of Kiev city were determined.

Tetyana Shevchenko studies periphyton algae

Olena Bilous studies plankton algae

Inna Nezbrytska cultivates algae

Lyudmyla Gorbatyuk estimates the content of oil products in the water

Olena Pasichna prepares plant material for determining the content of heavy metals

Researcher Platonov M.O. assesses the water quality using Cladocera

Researcher Kharchenko G.V. carries out sampling of phytoepiphyton.

Junior researcher Gorbunova Z.N. carries out a chemical analysis of water.

Klochenko P.D., Kharchenko G. V., Zubenko I. B., Shevchenko T. F. Some peculiarities of accumulation of heavy metals by macrophytes and epiphyton algae in water bodies of urban territories // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2007. – Vol. 43, Issue – P. 46–57.
Klochenko P.D., Kharchenko G.V., Klenus V.G., Kaglyan A.Ye., Shevchenko T.F. ¹³⁷Cs and ⁹⁰Sr accumulation by higher aquatic plants and phytoepiphyton in water bodies of urban territories // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2008. – Vol. 44, Issue 1. – P. 48–59.
Kharchenko G. V., Shevchenko T. F., Klochenko P. D. Comparative characteristics of phytoepiphyton of water bodies of Kiev // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2009. – Vol. 45, Issue – P. 15–23.
Shevchenko T.F., Kharchenko G. V., Klochenko P.D. Cenological analysis of phytoepiphyton of water bodies of Kiev // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2010. – Vol. 46, Issue – P. 41–55.
Klochenko P.D., Tsarenko P.M., Ivanova I.Yu. Peculiarities of phytoplankton species composition in water bodies of the Goloseyevo National Natural Park (Kiev) // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2010. – Vol. 46, Issue – P. 36–44.
Shevchenko F. Distribution of periphyton algae of the Dnieper reservoirs depending on the type of substratum // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2011. – Vol. 47, Issue 3. – P. 3–13.
Klochenko P. D., Kharchenko G. V., Shevchenko T. F. Peculiarities of the distribution of epiphyton algae in water bodies of Kiev // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2012. – Vol. 48, Issue – P. 39–51.
Shevchenko F. Thermophilous communities of periphyton algae in the cooling ponds of thermal and nuclear power stations of Ukraine // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2012. – Vol. 48, Issue 5. – P. 31–45.
Bilous O., Barinova S., Klochenko P. Phytoplankton communities in ecological assessment of the Southern Bug river upper reaches (Ukaine) // Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology. – 2012. – Vol. 12, Issue – P. 211–230.
Klochenko P. D., Shevchenko T. F., Kharchenko G. V. Structural organization of phytoplankton and phytoepiphyton of the lakes of Kiev // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2013. – Vol. 49, Issue – P. 47–63.
Klochenko P. D., Shevchenko T. F., Vasilchuk T.A., Osipenko V.P., Yevtukh T.V., Medved’ V.A., Gorbunova Z.N. On the ecology of phytoepiphyton of water bodies of the Dnieper river basin // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2014. – Vol. 50, Issue – P. 41–54.
Klochenko P., Shevchenko T., Barinova S., Tarashchuk O. Assessment of the ecological state of the Kiev Reservoir by the bioindication method // Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies. – 2014. – Vol. 43, Issue 3. – P. 228–236.
Bilous O., Barinova S., Klochenko P. The role of phytoplankton in the ecological assessment of the Southern Bug river middle reaches (Ukraine) // Fundamental and Applied Limnology. – 2014. – Vol. 184, Issue 4. – P. 277–295.
Belous Ye.P., Shevchenko T.F., Klochenko P.D. Seasonal dynamics of the quantitative indices of phytoplankton development in the upper section of the Southern Bug River // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2014. – Vol. 50, Issue 5. – 16–26.
Klochenko P. D., Shevchenko T. F., Kharchenko G. V. Structural and functional organization of phytoplankton in the thickets and in the section free of vegetation in the lakes of Kiev // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2015. – Vol. 51, Issue – P. 45–60.
Klochenko P.D., Shevchenko T.F., Tarashchuk O.S. Phytoepiphyton of the additional net of the Kanev Reservoir // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2016. – Vol. 52, Issue – P. 22–37.
Klochenko P. D., Shevchenko T. F. Phytoepiphyton of macrophytes of various ecological groups of the Kiev Reservoir // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2016. – Vol. 52, Issue – P. 3–16.
Lilitskaya G.G., Klochenko P.D., Shevchenko T.F. First record of Chrysococcus rufescens Klebs f. triporaW.G. Lund (Chrysophyta) in Ukraine // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2017. – Vol. 53, Issue 3. – P. 44–51.
Klochenko P., Shevchenko T. Distribution of epiphytic algae on macrophytes of various ecological groups (the case study of water bodies in the Dnieper River basin) // Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies. – 2017. – Vol. 46, Issue 3. – P. 283–293.
Klochenko P. D., Shevchenko T. F., Lilitskaya G.G. Bioindication of the ecological state of water bodies of the Goloseyevo National Natural Park // Hydrobiological Journal. – – Vol. 54, Issue 5. – P. 17–27.
Shevchenko T.F., Klochenko P.D., Bilous O.P. Response of epiphytic algae to heavy pollution of water bodies // Water Environment Research. – 2018. – Vol. 90, No – P. 706–718.
Klochenko P.D., Shevchenko T.F., Nezbrytskaya I.N., Belous Ye.P., Gorbunova Z.N., Batog S.V. Phytoplankton production and decomposition characteristics in water bodies differing in the degree of their contamination by inorganic compounds of nitrogen and phosphorus // Hydrobiological Journal. – – Vol. 55, Issue 3. – P. 29–43.
Klochenko P.D., Shevchenko T.F. Epiphyton as bioindicator of the state of the upper-cascade Dnieper reservoirs // Hydrobiological Journal. – – Vol. 55, Issue 4. – P. 26–37.
Shevchenko T.F., Klochenko P.D., Timchenko V.M., Dubnyak S.S. Epiphyton of a cascade plain reservoir under different hydrodynamic conditions // Ecohydrology and – 2019. – Vol. 19, Issue 3. – P. 407–416.
Klochenko P.D., Shevchenko T.F., Lilitskaya G.G., Bilous O.P., Nezbrytska I.M., Gorbunova Z.N. Phytoplankton of water bodies differing in the degree of anthropogenic contamination // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2020. – 56, Issue 3. – P. 13–29.
Klochenko P.D., Shevchenko T.F., Batog S.V. Coenological analysis of phytoepiphyton of the cascade plain Kanev Reservoir (Ukraine) // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2020. – 56, Issue 6. – P. 42–61.
Shevchenko T., Klochenko P., Nezbrytska I. Response of phytoplankton to heavy pollution of water bodies // Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies. – 2020. – Vol. 49, No – P. 267–280.
Nezbrytska I.M., Shamansky S.Y., Boichenko S.V., Kharchenko G.V. Some problems of the use microalgae for nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater (a review) // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2021. – Vol. 57, Issue – P. 62–78.
Arsan O. M., Mironiuk M.O., Khomenchuk V.O, Gorbatyuk L.O. Pecularities of adaptation of fish to the oil of the aquatic environment // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2009. – 45, Issue 4. – P. 85–92.
Pasichna Ye.A., Arsan O.M., Godlevskaya O.A. Respiratory metabolism of the higher aquatic macrophytes under the effect of manganese (II) of the aquatic environment // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2009. – Vol. 45, Issue – P. 97–109.
Myroniuk M.O., Kuklia I.G., Gorbatiuk O., Burmistrenko S.P., Arsan O.M. Peculiarities of course of the transformation reactions in the carp organism under the impact of organophosphoric compound in the aquatic medium // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2013. – Vol. 49, Issue 4. – P. 113–116.
Pasichna O.O. Use of macrophytes for biomoniring and purification of the aquatic environment at combined pollution by heavy metals // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2013. – Vol. 49, Issue – P. 72–79.
Pasichna O.O., Gorbatiuk L.O., Kuklia I.G., Godlevskaya O.O. Effect of elevated concentration of phosphorus in the aquatic medium on chlorophylls content in submerged macrophytes // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2016. – Vol. 52, Issue – P. 56–62.
Pasichnaya Ye.A., Gorbatiuk L.O., Arsan O.M., Platonov N.A., Burmistrenko S.P., Godlevskaya O.A., Anu Gopinath. Assessment of a possibility of the use of aquatic macrophytes for biomonitoring and phytoindication of the contamination of natural waters by heavy metals // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2020. – Vol. 56, Issue – P. 81–89.
Pasichna O.O., Gorbatiuk L.O., Godlevskaya O.O. Peculiarities of the accumulation of heavy metals by aquatic macrophytes and prospects of their use for biomonitoring and phytoremediation (a review) // Hydrobiological Journal. – 2021. – Vol. 57, Issue – P. 64–77.