On correlations between certain abiotic and biotic parameters of bottom sediments

Data collected in the summer of 1982 in the Sevastopol bays and regions of the sea adjacent to them have permitted determining significant positive coefficients for indices of correlation between natural humidity of bottom sediments and organic carbon, chloroform bitumoid and hydrocarbons as well as between total nitrogen and organic carbon. Negative relations of Eh and pH with natural humidity, organic carbon and hydrocarbons are observed. Significant negative coefficients connect Nematoda and Harpacticidae with the content of chloroform bitumoid in bottom sediments as well as meiobenthic polychaetes with organic carbon.На материале, собранном летом 1982 г. в Севастопольских бухтах и прилежащих к ним районах моря, определены коэффициенты корреляции между некоторыми биотическими (численность макрозообентоса и некоторых групп мейобентоса — инфузорий, нематод, полихет, гарпактицид) и абиотическими (натуральная влажность, органический углерод, общий азот, рН, Eh, углеводороды) параметрами донных осадков