SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY OF THE TAPHOCOENOSIS IN LAKE KENDUR, MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA, BASED ON THE RESULTS OF COMPLEX ZOOLOGICAL AND CLADOCERAN ANALYSES

摘要

The aim of this study was to analyze the spatial distribution of biological remains in a certain water body of European Russia, Lake Kendur, Shatura District, Moscow Area selected as an example. We revealed a strong heterogeneity in the composition of subfossil remains in the upper layer of bottom sediments along a transect from the littoral zone to the lake's center at all three levels of our analysis: algo-zoological, complex zoological and cladoceran ones. We conclude that any remains of different organisms are buried mainly in the zones of their production. The results of our work are important for techniques of palaeozoological analysis. We can infer that choosing the sampling localities in each water body and the necessary number of samples must be determined by the aims of each particular study.