| Abstract: | The influence of high concentrations of mineral nitrogen, phosphorus and their mixtures on species structure of microbenthos of a sand intertidal zone of the White Sea was studies in field experiment. The increase in concentration of nutrients (in comparison with natural) reduces the species diversity and organism abundance in grazing chains, but stimulates the development of organisms of detrital food chain. At abnormally high concentration of nutrients the response of community does not strictly depend on chemical composition of fertilizers and N:P atomic ratio. The high concentration of nutrients act as distructive agent on the complex organized system and simultaneously as a specific trigger of self organization processes, which re resulted in formation of highly coherent commynity of r-strategists (bacteria and protists). After termination of the experiment and resetting of environment to the previous state, the new community for a long time (measured by dozens of generations of unicellular organisms) retains its structure. |
