Year: 2018, Number: 4, Pages: 5-24
The annotated list of diatoms from six Russian Nature Reserves located in the coastal area of the Black and Japan seas is presented. This list includes 304 taxa of the species group belonging to 94 genera and 50 families in three classes Bacillariophyceae (173 species), Coscinodiscophyceae (88 species). In the Karadag nature reserve were found 242 species, in the Lebyazhyi Ostrova – 68, in the Kazachya Bay – 157, in the Martyan Cape – 63, in the Far Eastern Marine Reserve – 65, in the Vostok Bay – 126. Fourteen species are recorded in all of six studied natural reserves. Species-indicators of organic pollution (56 species) as well as harmful species causing water "Bloom" (55 species) and 5 potentially toxic species, dangerous for people and animals were found.