The dynamics of the fungal mycelial content in the soils of stationary posts in a 30-kilometer zone around the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station
Vasilevskaya, A.I.; Zhdanova, N.N.; Gavrilyuk, V.I.
Mikrobiolohichnyi Zhurnal 55(4): 8-15
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0201-8462 PMID: 8220832 Document Number: 416778
The paper deals with mycobiota of radionuclide-polluted soils of seven stationary posts in the 30-kilometer zone of the Chernobyl NPP and one in the vicinities of Kiev (Feofania). The lengths of light-and dark-coloured fungal mycelium were determined in the soil under study by the method of membrane filters for 1987-1989. Data obtained have been analyzed with the account of the radioactivity level of the soil samples, season and depth of the sampling horison. The dynamics of mycelium content in soils has been traced which evidences for its seasonal changes and prevailence of dark-pigmented mycelium at the beginning which then was changed by predomination of light-coloured mycelium. It is supposed that radioactive contamination of soil is one of considerable components of the whole complex of ecological factors which determine the dynamics of fungal mycelium content in soil.