Microbiological and elemental composition of aerosols falling on the Crimean coast of the Black Sea

Abstract

In marine aerosol falling on the southern coast of the Crimea protected from the northern wind by the Crimean Mountains, extensive development of filamentous cyanobacteria, which concentrate Ag, Mo, Cu, Ni, Ba, Ca, Br, and Cd, is recorded. Micromycetes migrate within terrigenous aerosol, forming lichens and various associations with green microalgae of the genera Trentepohlia and Haematococcus. This aerosol type falling on the coast of the Sevastopol bays is characterized by accumulation of technogenic heavy metals, U, Th, and rare earth elements La, Ce, Sc.