9. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK

The zoobenthos example showed that the suggested data description format can be used for wide variety hydrobiological parameters.

The comparison results have demonstrated that the 1920's and the 1930's were more favorable for plankton development compared with the period 1950-1980.

The data collected in the nearshore Kola Peninsula region in the period 1952-1959 demonstrated that intra-year variation in zooplankton characteristics is in phase with the temperature anomaly fluctuations.

The database development and documentation of fluctuations in hydrobiological characteristics of the Arctic Seas are of priority for our future work. We plan to develop the database through improvement of the quality control procedures for hydrobiological characteristics and detailed descriptions of the methods and gears.