Biodiversity of phytoplankton communities of the Barents Sea in the summer of 2013

Information about taxonomic composition of phytoplankton communities of the Barents Sea in the summer of 2013 has been considered. It has been shown that biodiversity of phytoplankton communities was small in the observed water area, 43 species have been found referred to Diatoms, Dinoflagellate, Ochrophyta and Chlorophyta. Phytoplankton communities of the Barents Sea have been described as Arctic-boreal neritic complex of species with broad participation of cosmopolitan and oceanic forms.