Study of some ecological characteristics of Iraqi marine waters Southern Iraq

Abstract EN

Monthly of some ecological factors from the Iraqi estuarine and marine waters were studied for the period January 2018 to December.

Three stations were chosen, the first station Shatt Al-Arab estuary, the second station the intermediate part between Iraqi marine and estuarine waters while the third station the Iraqi marine waters.

The ecological factors that have been estimated includes air and water temperatures, transparency, turbidity, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen, total phosphorus, sulphate, calicium, sodium, potassium, chloride carbonate and bicarbonate.

the maximum water temperature recorded value was (35.

4, 33.

2, 37.

2ºC) during June in the three stations respectively, the highest salinity concentrations were recorded during July, reaching (47.

3) ppt in the first station and in September it reached (45.

7) ppt in the second station and in October it reached (43.

1) ppt in third station, the highest values of transparency were recorded in the third station with a maximum value of 240cm during February.

And to know the physical and chemical properties of marine water due to the lack of environmental studies