On September 30, at the State Budgetary Educational Institution "South-Western Moscow School No. 1543" the defense of the research work "Cladocera (Crustacea: Cladocera) of some small reservoirs of Moscow" took place.
The work was carried out by 11th grade student Kristina Yuryevna Mityaeva under the guidance of the staff of the Laboratory of Ecology of Aquatic Communities and Invasions of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences - A.N. Neretina, P.G. Garibyan and A.A. Kotova.
During the work, for the first time in almost 150 years, a detailed study of the species composition of cladoceran crustaceans was carried out in 113 small reservoirs located in Moscow.