Ludmila Yevdokimovna Mikhaylenko is a Doctor of Biological Sciences, highly qualified expert in the area of productive and sanitary aquatic microbiology.

After graduation of biological faculty of Kiev State University by T.G.Shevchenko (1960), the whole her creative life is connected with Institute of Hydrobiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

During Mrs. Mikhaylenko’s postgraduate study (1962—1965) she was assigned to the Laboratory of Water Microbiology of Zoological Institute of Academy of Sciences of USSR (Leningrad), where under Antonina Gavrilovna Rodina’s guidance, well-known scientist and Professor, she had prepared and defend her candidate dissertation devoted to nitrogen-fixing bacteria in different reservoirs.

The whole Mrs. L.Ye.Mikhaylenko’s creative life (more than 30 years) has been connected with one of the largest rivers of Europe — the Dnieper. During 1975—1990 she was a Chief of Laboratory of Aquatic Microbiology, and since 1990 till the present time (1999) has been working first as the Leading Research Assistant in the same laboratory, and later — in the Department of Reservoirs Ecology of Institute of Hydrobiology of NAS of Ukraine.

Her scientific interests are focused on study of peculiarities of functioning of bacterial population in the Dnieper reservoirs under antropogenic pollution of water environment, and also on an estimation of a role of bacteria in the bioproductivity processes and formation of water quality.

Mrs. L.Ye.Mikhaylenko is an author of 70 scientific papers relevant to microbiology and hydrobiology. Many times she was a representative from the domestic science on international scientific fora — in Yugoslavia (1979, 1989), Czechoslovakia (1980, 1985), Poland (1987), Ukraine (1992). She was an active participant in the First International Expedition on hydrobiological study of Danube (1988).

Mrs. L.Ye.Mikhaylenko is recommended by Joint Board of the Advisers of the independent American Biographic Institute (ABI) for the inclusion in the 7th editions “Five Hundred Leaders of Influence”. The editions of this institute have been issuing since 1967. They give the referential information about the scientists, who were noted to increase the sum of the world human knowledge.

Besides, ABI International Research Board (Northern Carolina) gave to L.Ye.Mikhaylenko a prestigious title “a Woman of 1997” for her contribution to the ecological science in the end of 20th century.

This is an Internet-version of the monograph, which contain an information on peculiarities of functioning of bacterial community in large plain reservoirs of the Dnieper cascade of intensive complex use. Obtained by author, the long-term data (30 years) on structural-functional characteristics of bacterioplankton allowed to identify the specific stages of bacterioplankton succession caused by effect of concrete natural and anthropogenic factors.

A quantitative estimation of bacteria involvement in transformation of organic matter in production-destruction processes, trophical chains and energy flow in planktonic communities are given on different stages of existence of reservoirs. The peculiarities of functioning of bacterioplankton under impact of radioactive and toxic contamination of aquatic environment are established. Multiyear assessment of saprobicity of the Dnieper reservoirs according to microbiological indices are given.

The results of author's research are applied in prognostication of microbiological regimes as well as in modeling of water quality of the Dnieper reservoirs.

The book are designed for microbiologists, hydrobiologists as well as for lecturers and students of higher education establishments and water managers.

Bacterioplankton of the Dnieper reservoir / L. Mikhaylenko. – Institute of Hydrobiology of NAS of Ukraine, 1999. – 300 pp. 30 figures. 95 tables. 303 references.