Bounas, Anastasios Catsadorakis, Giorgos Koutseri, Irene Nikolaou, Harris Nicolas, Delphine Malakou, Myrsini Crivelli, Alain J.
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Freshwater fish declines are triggered by a suite of anthropogenic threats, including habitat degradation, climate and land use change, biological invasions, pollution and overfishing. Robust monitoring schemes are needed to understand and detect any effects of different factors on freshwater fish abundance and to be able to predict and respond to ...
Groza, Marius-Ioan Cupșa, Diana Lovrenčić, Leona Maguire, Ivana
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The stone crayfish is a native European freshwater species with significant population declines caused by anthropogenic pressure onto its habitats, climate change and spreading of non-indigenous invasive crayfish and their pathogens (e.g., Aphanomyces astaci). We present the first record of an Austropotamobius torrentium population in a small strea...
Ložek, Filip Patoka, Jiří Bláha, Martin
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There are known plenty tiny invertebrate species associated with decapod crustaceans. Our contribution documents the first record of New Guinean ornamental Cherax crayfish epibiont, Diceratocephala boschmai (Platyhelminthes: Temnocephalida) found in pet trade in the Czech Republic. Correct species assignment was confirmed by genetic barcoding. The ...
Radtke, Grzegorz Bernaś, Rafał Dębowski, Piotr Ulikowski, Dariusz Kapusta, Andrzej
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In view of contemporary changes in aquatic environments, determining the distribution of both native and emerging invasive crayfish species is increasingly important. In central Europe, the three invasive crayfish species of the signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana, 1852), the spiny-cheek crayfish Faxonius limosus (Rafinesque, 1817) and t...
Liu, Fang Lu, Jianbo
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There is a global increase in urbanization, which contributes to the loss and fragmentation of urban wetland and pond habitats. Urban ponds have an important role in the ecology of urban areas, as they provide essential habitats for aquatic species. The objective of this study is to demonstrate ecological engineering approaches to restoring aquatic...
Pflugrath, Brett D. Mueller, Robert P. Engbrecht, Kristin Colotelo, Alison H.
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American eel (Anguilla rostrata) populations have declined within their native range along the eastern coast of North America due to factors such as commercial fishing, habitat alteration, and dams. American eel are catadromous fish species, and high mortality rates (>40%) have been observed for freshwater life-stage adult eel passing downstream th...
Trbojević, Ivana S. Popović, Slađana S. Milovanović, Vanja V. Predojević, Dragana D. Subakov Simić, Gordana V. Jakovljević, Olga S. Krizmanić, Jelena Ž.
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Various studies report contrasting results on the substrate-type effect on diatom community composition, but the particularly important question is whether or not it affects diatom-based assessments of water quality. We investigated whether the substrate type is a significant predictor of the diatom community composition and if it affects lake wate...
Manolaki, Paraskevi Olesen, Annica Graves Hvidt, Bjørg Lauridsen, Torben L. Riis, Tenna
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Constructed wetlands have become a widely used tool for reducing nutrient loading from agriculture drainage water running to aquatic ecosystems. To ensure a high nutrient removal efficiency, it is often suggested to use macrophytes to retain or remove nutrients via uptake and through the denitrifying biofilm. In Europe, Phragmites australis and Typ...
Špelić, Ivan Rezić, Andrea Kanjuh, Tamara Marić, Ana Maguire, Ivana Simonović, Predrag Radočaj, Tena Piria, Marina
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Brown trout is a salmonid fish with a natural range extending throughout western Eurasia and North Africa. Due to its commercial value, it has also been introduced worldwide. In continental Croatia, introduced trout of the Atlantic lineage hybridizes with native trout of the Danubian lineage, threatening the native genetic diversity. The geometric ...
Maciaszek, Rafał Świderek, Wiesław Kaliszewicz, Anita Karaban, Kamil Szpakowski, Bartłomiej
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This contribution presents the first record of ornamental shrimp epibiont, Scutariella japonica (Platyhelminthes: Temnocephalida) in European waters. The species lives on freshwater Atyidae shrimp from temperate, subtropical and tropical zones of South-East Asia. In total, 120 individuals of Neocaridina davidi shrimp were caught in thermally pollut...
