Zhelev, Zhivko Tsonev, Stefan Georgieva, Katerina Arnaudova, Desislava
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Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Pollution effects on haematological parameters in Pelophylax ridibundus individuals were investigated; animals were collected from two sites in Southern Bulgaria: the Tsalapitsa rice fields (RF) and the Vacha river (reference site, RS). Blood analysis showed significant differences between the haematological parameters of RBC, WBC, Hb, packed cell ...
Morer Liñán, Astrid Uhl, Enno Rötzer, Thomas Biber, Peter Caldentey, Juan M. Pretzsch, Hans
Urban trees and the services they provide (e.g., evapotranspirational cooling, shading, recreation, carbon storage, air pollution filtering) can have major effects on the microclimate of a city, although the growth conditions are often inadequate to ensure tree vitality and growth, negatively affecting their beneficial effects. In a worldwide dendr...
Ludwig, Marie Wilmes, Paul Schrader, Stefan
Soils are the nexus of water, energy and food, which illustrates the need for a holistic approach in sustainable soil management. The present study therefore aimed at identifying a bioindicator for the evaluation of soil management sustainability in a cross-disciplinary approach between soil science and multi-omics research. For this purpose we fir...
Monti, Dominique Lefrancois, Estelle Lord, Clara Mortillaro, Jean-Michel Lopez, Pascal Keith, Philippe
Rivers of the Caribbean islands harbour a freshwater fauna mainly constituted of migrant diadro- mous species. In these hyperturbulent ecosystems, the primary producers are mostly represented by a thin epi- lithic biofilm, mainly composed of diatoms. Comparison of the diatoms available from the environment with the ones consumed and located in the ...
Schwerk, Axel Jaskuła, Radomir
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PeerJ
The carabid beetle species Pterostichus oblongopunctatus is common in different types of forests in Poland and Europe. With respect to this species, some unclarities exist concerning the morphological feature of punctures on the elytra. P. oblongopunctatus has dorsal pits in the third interval of the elytra, the available identification keys, howev...
Flache, Lucie Becker, Nina I. Kierdorf, Uwe Czarnecki, Sezin Düring, Rolf-Alexander Encarnação, Jorge A.
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Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Recently, a number of studies demonstrated the suitability of hair analysis to assess metal exposure of bats. As many bat species are endangered, such a non-destructive method is particularly suited for this taxon. The present study analyzed the levels of two non-essential (cadmium and lead) and four essential metals (copper, manganese, molybdenum,...
Barragán, Carlos Wetzel, Carlos E. Ector, Luc
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Journal of Applied Phycology
Terrestrial diatom communities are dynamic, partially unknown and potential bioindicators of the soil ecological quality. Many different sampling methods for soil algae can be found in the literature. However, so far none of them have been tested for their performance with soil diatom communities and given recommendations for obtaining a representa...
Kurmayer, Rainer Christiansen, Guntram Holzinger, Andreas Rott, Eugen
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Hydrobiologia
In order to understand Chamaesiphon spp. evolution and ecological diversification, we investigated the phylogenetic differentiation of three morphospecies from field samples by means of single colony genetics. Individual colonies of three different morphospecies (C. starmachii, C. polonicus, C. geitleri,) were isolated from lotic gravel streams and...
Pīrāga, Dace Tabors, Guntis Nikodemus, Oļģerts Žīgure, Zane Brūmelis, Guntis
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Environmental Science and Pollution Research
The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of various indicators in the assessment of environmental pollution and to determine the response of pine to changes of pollution levels. Mezaparks is a part of Riga that has been subject to various long-term effects of atmospheric pollution and, in particular, historically from a large superphosphate fa...
Llop, Esteve Pinho, Pedro Ribeiro, Manuel C Pereira, Maria João Branquinho, Cristina
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Environmental Science and Pollution Research
The land-use type (residential, green areas, and traffic) within relatively small Mediterranean urban areas determines significant changes on lichen diversity, considering species richness and functional groups related to different ecological factors. Those areas with larger volume of traffic hold lower species diversity, in terms of species richne...
