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River Habitat Survey: Does This Help to Explain the Nature of Water Mite (Acari and Hydrachnidia) Assemblages?

In the European Union, assessments of the quality of the aquatic environment based on aquatic invertebrates are mandatory. Biological methods are supplemented with hydromorphological assessments of watercourses. There are many studies analysing the relationships between aquatic invertebrates and the hydromorphological assessment of the environment by the River Habitat Survey (RHS) method, but thus far, there has been no detailed study including water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) and the application...

Download 2023 Grzegorz Michoński , Joanna Pakulnicka , Iga Lewin , Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska , Vladimir Pešić , Ewa Filip , Robert Stryjecki , Andrzej Zawal , Aleksandra Bańkowska , Tapas Chatterjee

MDPI AG

An Updated Checklist of Freshwater Gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with Emphasis on Crenobiotic Species

An updated checklist of freshwater gastropods of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including 144 species and subspecies from 59 genera and 17 families, is presented in this paper. Hydrobiidae is the most diverse family, representing ~50% of the species richness in the country. In total, ~38% of the recorded taxa are endemic. The highest number of species was recorded from underground waters and/or springs, followed by rivers and standing waters. This inventory includes 18 crenobiotic taxa, of which 9 are...

Download 2023 Ana Savić , Dejan Dmitrović , Vladimir Pešić , Goran Šukalo

Informa UK Limited

First insight into molecular diversity of interstitial water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia): a case study from the upper Neretva River in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Download 2023 Milica Jovanović , Špela Borko , Maja Zagmajster , Behare Rexhepi , Vladimir Pešić , Ekaterina S. Konopleva , Ester Premate , Andrzej Zawal

Informa UK Limited

Integrative taxonomy reveals a new species of the water mite genus Monatractides K. Viets, 1926 from Corsica (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Torrenticolidae)

Download 2023 Harry Smit , Vladimir Pešić

PeerJ

Sequentiality of beetle communities in the longitudinal gradient of a lowland river in the context of the river continuum concept

The main goal of the study was to recognize the mechanisms underlying assemblage structuring of aquatic beetle fauna inhabiting a medium-sized, lowland river exposed to anthropogenic pressures. An attempt was made to identify the impact of numerous abiotic factors on how beetle communities are formed, with particular emphasis on geomorphological and landscape-related factors, which tend to be omitted from many studies of aquatic organisms. Our intention was to refer the results of our study to the...

Download 2022 Edyta Buczyńska , Paweł Buczyński , Joanna Pakulnicka , Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska , Edyta Stępień , Vladimir Pešić , Ewa Filip , Robert Stryjecki , Andrzej Zawal , Aleksandra Bańkowska

Wiley

DNA barcoding of Chironomidae from the Lake Skadar region: Reference library and a comparative analysis of the European fauna

AbstractAimsThe main aim of this study was to fill a gap in barcoding data of the European Chironomidae of the Balkan region, developing and testing the efficiency of a reference DNA barcode library for ancient Lake Skadar basin species (Montenegro/Albania), a region of Europe never before subjected to barcoding studies on Chironomidae. Another aim was to test the efficiency of DNA barcoding for the identification of European Chironomidae, including the estimation of optimal identification thresholds,...

Download 2022 Bruno Rossaro , Piotr Gadawski , Matteo Montagna , Vladimir Pešić , Wojciech Giłka , Giulia Magoga , Michał Grabowski

Informa UK Limited

First DNA barcodes of water mites from the Indian Himalayas with description of two new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia)

Download 2022 Pankaj Bahuguna , Harry Smit , Vladimir Pešić , Rajesh Rayal , Neha Sharma , Kumbhlesh Kamal Rana

Informa UK Limited

Water mites of Corsica: DNA barcode and morphological evidences

Download 2022 Harry Smit , Vladimir Pešić

PeerJ

Anthropogenic transformations of river ecosystems are not always bad for the environment: Multi-taxa analyses of changes in aquatic and terrestrial environments after dredging of a small lowland river

Rivers are one of the most commonly transformed aquatic ecosystems. Most papers present significantly negative effects of activities such as dredging or channel regulation on the ecological status of rivers. The purpose of this work was to compare the response of various groups of invertebrates (Mollusca, Hydrachnidia, Odonata, Heteroptera, Coleoptera and Trichoptera) to an intervention involving dredging in conjunction with the removal of riparian vegetation. Habitat diversity increased after the...

Download 2021 Aleksandra Jabłońska , Edyta Buczyńska , Paweł Buczyński , Grzegorz Michoński , Tomasz Krepski , Joanna Pakulnicka , Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska , Edyta Stępień , Vladimir Pešić , Anna Sulikowska-Drozd , ... Pogledajte sve

Institute of Malacology

Seasonal Dynamics of Oxidative and Antioxidative Parameters in Sadleriana fluminensis (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae)

Download 2021 Ana Savić , Dejan Dmitrović , Vladimir Pešić , Biljana Davidović-Plavšić , Goran Šukalo , Biljana Kukavica