MDPI AG
Drivers of the Structure of Mollusc Communities in the Natural Aquatic Habitats along the Valley of a Lowland River: Implications for Their Conservation through the Buffer Zones
The objectives of our survey were to determine the most important environmental factors within buffer zones that influenced mollusc communities and to evaluate the ecological conservation value of natural aquatic habitats (NAHs) that support mollusc species. Analysis of the spatial structure of buffer zones and catchments was based on a set of landscape metrics. Land cover classes were determined, and buffer zones within a radius of 500 m from a sampling point were marked out. Mollusc samples were...
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2023
Grzegorz Michoński
,
Joanna Pakulnicka
,
Iga Lewin
,
Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska
,
Izabela Szućko-Kociuba
,
Edyta Stępień
,
Vladimir Pešić
,
Robert Stryjecki
,
Andrzej Zawal
,
Zuzanna Krzynówek
,
Maja Krakowiak
,
Aleksandra Bańkowska
,
Tapas Chatterjee
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DNA barcode-based survey documents underestimated diversity and intricate phylogeographic patterns of aquatic Heteroptera in an endangered Balkan biodiversity hotspot: ancient Lake Skadar basin
Abstract
Lake Skadar with its surrounding springs, wetlands and larger affluents is among the most diverse freshwater ecosystems in the Mediterranean region and a key biodiversity/endemism hotspot in Europe. It is also highly endangered due to climate change and rapid tourism development in the area. Being abundant, diverse and mostly predatory, true aquatic bugs play an important role in the functioning of freshwater ecosystems and are used as indicators of aquatic habitat quality. Nevertheless,...
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2023
Tomasz Rewicz
,
Grzegorz Tończyk
,
Tomasz Mamos
,
Piotr Gadawski
,
Vladimir Pešić
,
Andrzej Zawal
,
Łukasz Trębicki
,
Michał Grabowski
MDPI AG
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...
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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...
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2023
Ana Savić
,
Dejan Dmitrović
,
Vladimir Pešić
,
Goran Šukalo
