Pensoft Publishers
Water mite diversity from southwestern Türkiye through the lens of the DNA barcodes, with the description of one new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia)
This study presents the molecular and morphological results from an analysis of water mites collected in southwestern Türkiye. 83 COI barcodes are provided, clustered into 40 BINs, with 23 BINs being unique and deposited for the first time in the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD). The first DNA barcodes for eight water mite species are uploaded into the BOLD database. In total, 34 water mite species were identified and one of them, Iranothyas marismortui (Gerecke, 1999) is newly reported from...
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2025
Milica Jovanović
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İskender Gülle
,
Harry Smit
,
Vladimir Pešić
,
Andrzej Zawal
,
Pınar Gülle
,
Aleksandra Bańkowska
,
Stanisław Musielak
MDPI AG
Application of the River Habitat Survey Method in the Assessment of the Human Pressure Within the Lowland River Catchment: The Mollusc Biodiversity Versus Habitat Features
The objectives of our study were to analyse the degree of human pressure within the lowland river catchment in relation to the mollusc communities and to assess the usefulness of the River Habitat Survey as a field method in determining the human pressure in the mollusc biodiversity context. The River Habitat Survey (RHS), an essential method for hydromorphological studies of rivers under the requirements of the European Union Water Framework Directive, was applied. This study showed that the diversity...
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2024
Grzegorz Michoński
,
Przemysław Śmietana
,
Joanna Pakulnicka
,
Iga Lewin
,
Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska
,
Dominik Zawadzki
,
Vladimir Pešić
,
Robert Stryjecki
,
Edyta Stępień-Zawal
,
Andrzej Zawal
,
Maja Krakowiak
,
Aleksandra Bańkowska
,
Tapas Chatterjee
,
Magdalena Achrem
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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
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Izabela Szućko-Kociuba
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Edyta Stępień
,
Vladimir Pešić
,
Robert Stryjecki
,
Andrzej Zawal
,
Zuzanna Krzynówek
,
Maja Krakowiak
,
Aleksandra Bańkowska
,
Tapas Chatterjee
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Research Square Platform LLC
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
