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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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
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...
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2022
Edyta Buczyńska
,
Paweł Buczyński
,
Joanna Pakulnicka
,
Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska
,
Edyta Stępień
,
Vladimir Pešić
,
Ewa Filip
,
Robert Stryjecki
,
Andrzej Zawal
,
Aleksandra Bańkowska
Les Amis d'Acarologia
Two new species from the Hygrobates nigromaculatus-complex (Acariformes, Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae), based on morphological and molecular evidence
We analyse the taxonomic structure of the Hygrobates nigromaculatus-complex from the Balkan Peninsula. We describe two new species: Hygrobates lacrima Pešić sp. nov. (Montenegro) and H. limnocrenicus Pešić sp. nov. (Montenegro, North Macedonia). Although both species are morphologically similar, the average K2P-distance between DNA-barcode sequences from H. limnocrenicus sp. nov. and its closest relative H. setosus was 12.43% (SD = 1.47), and between H. lacrima sp. nov. and its closest relative...
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2020
Andrej Zawal
,
Łukasz Broda
,
Milica Jovanović
,
Ana Manović
,
Miroslawa Dabert
,
Vladimir Pešić
,
Aleksandra Bańkowska
,
Peter Martin
