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International Review of Hydrobiology, Volume 105, Issue 3-4, Page 74-84, June 2020., 2020 Abstract Anthropogenic flow intermittency is considered a severe disturbance for benthic macroinvertebrates with largely unknown impacts on the organization of benthic communities and their food webs. We analysed the community composition (as taxonomic composition and relative abundance of taxa) and food webs of the macroinvertebrates inhabiting the ...
Ignacio Peralta‐Maraver +3 more
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Developmentally regulated multisensory integration for prey localization in the medicinal leech [PDF]
, 2011 Medicinal leeches, like many aquatic animals, use water disturbances to localize their prey, so they need to be able to determine if a wave disturbance is created by prey or by another source.
Cienfuegos, Javier +2 more
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The European Zoological Journal, 2017 Toxicity of organic chemical compounds, including benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene and xylene (BTEX), is a major concern because of their induction of adverse effects in organisms, including reproductive abnormalities.
I. Khaled +4 more
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An Illustrated Checklist of Leech Species from Lake Baikal (Eastern Siberia, Russia)
Dataset Papers in Science, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 New data on Lake Baikal fauna of Hirudinida (Annelida, Clitellata) are presented. The species composition of Baikal leeches extends to 20 species belonging to two orders, four families, and 12 genera. An updated checklist includes information on five species recorded in Eastern Siberia for the first time.
Irina Kaygorodova +2 more
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Principal response curves technique for the analysis of multivariate biomonitoring time series [PDF]
Although chemical and biological monitoring is often used to evaluate the quality of surface waters for regulatory purposes and/or to evaluate environmental status and trends, the resulting biological and chemical data sets are large and difficult to ...
Besten, P.J., den +3 more
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First Records of Potamic Leech Fauna of Eastern Siberia, Russia
Dataset Papers in Science, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 We studied the fauna of leech and leech‐like species inhabiting main water streams of Eastern Siberia and its tributaries, which are attributed to Lake Baikal basin and Lena River basin. Here we present their list for the first time. This study was mainly aimed for free‐living parasitic and carnivorous leeches whereas piscine parasites were not ...
Irina A. Kaygorodova +5 more
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Provisional atlas of the freshwater leeches of the British Isles [PDF]
, 1981 Distribution maps were included in the second edition of the F.B.A. Scientific Publication on British freshwater leeches (Mann 1964). When that publication was extensively revised and enlarged to include a review of the literature on the ecology of ...
Elliott, J.M., Tullet, P.A.
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A phylogeographic analysis of the North American medicinal leech, Macrobdella decora (Say, 1824)
Zoologica Scripta, Volume 54, Issue 1, Page 103-118, January 2025.Abstract In spite of their important roles in many ecosystems, data regarding population structure and biogeographic patterns of leeches are scarce. To begin to address this knowledge gap, we herein perform a phylogeographic analysis of the North American medicinal leech, Macrobdella decora (Say, 1824). A total of 224 M. decora specimens were collected
Nat Kennedy +5 more
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Applied and Environmental Soil Science, Volume 2010, Issue 1, 2010., 2010 The British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) began and ended his almost 45‐year‐long career with observations, experiments, and theories related to earthworms. About six months before his death, Darwin published his book on The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Actions of Worms, With Observations on their Habits (1881).
U. Kutschera +2 more
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Leeches (Annelida: Hirudinida) of Northern Arkansas [PDF]
, 2006 Twenty-one lotic and lentic environments throughout central and northern Arkansas were surveyed for the presence of leeches during June 2004 and April, July - October 2005.
Daniels, Bruce A. +5 more
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