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First record of Erpobdella concolor (Annandale, 1913) (Hirudinida: Erpobdellidae) from Greece

Biologica Nyssana, 2013
Erpobdella concolor (Annandale, 1913) was recorded for the first time from a spring in the Peloponnese, Greece. This locality represents the westernmost spot of the species range known so far.
Grosser, C., Pešić, V.
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The Relationship between Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages and Water Quality Parameters in the Sanyati Basin, Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. [PDF]

ScientificWorldJournal, 2022
Biological monitoring of reservoirs is important in assessing aquatic health. This study aimed at assessing the structure of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in relation to physicochemical parameters along Sanyati basin shoreline in Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe.
Makumbe P, Kanda A, Chinjani T.
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Phylogeny and revision of Erpobdelliformes (Annelida, Arhynchobdellida) from Mexico based on nuclear and mithochondrial gene sequences. Filogenia y revisión de los Erpobdelliformes (Annelida, Arhynchobdellida) de México, con base en secuencias de ADN nuclear y mitocondrial

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2005
The phylogenetic relationships of the suborder Erpobdelliformes, a group of non-sanguivorous leeches, were investigated with the use of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, mitochondrial 12S rDNA and nuclear 18S rDNA.
Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa, Virginia León-Règagnon, Mark E. Siddall   +2 more
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Sucking of human blood by Placobdella costata (O. F. Müller, 1846) (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae): Case study with notes on body form. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2021
In our paper, four events of blood sucking on human by juvenile and adult specimens of Placobdella costata were described. We presented with a new data of juvenile specimens' body form and considered information about the potential role of mammals as hosts and dispersion vector of this leech.
Cichocka JM, Bielecki A, Jabłońska-Barna I, Krajewski Ł, Topolska K, Hildebrand J, Dmitryjuk M, Biedunkiewicz A, Abramchuk A.   +8 more
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From subsidies to stressors: Positively skewed ecological gradients alter biological responses to nutrients in streams. [PDF]

Ecol Appl
Abstract Subsidy–stress gradients offer a useful framework for understanding ecological responses to perturbation and may help inform ecological metrics in highly modified systems. Historic, region‐wide shifts from bottomland hardwood forest to row crop agriculture can cause positively skewed impact gradients in alluvial plain ecoregions, resulting in ...
DeVilbiss SE, Taylor JM, Hicks MB.
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First Record of Dina Lineata (Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae) in Greater Zab River Kurdistan Region-Iraq

Science Journal of University of Zakho, 2013
The leech Dina lineata (Müller, 1774) was recorded in the present study for the first time in Iraq, from samples collected on the stone from Greater Zab River west of Erbil city during a period from May to September 2006.
LUAY A. ALI, HAYFA J. JAWAIR
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N‐dimensional hypervolumes in trait‐based ecology: Does occupancy rate matter?

Functional Ecology, Volume 37, Issue 7, Page 1802-1814, July 2023., 2023
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Many methods for estimating the functional diversity of biological communities rely on measuring geometrical properties of n‐dimensional hypervolumes in a trait space. To date, these properties are calculated from individual hypervolumes or their pairwise combinations ...
Alex Laini, Thibault Datry, Benjamin Wong Blonder   +2 more
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Freshwater macroinvertebrate traits assessment as complementary to taxonomic information for mining impact detection in the northern Peruvian Andes

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 28, Issue 8, Page 1582-1596, August 2022., 2022
Abstract Aim We studied the distribution of freshwater macroinvertebrate taxa and traits to distinguish ecological gradients among the mining‐controlled and natural headwaters, and rural and urban economic activity influences. Location In 2016’s dry season, macroinvertebrate samples were collected at 40 locations in the Mashcon watershed, northern ...
Daniel Mercado‐Garcia, Eveline Beeckman, Jana Van Butsel, Nilton Deza Arroyo, Marco Sanchez Peña, Marie Anne Eurie Forio, Karel A. C. De Schamphelaere, Guido Wyseure, Peter Goethals, Gianluca (AQE) Sara   +9 more
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Dina serbica, a new species of leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae) from Serbia, based on morphological and molecular evidence

Ecologica Montenegrina, 2022
In the present study we used an integrative taxonomic approach that combines morphological and DNA barcoding data to describe a new species, Dina serbica sp. nov. from a spring in western Serbia.
V. Pešić, C. Grosser
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Development of a flow‐sensitive macroinvertebrate index for Australian rivers

River Research and Applications, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 846-862, June 2022., 2022
Abstract Hydrologically sensitive macroinvertebrate indices have been developed in Europe, the Americas and New Zealand to serve many purposes such as monitoring ecological responses to drought, flow regulation, water extraction and the provision of environmental flows.
Bruce C. Chessman, Leon Metzeling, David P. Robinson   +2 more
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