Recovering European River Invertebrate Communities Homogenize or Differentiate Depending on Anthropogenic Stress. [PDF]
(a) European river invertebrate communities showed an average increase in local richness over time (1994–2023), indicating partial local recovery following the alleviation of anthropogenic stress (e.g., point‐source pollution). However, this local recovery was not accompanied by increases in β‐diversity, likely due to persistent, unaddressed stressors,
Cortés-Guzmán D +9 more
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Life in Extreme Conditions: Diet and Condition of the Extremophile Fish <i>Aphanius almiriensis</i> (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) in a Thermal Rheocrene Spring. [PDF]
This study aims to answer some questions about the bioecological traits of an extremophile fish Aphanius almiriensis in order to understand how it can survive and colonize the extreme habitat conditions. To this end, some bioecological characteristics—condition, diet, and feeding strategy—of A. almiriensis inhabiting the Tuzla thermal spring, which has
Saç G +5 more
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Hirudinea (Annelida) Fauna of Some Wetlands in Bingöl Province
Objective:Leeches are important and reliable indicators of water quality and biodiversity in the ecosystem, so the presence of specific leech species is often closely related to basic water conditions and the presence of certain animals.
Tuba Elaltunkara +3 more
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On the diversity of Iranian leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) [PDF]
Some provinces of Iran were investigated with respect to their aquatic invertebrates during two expeditions. Results of investigating the systematic of leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) are presented in this paper.
Grosser C., Pešić V.
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Faunistic patterns and diversity components of leech assemblages in karst springs of Montenegro
The aim of this study was to reveal faunistic and diversity patterns and to assess the effects of environmental factors on the differentiation of leech communities. This study covers investigations of 82 karst springs in Montenegro from 2009–2017.
Marinković Nikola +7 more
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Diversity of macrobenthos in lowland streams: ecological determinants and taxonomic specificity
The present study contains the results of an investigation of the relationships between the environmental variables and the taxonomic diversity of common and important groups of benthic macrofauna: Chironomidae, Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Hirudinea and ...
Paweł KOPERSKI
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Fauna Europaea: Annelida – Hirudinea, incl. Acanthobdellea and Branchiobdellea
Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus ...
Alessandro Minelli +2 more
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Acanthocephala, Annelida, Arthropoda, Myxozoa, Nematoda and Platyhelminthes parasites of fishes from the Guandu river, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [PDF]
Using information from all published reports and data collected during several parasitological surveys betweenApril 2003 and September 2009, a checklist of the parasites of fishes from Guandu River, southeastern of Brazil wasgenerated.
Azevedo, R. K. +2 more
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Fifty-four Pelophylax bedriagae (Levantine Frog) from Turkey (İzmir and Manisa Provinces) were examined for helminth parasites. The frogs were collected between 2012 and 2014 years. Eight species of helminth parasites were recorded: 3 species of Nematoda
Demır S. +3 more
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In this study, a total of 209 individuals of leeches were collected from Al-Hindyia River / Babil Province. 116 individuals were identified as Erpobdella octaculata (Linnaeus, 1758), 50 individuals as Erpobdella punctata (Leidy,1870) and 43 individuals ...
AL-Ameen et al.
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