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  • Mercury methylation in oxic aquatic macro-environments: a review

    Andrea Gallorini, Jean-Luc Loizeau
    09-03-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2007
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  • Interactive effects of copper and calcium in Daphnia pulex

    Andrew Liorti, Teresa Crease, Andreas Heyland
    29-12-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1498
    5362
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  • Long-term persistence of sedimentary copper contamination in Lake Orta: potential environmental risks 20 years after liming

    Davide A.L. Vignati, Roberta Bettinetti, Aldo Marchetto
    13-04-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1232
    3427
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  • CO2 and CH4 fluxes across a Nuphar lutea (L.) Sm. stand

    Cristina Ribaudo, Marco Bartoli, Daniele Longhi, Simona Castaldi, Scott C. Neubauer, Pierluigi Viaroli
    e21
    19-01-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/mnol.2012.e21
    2928
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  • Movement and habitat use of native and non-native small benthic fish in a high conservation value agricultural environment

    Carlo Ruffino, Margherita Abbà, Alessandro Candiotto, Michele Spairani, Stefano Bovero, Stefano Fenoglio, Claudio Comoglio, Daniel Nyqvist
    28-08-2025
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2025.2216
    410
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  • Leaching of carbon from native and non-native leaf litter of subtropical riparian forests

    Daniel J. da Silva, Alice T. Valduga, Joseline Molozzi, Rodrigo Fornel, Rozane M. Restello, Luiz U. Hepp
    31-01-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1662
    2048
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  • Moored observations of turbulent mixing events in deep Lake Garda, Italy

    Hans van Haren, Sebastiano Piccolroaz, Marina Amadori, Marco Toffolon, Henk A. Dijkstra
    03-11-2020
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2020.1983
    3614
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  • Testing a new multigroup inference approach to reconstructing past environmental conditions

    Roy THOMPSON, Christian KAMENIK, Roland SCHMIDT, Sergi PLA, Maria RIERADEVALL, Jordi CATALAN
    155-162
    01-08-2008
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2008.155
    3371
    Downloads: 676
  • Effect of clone size on submergence tolerance and post-submergence growth recovery in Carex brevicuspis (Cyperaceae)

    Zhengmiao Deng, Yonghong Xie, Xinsheng Chen, Feng Li, Cong Hu, Na Liu
    30-12-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1442
    3654
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  • Dissolved organic carbon, CO2, and CH4 concentrations and their stable isotope ratios in thermokarst lakes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Cuicui Mu, Tingjun Zhang, Qingbai Wu, Xiaoqing Peng, Peng Zhang, Yuzhong Yang, Yandong Hou, Xiankang Zhang, Guodong Cheng
    26-01-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1346
    4988
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  • Organic matter dynamics in a savanna transition riparian zone: Input of plant reproductive parts increases leaf breakdown process

    Renan S. Rezende, Patrícia R.S. Correia, José F. Gonçalves Jr, Anderson M. Santos
    28-06-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1601
    3515
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  • Digitalization of the tardigrade collection of Giuseppe Ramazzotti

    Silvia Zaupa, Diego Fontaneto, Roberta Piscia, Lyudmila Kamburska
    22-05-2025
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2025.2217
    1198
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  • First observations of anthropogenic underwater noise in a large multi-use lake

    Marta Bolgan, Emilia Chorazyczewska, Ian J. Winfield, Antonio Codarin, Joanne O'Brien, Martin Gammell
    14-06-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1405
    3402
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  • Should I stay or should I go? The diurnal behaviour of plant-attached zooplankton in lakes with different water transparency

    Satu Estlander, Jukka Horppila, Mikko Olin, Leena Nurminen
    18-01-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1564
    4501
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  • Secondary productivity of main microcrustacean species of two tropical reservoirs in Brazil and its relationship with trophic state

    Sofia L. Brito, Paulina M. Maia-Barbosa, Ricardo M. Pinto-Coelho
    04-02-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1267
    4900
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  • Comparison of different solid phase extraction sorbents for the qualitative assessment of dissolved organic nitrogen in freshwater samples using FT-ICR-MS SPE sorbent comparison for DON extraction

    Patrick E. Stücheli, Jutta Niggemann, Carsten J. Schubert
    06-06-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1791
    2800
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  • Preserving the heritage of limnology in Italy

    Roberto Bertoni, Filippo Bertoni
    13-07-2021
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2018
    2429
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  • Formation of large colonies: a defense mechanism of Microcystis aeruginosa under continuous grazing pressure by flagellate Ochromonas sp.

    Zhen Yang, Fanxiang Kong
    e5
    19-01-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e5
    5704
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  • Candona alchichica (Podocopida: Candonidae), a new ostracod species from saline, tropical Lake Alchichica, Mexico

    Sergio Cohuo, Maria del Carmen Hernández, Liseth Pérez, Javier Alcocer
    06-09-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1480
    3809
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  • Gross mismatches between salmonid stocking and capture record data in a large Alpine lake basin in Northern Italy suggest a low stocking effectiveness for an endangered native trout

    Gianluca Polgar, Mattia Iaia, Tsung Fei Khang, Pietro Volta
    16-06-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2128
    2574
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  • Changes in life-history parameters of Daphnia longispina (Cladocera, Crustacea) as a function of water chemistry

    Fátima T. Jesus, Celso Martins, António J.A. Nogueira
    30-04-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.886
    3626
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  • The occurrence and levels of cyanotoxin nodularin from Nodularia spumigena in the alkaline and salty Lake Burdur, Turkey

    Fatma Sahindokuyucu Kocasari, Iskender Gulle, Sukru Kocasari, Selcuk Pekkaya, Firdevs Mor
    02-04-2015
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1097
    3311
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  • Colonization of constructed ponds by crustacean zooplankton: local and regional influences

    Chantal Audet, Shannon MacPhee, Wendel Keller
    e43
    09-10-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e43
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    Primary biodiversity data on zooplankton, macroinvertebrates, and fish from freshwater ecosystems of Uganda

    Laban Musinguzi, Mark Olokotum, Herbert Nakiyende, Robert Egessa, Vicent Kiggundu, Ghandi Willy Pabire, Samuel Bassa, Monic Nsega, AshIraf Kamya, Philip Rwezawula, Jessy Lugya, Godfrey Magezi, Janet Naluwayiro, Vianny Natugonza
    06-02-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2023.2117
    2861
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  • Invasive alien plant species, riverbank instability and hydraulic risk: what do we know about Amorpha fruticosa, Arundo donax and Reynoutria japonica?

    Fabrizio Buldrini, Sara Landi, Giacomo Titti, Stefano Parodi, Massimo Valente, Lisa Borgatti, Rossano Bolpagni
    13-12-2024
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2024.2204
    2311
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  • Factors driving semi-aquatic predator occurrence in traditional cattle drinking pools: conservation issues

    Raoul Manenti, Nicola Zanetti, Roberta Pennati, Giorgio Scarì
    09-08-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1447
    3758
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  • A review of rice field ostracods (Crustacea) with a checklist of species

    Robin J. Smith, Dayou Zhai, Suktonthip Savatenalinton, Takahiro Kamiya, Na Yu
    08-08-2017
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1648
    4961
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  • Zooplankton as an early warning system of persistent organic pollutants contamination in a deep lake (lake Iseo, Northern Italy)

    Roberta Bettinetti, Letizia Garibaldi, Barbara Leoni, Silvia Quadroni, Silvana Galassi
    e36
    24-07-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e36
    3222
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  • Influence of submerged macrophytes on phosphorus in a eutrophic reservoir in a semiarid region Influence of submerged macrophytes on phosphorus

    Vanessa Virginia Barbosa, Juliana dos Santos Severiano, Dayany Aguiar de Oliveira, José Etham de Lucena Barbosa
    03-02-2020
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2020.1931
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  • Study of the embryogenesis of Dunhevedia crassa King, 1853 (Cladocera: Chydoridae) and a comparison of embryonic instar durations in different cladocerans

    Alexey A. Kotov, Sompop Saeheng, Supiyanit Maiphae, Kay Van Damme
    e47
    18-10-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e47
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  • Phacotus lenticularis content in carbonate sediments and epilimnion in four German hard water lakes P. lenticularis content in German hard-water lakes

    Sebastian Lenz, Nathalie Dubois, Juergen Geist, Uta Raeder
    01-04-2020
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2020.1945
    1261
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  • Spatial uniformity in depth optima of midges: evidence from sedimentary archives of shallow Alpine and boreal lakes

    Tomi P. Luoto
    e24
    19-01-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e24
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  • Phosphorus dynamics in a subtropical coastal lake in Southern Brazil Phosphorus dynamics in coastal lake

    Aurea L. Lemes da Silva, Mariana C. Hennemann, Mauricio M. Petrucio
    11-11-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1894
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  • Deposition, burial and sequestration of carbon in an oligotrophic, tropical lake

    Javier Alcocer, Ana C. Ruiz-Fernández, Elva Escobar, Libia H. Pérez-Bernal, Luis A. Oseguera, Vilma Ardiles-Gloria
    25-02-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.783
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  • Aquatic food web research in mesocosms: a literature survey Aquatic food web research in mesocosms

    Csenge Póda, Ferenc Jordán
    29-04-2020
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2020.1949
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  • An overview of the structure, hazards, and methods of investigation of Nyos-type lakes from the geochemical perspective

    Franco Tassi, Dmitri Rouwet
    12-02-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.836
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  • Zooplankton community structure in the presence of low levels of cyanotoxins: a case study in a high altitude tropical reservoir (Valle de Bravo, Mexico)

    Michael A. Figueroa-Sanchez, Nandini Sarma, S.S.S. Sarma
    20-02-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.784
    4526
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  • Interaction between litter quality and simulated water depth on decomposition of two emergent macrophytes

    Yajun Xie, Yonghong Xie, Cong Hu, Xinsheng Chen, Feng Li
    30-07-2015
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1119
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  • The trophic role and impact of plankton ciliates in the microbial web structure of a tropical polymictic lake dominated by filamentous cyanobacteria

    Alfonso Esquivel, Aude Barani, Miroslav Macek, Ruth Ruth Soto-Castor, Celia Bulit
    22-03-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1392
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  • Water quality and avian inputs as sources of isotopic variability in aquatic macrophytes and macroinvertebrates

    Esther Sebastian-Gonzalez, Joan Navarro, José Antonio Sanchez-Zapata, Francisco Botella, Antonio Delgado
    e20
    19-01-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/mnol.2012.e20
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  • TEP production under oxidative stress of the picocyanobacterium Synechococcus Synechococcus TEP production

    Cristiana Callieri, María B. Sathicq, Pedro J. Cabello-Yeves, Ester M. Eckert, Justo Salvador Hernández-Avilés
    10-07-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1907
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  • Comment on An additional challenge of Lake Kivu in Central Africa – upward movement of the chemoclines by Finn Hirslund

    Martin Schmid, KellyAnn Ross, Alfred Wüest
    e35
    24-07-2012
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e35
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  • Origin and hydrogeochemistry of a shallow flow-through lake on a Pleistocene piedmont, northern Spanish Meseta

    Margarita Jambrina, Ildefonso Armenteros, Ángel Corrochano, Clemente Recio
    e29
    06-06-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e29
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  • Are antioxidant capacity and oxidative damage related to biological and autecological characteristics in aquatic insects?

    Ana Sanz, Manuel J. López-Rodríguez, Sergio García-Mesa, Cristina Trenzado, Rosa M. Ferrer, J. Manuel Tierno de Figueroa
    07-11-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1581
    3750
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  • Microcosm on a bottle: experimental tests on the colonization of plastic and glass substrates in a retention reservoir Micro- and macroorganisms in a eutrophic reservoir

    Tomasz Mieczan
    27-03-2020
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2020.1958
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  • Decaying cyanobacteria decrease N2O emissions related to diversity of intestinal denitrifiers of Chironomus plumosus

    Xu Sun, Zhixin Hu, Wen Jia, Cuilan Duan, Liuyan Yang
    15-10-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.1072
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  • Dataset: bird traffic rate at Bolle di Magadino Natural Reserve, Lake Maggiore (Switzerland)

    Silvia Giuntini, Clara Tattoni, Alessandra Gagliardi, Alessio Martinoli, Nicola Patocchi, Roberto Lardelli, Adriano Martinoli, Damiano G. Preatoni
    08-09-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2022.2137
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  • Study of tributary inflows in Lake Iseo with a rotating physical model

    Marco Pilotti, Giulia Valerio, Luca Gregorini, Luca Milanesi, Charlie A.R. Hogg
    19-03-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.772
    3853
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  • Effects of a treated sewage effluent on behavioural traits in Diamesa cinerella and Daphnia magna Effects of a sewage effluent on behaviour in Diamesa and Daphnia

    Sara Villa, Valeria Di Nica, Francesco Bellamoli, Tanita Pescatore, Claudia Ferrario, Antonio Finizio, Valeria Lencioni
    28-05-2018
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2018.1760
    2041
    Downloads: 1048
  • Relationship between bream (Abramis brama) activity and water turbidity in a shallow lake under different season conditions

    Joan H. Hansen, Jakob Brodersen, Henrik Baktoft, Christian Skov
    17-06-2019
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1883
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  • Limnology for the ornithologist: effects of Lake Maggiore water level on migratory flows

    Silvia Giuntini, Clara Tattoni, Alessandra Gagliardi, Alessio Martinoli, Nicola Patocchi, Roberto Lardelli, Adriano Martinoli, Damiano G. Preatoni
    08-09-2023
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2022.2123
    1554
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  • Is it possible to study palaeoenvironmental changes in Alpine spring habitats? A few examples from the south-eastern Alps (NE Italy)

    Maria Letizia FILIPPI, Gayane PILIPOSIAN, Laura MARZIALI, Nicola ANGELI, Valeria LENCIONI, Marco CANTONATI
    155-167
    01-09-2011
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2011.s1.155
    2269
    Downloads: 766
  • Archaea and Bacteria in deep lake hypolimnion: in situ dark inorganic carbon uptake

    Cristiana Callieri, Manuela Coci, Ester M. Eckert, Michaela M. Salcher, Roberto Bertoni
    12-02-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.937
    7359
    Downloads: 1116
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  • Shelter competition between the invasive western tubenose goby and the native stone loach is mediated by sex

    Dagmara Błońska, Jarosław Kobak, Joanna Grabowska
    15-11-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1557
    4223
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  • Changes in physico-chemical conditions and macrophyte abundance in a shallow soft-water lake mediated by a Great Cormorant roosting colony

    Piotr Klimaszyk, Ryszard Piotrowicz, Piotr Rzymski
    05-08-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.994
    3341
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  • Benthic processes in fresh water fluffy sediments undergoing resuspension

    Daniele Longhi, Marco Bartoli, Daniele Nizzoli, Pierluigi Viaroli
    e1
    05-02-2013
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e1
    3877
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  • Demographic responses of Heterocypris incongruens (Ostracoda) related to stress factors of competition, predation and food

    Rocio Fernandez, Sarma Nandini, S.S.S. Nandini, Maria E. Castellanos-Páez
    22-03-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1367
    3720
    Downloads: 894
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  • The first record of translocated white-clawed crayfish from the Austropotamobius pallipes complex in Sardinia (Italy)

    Julien Amouret, Silvia Bertocchi, Sara Brusconi, Marco Fondi, Francesca Gherardi, Frédéric Grandjean, Lorenzo A. Chessa, Elena Tricarico, Catherine Souty-Grosset
    20-03-2015
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2015.1143
    3533
    Downloads: 1205
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  • An isotope mass balance model for the correlation of freshwater bivalve shell (Unio pictorum) carbonate δ18O to climatic conditions and water δ18O in Lake Balaton (Hungary)

    Gabriella SCHÖLL-BARNA
    272-282
    01-08-2011
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2011.272
    2331
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  • Testing the response of macroinvertebrate functional structure and biodiversity to flooding and confinement

    Belinda GALLARDO, Stéphanie GASCÓN, Mercedes GARCÍA, Francisco A. COMÍN
    315-326
    01-08-2009
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2009.315
    3065
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  • Are the abiotic and biotic characteristics of aquatic mesocosms representative of in situ conditions?

    Andrew R. Dzialowski, Marek Rzepecki, Iwona Kostrzewska-Szlakowska, Krystyna Kalinowska, Anna Palash, Jay T. Lennon
    15-05-2014
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.721
    5475
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  • Expansion of the marbled crayfish in Slovakia: beginning of an invasion in the Danube catchment?

    Boris Lipták, Agata Mrugała, Ladislav Pekárik, Anton Mutkovič, Daniel Gruľa, Adam Petrusek, Antonín Kouba
    26-01-2016
    https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1313
    5852
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