Freshwater as a sustainable resource and generator of secondary resources in the 21st century: Stressors, threats, risks, management and protection strategies, and …

D Bănăduc, V Simić, K Cianfaglione… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper is a synthetic overview of some of the threats, risks, and integrated water
management elements in freshwater ecosystems. The paper provides some discussion of …

The Danube Delta: The Achilles heel of Danube River–Danube Delta–Black Sea region fish diversity under a Black sea impact scenario due to sea level rise—A …

D Bănăduc, S Afanasyev, JR Akeroyd, A Năstase… - Fishes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Danube Delta is one of Earth's biodiversity hotspots and includes many endemic, rare,
and important species of both major conservation and economic value. This unique complex …

The role of aquatic refuge habitats for fish, and threats in the context of climate change and human impact, during seasonal hydrological drought in the Saxon Villages …

D Bănăduc, A Sas, K Cianfaglione, S Barinova… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
In spite of the obvious climate changes effects on the Carpathian Basin hydrographic nets
fish fauna, studies on their potential refuge habitats in drought periods are scarce …

Stepping stone wetlands, last sanctuaries for European Mudminnow: How can the human impact, climate change, and non-native species drive a fish to the edge of …

D Bănăduc, S Marić, K Cianfaglione, S Afanasyev… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Throughout their history humans “tamed” not only the Danube River basin land, but also the
river and its associated wetlands, drastically influencing their characteristic habitats …

Screening for Microplastic Uptake in an Urbanized Freshwater Ecosystem: Chondrostoma nasus (Linnaeus, 1758) Case Study

A Curtean-Bănăduc, C Mihuţ, A Burcea, GS McCall… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The feeding characteristics of the nase, based on its mouth morphology and feeding
behavior related to aquatic habitat substrata sediments make this fish a biological uptake …

The benthic trophic corner stone compartment in POPs transfer from abiotic environment to higher trophic levels—Trichoptera and Ephemeroptera pre-alert indicator …

A Curtean-Bănăduc, A Burcea, CM Mihuţ, D Bănăduc - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been at the forefront of environmental
contamination research even before their ban in 2001 at the Stockholm Convention. Their …

[HTML][HTML] Lotic Ecosystem Sediment Microbial Communities' Resilience to the Impact of Wastewater Effluents in a Polluted European Hotspot—Mureș Basin …

I Boeraș, A Burcea, D Bănăduc, DI Florea… - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to assess the impact of WWTP effluents on the sediment microbial
communities throughout the Mureș River. This study shows the existence of an ecological …

Bacterial microbiomes in the sediments of lotic systems ecologic drivers and role: A case study from the Mureş River, Transylvania, Romania

I Boeraş, A Burcea, C Coman, D Bănăduc… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Numerous sections of the Mureş River vary in terms of the abundance of nitrates, ammonia,
and orthophosphates; and of correlated lotic sediment bacterial microbiome structures in …

[HTML][HTML]  New faunistic records of chironomids and phantom midges (Diptera, Chironomidae and Chaoboridae) from Ukraine indicate recent climatic refugia in the …

P Bitušík, M Novikmec, M Svitok, L Hamerlík - ZooKeys, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract The aquatic insect fauna of the Eastern Carpathians is poorly known, especially in
Ukraine. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted faunistic surveys of Chironomidae …

Natura 2000 A Panacea? Natura 2000 Site Oltul Mijlociucibin-Hârtibaciu (ROSCI0132)‒a Local Extinction of a Native Fish Species and a New Alien Fish Arrival Case …

D Bănăduc, S Bakhshalizadeh… - … Review of Systematical …, 2023 - sciendo.com
ABSTRACT The Romanian Oltul Mijlociu-Cibin-Hârtibaciu Natura 2000 site of community
importance (SCI) was designated for the purpose of protecting biodiversity and maintaining …