Freshwater mussels of the Order Unionida provide important ecosystem functions and
services, yet many of their populations are in decline. We comprehensively review the status …

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Background/Aim. Within the elderly population, residents in nursing homes, there is a …

Understanding the underlying reasons for phenotypic plasticity and resulting morphological
disparity is one of the key topics of evolutionary research. The phenotypic plasticity of extant …

Biological invasions are common among freshwater molluscs, with the North American
planorbid gastropod Gyraulus parvus being reported from Europe (Germany) by the 1970s …

Native freshwater mollusc diversity has been declining over the past decades. For
developing efficient conservation management plans for molluscs, it is especially important …

The spatial distribution of bivalves in relation to environmental conditions was studied along
a second-and third order stream—medium-sized river (River Ipoly)—large river (River …

The aim of our study was to compare the richness and composition of macroinvertebrate
assemblages in natural reed and artificial rip-rap habitats in a shallow lake 50+ years after …

The malacofauna of the Dyje River, including the lower sections of its five tributaries, is still
rich and diversified despite the pollution, regulation and building of several dam reservoirs …

Anthropogenic water bodies namely fish ponds, clay pits, sand pits, dam reservoirs or
mining subsidence pools are the characteristic feature of Upper Silesian landscape. In the …

We examined the spread and distribution in the Danube River of a new alien gastropod
species, Clathrocaspia knipowitschii (Makarov, 1938)(Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae: Caspiinae) …