Sublethal effects are becoming more relevant in ecotoxicological test methods due to their
higher sensitivity compared to lethal endpoints and their preventive nature. Such a …

Central European riverine networks are subject to widely varying local anthropogenic
pressures, forcing species with limited dispersal abilities to adapt or become locally extinct …

The advent of genetic methods has led to the discovery of an increasing number of species
that previously could not be distinguished from each other on the basis of morphological …

Crustacean amphipods serve as intermediate hosts for parasites and are at the same time
sensitive indicators of environmental pollution in aquatic ecosystems. The extent to which …

The comprehensive assessment of the long-term impacts of constant exposure to pollutants
on wildlife populations remains a relatively unexplored area of ecological risk assessment …

Gammarus roeselii Gervais, 1835 is a morphospecies with a wide distribution range in
Europe. The Balkan Peninsula is known as an area of pre-Pleistocene cryptic diversification …

Pesticides are considered to be one of the main causes of the decline in macroinvertebrate
biodiversity in small streams. In particular, pyrethroids are detected in agricultural surface …

Background The discovery of cryptic species complexes within morphologically established
species comes with challenges in the classification and handling of these species. We …

One century after their introduction to Europe, eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki)
represent a natural experiment to determine the relative contributions of adaptive plasticity …

Phenotypic variability is a key factor promoting the establishment and spread of invasive
populations in new environments. The Ponto-Caspian region contains a diverse endemic …