We investigate the distributions of representatives of the family Melanopsidae (Gastropoda:
Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea) from the late Cretaceous to present-day. The present …

The thermal spring-fed Lake Pețea located in NW Romania southeast of the city of Oradea
harbors a unique endemic warm water biota. It is the only location in Europe where thermal …

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 …

The Pârâul Pețea Nature Reserve, localized in Bihor County (Romania), in the area of the
Băile Felix rural tourist system, gained international interest and a regime of protected area …

Understanding sedimentation processes in response to past hydrogeological and climatic
changes and capturing millennial-scale variations is a key focus of lacustrine …

For more than hundred years the thermal spring-fed Lake Pețea near Oradea, Romania,
was studied for its highly endemic subfossil and recent fauna and flora. One point of focus …

Thanks to its unique microclimatic, geomorphological, hydrological conditions forming a
mosaic-like environment present at all scales, numerous Late Tertiary and Pleistocene …

Nymphaea lotus L. is a tropical and subtropical species of waterlilies with an African
distribution. A conspicuous satellite occurrence can be found in Europe in a thermal spring …

Some rare relict (ie Theodoxus prevostianus) or even endemic freshwater molluscs
(Melanopsis parreyssii) occurred until recently in several small and scattered thermal spring …

Additional data to the mollusc fauna of the pleistocene travertine of Eger (Hungary). The
pleistocene travertines of Eger are found at two localities in the area of the Eger Castle. Both …