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Daniel Castro-López, Pablo Rodríguez-Lozano, Rebeca Arias-Real, Víctor Guerra-Cobián and Narcís Prat
The Earth?s freshwater ecosystems are currently under threat, particularly in developing countries. In Mexico, intensive land use and inadequate monitoring policies have resulted in the severe degradation of the country?s freshwater ecosystems. This stud...
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Milica Balo?, Aleksandra Petrovic, Aleksandra Tubic, Tijana Zeremski, Sonja Gvozdenac, Dejan Supic and Vojislava Bursic
The presence of microplastic particles in agroecosystems has profound implications for soil quality, crop yield, and soil biota. Earthworms are widely recognized as valuable soil bioindicators due to their abundance, fast reproduction, and easy manipulat...
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Tanja Trakic, Filip Popovic, Jovana Sekulic and Davorka K. Hackenberger
As soil invertebrates with a unique digestive system, earthworms are regularly used as bioindicators and test organisms. Due to their burrowing activity and casting, earthworms are involved in the structuring of the soil. However, this way of life expose...
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Vicente Montejano-Ramírez and Eduardo Valencia-Cantero
The legume family includes approximately 19,300 species across three large subfamilies, of which Papilionoideae stands out with 13,800 species. Lentils were one of the first crops to be domesticated by humans, approximately 11,000 BP. They are diploid le...
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Gabriella Caruso, Valentina Iannilli, Giulia Vitale, Massimiliano Vardè, Marco Oliverio, Sara Bogialli, Lucio Litti, Andrea Setini, Beatrice Rosso and Fabiana Corami
The Arctic Ocean is undergoing several transformations because of global climate change. Small microplastics (SMPs) or nanoplastics (NPs) carried by marine aerosols may settle in the land ice and be released to the waters, produced following its melting....
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Barbara Zajdel, Pawel Migdal, Agnieszka Murawska, Agata Jojczyk, Ewelina Berbec, Kornelia Kucharska and Jakub Gabka
The aim of our research was to compare the levels of pollution in different habitats based on the concentrations of heavy metals found in pollen and the organisms of Osmia bicornis L. bees in three habitats: orchards, berry plantations, and urban habitat...
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Alberto Gutiérrez, Enrique Lozano-Bilbao, Ángel J. Gutiérrez-Fernández, Soraya Paz-Montelongo, Dailos González-Weller, Carmen Rubio-Armendáriz, Daniel Niebla-Canelo, Samuel Alejandro-Vega and Arturo Hardisson
The objective of this study was to study whether the metal concentrations in Sparisoma cretense and Serranus atricauda differ between different coastal areas around the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands and to study whether these species are good bioind...
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Fernanda Alves de Freitas Guedes, Luana Beatriz dos Santos Nascimento, Mara Priscila Costa, Andrew Macrae, Marcio Alves-Ferreira, Camila Caldana and Fernanda Reinert
Growing varieties with higher water-use efficiency is crucial to address water limitation in agriculture. Breeding programs often resort to model plants, and Setaria viridis has been consolidating its position as a model for C4 grasses. However, we lack ...
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Francisco Pozo-Solar, Marcela Cornejo-D?Ottone, Roberto Orellana, Carla Acuña, Cecilia Rivera, Polette Aguilar-Muñoz, Céline Lavergne and Verónica Molina
Coastal zones are ecosystems that are sensitive to climate change and anthropogenic pollution, resulting in a potential loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services through eutrophication and nutrient imbalances, among others. The coastal El Sauce catchme...
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Jair J. Pineda-Pineda, Jesús Muñoz-Rojas, Y. Elizabeth Morales-García, Juan C. Hernández-Gómez and José M. Sigarreta
Sustainable water management is important to ensure its availability for future generations. The study of water quality is fundamental for this purpose. Assessing the health of aquatic ecosystems through bioindicators has been shown to be reliable and in...
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