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Georgia Stamou, Matina Katsiapi, Maria Moustaka-Gouni and Evangelia Michaloudi
Grazing potential (GP, in % day-1) was estimated for the plankton communities of 13 Greek lakes covering the trophic spectrum, in order to examine its sensitiveness in discriminating different classes of ecological water quality. Lakes with high GP value...
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Nikola Pfauserová, Ondrej Slavík, Pavel Horký, Jitka Kolárová and Tomá? Randák
The introduction of non-native species and human-altered habitats are currently the main threats to freshwater ecosystems. Due to predation and competition, biological invaders can cause extinctions and imperil the status of native species, and this phen...
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Shanshan Jiang, Hui Li, Hainuo Wang, Xiaoxia Liu and Kongming Wu
Wheat aphids are major pests of wheat and a significant threat to global food security. Eupeodes corollae Fabricius is one of the dominant species of wheat field hoverflies, but its ability and role in wheat aphid control lack systematic research. This s...
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Kunqian Cao, Rongmeng Lan, Xiuju Yang, Bing Gong, Jingjing Zhang, Xia Zhou and Linhong Jin
Scopula subpunctaria (Herrich-Schaeffer) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) is a leaf-eating pest in tea plantations that often causes serious economic losses. Arma chinensis (Fallou) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) as a polyphagous insect has become one of the main b...
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Rula Domínguez, Celia Olabarria and Elsa Vázquez
Extreme climate events, such as heatwaves and torrential rain, affect the physiology and functioning of marine species, especially in estuarine habitats, producing severe ecological and socioeconomic impacts when the affected species support important fi...
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Billy Nzau Matondo, François Fontaine, Olivier Detrait, Cathérine Poncelet, Stéphanie Vandresse, Patrice Orban, Justine Gelder, Séverine Renardy, Jean Philippe Benitez, Arnaud Dierckx, Frédéric Dumonceau, Xavier Rollin and Michaël Ovidio
The efficiency of glass eel restocking as a conservation measure to restore the altered local eel stocks has never been evaluated by integrating the dimension of typological diversity of freshwater habitats in eel recruitment performance in terms of the ...
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Mary Grace Sedanza, Hee-Jin Kim and Cyril Glenn Satuito
The potential use of the sea anemone Aiptasiomorpha minuta as an agent for controlling biofouling on cultured oysters and the optimum culture conditions for its mass culture were evaluated. Field experiments showed that nineteen species (eight phyla), in...
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Amir Nadeem, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir, Azhar Abbas Khan, Atif Idrees, Muhammad Faisal Shahzad, Ziyad Abdul Qadir, Naveed Akhtar, Arif Muhammad Khan, Ayesha Afzal and Jun Li
Sucking pests of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), such as thrips, or Thrips tabaci Lindeman, and jassid, or Amrasca biguttula Ishida, are among the most threatening insect pests to young cotton plants in Pakistan. New chemical insecticides have been trial...
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Netalie Francis, Lambert H. B. Kanga, Catharine M. Mannion, Muhammad Haseeb, Anthony Ananga and Jesusa Crisostomo Legaspi
The croton scale Phalacrococcus howertoni Hodges & Hodgson gen. nov., sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Coccidae), was first found in Florida, USA. This scale has become a pest because of its high reproductive rate and production of sooty mold. Here, we evaluated...
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Marco Tamburini, Jasmine Ferrario, Laura Piazzese and Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi
The role of native predators in controlling or facilitating non-indigenous species (NIS) growing in a fouling assemblage was investigated with a 70-day caging experiment in a marina inside the Gulf of La Spezia (Italy). Submerged PVC panels were divided ...
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