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Sandra Afonso, Juliana Nogueira, Carlos Cavaleiro, Fernanda M. L. Ferreira and Matilde Moreira-Santos
Essential oils (EOs) from Thymus mastichina (EO-thyme) and Helichrysum italicum (EO-curry) have wide commercial applications, but little is known about their ecotoxicity to aquatic life. We evaluated the lethal toxicity of both EOs toward standard freshw...
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Victor Alekseev, Hans-Uwe Dahms, Jiang-Shiou Hwang and Natalia Sukhikh
Invertebrates in tropical ecosystems are generally considered to have little or no need for a dormant phase due to the stability of the habitat. However, resting stages of aquatic organisms are occasionally found here as well. This fact increases the pos...
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Young-Joo Yun, Sung-Ah Kim, Jaehee Kim and Jae-Sung Rhee
Diuron, an additive biocide in antifouling paints, is widely employed to curtail the attachment of organisms on submerged surfaces in aquatic structures. Despite the detection of diuron in aquatic ecosystems, information regarding its acute and chronic i...
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Anna Cieplok, Mariola Krodkiewska, Izabella Franiel, Rafal Starzak, Martina Sowa and Aneta Spyra
In Natural Landscape Complexes and Ecological Sites, local environmental protection is used to cover previous industrial activities, fragments of the cultural landscape, and habitats of both vertebrates and invertebrates. In water bodies within the diffe...
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Kaoru Uesugi, Kazuaki Nagayama and Euichi Hirose
While nanoscale nipple arrays are expected to reduce light reflection and/or dust contamination in some insects, similar structures have been reported in various marine invertebrates. To evaluate the anti-contamination property of the structure in aquati...
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Catalina Vasquez-Carrillo and Kathleen Sullivan Sealey
This paper describes the unique natural communities and biodiversity of the upwelling coastal system along the Guajira peninsula in the southern Caribbean Sea. The Guajira peninsula has a small human population with limited infrastructure and limited opp...
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Victor R. Alekseev
Acanthocyclops americanus (Marsh, 1892), first described in Wisconsin (USA), was discovered shortly thereafter in Great Britain and then widely distributed in the Palearctic. Its current range includes Europe, North Africa, western and central Siberia wi...
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Narayanan Kannan
Overall health of a stream is one of the powerful indicators for planning mitigation strategies. Currently, available methods to estimate stream health do not look at all the different components of stream health. Based on the statistical parameters obta...
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Valerio Matozzo, Jacopo Fabrello and Maria Gabriella Marin
Glyphosate is the active ingredient of numerous commercial formulations of herbicides applied in different sectors, from agriculture to aquaculture. Due to its widespread use around the world, relatively high concentrations of glyphosate have been detect...
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Maria Pagano, Alzbeta Stara, Valbona Aliko and Caterina Faggio
The use of pesticides in agriculture has always had a strong impact on environmental contamination. Since the 1990s, neonicotinoids have grown increasingly more popular, targeting specific receptors for insects, especially bees, which is why the use of s...
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