Animal health is fundamental to efficient animal production and, therefore, to food security and human health. This holds true for both terrestrial and aquatic animals. Although partnership between producers and governmental services is vital for effective animal health programmes, many key activities are directly carried out by governmental services. Noting the need to improve the governance o...

Inland aquatic ecosystems, such as streams, rivers, ponds and lakes, play an important role in maintaining global biodiversity ecosystem services. They have been increasingly influenced by environmental change warming, dam construction, habitat fragmentation, eutrophication urbanization. However, our understanding of the impact on functions remains elusive. The aim this special issue is to high...

background: the pollution of the aquatic environment with heavy metals has become a worldwide problem during recent years, due to their potential toxic effects and ability to bio-accumulate in aquatic ecosystems. heavy metals are sensitive indicators for monitoring changes in the aquatic environment. methods: in this study, total concentrations of cr, pb, cu, zn, and fe were measured in water a...

Aquatic hyphomycetes are a group of freshwater fungi that includes asexual stages of ascomycetes and basidiomycetes. Even though aquatic hyphomycetes are a phyllogenetically heterogeneous group, there are common characteristics to most species: (i) they are saprotrophs, using submerged leaves and wood as substrates and sources of carbon (Gulis et al. 2006b), (ii) they can obtain nutrients from ...