aquatic invertebrates are the major group of freshwater animals in aquatic ecosystems in terms of biology and food chain. this study was conducted to identify benthic communities in four stations of the abgarmeh river (saleh abad, the ilam province) during 2007-2008. in this study eighteen families of benthose such as naididae, tubificidae, lumbricidae, erpobdellidae, gammaridae, haliplidae, co...

To meet the requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive, models are useful to predict communities in watercourses based on the abiotic characteristics of their aquatic environment. For that purpose back-propagation artificial neural network algorithms were used to induce predictive models on a dataset of the Zwalm river basin (Flanders, Belgium). This dataset consisted of 120 samples, coll...

Amphipod fauna of Moldova remains one of the least known in Europe with the most recent data upon species distribution being already almost 50 years old. In this paper, we summarize the knowledge upon the distribution of amphipods in Moldovan inland waters based on literature survey combined with our new original data and present a comprehensive checklist of recorded amphipod species. The new o...

Diet of adult pikeperch Sander lucioperca, Eurasian perch Perca fluviatilis, northern pike Esox lucius and European catfish Silurus glanis as top predators in aquatic ecosystems in Serbia was investigated during 2011, in order to understand their relationship to their prey and to investigate their food consumption, feeding and assimilation rate, cannibalism, and habitat segregation. Northern pi...

Biodiversity and structure of the benthic macrofauna communities were studied in the southeast the Caspian Sea (Golestan Province – Iran) during one year from October 2014 to September 2015. Seasonal samplings were done at 6 stations in 3 transects. Depth, temperature, salinity, pH, E.C., total organic matter and grain size were measured. More than 4,037 individuals belonging to five orders, Po...

diet of adult pikeperch sander lucioperca, eurasian perch perca fluviatilis, northern pike esox lucius and european catfish silurus glanis as top predators in aquatic ecosystems in serbia was investigated during 2011, in order to understand their relationship to their prey and to investigate their food consumption, feeding and assimilation rate, cannibalism, and habitat segregation. northern pi...