Octopus vulgaris is a species of great interest in research areas such as neurobiology, ethology, and ecology but also a candidate species for aquaculture as a food resource and for alleviating the fishing pressure on its wild populations. This study aimed to characterize the predatory behavior of O. vulgaris paralarvae and to quantify their digestive activity. Those processes were affordable u...

A new Gammarus species is identified based on the specimens collected from Morca Sinkhole, which was discovered in 2019 Anamur District, South of Türkiye. Eleven individuals belonging to newly were siphon located at end sinkhole (-1260 m). The can be distinguished by following character combinations and morphological features: blind, colorless (unpigmented) completely setae-covered body. Setae ...

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...

Environmental change and growing anthropogenic pressure on water resources is increasing the duration intensity of drying events in streams many geographical locations. Favourable sediment characteristics (e.g. high porosity low fine load within substrate matrix) may facilitate benthic macroinvertebrate use subsurface sediments response to drying. However, influence sedimentary subsequent recov...

According to the increased probability of the presence of nanomaterials in the aquatic ecosystems, the present study examined the toxicity of three engineered silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) as well as silver ions in the Pontogammarus maeoticus, a brackish water benthic organism living in the littoral zone of the Caspian Sea. The animals were acutely exposed to different concentrations of two comm...