Living on the edge: Crayfish as drivers to anoxification of their own shelter microenvironment

A Neculae, ZC Barnett, K Miok, MM Dalosto, I Kuklina… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Burrowing is a common trait among crayfish thought to help species deal with adverse
environmental challenges. However, little is known about the microhabitat ecology of …

World of Crayfish™: a web platform towards real-time global mapping of freshwater crayfish and their pathogens

MC Ion, CC Bloomer, TI Bărăscu, FJ Oficialdegui… - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Accurate mapping of species distributions is essential for enhancing and improving
conservation efforts and decision-making regarding both native and non-native taxa …

[PDF][PDF] Headwater refuges: Flow protects Austropotamobius crayfish from Faxonius limosus invasion

A Satmari, K Miok, MC Ion, C Zaharia, A Schrimpf… - …, 2023 - neobiota.pensoft.net
This study explores the geospatial relationship between the invasive crayfish species
Faxonius limosus and the native Austropotamobius bihariensis and A. torrentium crayfish …

The future of endangered crayfish in light of protected areas and habitat fragmentation

L Pârvulescu, EI Iorgu, C Zaharia, MC Ion, A Satmari… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The long-term survival of a species requires, among other things, gene flow between
populations. Approaches for the evaluation of fragmentation in the frame of freshwater …

[HTML][HTML] Riverscape analysis and habitat suitability modeling for conservation management of native crayfish species–A case study from Croatia, Slovenia and …

M Danilović, M Weinländer, D Marguč, Z Bányai… - Journal for Nature …, 2025 - Elsevier
Indigenous crayfish species (ICS) have suffered a significant decline in recent decades due
to various threats including anthropogenic habitat degradation with resulting fragmentation …

Integrating catchment land cover data to remotely assess freshwater quality: A step forward in heterogeneity analysis of river networks

I Şandric, A Satmari, C Zaharia, M Petrovici… - Aquatic Sciences, 2019 - Springer
Attempts to obtain information from geospatial data in freshwater ecology is a highly
challenging task requiring the development of new concepts and adequate tools …

[HTML][HTML] Soil-related predictors for distribution modelling of four European crayfish species

A Dornik, MC Ion, MA Chețan, L Pârvulescu - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
One of the most critical challenges in species distribution modelling is testing and validating
various digitally derived environmental predictors (eg, remote-sensing variables …

First record of the stone crayfish in the Romanian lowlands

MI Groza, D Cupșa, L Lovrenčić… - … & Management of …, 2021 - kmae-journal.org
The stone crayfish is a native European freshwater species with significant population
declines caused by anthropogenic pressure onto its habitats, climate change and spreading …

Diel activity and use of multiple artificially constructed shelters in Astacus leptodactylus (Decapoda: Astacidae)

MI Groza, V Pop-Vancia, V Mireşan - Biologia, 2016 - degruyter.com
Astacus leptodactylus is a widespread European crayfish species with both native and
invasive populations. However, in spite of its wide distribution, studies regarding its activity …

Get a grip: unusual disturbances drive crayfish to improvise

MC Ion, AE Puha, T Suciu, L Pârvulescu - Behaviour, 2020 - brill.com
Animals that face unusual situations react instinctively in order to efficiently adapt to changes
in the environment. Persistence leads training and learning the developed solution, which …