In the article are presented the results from 235 high-mountain lakes across Europe collected during EMERGE project, where communities of differen groups of organisms were analysed. The lakes are grouped in hierarchical principle. The most important parameters, determining community structure are: lake size, trophic level, alkalinity and ice-cove duration. For each group of organisms treshhold values, where community structure is significantly changed, were determined (lake size: 3 ha; trophic level: 0.6 mg C l-1; ice-cover: 190 days, alkylinity: 200 µeq l-1).
COBISS.SI-ID: 2124367
Hantaviruses cause a lifelong and asymptomatic infection in naturally infected hosts. Although several studies report hantavirus persistence and tissue infection patterns for experimentally infected rodents, field data is very limited. For this reason, the aim of our study was to investigate Puumala, Dobrava and Saaremaa virus RNA loads and tissue infection patterns in their natural reservoirs. Hantavirus RNA was demonstrated in all tested internal organs and blood samples of 14 naturally infected rodent hosts.
COBISS.SI-ID: 25475801
During the project PASCALIS 375 stygobiotis species were reciorded from 1157 locatios. Groundwater fauna is very rich and it is important in ecosystem service, especially in determining water quality. However, its study over large spatial scales is very expensive and time consuming, thus biodiversity indicators were established. The most useful and predictive indicators for cumulative species richness of all stygobionts suggests that Copepoda and Amphipoda are the best estimators for it. The problem is, that there are big differences in fauna among different groundwater aquifers.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1964623
The article, published in the first line scientific journal describes the anatomy and function of vibratory interneurons in the group of crickets which live in caves and emit no airborne sound signals as their relatives living outside caves in the field. The author described 26 different neuron types which majority is tuned to frequencies below 400 Hz. The identified vibratory neuron network plays a biologically important role in detection of predators as well as of conspecific vibratory signals identified as first last year. Tipopologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
COBISS.SI-ID: 2053967
In the high ranked article the authors described the impact of Nosema sp. On flight behavior of forager bees. They proved that diseased bees return to the hive later and in a lower number. Additionally, they show impaired orientation skills at hive entrance. The results on Nosema sp. are similar to authors’ previous investigations on the impact of Varroa destrucor on flight behavior and confirm the hypothesis that decreasing of return into the hive is a general bee response to diseases by which they decrease pathogen load within the colony.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2186831