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24/02/2017
Monitoring of biota in heterogeneous ecosystems requires sampling in different habitats and across environmental gradients. The resulting...
22/12/2016
The number of herbivores in populations of ectothermic vertebrates decreases with increasing latitude. At higher latitudes, fish consuming plant...
08/06/2016
Piscivory in cyprinids (Cyprinidae) is extremely rare. Specifically, common bream (Abramis brama) and common carp (Cyprinus carpio) are...
01/04/2016
1) Juvenile perch (Perca fluviatilis) often inhabit deep zones of lakes or reservoirs (metalimnion to hypolimnion). Using fry trawling and...
29/12/2015
Ecological quality assessment of non-natural water bodies is, in contrast to natural systems, less developed and requires determining biological...
23/10/2015
Round goby is generally accepted to be a typical benthic dwelling fish species both in its native and invasive ranges. Nevertheless, mid-water night...
15/08/2015
Fish recruitment in riverine reservoirs is not fully understood because the long-term data series required for standard stock–recruitment models...
25/07/2015
This study addresses fish behaviour at the mouth of a midwater trawl in two temperate reservoirs. Fish distribution and behaviour were monitored...
17/06/2015
Data from nine reservoirs in the Czech Republic were used to investigate density and size distribution patterns for dominant fish species of the...
20/03/2015
The European Standard EN 14757 recommends gillnet mesh sizes that range from 5 to 55mm (knot-to-knot) for the standard monitoring of fish assemblages...
03/12/2014
We investigated diel habitat use of fish covering the littoral and pelagic zones of the Římov Reservoir (Czech Republic) and analyzed the influence...
12/02/2014
The effect of diel period and littoral habitats on the distribution of age-0 fish was tested in a deep-valley reservoir using boat-modified point...
08/11/2013
Large year-to-year variability in different fish species recruitment has been confirmed by previous studies while diurnal patterns of occupation in...
04/11/2013
Late summer sampling of pelagic age-0 year fish communities in five Czech reservoirs and one Dutch reservoir revealed extremely small age-0 year...
27/08/2013
Fish associations with different types of littoral habitats were studied in four canyon-shaped reservoirs in the Czech Republic in years 2010 and...
20/01/2013
Piscivorous fish may drive trophic cascades and maintain good water quality in lakes and reservoirs. Biomanipulation by stocking piscivores has been...
15/12/2012
The diel horizontal migration (DHM) of fish between the inshore and offshore zones of the Římov Reservoir (Czech Republic, deep, stratified,...
26/11/2012
In lentic freshwater systems, vertical acoustics may underestimate fish abundance in the acoustic dead zone where fish detection capability is...
16/11/2012
Because of its complex life cycle, cryptic behavior, body shape, ability to excrete mucus and excellent maneuvering, the European eel (Anguilla...
10/06/2012
Littoral age 0+ fish were studied with respect to spatio-temporal heterogeneity in the deep-valley Římov Reservoir (Czech Republic) from June to...
