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Introduction
I work at the Department of Ecology, Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, Institute of Biology Bucharest, Romanian Academy. I try to contribute to research in Ecology, Ethology, and Zoology of macroinvertebrates.
The main interests are terrestrial Chilopoda fauna (Chilopoda: Myriapoda) from Romania and freshwater European crayfish species.
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January 2021 - present
Position
- Research Associate
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- Research Assistant -Idle Crayfish: from the unknown to the next generation of species conservation assessment- PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-1187
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Publications (37)
The idle crayfish (Austropotamobius bihariensis Pârvulescu, 2019), endemic to Romania's Apuseni Mountains, urgently requires a specific conservation plan. Due to its recent description, conservation efforts have been limited, highlighting the need for immediate and practical recommendations to ensure its protection. Over 13 years, field observation...
Freshwater crayfish are amongst the largest macroinvertebrates and play a keystone role in the ecosystems they occupy. Understanding the global distribution of these animals is often hindered due to a paucity of distributional data. Additionally, non-native crayfish introductions are becoming more frequent, which can cause severe environmental and...
Records count per crayfish taxa integrated in WoC platform.
Crayfish and A. astaci records integrated in WoC platform count per major hydrographic basins.
Crayfish and A. astaci records integrated in WoC platform count per country.
Knowledge about the conservation status of a species is crucial for its protection in the long run. It provides insights into the geographic range, population size and trend, which are useful in management activities towards safeguarding the future of a species. The idle crayfish, Austropotamobius bihariensis, is a recently described crayfish speci...
At present, the known populations of Lycaena helle from Romania are found at a lower altitude than those from Western and Central Europe. Besides land-use changes, climate warming severely threatens this specie that prefer humid and cool habitats. Withdrawal to higher altitudes is also restricted by the species' low dispersal ability. Therefore, th...
This study explores the geospatial relationship between the invasive crayfish species Faxonius limosus and the native Austropotamobius bihariensis and A. torrentium crayfish populations in Eastern Europe, identifying the environmental factors which influence the invasion. We used species distribution modelling based on several climatic, geophysical...
As predatory soil macroinvertebrates, centipedes are often considered groups used for soil community studies. However, research explicitly targeting centipede ecology remains relatively scarce. This paper addresses this gap by conducting a formal literature review and scientometric analysis of worldwide publications on the ecology of centipedes, sp...
Consulting the best available evidence is key to successful conservation decision-making. While much scientific evidence on conservation continues to be published in non-English languages, a poor understanding of how non-English-language science contributes to conservation decision-making is causing global assessments and studies to practically ign...
The field survey made in the last 20 years revealed that large areas of Romania’s territory are still unexplored concerning moss distribution. The long-term research in natural and mature spruce forest habitats of this country shows that many sites are well protected, a status that is also confirmed by reports of Buxbaumia viridis. However, many ot...
Consulting the best available evidence is key to successful conservation decision-making. While much scientific evidence on conservation continues to be published in non-English languages, a poor understanding of how non-English languages science contributes to conservation decision-making is causing global assessments and studies to practically ig...
One of the most critical challenges in species distribution modelling is testing and validating various digitally derived environmental predictors (e.g., remote-sensing variables, topographic variables) by field data. Therefore, here we aimed to explore the value of soil properties in the spatial distribution of four European indigenous crayfish sp...
Multiple causes can determine the disturbance of natural equilibrium in a population of a species, with a common one being the presence of invasive competitors. Invasives can drive native species to the resettlement of the trophic position, changing reproduction strategies or even daily normal behaviours. Here, we investigated the hypothesis that m...
Despite the growing list of elements assessed and recognised as environmental and human health hazards, pollution monitoring and mitigation strategies are mandatory only for a limited number of metals, for which ambient air quality limits are defined by national and international policies. In order to overcome this deficiency, and promote cost-effe...
Abstract 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 habitats consider only a small amount of the information that combined demography and geography are currently able to provide. This study addresses two species of Austrop...
Aphanomyces astaci is the causative agent of crayfish plague, a disease responsible for numerous mass mortalities of native crayfish across Europe. In this study, we aim to extend knowledge about the A. astaci distribution in Eastern Europe, with specific focus on the River Dnieper (Ukraine), and summarize presently available information about the...
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 can then be applied to similar challenges in the future. We experimented on adult narrow-clawed crayfish extracted from both lentic and lotic habitats. We proved...
As airborne pollution is recognised as the single largest environmental health hazard in Europe, the necessity to develop effective systems for monitoring and reducing the level of air pollutants, becomes imperative. The paper describes a tested and implemented long-term biomonitoring system for airborne heavy metals at a national scale. Moss bags...
Biomonitoring, i.e. using plant species for measuring pollution levels, has been previously explored in several locations using various protocols and organisms in the search for effective strategies and practices for monitoring and reducing the levels of pollution.
Here we present a tested and functional cost-effective method of using the foliar ac...
While the use of bibliometrics for the assessment of the academic output as well as the reputation of journals is under debate (Werner, 2015; Molinié & Bodenhausen, 2010) there are other practical applications that could benefit the scientists, especially juniors. Information like trends and topics of research in a domain, collaboration networks, h...
The first record of a centipede species (Clinopodes flavidus) from the Romanian Carpathians was mentioned in the Banat Mountains, in the nineteenth century. However, records number rose to the highest only after the middle of 20th century, when a few Romanian zoologists started to study this group of invertebrates in this area. In order to understa...
A commented list of 42 centipede species from order Geophilomorpha present in Romania, is given. This comes to complete the annotated catalogue compiled by Negrea (2006) for the other orders of the class Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha, Lithobiomorpha and Scolopendromorpha. Since 1972, when Matic published the first monograph on epimorphic centipeds fro...
Eight invertebrate ‘groups’ were investigated having a total of 503 species, which can be divided into two major categories: above ground and below ground. The above-ground groups are the Coleoptera (beetles), Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies), Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets) and Thysanoptera (thrips)...
The main goal of this study is to get a better insight of the habitat requirements for the Great- and Middle Spotted Woodpeckers. Woodpeckers are forest specialists, threatened all over Europe mainly by the loss of forest habitats and also by the loss in quality of the habitat by reducing the food sources and nesting sites. Both species showed a st...
The main goal of this study is to get a better insight of the habitat requirements for the Great-and Middle Spotted Woodpeckers. Woodpeckers are forest specialists, threatened all over Europe mainly by the loss of forest habitats and also by the loss in quality of the habitat by reducing the food sources and nesting sites. Both species showed a str...
Draba haynaldii Štúr (Brassicaceae) is a critically endangered species, endemic to the South-Eastern Carpathians (Romanian territory). The rediscovery of the population from Ceahlău Mountains is reported here, where it occurs the south-western edge of the pyramidal Toaca Peak, at 1850 m altitude. In the old locality, the species could not be confir...
The LIFE 02ENV/RO/000461 project is dedicated to the research of the flora and invertebrate fauna in downtown Bucharest, the
city area most affected by intense car traffic and the consequent air pollution. The pilot zone is represented by three public
parks (Izvor, Cismigiu and Unirea Parks). The zoological samples were collected from the herbaceou...
Acestă carte este urmarea studiilor inter- şi trans-disciplinare privind poluarea aerului din Bucureşti, studii realizate pentru prima dată în România, având o foarte mare importanţă practică şi ştiinţifică. Primul capitol al cărţii tratează o scurtă istorie a dezvoltării oraşului Bucureşti, urmat de caracterizarea oraşului ca zonă metropolitană, d...
In all cites of the planet, air pollution is the major environmental problem due to the industrial plants, power plants, domestic heating and especially motor traffic. Increased concentrations of air pollutants and the variety of pollutants have negative effects on the increasing population density in the relatively small area of a city. Air pollut...
Based on the shortage of distributional data for plants and animals available for Bucharest,
the first step has been to determine the existence of potential bio-indicators. The methodology
consists in site visits, comprising transects within the sites using both qualitative and quantitative
sampling, the species composition methods, which character...
Questions
Questions (3)
Hi,
I found a number of behavioural papers studying anxiety behaviour following stress. Stress was induced by exposure to predators, agonistic interaction or electric shocks. But these are almost always about aquatic invertebrates.
What would be the best way to induce stress in terrestrial invertebrates? I am interested in working with some big size soil invertebrates, predatory. Agonistic interaction might be a solution to stress inducing but only if direct contact is not possible (as cannibalism is usual).
Any suggestion for other approach?
Thanks
Can a profile be added as a member to multiple labs? Or its just one lab per profile?
Can you give me examples/articles about invertebrate species that exhibit different behavior in different habitats/or changed characteristics of habitat? If a population habitat changes or some environmental characteristic of the habitat are changed, they start to show/learn a new behavior or alter old ones, in order to solve a problem impose by the new situation. So I am looking more for examples related to abiotic changes.
