Invasive round goby Neogobius melanostomus and bighead goby Ponticola kessleri have successfully colonized freshwater and coastal habitats worldwide. The objective was to use stable isotope analyses to study the foraging and movement of both species at small spatial scales in the Upper Danube River, considering 861 samples from two different years, seasons and sides of the river in an area wher...

The Ponto-Caspian amphipod Obesogammarus obesus (Sars, 1894) was first recorded in the Rhine River near Koblenz, Germany in October 2004. Additional records of small numbers of O. obesus from the same location in 2005 and 2006 indicate that this alien species may have become established in the central section of the Rhine River. Ship transport via the Main-Danube Canal, connecting the Danube ba...

Budapest is a major spa center with numerous thermal baths that are open to the public. Thermal spas in Budapest were first developed by the Romans and followed by the Turks, present spas were built mainly in the 19th and 20th centuries. At the city of Budapest the Danube River flows along a geological fault which separates the Buda Hills from the Great Plain. Within this fault zone in the vici...

The water regulation of the Danube in border area Szigetköz Hungary and Csallóköz Slovakia opened new economic opportunities for region. Recent research aims to identify that may arise as a result planned interventions or have been latent socio-economic life region so far. method is based firstly on detailed analysis strategic documents containing findings aspects Szigetköz–Csallóköz, secondly ...

Soil and water are suggested to represent pivotal niches for the transmission of Listeria monocytogenes to plant material, animals, and the food chain. In the present study, 467 soil and 68 water samples were collected in 12 distinct geological and ecological sites in Austria from 2007 to 2009. Listeria was present in 30% and 26% of the investigated soil and water samples, respectively. General...

At this time East Asian river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense is present almost everywhere in the lower reaches of Danube and Dniester basins, Danube-Dniester interfluves water bodies to east Dniester. Successful adaptation favorable climatic conditions recent years have provided a significant increase populations High growth rates M. been observed In these higher values maximum body length (mal...

Abstract The collection of archaeological finds from Lesonice provides a unique evidence for contacts between the Late La Tène environment in Middle Danube region and territory south-eastern Poland. Problematic circumstances finding atypical localisation do not allow to clearly determine find context. article therefore discusses both possibilities – burial hoard/offering. assemblage can be date...