The Danube River is the second longest river in Europe, and its bacterial community composition has never been studied before over its entire length. In this study, bacterial community composition was determined by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis of PCR-amplified portions of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene from a total of 98 stations on the Danube River (73 stations) and its...

Guest Editors 1 Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, The Netherlands, [email protected] 2 ESADE Institute of Public Governance and Management, Spain, [email protected] 3 Danube University Krems, Center for E-Governance, Austria, [email protected] 4 Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Manageme...

Freshwater fishes are in a serious state of decline across the world, making them one most threatened groups vertebrates. The Danube River catchment area Europe holds richest freshwater fish community, but our knowledge current distribution these species is limited. Transylvania, largest region Romania, important tributaries Danube, from where 77 and two lamprey were recorded until now. Despite...

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Abstract The Bohemian Massif is the relic of a major Paleozoic mountain range that known to have exhumed and its surface levelled in Permian, but Neogene landscape evolution largely unconstrained. characterized by rolling hills extended planation surfaces above an elevation about 500 m. However, at lower elevations deeply incised gorges confined steep hillslopes are abundant contrast impressive...