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Combining conventional and technological taxonomic approaches gives more accurate results in identifying species

A scientific team with the participation of the Doñana Biological Station has compared for the first time efficiency of the work of taxonomists versus molecular methods to identify species.

RFreshwater ecosystems require a simultaneous management of human impacts

A new study from the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC shows that the ecological degradation of freshwater ecosystems is caused by two or more human pressures in three out of four cases.

The global economic costs of invasive aquatic crustaceans amounted to at least US$ 271 million

An international scientific team from Czech Republic, Spain, Germany, the UK, the USA, Italy, and France has compilled all existing published costs of invasive aquatic crustaceans and pointed out...

Trait evolution across the tree?of?life of freshwater macroinvertebrates

The rates of species and trait diversification vary across the Tree?of?Life and over time. Whereas species richness and clade age generally are decoupled, the correlation of accumulated trait...