Michela Ghiani

TL;DR: The obtained results show the presence of 125 substances (80% of the target compounds) in European wastewater effluents, in concentrations ranging from low nanograms to milligrams per liter, which allow for an estimation to be made of a European median level for the chemicals investigated in WWTP effluent waters.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative importance of environmental variables in explaining macroinvertebrate abundance was examined in 45 sub-alpine lakes were sampled for macroinvetebrates in the shallow sublittoral.

TL;DR: The main objective of this research project (Fate Sees) was to verify on a European-wide scale the occurrence of as many as possible organic and inorganic chemical contaminants in WWTP effluents, in order to get a European overview as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed weekly phytoplankton and chemistry data collected over 2 years of contrasting weather from two adjacent stratified lakes in North Italy, differing from each other by trophic state and water retention time, and found that increasing winter affluence and summer temperatures, anticipated in southern Europe with climate change, will deteriorate the ecological status of lakes, especially in those with shorter retention time.

TL;DR: Underwater quadrats on stone substrates provide a quantitative estimation of abundance and size-structure allowing the comparisons of crayfish populations from different lakes and could be applied to assess the extent of pressure resulting from alien cray fish under the Water Framework Directive.