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<i>Bythinella hansboetersi</i> Glöer et Pešić, 2006 (Gastropoda: Rissooidea) in Bulgaria: Its Morphology, Molecular Distinctness, and Phylogeography

scientific article published in 2009

A European map of groundwater pH and calcium

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

A Phylogenetic Overview of the Genus Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupillidae: Vertigininae)

scholarly article by Jeffrey C. Nekola et al published March 2018 in Malacologia

A modern analogue of the Pleistocene steppe-tundra ecosystem in southern Siberia

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Abrupt vegetation and environmental change since the MIS 2: A unique paleorecord from Slovakia (Central Europe)

scholarly article

Adult Triops cancriformis (Pancrustacea: Notostraca) mediates the hatching rate of its resting eggs

scientific article published in 2022

Arion alpinus Pollonera, 1887 in the Czech Republic (Gastropoda: Arionidae)

scientific article published in 2006

At the north-eastern extremity: variation in Cepaea nemoralis around Gdańsk, northern Poland

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Biodiversity surrogate effectiveness in two habitat types of contrasting gradient complexity

scientific article published on 27 February 2014

Calcareous forest seepages acting as biodiversity hotspots and refugia for woodland snail faunas

scientific article published in 2017

Cepaea nemoralis (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) in Poland: patterns of variation in a range-expanding species

scientific article published on 3 April 2019

Cepaea nemoralis (L.) in Göteborg, S.W. Sweden: variation in a recent urban invader

scientific article

Climatically induced temperature instability of groundwater-dependent habitats will suppress cold-adapted Clitellata species

scientific article

Colonisation dynamic and diversity patterns of Holocene forest snail fauna across temperate Europe: The imprint of palaeoclimate changes

scientific article published in 2020

Community metabarcoding uncovers vast diversity and a lack of barcode references for aquatic invertebrates in Carpathian spring fens

scientific article published in 2021

Comparison of plant and snail diversity patterns in the White Carpathian Mts (Czech Republic) across forest and grassland habitats

scientific article published on 06 May 2015

Conservation and restoration of Central European fens by mowing: A consensus from 20 years of experimental work

scientific article published on 12 July 2022

Contrasting Holocene environmental histories may explain patterns of species richness and rarity in a Central European landscape

scientific article published in 2016

Contrasting diversity of testate amoebae communities in Sphagnum and brown-moss dominated patches in relation to shell counts

scientific article

Deciphering “cryptic” nature of European rock-dwelling Pyramidula snails (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)

scientific article published in 2022

Deterministic assembly of land snail communities according to species size and diet

scientific article

Disjunct Occurrences of Plant Species in the Refugial Mires of Bulgaria

scientific article published in 2009

Dispersal limitation is stronger in communities of microorganisms than macroorganisms across Central European cities

Distribution of Bithynia leachii (Sheppard, 1823) and Bithynia troschelii (Paasch, 1842) (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae) in the Czech Republic

scientific article published in 2009

Diversity and Biotic Homogenization of Urban Land-Snail Faunas in Relation to Habitat Types and Macroclimate in 32 Central European Cities

scientific article published on August 6, 2013

Diversity and assemblage patterns of microorganisms structured by the groundwater chemistry gradient in spring fens

scientific article published in 2013

Diversity of Central European urban biota: effects of human-made habitat types on plants and land snails

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Diversity of the Western Carpathian flysch grasslands: Do extremely species-rich plant communities coincide with a high diversity of snails?

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Does predator abundance influence species diversity of equilibrium macroinvertebrate assemblages in spring fens?

scientific article published in 2020

Drivers of Central European urban land snail faunas: the role of climate and local species pool in the representation of native and non-native species

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Drivers of Small-Scale Diptera Distribution in Aquatic-Terrestrial Transition Zones of Spring Fens

scholarly article

Drivers of aquatic macroinvertebrate richness in spring fens in relation to habitat specialization and dispersal mode

ELAV Intron 8: a single-copy sequence marker for shallow to deep phylogeny in Eupulmonata Hasprunar & Huber, 1990 and Hygrophila Férussac, 1822 (Gastropoda: Mollusca)

scientific article published in 2022

Ecological niche divergence between extant and glacial land snail populations explained

scientific article published in 2022

Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi-terrestrial habitat: comparison of organisms with different dispersal abilities sampled in the same plots

scientific article published on 07 April 2011

Environmental correlates of the Late Quaternary regional extinctions of large and small Palaearctic mammals

article published in 2017

Environmental drivers of mollusc assemblage diversity in a system of lowland lentic habitats

scientific article published on 30 March 2019

Environmental filtering of aquatic insects in spring fens: patterns of species-specific responses related to specialist-generalist categorization

scientific article published in 2017

Environmental heterogeneity, dispersal mode and habitat specialisation modify within‐site beta diversity of spring macroinvertebrates

European glacial relict snails and plants: environmental context of their modern refugial occurrence in southern Siberia

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Exceptionally poor land snail fauna of central Yakutia (NE Russia): climatic and habitat determinants of species richness

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Exposure-related forest-steppe: A diverse landscape type determined by topography and climate

Factors explaining community contrast of Trichoptera assemblages at insular Western Carpathian spring fens to the adjacent headwaters

scientific article published in 2019

First evidence for long‐term stasis in wet‐tropics land snail community composition

scientific article published in 2018

First records of Viviparus acerosus (Bourguignat, 1862) (Gastropoda: Viviparidae) from the Czech Republic outside its native range

scientific article published on 14 September 2019

First records of the introduced slug Deroceras panormitanum (Lessona et Pollonera, 1882) from The Czech Republic (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Agriolimacidae)

scientific article published in 2003

Forest snail diversity and its environmental predictors along a sharp climatic gradient in southern Siberia

scientific article published in 2018

Forest snail faunas from Crimea (Ukraine), an isolated and incomplete Pleistocene refugium

scientific article published in 2013

Habitat diversity of central European fens in relation to environmental gradients and an effort to standardise fen terminology in ecological studies

scientific article published in 2006

Habitat extremity and conservation management stabilise endangered calcareous fens in a changing world

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Habitats of relict terrestrial snails in southern Siberia: lessons for the reconstruction of palaeoenvironments of full-glacial Europe

High species richness in hemiboreal forests of the northern Russian Altai, southern Siberia

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High‐resolution mollusc record from the Mituchovci tufa (western Slovakia): a reference for the Holocene succession of Western Carpathian mid‐elevation forests

scientific article published in 2020

Holocene matters: Landscape history accounts for current species richness of vascular plants in forests and grasslands of eastern Central Europe

scholarly article

Holocene succession patterns of land snails across temperate Europe: East to west variation related to glacial refugia, climate and human impact

scientific article published in June 2019

How to sample mollusc communities in mires easily [Jak jednodušeji vzorkovat prameništní malakocenózy]

scientific article published in 2003

Impoverishment of recent floodplain forest mollusc fauna in the lower Ohře River (Czech Republic) as a result of prehistoric human impact

scholarly article by Lucie Juřičková et al published 1 March 2013 in Boreas

Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems

scientific article published on 17 February 2022

Integrative taxonomic consideration of the Holarctic Euconulus fulvus group of land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Invasion at the population level: a story of the freshwater snails Gyraulus parvus and G. laevis

scientific article published on 30 July 2021

Invasion history of Gyraulus chinensis (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Europe: a molecular and literature-based approach

scientific article published in 2023

Invasion of Freshwater Molluscs in the Czech Republic: Time Course and Environmental Predictors

scientific article published in 2015

Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]

scientific article published in 2010

Land Snail Faunas in Polish Forests: Patterns of Richness and Composition in a Post-Glacial Landscape

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Land snail distribution patterns within a site: The role of different calcium sources

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Land snail richness and abundance along a sharp ecological gradient at two sampling scales: disentangling relationships

scientific article published in 2014

Macroinvertebrate assemblages of the post-mining calcareous stream habitats: Are they similar to those inhabiting the natural calcareous springs?

scientific article published in 2019

Malacological news from the Czech and Slovak Republics in 2015–2019

scientific article published in 2020

Malacological news from the Czech and Slovak Republics in 2020

scientific article published in 2021

Malacological news from the Czech and Slovak Republics in 2021

scientific article published in 2022

Malacological news from the Czech and Slovak Republics in 2022

scientific article published in 2023

Malacological news from the Czech and Slovak Republics in 2023

scientific article published in 2024

Medium-sized forest snails survive passage through birds' digestive tract and adhere strongly to birds' legs: more evidence for passive dispersal mechanisms

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Modern analogues from the Southern Urals provide insights into biodiversity change in the early Holocene forests of Central Europe

Mollusc communities in Bulgarian fens: predictive power of the environment, vegetation, and spatial structure in an isolated habitat

scientific article published on 18 June 2011

Měkkýši přírodních památek Kalábová a Kalábová 2 v CHKO Bílé Karpaty [Molluscs of the Kalábová and Kalábová 2 Nature Monuments in the White Carpathians PLA]

scientific article published in 2022

Native Gammarus fossarum affects species composition of macroinvertebrate communities: evidence from laboratory, field enclosures, and natural habitat

scientific article published in 2020

Nested patterns in hyporheic meta-communities: the role of body morphology and penetrability of sediment

scientific article published on 10 June 2008

Oxychilus (Mediterranea) hydatinus (Gastropoda: Zonitidae) new for Slovakia, with notes on its distribution in Hungary

scientific article published in 2004

Paropeas achatinaceum (Pfeiffer, 1846) and Other Alien Subulinine and Opeatine Land Snails in European Greenhouses (Gastropoda, Achatinidae)

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Patterns of Land Snail Assemblages along a Fine-Scale Moisture Gradient

Patterns of land snail diversity over a gradient of habitat degradation: a comparison of three Czech cities

scholarly article by Michal Horsák et al published 6 June 2009 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Patterns of land-snail succession in Central Europe over the last 15,000 years: main changes along environmental, spatial and temporal gradients

scholarly article

Plant indicator values as a tool for land mollusc autecology assessment

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Plant species richness–productivity relationships in a low-productive boreal region

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Post-mining calcareous seepages as surrogate habitats for aquatic macroinvertebrate biota of vanishing calcareous spring fens

scientific article published in 2017

Principal factors controlling the species richness of European fens differ between habitat specialists and matrix-derived species

scientific article

Prvý nález živej populácie ulitníka Vertigo moulinsiana (Dupuy, 1849) na Podunajskej nížine [First record of a viable population of the land snail Vertigo moulinsiana (Dupuy, 1849) in the Danube lowland (SW Slovakia)]

scientific article published in 2014

Punctum lozekiN. Sp. — A New Minute Land-Snail Species (Gastropoda: Punctidae) from Siberia and Alaska

Pupilla alluvionicaMeng & Hoffmann, 2008: A Land Snail Extant in the Altai Refugium Recognised for the First Time in Central European Early-Middle Pleistocene Glacials

Pupilla pratensis (Gastropoda: Pupillidae) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and its distinction from P. muscorum and P. alpicola based on multidimensional analysis of shell measurements

Radiation in <i>Bythinella</i> Moquin-Tandon, 1856 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissooidea) in the Balkans

scientific article published in 2012

Refugial ecosystems in central Asia as indicators of biodiversity change during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition

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Shell decomposition rates in relation to shell size and habitat conditions in contrasting types of Central European forests

scientific article published on 29 November 2017

Short and dynamic: succession of invertebrate communities over a hydroperiod in ephemeral wetlands on arable land

scientific article published on 3 April 2023

Small-scale Variation of Testate Amoeba Assemblages: the Effect of Site Heterogeneity and Empty Shell Inclusion

scientific article published on 23 November 2018

Snail faunas in the Southern Ural forests and their relations to vegetation: an analogue of the Early Holocene assemblages of Central Europe?

scientific article published in 2009

Species assignment in Pupilla (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupillidae): integration of DNA-sequence data and conchology

article by Jeffrey C. Nekola et al published 21 December 2014 in Journal of Molluscan Studies

Species richness and composition patterns of clitellate (Annelida) assemblages in the treeless spring fens: the effect of water chemistry and substrate

scientific article published in 2011

Specific damage recognised on land snail shells as a tool for studying predation intensity: differences related to habitat and predator types

scholarly article in Contributions to Zoology, vol. 88 no. 3, September 2019

Spring water table depth mediates within‐site variation of soil temperature in groundwater‐fed mires

scientific article published in 2021

Spring-fen habitat islands in a warming climate: Partitioning the effects of mesoclimate air and water temperature on aquatic and terrestrial biota

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Testing a relict distributional pattern of fen plant and terrestrial snail species at the Holocene scale: a null model approach

scientific article published on 15 November 2010

The age of island-like habitats impacts habitat specialist species richness

scientific article published in May 2012

The first record of Corbicula fluminea (O. F. Müller, 1774) in Moravia (SE Czech Republic)

scientific article published in 2018

The impact of empirically unverified taxonomic concepts on ecological assemblage patterns across multiple spatial scales

scientific article published in 2022

The insecure future of Bulgarian refugial mires: economic progress versus Natura 2000

scientific article published in 2010

The long history of rich fens supports persistence of plant and snail habitat specialists

The nature of dispersal barriers and their impact on regional species pool richness and turnover

scientific article published in 2022

The relationship between plant species richness and soil pH vanishes with increasing aridity across Eurasian dry grasslands

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The role of dispersal mode and habitat specialisation in metacommunity structuring of aquatic macroinvertebrates in isolated spring fens

The species richness-productivity relationship in the herb layer of European deciduous forests

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The type of nutrient limitation affects the plant species richness-productivity relationship: Evidence from dry grasslands across Eurasia

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Towards the pan-European bioindication system: Assessing and testing updated hydrological indicator values for vascular plants and bryophytes in mires

scientific article published in 2020

Tracking parallel adaptation of shell morphology through geological times in the land snail genus <i>Pupilla</i> (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Pupillidae)

scientific article published in 2020

Unimodal latitudinal pattern of land-snail species richness across northern Eurasian lowlands

scientific article

Vodné mäkkýše ochranársky významných lokalít na Podunajskej nížine [Freshwater molluscs of water bodies with a high conservation value in the Danubian lowland (SW Slovakia)]

scientific article published in 2015

Water temperature stability modulates insect thermal responses at spring fens

scientific article published in 2022

When is a "cryptic" species not a cryptic species: A consideration from the Holarctic micro-landsnail genus Euconulus (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)

scientific article published on 11 December 2018