Heavy metal contamination of the aquatic environment is of worldwide concern, due to the
toxicity of metals and their lethal effects on aquatic organisms. The investigation of heavy …

River ecosystems face growing threats from human‐induced stressors, resulting in habitat
degradation and biodiversity loss. Crucial to these ecosystems, macroinvertebrates maintain …

This study explored the capability of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and regularised
kernel Fisher's discriminant analysis (rkFDA) machine learning supervised classifiers in …

The implementation of the EU-Water Framework Directive (WFD) might also be considered
an approach for the implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management in Europe …

This study is a first attempt to assess the trace element contamination status in the surface
sediments of the Hellenic Seas since the first environmental studies in the country …

The water resources in Turkey are under immense pressure due to various kinds of
anthropogenic activities among which sand and gravel mining is the most disastrous one …

Based on historical and WFD-compliant data, the recent inter-annual ecological status and
the long-term chemical-physicochemical quality trends of eighteen characteristic Greek …

European rivers are under ecological threat by a variety of stressors. Nutrient pollution, soil
erosion, and alteration in hydrology are considered the most common problems that riverine …

While the literature takes a neutral to optimistic view of cooperation between the riparian
countries Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece on Flood Risk Management (FRM), floods in the …

Fish assemblages and their distributions in the western Balkan rivers have rarely been
investigated. This study provides initial insights into the spatial patterns of fish distributions in …