Publications by authors named "Iva Kokotovic"
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- Wastewater effluents and rising water temperatures from climate change threaten freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity, prompting our study on their combined effects on aquatic communities.
- We conducted a 21-day experiment with various treatments on a simplified freshwater food web, examining impacts on species survival, genetic diversity, and metabolic responses among benthic macroinvertebrates.
- Results showed species-specific sensitivities, particularly in caddisflies and mayflies, where multi-stressor conditions led to reduced lipid content and phylogenetic diversity, indicating the need for molecular indicators to assess immediate ecological impacts.
Freshwater biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services are changing at an unprecedented rate due to the impacts of vast number of stressors overlapping in time and space. Our study aimed at characterizing individual and combined impacts of pollution with pharmaceuticals (PhACs) and endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) and increased water temperature (as a proxy for climate change) on primary producers and first level consumers in freshwaters. We conducted a microcosm experiment with a simplified freshwater food web containing moss (Bryophyta) and shredding caddisfly larvae of Micropterna nycterobia (Trichoptera).
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