Project information
Diversity of parasites like an indicator of environmental stress
- Project Identification
- GA524/98/0940
- Project Period
- 1/1998 - 1/2000
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Standard Projects
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Science
- Cooperating Organization
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Institute of Parasitology iof teh ASCR
- Responsible person RNDr. Tomáš Scholz, CSc.
- Responsible person Ing. Pavel Jurajda, Ph.D.
The main purpose of the project is to verify and use the biological diversity of parasites like an indicator of environmental pollution. A detail research and analysis of communities of metazoan parasites of fish (on the level of infracommunity and compo nent community) originating from two localities differing in the level of industrial pollution will be performed. Two approaches will be used to quantify the level of environmental pollution: first, accumulation of heavy metals (mercury) in tissue of the host fish and, supporting ichthyological and hydrobiological research (also on the community level) will be organised. The current and novel methods of mathematical statistics (e.g. Markov chains, species-abundance models) will be applied for analysis t he relationships and correlation's among all results and data (parasitology, ichthyology including chemical analysis and hydrobiology). The best combination of parameters and methods for data analysis in environmental parasitology will be proposed.
Publications
Total number of publications: 44
1998
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Comparison of 0+ fish communities between two differently modified stretches of the River Morava
0+ fish as indicators of the ecological status of rivers, year: 1998
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Preface - Third International Symposim on Monogenea
International Journal for Parasitilogy, year: 1998, volume: 28, edition: 10
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The community of metazoan parasites of roach (Rutilus rutilus L.) in different biotopes of the lower stretch of the River Morava, Czech Republic.
Helmithologia, year: 1998
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The Third Interational Symposium on Monogenea - special issue
Year: 1998, number of pages: 186 s.