There is limited evaluation of the effectiveness of legal environmental protection on private properties in Brazil. This study updates the implementation progress and compensation potential under the Native Vegetation Protection Law (LPVN) in the Itacaiúnas River Basin (BHRI, 41,300 km²), located in Pará, the state with the highest deforestation rates in the Amazon over the past two decades. In 2021, the total Legal Reserve (R...

Using the mitochondrial non‐coding region I, it was shown that the two Spanish Lampetra planeri populations (Cares–Deva and Olabidea–Ugarana) correspond to different genetic units. The Cares–Deva population is probably a recent offshoot of Lampetra fluviatilis , being the Olabidea–Ugarana population less diverse and of older origin.

The phylogenetic relationships among the North Atlantic Gaidropsarus and between the three Gaidropsarinae genera Gaidropsarus , Ciliata and Enchelyopus are reviewed with the hitherto most comprehensive taxonomic sampling of this group. Phylogenetic results (maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference) based on nuclear ( rhodopsin ) and concatenated mitochondrial ( 12s , 16s and cytb ) markers clearly support t...

The populations of brook lamprey Lampetra planeri of Portuguese Rivers were analysed phylogeographically using a fragment of 644 bp of the mitochondrial control region of 158 individuals from six populations. Samples representing L. planeri and migratory lampreys Lampetra fluviatilis of rivers draining to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea were also included to assess the relationships of Portuguese samples. The data support a c...