Literature review

This page includes а list of regional literature, related to sturgeon populations and their protection. Wherever it was possible, a link to the electronic version of the paper or abstract was offered.

 

Bacalbasa-Dobrovici, N. (1991). Statut des differentes especes d'esturgeons dans le Danube Roumain: problemes lies a leur maintenance. In Williot, P. (ed.) Acipenser , 185-192. Cemagref-Dicova, Bordeaux. (LINK)

 

Bacalbasa-Dobrovici, N. (1997). Endangered migratory sturgeons of the lower Danube River and its delta. Environmental Biology of Fishes 48, 201-207. (LINK)

 

Bacalbasa-Dobrovici, N. & J. Holcik (2000). Distribution of Acipenser sturio L., 1758 in the Black Sea and its watershed. Boletin. Instituto Espanol de oceanografia 16, 37-41. (LINK)

 

Bacalbasa-Dobrovici, N. & N. Patriche (1999). Environmental studies and recovery actions for sturgeons in the Lower Danube River system. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 15, 114-115. (LINK)

 

Balatskiy, K., Baltzer, M., Baumgartner, C., Beckmann, A., Bercsényi , M., Bogdanovic, S., Bratrich, C., Brenner, T., De Meulenaer, T., Dick, G., Dobrovolov, I ., Ereifej, L., Guti, G., Hochleithner, M., Jaric, I., Jula, G., Keresztessy, K., Klindová, A., Koller-Kreimel, V., Lenhardt, M., Liska, I., Maereanu, D., Maereanu, M., Mancic, S., Masár, J., Mészáros, J., Moreau, D., Navodaru, I., Obrdlik, P., Pannonhalmi, M., Ivanova, P.P., Pintér, K., Raymakers, C., Reeder, D., Rideg, A., Ring, T., Rosenthal, H., Sallai, Z., Schiemer, F., Schmedtje, U., Sigmund, G., Simonovic, P., Steiner, A., Tsekov, A., Unfer, G., Voloshkevych A., Vukovich, Z., Wiener, S., Zessner-Spitzenberg, M., Zinke, A. & J. Zlatic-Jugovic (2006). Action Plan for the conservation of Sturgeons (Acipenseridae) in the Danube River Basin. Bloesch, J., Jones, T., Reinartz, R. and Striebel, B. (Eds.). Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention), Nature and Environment 144, p. 122. (LINK)

 

Balnath, C., Gessner, J. & H. Rosenthal (2008). Sturgeon conservation and aquaculture. XXXII Scientific Conference on Fisheries and Aquaculture; Proceedings of the International Workshop on Sturgeon Conservation and Breeding, Szarvas, Hungary, 15-16 May 2008. (LINK)

 

Bloesch, J. (2006). The ultimate need for the implementation of sturgeon protection in the Danube River Basin – a view of 2006 and call for actions with the Sturgeon Action Plan under the Bern Convention. Proceedings 36th International Conference of IAD, 132-136. Austrian Committee Danube Research / IAD, Vienna. (LINK)

 

Bloesch, J., Jones, T., Reinartz, R. & B. Striebel (2006). Action Plan for the conservation of sturgeons (Acipenseridae) in the Danube River Basin. Österreichische Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft 58 (5-6), 81-88. (LINK)

 

Cakic P., Lenhardt, M., Kolarevic, J. & Z. Petrovic (2003). Contribution to the knowledge of the sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) parasites. Second International Conference “Bacterial,viral and parasitic infections in Human and veterinary medicine”, 13 - 15 June 2003, Medical University, Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria, pp. 44.

 

Ceapa, C., Williot, P. & N. Bacalbasa-Dobrovici (2002). Present State and Perspective of Stellate Sturgeon Brood Fish in the Romanian Part of the Danube. International Review of Hydrobiology 87, 507-513. (LINK)

 

Ceapa, C., Williot, P., Le Menn, F. & B. Davail-Cuisset (2002). Plasma sex steroids and vitellogenin levels in stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus Pallas) during spawning migration in the Danube River. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 18, 391-396. (LINK)

 

Ciolac, A. & N. Patriche (2005). Biological aspects of main marine migratory sturgeons in Romanian Danube River. Migration of fishes in Romanian Danube River, No 4. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 3 (2), 101-106. (LINK)

 

Cvijanovic, G., Adnadevic, T., Bugarski-Stanojevic, V. & M. Lenhardt (2009). Optimisation and standardization of primers for sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) and beluga (Huso huso) microsatellite loci. Book of Abstracts. IV Congress of the Serbian Genetic Society, Tara, 1-5 June, Serbia, pp. 23. (LINK)

 

Finn, R.N., Lenhardt, M., Ferrara, A., Isely, J.J., Dean, J. & H.-J. Fyhn (2002). Yolk proteins and free amino acids in Acipenseriformes. 26th Larval Fish Conference of the American Fisheries Society, Bergen, Norway. (LINK)

 

Guti, G. (2006). Past and present status of sturgeons in Hungary. Proceedings 36th International Conference of IAD, 143-147. Austrian Committee Danube Research / IAD, Vienna. (LINK)

 

Guti, G. & T. Gaebele (2009). Long-term changes of sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus) population in the Hungarian section of the Danube. Opuscula Zoologica Budapest 40 (2), 17-25. (LINK)

 

Hensel, K. & J. Holcik (1997). Past and current status of sturgeons in the upper and middle Danube River. Environmental Biology of Fishes 48, 185-200. (LINK)

 

Holcik, J., Klindová, A., Masár, J. & J. Mészáros (2006). Sturgeons in the Slovakian rivers of the Danube River basin: an overview of their current status and proposal for their conservation and restoration. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 22 (Suppl. 1), 17-22. (LINK)

 

Janković, D. (1958). Ekologija dunavske kečige [Ecology of Danube sterlet]. Biological Institute of Republic Serbia, Special editions 2, pp. 145. [In Serbian]

 

Jankovic, D., Krpo, J., Lenhardt, M. & A. Hegediš (1994). Ecological characteristics of the Danubian fish species. In: Jankovic, D. & M. Jovicic (Eds.) The Danube in Yugoslavia, 159-173.

 

Jaric, I. (2009). Population viability analysis of the Danube sturgeon populations. M.Sc. thesis, Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Uppsala University, Sweden. (LINK)

 

Jaric, I., Djordjevic, D., Lenhardt, M., Gacic, Z., Smederevac-Lalic, M., Cvijanovic, G. & S. Skoric (2009). Heavy metal accumulation in sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) from the Danube and Tisza rivers: concentrations and distribution patterns in different tissues. Book of abstracts, REP-Lecotox 2nd Workshop “Trends in Ecological Risk Assessment”, Novi Sad, Serbia, 21-23 September 2009, pp. 41. (LINK)

 

Jaric, I., Ebenhard, T. & M. Lenhardt (2009). Population Viability Analysis of the Danube sturgeon populations in a VORTEX simulation model. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, doi:10.1007/s11160-009-9151-0 (LINK)

 

Jaric, I., Ebenhard, T. & M. Lenhardt (2009). Assessment of the population viability of Danube sturgeons in a VORTEX simulation model. Book of abstracts, 2nd European Congress of Conservation Biology, Prague, Czech Republic, September 01-05 2009, pp. 81. (LINK)

 

Jaric, I., Lenhardt, M., Cvijanovic, G. & T. Ebenhard (2009). Population viability analysis and potential of its application to Danube sturgeons. Archives of Biological Sciences 61 (1), 123-128. (LINK)

 

Jaric, I., Lenhardt, M., Cvijanovic, G. & T. Ebenhard (2009). Acipenser sturio and Acipenser nudiventris in the Danube – extant or extinct? Journal of Applied Ichthyology 25, 137-141. (LINK)

 

Kolarevic, J. (2004). Population - ecological study of sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) in waters of Danube on territory of Belgrade. MSc thesis, University of Belgrade, Serbia [In Serbian with English Summary].

 

Kolarevic, J., Lenhardt, M., Cakic, P. & Z. Gacic (2003). The Influence of different water temperatures on morphological characteristics of sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) erythrocytes populations. Third Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS3), 13-18 July 2003, University of Edinburgh, UK, pp. 85. (LINK)

 

Kolarevic, J., Lenhardt, M., Cakic, P. & I. Jaric (2004). Population study of the Danube sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.). in Otterstad, Oddmund (ed): Releasing development potentials at the Eastern Adriatic, NTNU (www.easternadriatic.com). (LINK)

 

Kynard, B., Suciu, R. & M. Horgan (2002). Migration and habitats of diadromous Danube River sturgeons in Romania: 1998-2000. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 18, 529-535. (LINK)

 

Lapkina, L.N., Strelnikova, A.P., Chuiko, G.M., Lenhardt, M. & J. Kolarevic (2005). Leeches as the objects of fish feeding. International Conference ”Structural-Functional Characteristics of the Biosystem of the North”, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia, pp. 214-217.

 

Lenhardt, M., Cakic, P. & J. Kolarevic (2003). Assessment of the complex anthropogenic impact on fish population in the Danube River. 5th ICEF, Environmental Future of Aquatic Ecosystem, 23-27 March 2003, ETH Zurich, pp. 135. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Cakic, P., Kolarevic, J. & Z. Gacic (2003). Morphometric recognition of two morphs in sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus) population induced by different reproductive behaviour. Fish as models of behavior. The Fisheries Society of the British Isles. Annual International Symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 30 June – 4 July 2003. Journal of Fish Biology 63 (Supplement 1), 252. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Cakic, P. & J. Kolarevic (2004). Influence of the HEPS Djerdap I and Djerdap II dam construction on catch of economically important fish species in the Danube River. Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology 4, 499-502. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Cakic, P., Kolarevic, J., Gacic, Z., Jaric, I. & M. Nikcevic (2004). Length-weight relationship of sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) juveniles in the Danube River. Proceedings 35th International Conference of IAD, 533-536. IAD, Vienna. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Cakic, P., Kolarevic, J., Mickovic, B. & M. Nikcevic (2004).Changes in sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) catch and length frequency distribution in the Serbian part of the Danube River during the twentieth centery. Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology 4, 193-197. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Cvijanovic, G., Kolarevic, J., Jaric, I. & P. Cakic (2004). Changes of sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) population age structure in the Danube River during last half of twentieth century. Book of abstracts, 22nd International Biophysics Symposium, Sveti Stefan, Serbia and Montenegro, 9th-14th October, W2:P6. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Kolarevic, J., Jaric, I., Cvijanovic, G., Mickovic, B., Gacic, Z., Cakic, P. & M. Nikcevic (2004). Assessment concepts for river ecosystems characterization based on sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) population research. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Ecohydraulics "Aquatic habitats: analysis & restoration", Madrid, 12th-17th September, 153-156. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Prokes, M., Jaric, I. , Barus, V., Kolarevic, J., Krupka, I., Cvijanovic, G., Cakic, P. & Z. Gacic (2004). Comparative analysis of morphometric characters of juvenile sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) from natural population and aquaculture. Nature and culture: Comparative Biology and Interactions of Wild and Farmed Fish. The Fisheries Society of the British Isles. Annual International Symposium, Imperial College, London, England, 19-23 July 2004. Journal of Fish Biology 65 (Supplement A), 320. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Finn, R.N., Cakic, P., Kolarevic, J., Krpo-Cetkovic, J., Radovic, I. & H.J. Fyhn (2005). Analysis of the post-vitellogenic oocytes of three species of Danubian Acipenseridae. Belgian Journal of Zoology 135 (2), 205-207. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Hegediš, A. and Jaric, I. (2005). Action plan for sturgeon species management in fishery waters of Republic Serbia. Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stankovic”, pp. 21. Developed for Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection of Republic Serbia.

 

Lenhardt, M., Bloesch, J., Reinartz, R., Suciu, R., Ivanova, P., Guti, G., Pannonhalmi, M. & A. Tsekov (2006). The actual situation of the endangered sturgeons in the Danube River Basin; A call for actions to implement their protection with the Sturgeon Action Plan under the Bern Convention. Donau Aktuell 13-14, 18-22. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Hegediš, A., Mićković, B., Višnjić-Jeftić , Ž., Smederevac, M., Jarić, I., Cvijanović, G. & Z. Gačić (2006). First record of the North American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula Walbaum, 1792) in the Serbian part of the Danube River. Archives of Biological Sciences 58 (3), 27P-28P. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Jaric, I., Bojovic, D., Cvijanovic, G. & Z. Gacic (2006). Past and current status of sturgeon in the Serbian part of the Danube River. Proceedings 36th International Conference of IAD, 148-151. Austrian Committee Danube Research / IAD, Vienna. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Jaric, I., Kalauzi, A. & G. Cvijanovic (2006). Assessment of extinction risk and reasons for decline in sturgeon. Biodiversity and Conservation 15, 1967-1976. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Cvijanovic, G., Jaric, I. & M. Smederevac-Lalic (2007). Getting acquainted with sturgeons in Serbia. Aquaculture Europe 32 (2), 20-21. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Gyore, K., Smederevac-Lalic, M., Hegediš., A., Mickovic, B., Gacic, Z., Jaric, I., Cvijanovic, G. & Ž. Višnjic-Jeftic (2008). Activity plan for the conservation of sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) in Serbia and Hungary. XXXII Scientific Conference on Fisheries and Aquaculture; Proceedings of the International Workshop on Sturgeon Conservation and Breeding, Szarvas, Hungary, 15-16 May 2008, 49-50. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Jaric, I., Cvijanovic, G. & M. Smederevac-Lalic (2008). The key threats to sturgeons and measures for their protection in the Lower Danube Region. In Lagutov, V. (ed.) Rescue of sturgeon species in the Ural River Basin. Springer Science, 87-96. (LINK)

 

Lenhardt, M., Jaric, I., Cakic, P., Cvijanovic, G., Gacic, Z. & J. Kolarevic (2009). Seasonal changes in condition, hepatosomatic index and parasitism in sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.). Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences 33 (3), 209-214. (LINK)

 

Ludwig, A., Lippold, S., Debus, L. & R. Reinartz (2009). First evidence of hybridization between endangered sterlets (Acipenser ruthenus) and exotic Siberian sturgeons (Acipenser baerii) in the Danube River. Biological Invasions 11, 753-760. (LINK)

 

Navodaru, I., Staras, M. & R. Banks (1999). Management of sturgeon stocks of the lower Danube River system. In: “The Delta's: State-of-art protection and management”. Conference Proceedings, Tulcea, Romania 26-31 July 1999, 229-237.

 

Nikcevic, M., Lenhardt, M., Cakic, P., Mickovic, B., Kolarevic, J. & I. Jaric (2004). Historical review and new initiatives for sturgeon fisheries, aquaculture and caviar production in Serbia and Montenegro. in Otterstad, Oddmund (ed): Releasing development potentials at the Eastern Adriatic, NTNU (www.easternadriatic.com). (LINK)

 

Ognjanovic, D., Nikolic, V. & P. Simonovic (2008). Morphometrics of two morphs of sterlet, Acipenser ruthenus L., in the middle course of the Danube River (Serbia). Journal of Applied Ichthyology 24, 126-130. (LINK)

 

Paraschiv, M., Suciu, R. & M. Suciu (2006). Present state of sturgeon stocks in the Lower Danube River, Romania. Proceedings 36th International Conference of IAD, 152-158. Austrian Committee Danube Research / IAD, Vienna. (LINK)

 

Patriche, N., Pecheanu, C. & R. Billard (1999). Sturgeon fisheries, caviar production in Romania and possible measures of rehabilitation in the Lower Danube. Rivista Italiana di Acquacoltura 34, 83-91.

 

Pintér, K. (1991). Sturgeons in Hungary, past and present situation. In Williot, P. (ed.) Acipenser, 173-178. Cemagref-Dicova, Bordeaux. (LINK)

 

Poleksic, V., Lenhardt, M., Jaric, I., Djordjevic, D., Gacic, Z., Cvijanovic, G. & B. Raskovic (2010). Liver, gills and skin histopathology and heavy metal content of the Danube sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus Linnaeus, 1758). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 29 (3), 515-521. (LINK)

 

Reinartz, R. (2002). Sturgeons in the Danube River. Biology, status, conservation. Literature study. International Association for Danube Research (IAD), Bezirk Oberpfalz, Landesfischereiverband Bayern, e.V.

 

Reinartz, R., Bloesch, J., Ring T. & H. Stein (2003). Sturgeon are more than caviar: A plea for the revival of sturgeons in the Danube River (Literature review). Archiv für Hydrobiologie 14, Supplement Large Rivers 3-4, 387-403. (LINK)

 

Ristic, M.Dj. (1963). Ribarsko biološka studija. Acipenseridae-? jugoslavenskog dela donjega Dunava. [Fishery biological study. Acipenserids of Yugoslavian part of the Lower Danube.] Ribarstvo Jugoslavije 2, 48-58 [In Serbian].

 

Ristic, M. (1969). The specificity of sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) growth in the Danube, Sava and Tisa River. Ribarstvo Jugoslavije 2, 21-31 [In Serbian].

 

Ristic, M. (1970). Fish migration in the Danube River and its tributaries, its influence on the status and population dynamics of the economically important fishes and on fisheries. Ribarstvo Jugoslavije 25, 1-15 [In Serbian].

 

Ristic, M.Dj. (1971). Prilog objashnjenju postojanja kratkorilih i dugorilih kechiga (Acipenser ruthenus L. morpha kamensis et typica Lovetzky 1834, Berg L.S. 1932-1934) kao posebnih formi u Dunavu, Savi I Tisi. [Contribution to the knowledge of vernal and winter sterlet morph existence (Acipenser ruthenus L. morpha kamensis et typica Lovetzky 1834, Berg L.S. 1932-1934) in the Danube River, the Sava River and the Tisa River]. Ribarstvo Jugoslavije 26 , 25-28. [In Serbian].

 

Rochard, E., Williot, P., Castelnaud, G. & M. Lepage (1991). Elements de systematique et de biologie des populations sauvages d'esturgeons. In Williot, P. (ed.) Acipenser, 475-507. Cemagref-Dicova, Bordeaux [In French with English summary]. (LINK)

 

Simonovic, P. (2001). Fishes of Serbia. NNK International, Institute of Nature Protection of Republic Serbia, Biological Faculty of the Belgrade University, Belgrade, Serbia [In Serbian with English summary].

 

Simonovic, P., Budakov, Lj., Nikolic, V. & S. Maric (2005). Recent record of the ship sturgeon Acipenser nudiventris in the middle Danube (Serbia). Biologia 60 (2), 231-233. (LINK)

 

Stanić, B., Andrić, N., Zorić, S., Grubor-Lajšić, G. & R. Kovačević (2006). Assessing pollution in the Danube River near Novi Sad (Serbia) using several biomarkers in sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.). Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 65, 395-402. (LINK)

 

Stranai, I. (1992). Growth of sterlet in relation to rostrum length. Zbornik referatov z komferencie: 25. vyro cie založenia ISSZP. Bratislava: ISSZS, 39-45.

 

Suciu, R. (2008). Present situation and perspectives of sturgeon conservation and aquaculture in Romania, with special regard to the sterlet. XXXII Scientific Conference on Fisheries and Aquaculture; Proceedings of the International Workshop on Sturgeon Conservation and Breeding, Szarvas, Hungary, 15-16 May 2008, 21-24. (LINK)

 

Vásárhely, I. (1957). Felso-tiszai színtokok – és a Tiszalöki vízilépcsö. [Ship sturgeon catches in the upper Tisza River and the Tiszalok water step] Halászat 4, 105 [In Hungarian].

 

Vassilev, M. (2006). Lower Danube – the last refuge for surviving of sturgeon fishes in the Black Sea Region. In Hubert, P. (ed.) Water Observation and Information System for Decision Support. Conference Proceedings, Balwois, Ohrid, Macedonia (http://balwois.org). (LINK)

 

Vassilev M. & L. Pehlivanov (2003). Structural Changes of Sturgeon Catches in the Bulgarian Danube Section. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 55, 97-102. (LINK)

 

Vecsei, P., Sucui, R. & D. Peterson (2002). Threatened fishes of the world: Huso huso (Linnaeus, 1758) (Acipenseridae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 65, 363-365. (LINK)

 

Vecsei, P., Peterson, D., Suciu, R. & E. Artyukhin (2007). Threatened fishes of the world, Acipenser stellatus, Pallas, 1771 (Acipenseridae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 78 (3), 211-212. (LINK)

 

Williot, P., Sabeau, L., Gessner, J., Arlati, G., Bronzi, P., Gulyas, T. & P. Berni (2001). Sturgeon farming in Western Europe: recent developments and perspectives. Aquatic Living Resources 14, 367-374. (LINK)

 

Williot, P., Arlati, G., Chebanov, M., Gulyas, T., Kasimov, R., Kirschbaum, F., Patriche, N., Pavlovskaya, L.P., Poliakova, L., Pourkazemi, M., Kim, Y., Zhuang, P. & I.M. Zholdasova (2002). Status and management of Eurasian sturgeon: an overview. International Review of Hydrobiology 87 (5-6), 483-506. (LINK)

 

Williot, P., Brun, R., Rouault, T., Pelard, M., Mercier, D. & A. Ludwig (2005). Artificial spawning in cultured sterlet sturgeon, Acipenser ruthenus L., with special emphasis on hermaphrodites. Aquaculture 246, 263-273. (LINK)