TRANSYLVANIAN REVIEW OF SYSTEMATICAL AND ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH 17.2 The Wetlands Diversity Editors Angela Curtean-Bănăduc & Doru Bănăduc Sibiu ‒ Romania 2015 TRANSYLVANIAN REVIEW OF SYSTEMATICAL AND ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH 17.2 The Wetlands Diversity Editors Angela Curtean-Bănăduc & Doru Bănăduc “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Ecology and Environment Protection Published based mainly on some of the scientific materials presented at the fourth “Aquatic Biodiversity International Conference” ‒ Sibiu/Romania 2015 ESENIAS Ecotur Sibiu “Lucian Blaga” International East and South N.G.O. University Association for Danube European network for of Sibiu Research Invasive Alien Species Sibiu ‒ Romania 2015 Scientifical Reviewers John Robert AKEROYD Sherkin Island Marine Station, Sherkin Island ‒ Ireland. Doru BĂNĂDUC “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu ‒ Romania. Alexandru BURCEA “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu ‒ Romania. Bill CHAMBERS Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool ‒ United Kingdom. Kevin CIANFAGLIONE University of Camerino, Camerino ‒ Italy. Angela CURTEAN-BĂNĂDUC “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu ‒ Romania. Laurisse FRAMPTON Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland ‒ Australia. Andréa GALOTTI CEACTierra – University of Jaén, Jaén ‒ Spain. Marian-Traian GOMOIU Romanian Academy, Bucharest ‒ Romania. Thomas HEIN Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Limnology, Mondsee ‒ Austria. Georg Albert JANAUER University of Vienna, Vienna ‒ Austria. Mike JOY Te Kura Matauranga o nga Taonga a Papatuanuku Massey University, Palmerston North ‒ New Zealand. Mirjana LENHARDT Institute for Biological Research, Belgrade ‒ Serbia. Weronika MAŚLANKO University of Life Science of Lublin, Lublin – Poland. Skyler PAULI Montana University, Missula ‒ United States of America. Eckbert SCHNEIDER Karlsruhe University, Institute for Waters and River Basin Management, Rastatt ‒ Germay. Teodora TRICHKOVA Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology, Sofia ‒ Bulgaria. Editorial Assistants Emily ADAMS Elsner Research and Consulting, Zürich – Switzerland. Christelle BENDER Poitiers University, Poitiers ‒ France. Cristina-Ioana CISMAŞ “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu – Romania. Rebecca CLEMOW Montana University, Missula ‒ United States of America. Cheryl FULLERTON Montana University, Missula, United States of America. Thomas HEIN BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna ‒ Austria. Oriana IRIMIA-HURDUGAN “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Iaşi – Romania. Marie-Eve LASSEUR Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon ‒ France. Sanda MAICAN Romanian Academy Institute of Biology, Bucharest ‒ Romania. Kelly Nelson MILES Coquille Watershed Association, Coquille, Oregon – United States of America. Ana MILSTEIN Dor, M.P. Hof HaCarmel Fish and Aquaculture Research Station, Hof HaCarmel ‒ Israel. Pablo del MONTE Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas del IPN, La Paz ‒ México. Iasmina MOZA “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu ‒ Romania. Nathaniel PAGE Agricultural Development and Environmental Protection in Transylvania Foundation, East Knoyle ‒ United Kingdom. Sonia REY PLANELAS University of Stirling, Stirling ‒ United Kingdom. Lucia URSU “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu ‒ Romania. IN MEMORIAM Edward Forbes (1815 ‒ 1854) Edward Forbes was born in 1815 at Douglas, Isle of Man, Great Britain. In his childhood he collected insects, shells, fossils, plants and many other natural history objects. The beginning of his education was as a day scholar at Athole House Academy in Douglas. In 1832, he pursued studies in the natural history of the Isle of Man. In 1833 he made a journey in Norway, the botanical results of which were published in London’s Magazine of Natural History for 1835–1836. In 1834 he dedicated time to dredging in the Irish Sea, and in the next year he journeyed in Switzerland, France and Germany. A born naturalist, in 1836 he abandoned the idea of taking a medical degree, devoting himself to science. In 1836–1837 found him at Paris, where he was present at the lectures at the Jardin des Plantes on natural history, mineralogy, geology, and comparative anatomy. In 1837, he went to Algiers, and there acquired materials for a study on freshwater and land Mollusca, printed in the Annals of Natural History. In 1838 arose his first volume, Malacologia Monensis, a synopsis of the Manx species of Mollusca. During 1838 he visited Carniola and Styria in SE Austria and Slovenia, and made botanical collections. His Azoic hypothesis was disproved after a quarter of a century when starfish and worms were found on the deep bottom of the sea. In 1838 he read before the British Association at Newcastle a report on the distribution of Pulmonata in Europe, and was nominee to produce a similar publication for the British Isles. In 1841 appeared his History of British star-fishes and, in the same year, he joined at Malta H.M. survey ship “Beacon” to which he had been appointed naturalist. Between 1841 and 1842 he was employed in studying the botany, zoology and geology of the Mediterranean area. The results of these studies were made known in his Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean Sea, presented to the British Association in 1843, and in Travels in Lycia, in 1847. In the previous treatise he deliberated the influence of climate and of the nature and depth of the sea bottom upon marine organisms, and split the Aegean into eight biological areas. Towards the end of 1842 Forbes gain the curatorship of the museum of the Geological Society of London. To the charges of that post he added in 1843 those of the professorship of botany at King's College London. In November 1844 he became palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of Great Britain. In 1846, he wrote in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey, i. 336, his great essay On the Connection between the distribution of the existing Fauna and Flora of the British Isles, and the Geological Changes which have affected their Area, especially during the epoch of the Northern Drift. It is therein pointed out that, in accordance with the theory of their origin from various centres, the plants of Great Britain may be divided into five well-marked groups. In 1852 was published the fourth volume of Forbes and S. Hanley's History of British Mollusca; also his Monograph of the Echinodermata of the British Tertiaries. In 1853 Forbes held the presidency of the Geological Society of London, and in 1854 he was appointed to the professorship of natural history at the University of Edinburgh. He lectured at Edinburgh that year. But he was sick just after he had started his winter course of lectures, and after some days he died at Wardie, near Edinburgh, on 18 November 1854. In 1859, a previous student of Forbes dedicated Mount Forbes, Alberta, Canada to his greatly appreciated memory. He is commemorated too in the lily Fritillaria forbesii, the type specimen of which he collected in Lycia 1842. Some works were published after his death: On the Tertiary Fluviomarine Formation of the Isle of Wight in 1856; and The Natural History of the European Seas, in 1859. The Editors Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research 17.2 The Wetlands Diversity 2015 CONTENTS Preface; The Editors # BIOTOPE Profiling suspensions in natural water by a simplified dynamic light scattering procedure and sedimentation; Dan CHICEA and Liana-Maria CHICEA .............................................. 1. Microhabitat preferences of Phaeophyta on shore platform of Dwarka, Gujarat Coast, India; Dimpal SANGHVI, Nandini RAY CHAUDHURY and Bhanukumar JAIN ................................................................................................................................. 11. # BIOCOENOSIS Wetland algal communities from Balta Mică a Brăilei Nature Park (Romania); Mihaela Hrisa FLORESCU, Maria Magdalena MAXIM, Laura MOMEU, Mirela CÎMPEAN and Karina Paula BATTES ............................................... 23. Habitats with Sea Grape (Ephedra distachia) on the dunes of Letea (Danube Delta, Romania); Erika SCHNEIDER-BINDER and Felizia KUHLCKE .......................... 45. Some morphological characters of female of Mothocya epimerica Costa, 1851 (Flabellifera: Cymothoidae) from Sea of Marmara; Ali ALAŞ, Ahmet OKTENER and Dilek TÜRKER .................................. 57. Report on Green Frog Euphlyctis hexadactylus from Vengaivasal Lake (Tamilnadu, India) Ravichandran RAMANIBAI and Sivalingam GOVINDAN .................... 65. Length-weight relationship of some fish species in a tropical rainforest river in south-east Nigeria; Godwin ADAKA, Eunice NDUKWE and Anthony NLEWADIM ............ 73. Preliminary results regarding the present morphometric characters of Thermal Rud, Scardinius racovitzai Müller 1958 from Peţea Spring Natural Reserve; Gabriela GRIGORAŞ, Tamás MÜLLER, Adrian GAGIU and Ionuţ BONTAŞ ........................................................................................................................... 79. # ECOSYSTEMS Biotope determinants of EPT assemblages structure – Târnava Watershed (Transylvania, Romania) case study; Angela CURTEAN-BĂNĂDUC .............................................................. 95. # HUMAN IMPACT Water quality and haematological indices of Clarias gariepinus from Ogun River (Nigeria); Olaniyi Alaba OLOPADE, Iyabode Olusola TAIWO, Comfort Opeoluwa OLUWOLEAND and Justin Ayaegbunem AKANKALI .................................. 105. Climate changes and