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Background The Lambro river is an important water basin located in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. It has been seriously affected, over the past two centuries, by industry-related pollution. Although the implementation of purification systems and other mitigating measures has decreased pollution levels, river quality has dramatically and severely p ...

Background Though white-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) have a range covering the entire Italian peninsula, they are confined to the least polluted watercourses. Once also quite widespread in the Po basin, the numbers of this crustacean have fallen steeply. Its decline can be largely explained by the degradation of water quality caused by wast ...