The Criş/Körös Rivers' Valleys
Sárkány-Kiss, A. & Hamar, J. (eds): The Criş/Körös River Valley. A study of the geography, hydrobiology and ecology of the river system and its environment. Szolnok - Szeged - Târgu Mureş, 1997.
Foreword
In November 1993, 42 European countries have agreed in Maastricht, the Netherlands, that their nature conservation administrative bodies will in close co-operation create a transboundary European Ecological Network (EECONET). They have recognised that it is crucially important for the future of our overcrowded Europe to restore habitats and to conserve the chains of both designated and non-designated but still valuable sites that have preserved their natural or near-natural conditions.
River Corridors, i.e. the chains of riparian habitats, are of outstanding importance in the Carpathian Basin from the aspect of wise use technologies and the biological diversity. It certainly requires particular responsibility and a good sense of diplomacy to organise scientific research, nature conservation or regional development programmes that involve several countries, nevertheless, the protection of riparian ecosystems cannot be successful on some arbitrarily selected part of a catchment area, and is impossible without the partnership of local governments, farmers, authorities, institutes and all other stakeholders.
The nationalities of the Carpathian Basin live in a remarkably variegated and biogeographically diverse area. Living in a single basin, however, also incurs numerous common tasks and responsibilities for the governments in the fields of environment protection and nature conservation. It is a wonderful experience, when non-governmental organisations, research and education institutes join their forces to make a complex: geographical, biological, hydrobiological and ecological inventory on a multinational river and its flood plains, following a unified and internationally supported concept and methodology. This has happened in the case of the Körös/Criş rivers. Together with some colleagues, I am fortunate enough to be able to actively participate in the establishment of the Hungarian Ecological Network; moreover, we had the honour to take part in the elaboration of the EECONET concept. Our team has the opportunity to contribute in effect to the conservation and survival of valuable wetlands such as riparian ecosystems by legislative work and the application of laws, research and, habitat restoration programmes, site protection and the establishment of national parks. We, think that the close collaboration of the Romanian and Hungarían nature conservation bodies is of utmost importance, between governments, NGO's and researchers alike.
After similar publication on the Maros/Mureş Valley this is the second volume of the scientific summary of an outstandingly valuable and complex Hungarian-Romanian project. The Hungarian Ministry of Environment and Regional Policy has found the publication of this remarkably successful project worthy of support, especially because of the most convincing results in the Upper Tisza region. Initiated and organised by non-governmental organisations, namely the Tisza Klub (Szolnok. Hungary) under the leadership of József Hamar and Andrei Sárkány-Kiss from the Liga Pro Europa (Tărgu Mureş, Romania), the project also received indispensable support from numerous universities, research institutes, environmental and nature conservation administrative bodies and the students of the Babeş-Bolyai University.
I hope this project and publication will be a good example for many people across Europe for a delightful co-operation between two neighbouring countries. I am convinced that the database here published will be widely and successfully used, by governmental and non-governmental organisations and scientific workshops alike, as we work together to fulfil our common tasks. I am also convinced that we will not have to wait long for the continuation of this proiect and for its international support...
Dr. János Tardy
Ph.D.
Deputy Secretary of the State
Head of National Authority for
Nature Conservation,
Ministry of Environment and
Regional Policy
Hungary
Contents
János Tardy: Foreword
Andrei Sárkány-Kiss, Nicolae Găldean, Nicolae Mihăilescu: Description of the sampling sites along the rivers in the Criş/Körös Basin
Mihály Andó: Hydrographic description of the Körös/Criş riversystem
Sámuel Jakab: The geography of the Körös/Criş river system
Constantin Drăgulescu, Kunigunda Macalik: The aquatic and paludal flora and vegetation from the Criş/Körös Valleys
Zsolt Molnár, István Bagi, Éva Kertész: Vegetation and flora of the Hármas-Körös river (Hungary) with some historical remarks
József Hamar, Katalin Zsuga, Alpár Fodor, Michaela Ponta: Chemical characteristics of the water and sediment of the Criş/Körös river system
Zsófia Fodré, Lévai Istvánné: Hygienic bacteriological study of the Hungarian section of the Körös river system
István Grigorszky, Judit Padisák, Gábor Borics, Gábor Vasas: Data on the knowledge of Peridinium palatinum Lauterborn (Dinophyta) in Körös area (SE, Hungary)
Katalin Zsuga: The ecological condition of the Criş/Körös catchment area on the basis of planktonit fauna
Katalin Zsuga: Long-term zooplankton investigations in the Hungarian section of the Körös catchment area
András Szitó, Katalin Mózes : The Oligochaeta and the Chironomid fauna as pollution indicators in the Criş/Körös river system
Andrei Sárkány-Kiss, Florina Bolos, Eszter Nagy: Freshwater mollusks from the Criş/Körös rivers
Andrei Sárkány-Kiss: Structure and aspects of dynamic of the unionid associations of the Crişul Alb/Fehér-Körös river at Ineu
Andrei Sárkány-Kiss, Alpár Fodor, Michaela Ponta: Bioaccumulation of certain heavy metals by unionidae mollusks in Criş/Körös rivers
András Szitó: Macrozoobenthos biomass in the back-waters with different water supply
András Szitó; The crude oil pollution effect on the macrozoobenthos in the river Barcău/Berettyó
Nicolae Gáldean, Gabriela Staicu, Petru Bacalu: The assessment of lotic ecosystems from the hydrographical unity Criş/Körös river system, according to the benthic associations
Cristina Buzan, Andrei Sárkány-Kiss: A study of the plecoptera species in the White, Black and Rapid Criş/Körös river system
Kinga E. Csia, Andrei Sárkány-Kiss: The comparative study of ephemeroptera fauna in the Crişul Repede/Sebes-Körös river and in one of the Mureş/Maros section
Attila Kecskés: Occurrence of amphibious bugs, water bugs and ground bugs in the catchment area ofthe Crişul Alb, Crişul Negru and Crişul Repede rivers
Adrian Ruicănescu: Contribution to the diving beetles and whirligig beetles study (Coleoptera: Dytiscoidea, Gyrinoidea)
Lujza Ujvárosi: Study on the Trichoptera fauna in the Romanian section of the River Crişul Alb catchment area
Petru M. Bănărescu, Ilie Telcean, Petru Bacalu, Ákos Harka, Sándor Wilhelm The fish fauna of the Criş/Körös river basin
Andrei Sárkány-Kiss, Michaela Ponta, Alpár Fodor, Ilie Telcean: Bioaccumulation of certain heavy metals by fish populatiotis in the Criş/Körös rivers
Tamás Domokos, Károly Bába, †Gyula Kovács: The terrestrial snails of the Hungarian section of the three Körös/Criş and the Berettyó/Barcău rivers and their zoogeographical evaluation
Bálint Markó: Contribution to the knowledge of the ant-fauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Crişul Repede river valley
Ioan Ghira: Herpetofauna of Crişul Repede/Sebes Körös and Barcău/Berettyó river basins
Ioan Ghira, Lujza Újvárosy, Gyöngyvér Mara: Trophical spectrum of Rana ridibunda and its importance in trophical web in the Crişul Repede/Sebes-Körös river ecosystems
Istvánn Kohl: The avifauna of the Criş/Körös rivers
Andrei Sárkány-Kiss, Kunigunda Macalik: Ecological condition and the recommended Red List of the Criş/Körös river system