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Antonín Kouba is a researcher affiliated with the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice in the Czech Republic. Their scientific work primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions across fields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of subjects including Crustacean biology and ecology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine and fisheries research, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Antonín Kouba reflect these themes. Notable publications include:

  • The redclaw crayfish: A prominent aquaculture species with invasive potential in tropical and subtropical biodiversity hotspots (2021, Reviews in Aquaculture)
  • Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science (2024, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • Identifying economic costs and knowledge gaps of invasive aquatic crustaceans (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Unveiling the hidden economic toll of biological invasions in the European Union (2023, Environmental Sciences Europe)
  • Biological invasions are a population-level rather than a species-level phenomenon (2024, Global Change Biology)

Antonín Kouba collaborates frequently with a number of researchers in related fields. These include Phillip J. Haubrock, Ismael Soto, Ross N. Cuthbert, Miloš Buřič, and Elizabeta Briski.

Their work is published regularly in a range of scientific venues, with multiple contributions to The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports, Research Square, NeoBiota, and Chemosphere.

Best Publications

  • Continental-wide distribution of crayfish species in Europe: update and maps

    A. Kouba;A. Petrusek;P. Kozák

  • Bioaccumulation and Effects of Heavy Metals in Crayfish: A Review

    Antonín Kouba;Miloš Buřič;Pavel Kozák

  • Invasive aquatic pets: failed policies increase risks of harmful invasions

    Jiří Patoka;André Lincoln Barroso Magalhães;Antonín Kouba;Zen Faulkes

  • Acute exposure of common yabby (Cherax destructor) to the neonicotinoid pesticide.

    Alzbeta Stara;Alzbeta Stara;Roberto Bellinvia;Josef Velisek;Alzbeta Strouhova

  • Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science

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  • The redclaw crayfish: A prominent aquaculture species with invasive potential in tropical and subtropical biodiversity hotspots

    Phillip J. Haubrock;Phillip J. Haubrock;Francisco J. Oficialdegui;Yiwen Zeng;Jiří Patoka

  • Hardy exotics species in temperate zone: can “warm water” crayfish invaders establish regardless of low temperatures?

    Lukáš Veselý;Miloš Buřič;Antonín Kouba

  • Real-time monitoring of water quality using fish and crayfish as bio-indicators: a review.

    Iryna Kuklina;Antonín Kouba;Pavel Kozák

  • Identifying economic costs and knowledge gaps of invasive aquatic crustaceans.

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  • A Successful Crayfish Invader Is Capable of Facultative Parthenogenesis: A Novel Reproductive Mode in Decapod Crustaceans

    Miloš Buřič;Martin Hulák;Antonín Kouba;Adam Petrusek

  • The crayfish plague pathogen can infect freshwater-inhabiting crabs

    Jiří Svoboda;David A. Strand;Trude Vrålstad;Frédéric Grandjean

  • Accumulation of Heavy Metals in Crayfish and Fish from Selected Czech Reservoirs

    Iryna Kuklina;Antonín Kouba;Miloš Buřič;Ivona Horká

  • The significance of droughts for hyporheic dwellers: evidence from freshwater crayfish

    Antonín Kouba;Jan Tíkal;Petr Císař;Lukáš Veselý

  • PCR detection of the crayfish plague pathogen in narrow-clawed crayfish inhabiting Lake Eğirdir in Turkey.

    J. Svoboda;E. Kozubíková;P. Kozák;A. Kouba

  • Predictions of marbled crayfish establishment in conurbations fulfilled: Evidences from the Czech Republic

    Jiří Patoka;Miloš Buřič;Vojtěch Kolář;Vojtěch Kolář;Martin Bláha

  • Environmentally relevant concentrations of tramadol and citalopram alter behaviour of an aquatic invertebrate

    M. Buřič;K. Grabicová;J. Kubec;A. Kouba

  • Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) and crayfish plague as new threats for biodiversity in Indonesia

    Marfian Dwidima Putra;Martin Bláha;Yusli Wardiatno;Majariana Krisanti

  • Current conservation strategies for European crayfish

    P. Kozák;L. Füreder;A. Kouba;J. Reynolds

  • Effects of S-metolachlor and its degradation product metolachlor OA on marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis).

    Alzbeta Stara;Alzbeta Stara;Jan Kubec;Eliska Zuskova;Milos Buric

  • Unveiling the hidden economic toll of biological invasions in the European Union

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  • Clonal crayfish as biological model: a review on marbled crayfish

    Shakhawate Hossain;Jiří Patoka;Antonín Kouba;Miloš Buřič

  • Label-free protein quantification in freshly ejaculated versus post-mating spermatophores of the noble crayfish Astacus astacus.

    Hamid Niksirat;Peter James;Liselotte Andersson;Antonín Kouba

  • Irresponsible vendors: Non‐native, invasive and threatened animals offered for garden pond stocking

    Jiří Patoka;Martin Bláha;Lukáš Kalous;Antonín Kouba

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Petrusek
Adam Petrusek Charles University
Tomas Randak
Tomas Randak Masaryk University
Elena Tricarico
Elena Tricarico University of Florence
Peter James
Peter James Lund University
Ross N. Cuthbert
Ross N. Cuthbert Queen's University Belfast
Roman Grabic
Roman Grabic University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Caterina Faggio
Caterina Faggio University of Messina
Darren C. J. Yeo
Darren C. J. Yeo National University of Singapore
Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule
Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule Federal University of Paraná
Frank Lyko
Frank Lyko German Cancer Research Center

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