PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 19, Issue no.1/ 2025

Authors :

Roxana MAXIM 1 , Angelica RUSU 1 , Mircea NICOARA 1, 2* , Gabriel PLAVAN 2 , Dorel URECHE 3

1 Doctoral School of Geosciences, Faculty of Geography and Geology,Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania 

 2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania

3 Department of Biology, Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Sciences, Vasile Alecsandri” the University of Bacau, Bacau, Romania

E-mail : * Corresponding author: mirmag@uaic.ro

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2025191011

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