Journal Articles

• Minaz, M., Félix, L.M., Er, A., Köse, Ö., Ak, K., Alparslan, C., Serdar, O., Aydın, B., Kurtul, I. and Hoseini, S.M., 2026. Evaluation of rainbow trout response to the optimal anesthetic concentration of citronella oil (Cymbopogon nardus) predicted by artificial neural network. Aquaculture, 613.
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• Haubrock, P.J., Soto, I., Cuthbert, R.N., Kurtul, I. and Briski, E., 2025. Analysing factors underlying the reporting of established non-native species. Scientific Reports, 15 (1).
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• Kurtul, I., Britton, R. et al., 2025. Spatial and seasonal patterns in fish assemblages of the Bakırçay river are associated with physicochemical and habitat parameters. Scientific Reports, 15 (1).
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• Kaya, C., Minaz, M., Şentürk Koca, Y., Oral Kaba, M., Kurtul, I. and Aytan, Ü., 2025. Monitoring microplastics in a region with sensitive fish biodiversity: Tigris, Euphrates and Van Lake drainages in Irano-Anatolian hotspot. Environmental Sciences Europe, 37 (1).
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• Yoğurtçuoğlu, B., Kurtul, I. et al., 2025. Turkish freshwaters as a case of rising invasion risk of aquarium fishes under climate change. Scientific Reports, 15 (1).
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• Kurtul, I., Britton, J. et al., 2025. Microplastic Ingestion in Invasive Mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki): A Nationwide Survey from Türkiye. Environmental Sciences Europe.
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• Haubrock, P.J., Kurtul, I., Britton, J.R. et al., 2025. GFID: A Global Fish Invasion Database. Ecological Research, 40 (6).
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• Kurtul, I., Britton, J.R. et al., 2025. Historically low microplastic loads within white bream (Blicca bjoerkna) in the Marmara basin, Türkiye. Journal of Fish Biology, 107 (4), 1454-1459.
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• Haubrock, P.J., Kurtul, I., Britton, R. et al., 2025. A Global Account of Established Non-Native Fish Species. Global Change Biology, 31 (8).
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• Kaba, M.O., Minaz, M., Kaya, C., Jouy, T., Kurtul, I. and Aytan, Ü., 2025. Silent invaders of freshwater ecosystems: Unveiling the microplastic crisis threatening the world's largest soda lake (Lake Van, Türkiye). Journal of Great Lakes Research, 51 (4).
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• Ghazal, A., Paul, R., Tarkan, A.S., Kurtul, I., Pegg, J., Andreou, D. and Britton, J.R., 2025. Domestication as the driver of lower chronic stress levels in fish in catch-and-release recreational fisheries and aquaculture versus wild conspecifics. Plos One, 20 (6 June).
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• Oficialdegui, F.J., Kurtul, I. et al., 2025. Non-Native Species in Aquaculture: Burgeoning Production and Environmental Sustainability Risks. Reviews in Aquaculture, 17 (3).
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• Haubrock, P.J., Kurtul, I., Britton, J.R. et al., 2025. Conceptual and ethical considerations in invasion science. Bioscience, 75 (4), 317-330.
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• Baycelebi, E., Kurtul, I., Onay, H., Kaya, C., Haubrock, P.J. and Turan, D., 2025. Describing biological parameters of several endemic Salmo species from the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf basins. Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies, 54 (1), 21-32.
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• Kaya, C., Aksu, İ., Aksu, S., Kocabaş, M., Kurtul, I. and Turan, D., 2025. Tracing Historical River Connectivity Through Freshwater Fish Assemblages: The Case of Göksu River and Lake Beyşehir. Ecohydrology, 18 (2).
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• Aksu, S., Britton, J.R., Kurtul, I. et al., 2025. High trophic similarity between non-native common carp and gibel carp in Turkish freshwaters: Implications for management. Aquaculture and Fisheries, 10 (1), 141-148.
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• Kalaycı, G., Kurtul, I., Bayçelebi, E., Kaya, C. and Turan, D., 2025. Integrated molecular and morphological evidence reveals a new Rhodeus species (Cyprinidae: Acheilognathidae) from the Turkish Aegean basin, with a redescription of Rhodeus meridionalis. Journal of Fish Biology.
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• Kaya, C., Sac, G., Hubert, N., Minaz, M. and Kurtul, I., 2025. Post-2000 milestones in freshwater fish taxonomy: a comprehensive review of newly described species in Turkiye. ZOOSYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION, 101 (3).
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• Tarkan, A.S., Emiroğlu, Ö., Aksu, S., Kurtul, I., Błońska, D., Bayçelebi, E., Soto, I., Chan, S.S., Haubrock, P.J. and Bradshaw, C.J.A., 2024. Testing the Dispersal-Origin-Status-Impact (DOSI) scheme to prioritise non-native and translocated species management. Scientific Reports, 14 (1).
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• Haubrock, P.J., Soto, I., Kurtul, I. and Kouba, A., 2024. Are long-term biomonitoring efforts overlooking crayfish in European rivers? Environmental Sciences Europe, 36 (1).
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• Kurtul, I. and Haubrock, P.J., 2024. The need of centralized coordination to counter biological invasions in the European Union. Environmental Sciences Europe, 36 (1).
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• Haubrock, P.J., Kurtul, I. and Kouba, A., 2024. Tracking aquatic non-native macroinvertebrate species in Germany using long-term data. Environmental Sciences Europe, 36 (1).
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• Onay, H., Kurtul, I., Kaya, C., Turan, D. and Bayçelebi, E., 2024. Length-weight relations and condition factors of several endemic and native fish species from Anatolian freshwater. Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies, 53 (4), 386-395.
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• Haubrock, P.J., Soto, I., Tarkan, A.S., Macêdo, R.L., Kouba, A., Cuthbert, R.N., Briski, E., Everts, T. and Kurtul, I., 2024. Socioeconomic prerequisites determine national long-term biomonitoring efforts. Journal of Environmental Management, 370.
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• Haubrock, P.J., Kurtul, I., Macêdo, R.L., Mammola, S., Franco, A.C.S. and Soto, I., 2024. Competency in invasion science: addressing stagnation challenges by promoting innovation and creative thinking. Environmental Management, 74 (5), 916-927.
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• Kurtul, I., 2024. The critical need for long-term biomonitoring: The case study of a major river system in Anatolia. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196 (11).
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• Kurtul, I., Kaya, C., Onay, H., Bayçelebi, E. and Turan, D., 2024. Length-weight relationships and condition factors of several endemic and native species of the genera Alburnoides, Alburnus and Squalius. Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies, 53 (3), 227-236.
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• Toutain, M., Belouard, N., Renault, D., Haubrock, P.J., Kurtul, I., Aksu, S., Emiroğlu, Ö., Kouba, A., Tarkan, A.S. and Balzani, P., 2024. Assessing the role of non-native species and artificial water bodies on the trophic and functional niche of Mediterranean freshwater fish communities. Science of the Total Environment, 938.
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• Soto, I., Britton, J.R., Kurtul, I. et al., 2024. Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science. Biological Reviews, 99 (4), 1357-1390.
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• Kurtul, I., Tarkan, A.S., Sarı, H.M., Haubrock, P.J., Soto, I., Aksu, S. and Britton, J.R., 2024. Exploring invasiveness and versatility of used microhabitats of the globally invasive Gambusia holbrooki. Science of the Total Environment, 925.
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• Haubrock, P.J., Kurtul, I., Andreou, D., Britton, J.R. et al., 2024. Biological invasions are a population-level rather than a species-level phenomenon. Global Change Biology, 30 (5).
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• Kurtul, I., Kaya, C., Kaykaç, H., Ilhan, A., Düzbastilar, F.O., Tosunoğlu, Z., Sari, H.M., Balzani, P., Tarkan, A.S. and Haubrock, P.J., 2024. How fish populations in Lake Bafa (Western Anatolia) respond to ecological shifts. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 34 (5).
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• Bayçelebi, E., Kaya, C., Kurtul, I., Turan, D., Haubrock, P.J., Soto, I., Aksu, S. and Tarkan, A.S., 2024. Decadal-scale regional variability in monitoring efforts significantly influences fish diversity trends in the Euphrates and Tigris catchments, Türkiye. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 34 (5).
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• Tarkan, A.S., Kurtul, I. et al., 2024. Economic costs of non-native species in Türkiye: A first national synthesis. Journal of Environmental Management, 358.
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• Kaya, C., Kurtul, I., Bayçelebi, E., İlhan, A. and Sarı, H.M., 2024. Actual Distributions and Validity of Petroleuciscus spp., with the Range Extension and Length-Weight Relationship Data in Case of Petroleuciscus ninae. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 24 (2).
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• Tarkan, A.S., Kurtul, I., Błońska, D., Robert Britton, J. and Haubrock, P.J., 2024. Resolving the issues of translocated species in freshwater invasions. Neobiota, 93, 177-186.
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• Tarkan, A.S., Kurtul, I. and Britton, J.R., 2024. Comparing the ecological consequences of globally invasive fishes versus their F1 hybrids in recreational fisheries. Neobiota, 95, 267-278.
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• Ion, M.C., Kurtul, I. et al., 2024. World of Crayfish™: a web platform towards real-time global mapping of freshwater crayfish and their pathogens. Peerj, 12 (10).
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• Kaya, C., Kurtul, I., Aksu, İ.L., Oral, M. and Freyhof, J., 2024. Oxynoemacheilus chaboras, a new loach species from the Euphrates drainage in Türkiye (Teleostei, Nemacheilidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution, 100 (2), 457-468.
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• Kaya, C., İmre, H.B. and Kurtul, I., 2024. Is Garra rezai (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) a species known only from two widely disjunct areas in the Tigris drainage? Zoosystematics and Evolution, 100 (2), 349-356.
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• Tarkan, A.S., Kurtul, I. et al., 2023. Predicting the potential implications of perch (Perca fluviatilis) introductions to a biodiversity-rich lake using stable isotope analysis. Scientific Reports, 13 (1).
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• Kurtul, I., Kaya, C., Şen, A., Özcan, C., Ercivan, D., Demiral, K., Güngör, M., İlhan, A. and Sarı, H.M., 2023. An ichthyofaunal amendment with the length-weight relations and condition factors of some endemic and invasive freshwater fishes from Western Anatolia. Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies, 52 (4), 389-398.
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• Kurtul, I., Tarkan, A.S. and Britton, J.R., 2023. Promoting the use of non-lethal sample collection for analysing the trophic relationships of inshore flatfish populations using stable isotope analysis. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 290.
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• Tarkan, A.S., Kurtul, I., Britton, J.R. et al., 2023. Phenotypic responses to piscivory in invasive gibel carp populations. Aquatic Sciences, 85 (3).
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• Kurtul, I., Tarkan, A.S. and Britton, J.R., 2023. Inter-tissue variability in the stable isotope values of European perch (Perca fluviatilis) and pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus). Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems.
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• Kurtul, I., Tarkan, A.S., Sarı, H.M. and Britton, J.R., 2022. Climatic and geographic variation as a driver of phenotypic divergence in reproductive characters and body sizes of invasive Gambusia holbrooki. Aquatic Sciences, 84 (2).
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• Vilizzi, L., Kurtul, I. et al., 2021. A global-scale screening of non-native aquatic organisms to identify potentially invasive species under current and future climate conditions. Science of the Total Environment, 788.
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• Tarkan, A.S., Kurtul, I. et al., 2021. Risk of invasiveness of non-native aquatic species in the eastern Mediterranean region under current and projected climate conditions. European Zoological Journal, 88 (1), 1130-1143.
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Preprints

• Tarkan, A.S., Kurtul, I., Blonska, D., Britton, J.R. and Haubrock, P., 2024. Resolving the issues of translocated native species in freshwater invasions.
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