Assessing the effects of pollution in groundwaters is recently considered among the most relevant aims for subterranean biology; with this perspective, we aim to provide examples of the most relevant effects that pollution may cause on stygofauna community and underline patterns deserving further investigations. We retrieved different cases in which pollution caused alteration of groundwater trophic webs, favored invasions by epigean mesopredators, damaged stygobiont keystone species, and promoted interspecific competition between stygobionts and epigean animals. The results and the remarks derived from our perspective review underline that pollution may play multifaceted effects on groundwaters communities, and the paucity of information that exists on community-level changes and threats underlines the necessity for further studies.
Conservation Studies on Groundwaters’ Pollution : Challenges and Perspectives for Stygofauna Communities / R. Manenti, B. Piazza, Y. Zhao, E. Padoa Schioppa, E. Lunghi. - In: SUSTAINABILITY. - ISSN 2071-1050. - 13:13(2021 Jul), pp. 7030.1-7030.12.
Conservation Studies on Groundwaters’ Pollution : Challenges and Perspectives for Stygofauna Communities
R. Manenti
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2021
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Assessing the effects of pollution in groundwaters is recently considered among the most relevant aims for subterranean biology; with this perspective, we aim to provide examples of the most relevant effects that pollution may cause on stygofauna community and underline patterns deserving further investigations. We retrieved different cases in which pollution caused alteration of groundwater trophic webs, favored invasions by epigean mesopredators, damaged stygobiont keystone species, and promoted interspecific competition between stygobionts and epigean animals. The results and the remarks derived from our perspective review underline that pollution may play multifaceted effects on groundwaters communities, and the paucity of information that exists on community-level changes and threats underlines the necessity for further studies.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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