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| Saccò, Mattia; Blyth, Alison J.; Humphreys, William F.; Karasiewicz, Stephane; Meredith, Karina T.; Laini, Alex; Cooper, Steven J.b.; Bateman, Philip W.; Grice, Kliti. |
| Groundwaters host highly adapted fauna, known as stygofauna, which play a key role in maintaining the functional integrity of subterranean ecosystems. Stygofaunal niche studies provide insights into the ecological dynamics shaping the delicate balance between the hydrological conditions and community diversity patterns. This work aims to unravel the ecological trends of a calcrete stygofaunal community, with special focus on niche dynamics through the Outlying Mean Index analysis (OMI) and additional calculation of Within Outlying Mean Indexes (WitOMI), under three rainfall regimes. Temperature and pH changed significantly among different rainfall conditions (P < .001), and together with salinity were the most influential drivers in shaping stygofaunal... |
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Palavras-chave: Stygofauna; Ecological niche; Groundwater; Calcrete; Rainfall; WitOMI. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00599/71110/69806.pdf |
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