2022
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.3802
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Are springs hotspots of benthic invertebrate diversity? Biodiversity and conservation priority of rheocrene springs in the karst landscape

Abstract: 1. Springs are perceived by human society as essential sources of drinking water, but on the other hand they represent peculiar and vulnerable ecosystems. They differ from other watercourses in the relatively high stability of their physicochemical conditions. As a result, springs represent ecosystems with an insular character, usually inhabited by specific aquatic communities.2. Although springs are generally considered species-rich habitats across the world, they have been outside scientific and conservation… Show more

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“…Indeed, Särkkä et al (1997) showed that undisturbed Finnish springs host more copepod and cladoceran species than springs affected by direct anthropogenic pressures. The high intersite beta diversity we found in these four karst springs extends to the within-spring scale previous evidence for high inter-spring taxonomic turnover in aquatic invertebrate metacommunities (e.g., Bottazzi et al, 2011;Cíbik et al, 2022). Our results also recall recent findings about high variability in invertebrate assemblages between sites located along a short (about 50 m) rheocrenic-hypocrenic gradient in a spring-springbrook system from Central Italy (Di Sabatino et al, 2021).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
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“…Indeed, Särkkä et al (1997) showed that undisturbed Finnish springs host more copepod and cladoceran species than springs affected by direct anthropogenic pressures. The high intersite beta diversity we found in these four karst springs extends to the within-spring scale previous evidence for high inter-spring taxonomic turnover in aquatic invertebrate metacommunities (e.g., Bottazzi et al, 2011;Cíbik et al, 2022). Our results also recall recent findings about high variability in invertebrate assemblages between sites located along a short (about 50 m) rheocrenic-hypocrenic gradient in a spring-springbrook system from Central Italy (Di Sabatino et al, 2021).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
“…Beta diversity, generally defined as the degree of inter-site change in assemblages' composition (Whittaker, 1960;Baselga, 2012), represents a key conceptual tool in the assessment of ecosystems' responses to natural (e.g., catastrophic events) and/or human-induced (e.g., overexploitation, pollution) stressors (Mori et al, 2018). Nonetheless, the application of beta diversity analyses to springs has been scant so far (e.g., Youssef et al, 2010;Schweiger and Beierkuhnlein, 2014;Cíbik et al, 2022).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%