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Conservation Studies on Groundwaters’ Pollution: Challenges and Perspectives for Stygofauna Communities

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  • Raoul Manenti

    (Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria, 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
    Laboratorio di Biologia Sotterranea “Enrico Pezzoli”, Parco Regionale del Monte Barro, Località Eremo, 23851 Galbiate, Italy)

  • Beatrice Piazza

    (Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria, 26, 20133 Milano, Italy)

  • Yahui Zhao

    (Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China)

  • Emilio Padoa Schioppa

    (RULE—Research Unit of Landscape Ecology, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milano, Italy)

  • Enrico Lunghi

    (Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze, “La Specola”, 50124 Firenze, Italy
    Natural Oasis, 59100 Prato, Italy
    Unione Speleologica Calenzano, Calenzano, 50131 Firenze, Italy)

Abstract

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.

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  • Raoul Manenti & Beatrice Piazza & Yahui Zhao & Emilio Padoa Schioppa & Enrico Lunghi, 2021. "Conservation Studies on Groundwaters’ Pollution: Challenges and Perspectives for Stygofauna Communities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(13), pages 1-12, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:13:p:7030-:d:580189
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