Collembola in the hyporheos of a karstic river: an overlooked habitat for Collembola containing a new genus for the UK

Abstract: Collembola are well known to occur in soils and litters, as well as inter-tidal habitats, caves and tree canopies, but are not normally thought of as members of the groundwater community. Here we report on studies of the colonisation of gravels in the hyporheic zone under the river Skirfare, a karstic river in Yorkshire. Unexpectedly, flooding during the second experimental run allowed a comparison between low- and high-flow conditions. Five species of Collembola were found in permanently saturated habitats 30 cm below a river bed. One of these species, Hymenaphorura nova, is the first record of its genus in the UK, and appears to be a groundwater specialist. The other named species (Anurida granaria and Mucrosomia (= Cryptopygus) garretti), Deuteraphorura cebennaria (= D. inermis) have wider distributions but are often associated with mines and caves; D. cebennaria is known to occur in the Scoska cave, whose waters feed into the Skirfare shortly upstream of the experimental locati.... https://www.soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/267

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• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

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• Erschienen in: Collembola in the hyporheos of a karstic river: an overlooked habitat for Collembola containing a new genus for the UK ; volume:83 ; number:3 ; year:2011 ; Soil organisms ; 83, Heft 3 (2011)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Shaw, Peter ; Dunscombe, Mark ; Robertson, Anne

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• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023080204241397768437
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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