Groundwater is a vital ecosystem of the global water cycle, hosting unique biodiversity and
providing essential services to societies. Despite being the largest unfrozen freshwater …

Groundwater fauna (stygofauna) comprises organisms that have adapted to the dark
subterranean environment over a course of thousands and millions of years, typically having …

Contamination from agricultural sources and, in particular, nitrate pollution, is one of the
main concerns in groundwater management. However, this type of pollution entails the …

Anthropogenic impacts in groundwater ecosystems remain poorly known. Climate change is
omnipresent, while groundwater salinization poses serious long-term environmental …

Groundwaters provide the vast majority of unfrozen freshwater resources on the planet, but
our knowledge of subsurface ecosystems is surprisingly limited. Stygofauna, or stygobionts …

Groundwater ecosystems have a diverse and unique fauna, often dominated by Crustacea
and generally characterised by short range endemics confined to single aquifers. Much of …

Increased global demand for groundwater has resulted in the need to measure and monitor
this resource. Rather than monitoring groundwater simply though water chemistry and …

As a consequence of the growing global dependence on groundwater resources,
environmental risk assessments (ERA) for groundwater are increasingly required and, with …

Globally, the provision of groundwater‐supported ecosystem services is threatened by
climate change, water extraction, and other activities that alter groundwater regimes (defined …

The distribution of biota in aquatic ecosystems, including aquifers, is collectively influenced
by habitat structure, water quality, seasonality, and local variations in environmental …