Groundwater Ecology and Evolution

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Groundwater Ecology and Evolution, Second Edition is designed to meet a multitude of audience needs. The state of the art in the discipline is provided by the articulation of six sections. The first three sections successively carry the reader into the basic attributes of groundwater ecosystems (section 1), the drivers and patterns of biodiversity (section 2), and the roles of organisms in groundwater ecosystems (section 3). The next two sections are devoted to evolutionary processes driving the acquisition of subterranean biological traits (section 4) and the way these traits are differently expressed among groundwater organisms (section 5). Finally, section 6 shows how knowledge acquired among multiple research fields (sections 1 to 5) is used to manage groundwater biodiversity and ecosystem services in the face of future groundwater resource use scenarios. Emphasis on the coherence and prospects of the whole book is given in the introduction and conclusion.

Provides a modern synthesis of research dedicated to the study of groundwater biodiversity and ecosystems
Bridges the gap between community ecology, evolution, and functional ecology, three research fields that have long been presented isolated from each other
Explains how this trans-disciplinary integration of research contributes to understanding and managing of groundwater ecosystem functions
Reveals the contribution of groundwater ecology and evolution in solving scientific questions well beyond the frontiers of groundwater systems

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-03-13
Mått:191 x 235 x 36 mm
Vikt:1 380 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:640
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Elsevier Science
ISBN:9780128191194

Utforska kategorier

Hydrologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Florian Malard works at CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France. Dr Florian Malard is a groundwater evolutionary ecologist. Over the last ten years, his research focus has been on understanding patterns of groundwater biodiversity at regional to continental scales. He has led the “Ecology, Evolution and Groundwater Ecosystems research group, formerly headed by Professor Janine Gibert, the lead editor of the first edition of the Groundwater Ecology book published in 1994. Christian Griebler works at the University of Vienna, Austria. Dr Christian Griebler is a functional ecologist with a broad research interest stretching from the roles of microorganisms to metazoans in groundwater ecosystems. Rooted in aquatic microbial ecology and biogeochemistry, his research group tackles groundwater biodiversity, cycling of carbon and nutrients, effects of climate and global change, as well as the assessment of groundwater systems in terms of ecological status. Sylvie Rétaux works at CNRS and University Paris-Saclay, France. Dr Sylvie Rétaux is a neuroscientist and developmental biologist whose interests have shifted to evolutionary biology about 20 years ago. Her laboratory works on ecological evolutionary developmental biology of a cave-dwelling organism, the blind cavefish Astyanax mexicanus. Using an integrated approach combining embryology, neuroscience, behavior, and population genetics, she aims at discovering the mechanisms of adaptation to life in the dark.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionSection 1: Setting the scene: groundwater as ecosystems1. Hydrodynamics and geomorphology of groundwater environments2. Classifying groundwater ecosystems3. Physical and biogeochemical processes of hyporheic exchange in alluvial rivers4. Ecological and evolutionary jargon in subterranean biologySection 2: Drivers and patterns of groundwater biodiversity5. Groundwater biodiversity and constraints to biological distribution6. Patterns and determinants of richness and composition of the groundwater fauna7. Phylogenies reveal speciation dynamics: case studies from groundwater8. Dispersal and geographic range size in groundwaterSection 3: Roles of organisms in groundwater9. Microbial diversity and processes in groundwater10. Groundwater food webs11. Role of invertebrates in ecosystem processes and servicesSection 4: Principles of evolution in groundwater12. Voices from the underground: animal models for the study of trait evolution during groundwater colonization and adaptation13. Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on groundwater colonization by the amphibian Proteus anguinus14. The Asellus aquaticus species complex: an invertebrate model in subterranean evolution15. Developmental and genetic basis of troglomorphic traits in the teleost fish Astyanax mexicanus16. Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on groundwater colonization by the amphipod crustacean Gammarus minus17. Evolutionary genomics and transcriptomics in groundwater animalsSection 5: Biological traits in groundwater18. Dissolving morphological and behavioral traits of groundwater animals into a functional phenotype19. Life histories in groundwater organisms20. Physiological tolerance and ecotoxicological constrains of groundwater faunaSection 6: Section 6: Biodiversity and ecosystem management in groundwater21. Global groundwater in the Anthropocene22. Assessing groundwater ecosystem health, status and services23. Recent concepts and approaches for conserving groundwater biodiversity24. Existing framework for the conservation of groundwater biodiversity and ecosystem services