Community extinction: the groundwater (stygo-)fauna of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
Abstract The research aimed to recollect specimens from Curaçao of the genus Halosbaena belonging to the rare crustacean order Thermosbaenacea, a genus with a relictual Tethyan distribution. It resulted in recording the apparent extinction of the entire, species-rich, subterranean fauna on the island that had occurred within a period of 43 years up to 2015. The composition of the groundwater fauna on Curaçao was sampled in 2015 for comparison with sampling undertake 43 years previously. Despite using the same sampling methods previously used and comprehensive coverage of the available sampling... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Hydrobiologia ; volume 849, issue 21, page 4605-4611 ; ISSN 0018-8158 1573-5117 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Schlagwörter: | Aquatic Science |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27236143 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-022-05032-2 |