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Groundwater Ecology and Evolution

  • 2nd Edition - March 11, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Florian Malard, Christian Griebler, Sylvie Retaux
  • Language: English

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 articulat… Read more

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Description

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Graduate students, post-graduate students and academic researchers involved in the study of groundwater ecosystems. Audience working in several fields in biology, evolution and ecology, especially those fields in which groundwater ecosystems are excellent models to study general principles: in biology, the physiological mechanism for life in extreme environment; in evolution, the mechanisms of adaptation to a novel environment; and in ecology, the functional role of biodiversity on fluxes of matter and energy at sedimentary interfaces

Table of contents

Section 1: Setting the scene: groundwater as ecosystems

1. Hydrodynamics and geomorphology of groundwater environments

2. Classifying groundwater ecosystems

3. Physical and biogeochemical processes of hyporheic exchange in alluvial rivers

4. Ecological and evolutionary jargon in subterranean biology

Section 2: Drivers and patterns of groundwater biodiversity

5. Groundwater biodiversity and constraints to biological distribution

6. Patterns and determinants of richness and composition of the groundwater fauna

7. Phylogenies reveal speciation dynamics: case studies from groundwater

8. Dispersal and geographic range size in groundwater

Section 3: Roles of organisms in groundwater

9. Microbial diversity and processes in groundwater

10. Groundwater food webs

11. Role of invertebrates in ecosystem processes and services

Section 4: Principles of evolution in groundwater

12. Voices from the underground: animal models for the study of trait evolution during groundwater colonization and adaptation

13. Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on groundwater colonization by the amphibian Proteus anguinus

14. The Asellus aquaticus species complex: an invertebrate model in subterranean evolution

15. Developmental and genetic basis of troglomorphic traits in the teleost fish Astyanax mexicanus

16. Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on groundwater colonization by the amphipod crustacean Gammarus minus

17. Evolutionary genomics and transcriptomics in groundwater animals

Section 5: Biological traits in groundwater

18. Dissolving morphological and behavioral traits of groundwater animals into a functional phenotype

19. Life histories in groundwater organisms

20. Physiological tolerance and ecotoxicological constrains of groundwater fauna

Section 6: Section 6: Biodiversity and ecosystem management in groundwater

21. Global groundwater in the Anthropocene

22. Assessing groundwater ecosystem health, status and services

23. Recent concepts and approaches for conserving groundwater biodiversity

24. Existing framework for the conservation of groundwater biodiversity and ecosystem services

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 13, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Florian Malard

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.
Affiliations and expertise
UMR CNRS 5023, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France

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Christian Griebler

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.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Vienna, Austria.

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Sylvie Retaux

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Director, CNRS, France

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