Terrestrial land use signals on groundwater fauna beyond current protection buffers.

ABSTRACT: Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems are tightly linked, with direct implications for applied resource management and conservation. It is well known that human land use change and intensification of terrestrial systems can have large impacts on surface freshwater ecosystems. Contrastingly, the study and understanding of such land use impacts on groundwater communities is lagging behind. Both the impact strength of land use on groundwater communities and the spatial extents at which such interlinkages are operating are largely unknown, despite our reliance on groundwater for drinking water extraction as a key ecosystem service. Here, we analyzed groundwater amphipod occurrence from several hundred shallow groundwater aquifers used for drinking water extraction across a region of varying agric

SUBMITTER: Knusel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11610645 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature