Diana M. P. Galassi

TL;DR: Ecological requirements such as hydraulic microhabitats and geomorphologic features of the streambed are the major determinants of species diversity and abundance for benthic microcrustacea of lotic habitats.

TL;DR: In this article, the main biodiversity patterns and ecological features, human impacts on the system and environmental issues, and discuss ways to use this information to improve stewardship are identified, and the authors consider all main types of natural and artificial inland freshwater habitas (fwh).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the main threats to underground ecosystems and propose a set of effective actions to protect this globally important natural heritage and highlight the global importance and the conservation challenges associated with subterranean ecosystems.

TL;DR: The broad-scale distribution of groundwater biodiversity across Europe is explored, focussing on obligate subterranean aquatic taxa, and a core of four hotspots emerged in all cases: one stretching across Slovenia and northeastern Italy, one in the French Pyrenees, two in Italy and one in Spain.

TL;DR: Copepod distributions at small spatial scales are most strongly affected by habitat type and heterogeneity, with sediment grain size and availability of organic matter being important habitat characteristics, and phylogenetic and distributional relicts and a high degree of endemism at different taxonomic levels are reflected.