A Census of the Obligate Subterranean Fauna of the Balkan Peninsula

Ŝket, Boris; Paragamian, Kaloust; Trontelj, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-2854-0_18

Cited by 69 publications

(76 citation statements)

References 4 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Just as the Dinaric karst represents the richest area of stygofauna species within the larger Balkan peninsula, which is rich in stygofauna as a whole (Sket et al 2004), it has been estimated that the 3,500 000 km 2 western half of Australia actually supports 2680 species of stygofauna (Guzik et al 2010). While most of these species remain to be discovered, the majority of them occur in the Pilbara or Yilgarn regions.…”

Section: Global Signifi Cance Of Pilbara Faunamentioning

confidence: 99%

Pilbara stygofauna: deep groundwater of an arid landscape contains globally significant radiation of biodiversity

Halse¹,

Scanlon²,

Cocking³

et al. 2014

Rec West Aust Mus Sup

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

-The Pilbara region was surveyed for stygofauna between 2002 and 2005 with the aims of setting nature conservation priorities in relation to stygofauna, improving the understanding of factors affecting invertebrate stygofauna distribution and sampling yields, and providing a framework for assessing stygofauna species and community signifi cance in the environmental impact assessment process.Approximately 350 species of stygofauna were collected during the survey and extrapolation suggests that 500-550 actually occur in the Pilbara, although taxonomic resolution among some groups of stygofauna is poor and species richness is likely to have been substantially underestimated. More than 50 species were found in a single bore. Even though species richness was underestimated, it is clear that the Pilbara is a globally important region for stygofauna, supporting species densities greater than anywhere other than the Dinaric karst of Europe. This is in part because of a remarkable radiation of candonid ostracods in the Pilbara. Ostracods are the dominant stygofaunal group in terms of both species richness and animal abundance. Together, ostracods, copepods, amphipods and oligochates comprised 77% of species and 96% of animals collected.Stygofauna were found in 72% of samples collected and 81% of wells sampled. The average sample (including those without stygofauna) contained 3.2 ± 0.1 species. A feature of the Pilbara is that stygofauna occur across most of the landscape, often where the depth to groundwater is considerable, although yields were low where depth to groundwater was >30 m. Another feature is high endemicity: on the basis of current taxonomy 98% of the stygobites and 83% of the other groundwater species occur only within the region. Few factors affecting stygofauna occurrence could be identifi ed, however. Numbers of specimens and species collected were positively related to well diameter and negatively related to depth to groundwater. Numbers of species declined in inland sub-regions, although variability within sub-regions was high.While a range of freshwater chemistries occurred, 79% of water samples were weakly saline and NaCl dominated. Profi ling and purging of wells suggested that water quality measurements refl ected aquifer conditions in most situations. Water chemistry appeared to have limited infl uence on stygofauna occurrence in the Pilbara. Geology also appeared to have little effect on stygofauna occurrence but this may have been the result of non-random siting of wells; there was a bias towards wells being in transmissive locations that were not necessarily typical of the geology in which each well occurred.No potential reserves for stygofauna are recommended in this paper but nine areas of high stygofauna richness were identifi ed, including the listed Ethel Gorge stygofauna community. Theoretical analysis of species ranges suggested that half of the species found only in the vicinity of development projects will have ranges less than 680 km 2 . Consequently, projects involving ext...

show abstract

Section: Global Signifi Cance Of Pilbara Faunamentioning

confidence: 99%

Pilbara stygofauna: deep groundwater of an arid landscape contains globally significant radiation of biodiversity

Halse¹,

Scanlon²,

Cocking³

et al. 2014

Rec West Aust Mus Sup

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The Balkan Peninsula is characterized by a high genetic diversity for many aquatic species (Bănărescu, 2004;Sket et al, 2004), stemming from its role as one of the most important Pleistocene glacial refugia in Europe (Hewitt, 1999). Likewise, the populations of some European crayfish species occurring in the Balkans were observed to exhibit higher genetic variation compared with the rest of Europe (Trontelj et al, 2005;Klobučar et al, 2013;Schrimpf et al, 2014), and hence forming genetically unique stocks of conservation importance on the continental scale.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Filling the blank spot: first report on the freshwater crayfish distribution in Albania

Mrugała

Šanda

Shumka

et al. 2017

Knowl. Manag. Aquat. Ecosyst.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

-The knowledge on the distribution of native and non-native crayfish species in Europe has substantially advanced during last two decades. However, data on the exact distribution of European crayfish are still lacking in some regions of the Balkan Peninsula, e.g., in Albania. Out of five European crayfish taxa, Astacus astacus and Austropotamobius torrentium are considered to occur in Albanian freshwaters. However, until now the only confirmed localities of the occurrence of any crayfish species in Albania are a single place in the Mat River drainage and Prespa Lake. Five crayfish individuals have been collected recently from two localities in Albania: Ohrid Lake and upper Devolli River (Seman basin), as a result of a repeated sampling in all main Albanian river drainages. All specimens were morphologically and molecularly identified as the noble crayfish, A. astacus, providing confirmation of its presence in this Balkan country. The present paper summarizes historic and current distribution records of the crayfishes in Albania and neighbouring countries as well as provides insight into genetic variability of Albanian A. astacus.Keywords: Astacus astacus / Austropotamobius torrentium / Ohrid Lake / DNA barcoding / Balkan Peninsula Résumé -Combler une lacune : premières données sur la distribution des écrevisses en Albanie.Les connaissances sur la répartition des espèces d'écrevisses natives et non autochtones en Europe ont considérablement progressé au cours des deux dernières décennies. Cependant, des données sur la répartition exacte des écrevisses européennes manquent encore dans certaines régions de la péninsule balkanique, par exemple en Albanie. Parmi les cinq taxa européens d'écrevisse, Astacus astacus et Austropotamobius torrentium sont considérés comme présentes dans les eaux albanaises. Cependant, jusqu'à présent, les seules localités confirmées de présence d'espèces d'écrevisses en Albanie sont un endroit unique dans le bassin de la rivière Mat et dans le lac Prespa. Cinq spécimens d'écrevisses ont été collectés récemment dans deux localités en Albanie : le lac d'Ohrid et la Haute-Devolli (bassin du Seman), à la suite d'un échantillonnage répété dans tous les principaux bassins hydrographiques albanais. Tous les spécimens ont été identifiés morphologiquement et génétiquement comme étant l'écrevisse noble, A. astacus, confirmant sa présence dans ce pays balkanique. Le présent document résume les rapports de distribution historiques et actuels des écrevisses en Albanie et dans les pays voisins, ainsi que des informations sur la variabilité génétique d'A. astacus albanais.

show abstract

“…So, these areas have a high level of productivity. The low species richness of Iranian caves is not realistic and it is due to a lack of comprehensive studies of all taxa (as a comparison, Sket et al (2004) reported more than 975 terrestrial and 650 aquatic obligate subterranean species for the Balkan Peninsula).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A checklist of subterranean arthropods of Iran

Malek-Hosseini¹,

Zamani²

2017

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Understanding subterranean biodiversity is important, yet vast regions of the world remain poorly explored. Here, we provide the first step towards cataloguing the subterranean arthropods of Iran. After review and analysis of the available literature and the examination of samples collected by us from Iranian caves, we listed 89 cavernicolous species (from 42 caves and 5 karstic springs) belonging to four arthropod subphyla: Chelicerata (1 class, 4 orders, 36 species), Crustacea (2 classes, 3 orders, 15 species), Hexapoda (2 classes, 5 orders, 34 species) and Myriapoda (2 classes, 3 orders, 4 species).

show abstract

A Census of the Obligate Subterranean Fauna of the Balkan Peninsula

Cited by 69 publications

References 4 publications

Pilbara stygofauna: deep groundwater of an arid landscape contains globally significant radiation of biodiversity

Pilbara stygofauna: deep groundwater of an arid landscape contains globally significant radiation of biodiversity

Filling the blank spot: first report on the freshwater crayfish distribution in Albania

A checklist of subterranean arthropods of Iran

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About