First Outcomes of a Project Dedicated to Monitoring Groundwater Resources in Apulia, Southern Italy

Parise, Mario; Benedetto, Luca; Chieco, Michele; Fiore, Antonello; Lacarbonara, Mina; Liso, Isabella Serena; Masciopinto, Costantino; Pisano, Luca; Riccio, Antonietta; Vurro, Michele

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“…Grotta Rotolo consists of wide vertical pits and sub-horizontal passages, reaching the water table at the bottom of the final drop 44 . Within the vadose zone, several pools are present at different heights.…”

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Regional climate contributes more than geographic distance to beta diversity of copepods (Crustacea Copepoda) between caves of Italy

Galmarini,

Vaccarelli,

Fiasca

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Despite the study of subterranean biodiversity facing harsh sampling and mapping challenges, the huge diversity of taxa, ecological adaptations and evolutionary trajectories in subterranean environments is gaining increasing attention. Yet, the spatial and environmental factors driving the composition of groundwater communities are still poorly understood. To partially fill this knowledge gap, we collected copepod crustaceans from 12 caves along the Italian peninsula between 2019 and 2022, sampling each cave twice. The resulting presence-absence data were analysed to assess: (i) between-cave taxonomic beta diversity, also partitioning between turnover and nestedness-resultant dissimilarity; (ii) the relative weight of geographic distance and climatic differences in shaping observed beta diversity. Seventy-one species of copepods were collected overall. Pairwise beta diversity was high for most pairs of caves, with turnover being the major component. Geographic distance-decay models partially explained total beta diversity and turnover patterns. However, in Generalized Dissimilarity Models (GDM), including surface climatic conditions as predictors, the contribution of seasonal temperature averages was generally higher than that of geographic distance. Further, the explanatory and predictive performance of the GDMs notably increased, along with temperature contribution, when widening the spatial extent from which climate data were gathered. Our results confirmed a high spatial turnover in groundwater copepods’ assemblages and strengthened the link between regional climate and subterranean biodiversity.

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Regional climate contributes more than geographic distance to beta diversity of copepods (Crustacea Copepoda) between caves of Italy

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Fiasca

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“…Under the surface, many caves open within Canale di Pirro; even though typically of limited size, and often used as stables for livestock, the longest and deepest cave of the region (Grave Rotolo, [40][41][42]) opens at the polje bottom. The karst geomorphological data collected at the Canale di Pirro polje have been summarized in the map shown in Figure 3 and they are described in detail by Pisano and co-authors [31].…”

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An Integrated Geophysical and Unmanned Aerial Systems Surveys for Multi-Sensory, Multi-Scale and Multi-Resolution Cave Detection: The Gravaglione Site (Canale di Pirro Polje, Apulia)

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Gravaglione represents one of the main swallow holes of the Canale di Pirro, low Murge, Apulia region, Italy. Here, after an intense rainstorm, a huge volume of rainwater accumulates at the surface. The drainage dynamics suggest that the Gravaglione could be part of a large, and potentially unknown, karst system. To verify this hypothesis and to acquire useful information on the possible karst environment features, an integrated aerial and geophysical multiscale and multimethod approach was applied. In particular, aerial photogrammetry, ground penetrating radar measurements and electrical resistivity tomography surveys were hence conducted and integrated to potentially detect the caves, define the subsurface volume possibly affected by karst systems and to verify the existence of links between the surficial morphology and the subsoil structure. The results provided interesting insights regarding the presence of a complex karst system extending up to 200 m b.g.l. and with a marked 3D nature. Overall, the Gravaglione case study demonstrates the geophysical approach validity and poses the basis for the development of an expeditive and low-cost high-resolution strategy for detecting and characterizing karst caves.

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“…A good knowledge of the geological and hydrogeological features, obtained through collection of lithological, petrographic, structural, geomorphological and hydrogeological data, is the necessary starting point to plan and develop the best practices and actions toward protection of underground water resources. In karst, this can be reached through integration of traditional geological approaches at the surface with direct exploration and surveying within the caves, by means of speleological techniques (Liso et al, 2019Parise et al, 2020). In Apulia, one of the more extensive karst areas in the Mediterranean Basin, freshwater resources are stored within the fractured and karstified limestones making up the backbone of the region (Maggiore & Pagliarulo, 2004;Cotecchia, 2014;.…”

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First Outcomes of a Project Dedicated to Monitoring Groundwater Resources in Apulia, Southern Italy

Cited by 7 publications

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Regional climate contributes more than geographic distance to beta diversity of copepods (Crustacea Copepoda) between caves of Italy

Regional climate contributes more than geographic distance to beta diversity of copepods (Crustacea Copepoda) between caves of Italy

An Integrated Geophysical and Unmanned Aerial Systems Surveys for Multi-Sensory, Multi-Scale and Multi-Resolution Cave Detection: The Gravaglione Site (Canale di Pirro Polje, Apulia)

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