Obligate groundwater crustaceans mediate biofilm interactions in a subsurface food web
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Anne L. Robertson; Damiano C. Weitowitz; Louise Maurice; John P. Bloomfield; Julia Reiss
- Source
- Freshwater Science. 38:491-502
- Subject
- 0303 health sciences
Ecology
biology
Obligate
Biofilm
010501 environmental sciences
Aquatic Science
Proasellus
biology.organism_classification
01 natural sciences
Food web
03 medical and health sciences
Environmental science
Ecosystem
Microcosm
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Groundwater
030304 developmental biology
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Niphargus
- Language
- ISSN
- 2161-9565
2161-9549
Food webs in groundwater ecosystems are dominated by only a few top-level consumers, mainly crustaceans. These obligate groundwater dwellers—or stygobites—clearly interact with groundwater ...