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| Dato | Valore |
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| Title | STYGOFAUNA ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE FISSURES AND CAVES OF THE NARDÒ (SOUTHERN ITALY) FRACTURED AQUIFER SUBJECT TO RECLAIMED WATER INJECTIONS |
| Abstract | The stygobionts are anophthalmic, without pigment and they live in water which moves throughout fissures and karstic caves of carbonate aquifers. Their biodiversity is sensitive to the mutation of hypogeous habitat due to environmental stresses. Though the stygofauna are aquatic hypogean active organisms which contribute to the biodegradation of organic compounds in wastewater artificially (or naturally) injected, the ecologists do not know their resistance to the water pollution. As, at the Nardò site (Salento Peninsula) 12000 m3/d of 2y effluent of municipal treatment plants have been injected since 1991 in a natural sinkhole, the abundance of the stygofauna recovered in three wells (Colucci, Brusca and Spundurata cave) has been correlated with ground water quality. |
| Source | BIOMICROWORLD-2005, FORMATEX RESEARCH CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA (E), BADAJOZ, SPAIN |
| Year | 2005 |
| Type | Poster |
| Authors | MASCIOPINTO C., SEMERARO F., LA MANTIA R., INGUSCIO S., ROSSI E. |
| Text | 119274 2005 STYGOFAUNA ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE FISSURES AND CAVES OF THE NARDÒ SOUTHERN ITALY FRACTURED AQUIFER SUBJECT TO RECLAIMED WATER INJECTIONS MASCIOPINTO C., SEMERARO F., LA MANTIA R., INGUSCIO S., ROSSI E. National Research Council, Water Research Institute, Via F. De Blasio 5, Bari, Italy Hypogeous Laboratory of Biospeleology of the Salento Sandro Ruffo , Santa Maria di Cerrate, Lecce, Italy The stygobionts are anophthalmic, without pigment and they live in water which moves throughout fissures and karstic caves of carbonate aquifers. Their biodiversity is sensitive to the mutation of hypogeous habitat due to environmental stresses. Though the stygofauna are aquatic hypogean active organisms which contribute to the biodegradation of organic compounds in wastewater artificially or naturally injected, the ecologists do not know their resistance to the water pollution. As, at the Nardo site Salento Peninsula 12000 m3/d of 2y effluent of municipal treatment plants have been injected since 1991 in a natural sinkhole, the abundance of the stygofauna recovered in three wells Colucci, Brusca and Spundurata cave has been correlated with ground water quality. BIOMICROWORLD 2005, FORMATEX RESEARCH CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA E BADAJOZ, SPAIN Internazionale Poster LA MANTIA ROSANNA costantino.masciopinto MASCIOPINTO COSTANTINO TA.P05.006.007 Fattori critici dei rischi di siccita e strategie dintervento |