Browsing by Subject "Temporary ponds"

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Deeper knowledge of shallow waters: reviewing the invertebrate fauna of southern African temporary wetlands

Bird, Matthew S.; Brendonck, Luc; Mlambo, Musa C.; Wasserman, Ryan J.; Dalu, T. (Springer, 2019)

Temporary lentic wetlands are becoming increasingly recognised for their collective role in contributing to biodiversity at the landscape scale. In southern Africa, a region with a high density of such wetlands, information ...
High genetic variation and phylogeographic relations among Palearctic fairy shrimp populations reflect persistence in multiple southern refugia during Pleistocene ice ages and postglacial colonisation

Lukić, Dunja; Brendonck, Luc; Waterkeyn, Aline; Rabet, Nicolas; Mioduchowska, Monika (Wiley, 2019)

Intense anthropogenic disturbance threatens temporary pond ecosystems and their associated fauna across the Palearctic. Since fairy shrimps (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) are endemic to temporary ponds, populations are declining ...