Naslov
Springs of the Plitvice Lakes

Autori
Pozojević, Ivana ; Ivković, Marija ; Pešić, Vladimir

Kolaboracija
Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Crna Gora

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Plitvice Lakes

Urednik/ci
Miliša, Marko ; Ivković, Marija

Izdavač
Springer

Grad
Cham

Godina
2023

Raspon stranica
171-188

ISSN
2364-6934

Ključne riječi
Stable physico-chemical conditions ; Spring of the Bijela rijeka Stream ; Spring of the Crna rijeka stream ; Diversity ; Endemics ; Rheocrenes

Sažetak
Springs are unique ecosystems mostly characterized by the water that orig-inates from underground. Groundwater dominated springs usually show thermal and physico-chemically stable conditions, followed mostly by low nutrient and oxygen levels. The low oxygen and nutrient levels in springs do not, however, inhibit the development of high local diversity. Springs tend to house specific species adapted exclusively to life in the eucrenal (spring zone sensu stricto), as well as many gener-alist species resulting in relatively high local diversity in the spring area. In fact, groundwater fed springs have time and time again bean proven as fertile grounds for the speciation of different freshwater invertebrate groups such as water mites, true flies and other invertebrates. The two main springs of the Plitvice Lakes: the spring of the Bijela rijeka Stream and spring of the Crna rijeka Stream are no exception, where several holotypes were first recorded and described: Micropsectra uva (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanytarsini) Berdeniella keroveci (Diptera: Psychodidae) and Drusus croaticus (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae: Drusinae). Both springs are rheocrenes (river forming springs) meaning that the mainly riffle habitats of these pristine springs are dominated by gravel, moss, sand and macrophyte microhabitats. Although pristine and under strict conservation, these springs are threatened by omnipresent climate change influences due to their specific stenothermic nature.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Biologija

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