Abstract
Abstract Groundwater-adapted species (known as stygobites) provide animportant contribution to biodiversity. Groundwater ecosystems are some of the oldest on earth, and contain many endemic species adapted to live in an environment with no light and limited resources. The controls on stygobite distributions are not yet fully resolved because of the complex interaction between many processes operating at different scales. Many of these processes are geological or hydrogeological in nature and therefore more detailed geological and hydrogeological studies could provide improved understanding of stygobite distributions. Hydrogeologists can assist ecologists by providing expertise on both general geological characteristics of sampling sites, and how groundwater at sampling sites relates to the wider aquifer setting. Geological input would be especially useful in stygobite dispersal studies because dispersal depends upon habitat continuity associated with geological dispersal corridors, and is limited where ro...
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