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Groundwater fauna in an urban area: natural or affected?

Koch, F.; Menberg, K. ORCID iD icon; Schweikert, S.; Spengler, C.; Hahn, H. J.; Blum, P.

Abstract:

In Germany, 70 % of the drinking water demand is met by groundwater, for which the quality is the product of multiple physical–chemical and biological processes. As healthy groundwater ecosystems help to provide clean drinking water, it is necessary to assess their ecological conditions. This is particularly true for densely populated urban areas, where faunistic groundwater investigations are still scarce. The aim of this study is, therefore, to provide a first assessment of the groundwater fauna in an urban area. Thus, we examine the ecological status of an anthropogenically influenced aquifer by analysing fauna in 39 groundwater monitoring wells in the city of Karlsruhe (Germany). For classification, we apply the groundwater ecosystem status index (GESI), in which a threshold of more than 70 % of crustaceans and less than 20 % of oligochaetes serves as an indication for very good and good ecological conditions. Our study reveals that only 35 % of the wells in the residential, commercial and industrial areas and 50 % of wells in the forested area fulfil these criteria. However, the study did not find clear spatial patterns with respect to land use and other anthropogenic impacts, in particular with respect to groundwater temperature. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000122488
Veröffentlicht am 23.11.2021
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.5194/hess-2020-151
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Zitationen: 5
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften (AGW)
Universität Karlsruhe (TH) – Interfakultative Einrichtungen (Interfakultative Einrichtungen)
KIT-Zentrum Klima und Umwelt (ZKU)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsdatum 06.05.2020
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1812-2108, 1812-2116
KITopen-ID: 1000122488
Erschienen in Hydrology and earth system sciences discussions
Verlag Copernicus Publications
Band 2020
Seiten 1–23
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