Invertebrate biodiversity in cold groundwater fissures in Iceland

Abstract Iceland has an abundance of fissures that are parallel to the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge where bedrock cracks as a result of continental rifting. Some fissures penetrate the aquifer and expose the groundwater within the bedrock, becoming springs. As such, groundwater fissures have uniform and const...

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Main Authors: Jónína H. Ólafsdóttir, Jóhann G. Þorbjörnsson, Bjarni K. Kristjánsson, Jón S. Ólafsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-06-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5213