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Global climate warming and the resulting retreat of many European glaciers have stimulated a number of recent studies on the fauna of glacial streams (Füreder, 1999; Milner et al., 2000, 2001; Lods-Crozet et al. 2001). Ecological research conducted on 7 streams distributed across Europe, from the French Pyrenees to the arctic archipelago of Svalbard, provided insight into the factors affecting the composition and distribution of benthic invertebrate assemblages in glacial streams (Brittain & Milner, 2001; Milner et al. 2001). Castella et al. (2001) emphasized the strong deterministic nature of kryal zoobenthic communities and demonstrated that their distribution pattern was driven by longitudinal changes in water temperature and substrate stability. However, despite the recognition of the hyporheic zone as a key component of stream ecosystems (Brunke & Gonser, 1997; Boulton et al., 1998; Ward et al., 2000; Malard et al., 2002), most studies have focussed on the ecology of the surface benthos. Because large amounts of sediments are transported and deposited by glacial water along Alpine valleys, the hyporheic corridor may extend meters vertically beneath the channel and hundreds of meters away from the channel.
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Malard, F. (2003). Interstitial Fauna. In: Ward, J.V., Uehlinger, U. (eds) Ecology of a Glacial Flood Plain. Aquatic Ecology Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0181-5_11
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