There are a lot publication on this qustion mostly in english and gernan.

You could find all this people in RG and read their papers

Leoonard Ferring

Peter Martin

Marco Cantonati -  on his page you find alot of other reshers who are working on springs

Matthias Brunke

Martin Reiss

Svetlana Smirnova

Mikhail Chertoprud

Mikhail Son

Claus_Orendt

I also work on bentic communies from springs (and Chironomids too) but my publication are mostly in Russian

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Thank you Tatiana, your answer is very helpful.

Maybe these publications should be helpful:

Kay, B. H., Cabral, C. P., Araujo, D. B., Ribeiro, Z. M., Braga, P. H., & Sleigh, A. C. (1992). Evaluation of a funnel trap for collecting copepods and immature mosquitoes from wells. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 8(4), 372-375.

Togouet, S. H. Z., Boutin, C., Njiné, T., Kemka, N., Nola, M., & Menbohan, S. F. (2009). First data on the groundwater quality and aquatic fauna of some wells and springs from Yaounde (Cameroon). European Journal of Water Quality, 40(1), 51-74.

Russell, B. M., Muir, L. E., Weinstein, P., & Kay, B. H. (1996). Surveillance of the mosquito Aedes aegypti and its biocontrol with the copepod Mesocyclops aspericornis in Australian wells and gold mines. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 10(2), 155-160.

YACOUBI-KHEBIZA, M., MESSOULI, M., COINEAU, N., & el ABIARI, A. F. Contribution to the knowledge of the groundwater communities from northern Morocco.

Skalski, A. W. (1976). Groundwater inhabitants in Poland. International Journal of Speleology, 8(1), 19.

Thank  you Jiří

Hi Mateusz,

You may find the following attached links of use for non-chironomid hypogean invertebrates. The website link has species descriptions and further links that you may find useful, and the PDF is a small, simple guide entitled Cave Life in Britain.

Cheers,

Drew.

http://hcrs.freshwaterlife.org/home

http://www.fba.org.uk/sites/default/files/Cave%20Life%20in%20Britain.pdf

Thank you Drew

Here's a starting point: http://www.amazon.com/Groundwater-Ecology-Aquatic-Janine-Gilbert/dp/0122821106

Thank you Declan

I suppose groundwater fauna is very important component of the wells communities. My intension of this question is to find information useful for palaeoecological investigations in ancient wells, from this point of view may be important not only groundwater fauna but as well, and maybe even more, terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates that comes to the wells from the above, not only the below - groundwater environment. Do you maybe know any palaeoecological data on subfossil chironomids and other invertebrates from the ancient wells?

You might find studies about hypotheic communities interesting.

Stanford, J.A. et al. 1974.  Hyporheic Communities of Two Montana Rivers.  Science 185:4152:700.

Thank you Neal

Dear Mateusz,

some information about Cyclops of draw-wells have V. Monchenko (great sorry, he just died!). You can find in his famous book about Cyclopoidea of Ukraine from 1974.

As well, you can find about Harpacticoidea in Borutzkiy famous monograph about Harpacticoidea (I used information about parastenocaridae from draw-well near Moscow when described my species). If you haveno just ask and I will send for you...

Andrey

Thank you Andrey

Some time ago it emerged project to investigate sediment from Roman wells in Lodz region, I was wondering if it is sense to make such an investigation according to subfossil chironomids, finally I retreated from this idea, but other person applied for a grant and she got it. It looks we will work on this samples on midge head capsules, but I suppose that rather Cyclopoids and Ostracods are the primary proxy in this case. I don't know how Cyclopoidea subfossils preserve in sediments, but when I will start analysis of this samples I will let you know. In fact, if you have pdf file or something like that I would be appreciate for sending me one:)

I can suggest you this wonderful book on Chironomid midge ecology and biology by Peter Cranston, Australian taxonomist. Check out its bibliography in order to find more papers of your interest.

Here: Armitage, P. D., Pinder, L. C., & Cranston, P. (Eds.). (2012). The Chironomidae: biology and ecology of non-biting midges. Springer Science & Business Media.

Cheers,

Bilgenur

Thank you think I have edition of this book from 1995, is the new edition much different from the first one?

Paper on Cladocera in wells and groud waters

Thank you Alexey

I don't immediately have the citation, but Henry Dumont published a paper many years ago on groundwater Chydoridae (including descriptions of taxa) in the journal: Hydrobiologia.  Hope this helps.  Best Regards, --- Bill

Thank you Wiliam

Thank you Mateusz for this messge