Springs (discharge of groundwater) are common in all landscapes even if the abundance and the remaining times and sizes of aquifers differ.
If it is not deep aquifers or karst, springs are reflecting the climatic conditions (e.g. mean temperature, seasonality, precipitation) should be reflected (with some delay) in the springs.
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Many spring species are stenoecic and adapted to very specific conditions of temperature and water chemistry.
We did some studies on this in the past, but now i would like to develop a concept for using springs and spring species for climate change impacts because most weather stations are in settlements and not in natural ecosystems.
Are there people around with similar interests?
Carl
Well,
You need historical data for comparison, at least 10 year, may be need 25 to 50 years.
Regards
Hi Karl,
I am studying the GHG emissions in springs and first order streams. These environments are very sensitive to landscape alterations as well. I have worked in first order streams since my PhD. Maybe we can discuss some potential projects. My student is analysing benthic macroinvertebrate communities in springs.
All the best
Forgot to mention that I am working in tropical environments, specifically SE Brazil
Dear Judith and Ricardo
Thanks for your comments. Let us get directly in touch via e-mail. I am searching in the moment also a PhD candidate in a funded project on springs.
Carl
Dear Bayan Hussein!
This is true!
Our time series starts in 1989, so it is 30 y now.
We also measured the intraannual variation.
Most surprising are the effects of drought (2003 and 2018) on the hydrochemistry of discharge, enhancing the pH values!
I you would consider short time series, you can be mislead!
Best
Carl
Dear Carl,
please do not forget to contact our working Group "AG Quellen und Grundwasser" within the German Limnological Society (DGL Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie). Recent speakers are Stefanie von Fumetti (Basel) and Eva Schubert (Hilpoltstein, LBV). Here you find a lot of crenobionts ;-)
Martin
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