Chironomidae fauna of springs in Iceland: Assessing the ecological relevance behind Tuxen’s spring classification

In 1937, S.L. Tuxen studied the animal community of hot springs in Iceland, and classified springs according to their relative temperature into cold, tepid, and hot. Eighty years after Tuxen’s study, we revisited some of the hot springs in Skagafjörður, Northern Iceland. Our aim was to compare the...

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Main Authors: Agnes-Katharina Kreiling, Jón S. Ólafsson, Snæbjörn Pálsson, Bjarni K. Kristjánsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2018-05-01
Series:Journal of Limnology
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Online Access:https://www.jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/1754