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How depth below the surface influences groundwater biotic assemblages. TESS NELSON (19209514) Grant Hose (10556270) Kathryn Korbel (10555493) Freshwater ecology Groundwater animals -- Australia stygofaunal biodiversity groundwater ecology groundwater ecosystem functioning <p dir="ltr">This research aimed to observe how depth below ground influences biotic assemblages within alluvial aquifers.</p><p dir="ltr">See metadata (first tab of the data set) and Methods - Read Me.txt file for more information.</p><p dir="ltr">~40 samples were collected on two separate occasions (6 months apart) from three alluvial aquifers (the Macquarie, Namoi and Hunter River catchments).</p><p dir="ltr">Groundwater was pumped from wells and samples collected included water chemistry, eDNA (16S for prokaryotes, 18S for eukaryotes) and physical collection of stygofauna.</p> 2025-01-29T03:11:10Z Dataset Dataset 10.25949/28259867.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/How_depth_below_the_surface_influences_groundwater_biotic_assemblages_/28259867 CC BY