Assessing the effects of pollution in groundwaters is recently considered among the most relevant aims for subterranean biology; with this perspective, we aim to provide examples of the most relevant effects that pollution may cause on stygofauna community and underline patterns deserving further investigations. We retrieved different cases in which pollution caused alteration of groundwater trophic webs, favored invasions by epigean mesopredators, damaged stygobiont keystone species, and promoted interspecific competition between stygobionts and epigean animals. The results and the remarks derived from our perspective review underline that pollution may play multifaceted effects on groundwaters communities, and the paucity of information that exists on community-level changes and threats underlines the necessity for further studies.

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地下水污染的保护研究：Stygofauna 群落的挑战和前景

评估地下水污染的影响最近被认为是地下生物学最相关的目标之一；从这个角度来看，我们的目标是提供污染可能对杂鱼群落造成的最相关影响的例子，并强调值得进一步调查的模式。我们检索了污染导致地下水营养网改变、有利于表层中掠食者入侵、破坏尾生动物关键物种以及促进尾生动物与表生动物之间的种间竞争的不同案例。从我们的观点审查得出的结果和评论强调，污染可能对地下水社区产生多方面的影响，而关于社区层面变化和威胁的信息缺乏则强调了进一步研究的必要性。