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SUMMARY. On the basis of material from over seventy acidic water bodies in three different areas a relationship is revealed between pH and the species diversity of their crustacean faunas. With increasing acidity species diversity decreases. No such relationship is shown between calcium concentration and species diversity. The very low calcium levels of such waters may, however, play a part in the exclusion of certain species.
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Geoffrey Fryer (1980) studied this question.
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