… condense everything known about cave biology; this book is … knowledge and ideas regarding
cave biology, with an emphasis … background to why I think cave biology has yet to reach its …

… knowledge and ideas regarding cave biology, with an emphasis … cave biology has yet to
reach its full potential. Chapter 2 deals with the biodiversity of hypogean organisms (both cave …

… The idea that life could flourish in the absolute darkness of caves and other subterranean …
biologists for centuries, including even the most well known of these like Charles Darwin. Cave …

… , caves are also home to many animals that live strange lives: … salamanders that swim in
cave ponds without getting lost, at … you need eyes when you live in the dark? Instead, they have …

… of caves with overhead openings that allow the passage of light. In those areas of caves where
light interrupts what is otherwise total darkness… normally found outside caves. Sometimes …

… While regressive troglomorphic trait changes seem to result, most obviously, from the
dispensability of select surface biology traits in the darkness of caves, they also can be associated …

… understood aspects of life in the dark biosphere is … dark and summarise some of the studies
of rhythmic physiology in “arrhythmic” environments, such as the poles, deep sea and caves. …

… 1, we briefly review the biology and ecology of cave animals with their regressive and …
of cave animal distribution and the ancient phylogenetic splits between cave and surface …

… darkness in establishing reproductive isolation in cave animals (troglobites) remains elusive.
We focused on two reproductively isolated ecotypes (surface- and cave-… in light or darkness …

… biology and molecular evolution studies in order to discuss the evolutionary mechanisms
underlying adaptation to life in the dark… during the loss of eyes in cave animals. We also identify …