This review highlights cave habitats, cave microbiomes and their potential for drug
discovery. Such studies face many challenges, including access to remote and pristine …

Caves are typified by their permanent darkness and a shortage of nutrients. Consequently,
bacteria play an important role in sustaining such subsurface ecosystems by dominating …

Moonmilk is a karstic speleothem mainly composed of fine calcium carbonate crystals
(CaCO3) with different textures ranging from pasty to hard, in which the contribution of biotic …

Abstract The beetle subtribe Anthroherponina (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), including also
ecologically specialized and semi-aquatic hygropetricolous genera, presents one of the …

Fetida Cave is an active sulfuric acid cave influenced by seawater, showing abundant
microbial communities that organize themselves under three main different morphologies …

The subsurface is a highly complex and challenging environment to study and the
knowledge of their microbial ecology is sparse. This chapter reviews the microbiology of …

The Western Balkan's Vjetrenica Cave in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina is renowned for
high richness of subterranean species. However, the data on its fauna have been published …

A white deposit covering the walls in the Stanza degli Scudi of the Tomba degli Scudi,
Tarquinia, Italy, has been investigated. In this chamber, which is still preserved from any kind …

Background and aims Litter decomposition and nitrogen metabolism are the key
determinants of nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. However, how processes and …

Microbial lipids in stalagmites are increasingly used to reconstruct the paleoclimate change,
necessitating the investigations on microbial communities in dripping waters. A pilot …