The second edition of this widely cited textbook continues to provide a concise but
comprehensive introduction to cave and subterranean biology, describing this fascinating …

Landscapes in tropical regions have been greatly altered by human activities, as a product
of growing demands for mineral and agricultural production, as well as those related to the …

Environmental stability and oligotrophy are considered the main drivers of species
distribution within caves due to physiological and nutritional requirements presented by …

This chapter deals with the diversity of terrestrial cave invertebrates from the viewpoint of its
contribution to global diversity and of the variety of morphological traits and life forms …

All 2,145 species of Coleoptera from 88 families known to occur in Mordovia State Nature
Reserve, Russia, are listed, along with their author (s) and year of description using the most …

Over the last two decades there has been an exponential increase in the use of correlative
species distribution models (SDMs) to address a variety of topics in ecology, biogeography …

The Água Clara Cave System (ACCS) in Brazil is the richest hotspot of subterranean
biodiversity in South America. In this study, we present an updated list of cave-restricted …

Riding a wave of interest in biodiversity patterns in surface-dwelling communities, in 2000,
Culver and Sket [1] published a paper listing 20 caves and karst wells with 20 or more …

In the last two decades, there has been a substantial progress in the availability of records
for several subterranean taxa, as well as in mapping and statistical modeling of biodiversity …

Caves and other subterranean features provide unique environments for many species. The
importance of cave microclimate is particularly relevant at temperate latitudes where bats …