How anthropogenic stressors affect biodiversity is a central question in a changing world.
Subterranean ecosystems and their biodiversity are particularly vulnerable to change, yet …

Physiological traits are key in determining the vulnerability of narrow range, highly
specialized animals to climate change. It is generally predicted that species from more …

The climatic variability hypothesis was applied to the thermal tolerance of edaphic and cave
Collembola occupying contrasting environments. Collembola belonged to four categories …

Cave‐dwelling ectotherms, which have evolved for millions of years under stable thermal
conditions, could be expected to have adjusted their physiological limits to the narrow range …

Background A key question in evolutionary biology is the relationship between species traits
and their habitats. Caves offer an ideal model to test the adjustment of species to their …

Most organisms are able to survive shorter or longer exposure to sub-zero temperatures.
Hypothetically, trogloxenes characterized as not adapted, and troglophiles as not completely …

The discipline of subterranean biology has provided us incredible information on the
diversity, ecology and evolution of species living in different typologies of subterranean …

The response to high temperatures in adults of two cold stenothermal cave-dwelling
leptodirins, Neobathyscia mancinii and Neobathyscia pasai (Coleoptera, Cholevidae) was …

Supercooling points (SCPs), lower lethal temperatures (LLTs), and the effect of short-term
exposures (1min) to low temperatures were examined in the adults of two stenothermal …

We explore the population of the troglophilic harvestman Ischyropsalis ravasinii inhabiting
the Buso del Valon ice cave located in the Italian Prealps. Spatial and temporal distributions …