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

In Italy, especially along the Apennine Chain, numerous active and inactive sulfuric acid
speleogenetic (SAS) caves have been documented in the last two decades. Here we …

The evolution of hypogean fauna in general and hypogean fishes in particular has been
controversial. Explanations regarding the reduction or loss of phenotypic characters such as …

The Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science contains 350 alphabetically arranged entries.
The topics include cave and karst geoscience, cave archaeology and human use of caves …

Waters from an extensive sulfide-rich aquifer emerge in the Frasassi cave system, where
they mix with oxygen-rich percolating water and cave air over a large surface area. The …

The sulfidic Frasassi cave system affords a unique opportunity to investigate niche
relationships among sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, including epsilonproteobacterial clades with …

Australian aquifers support diverse metazoan faunas comprising obligate groundwater
inhabitants, largely crustaceans but also including insects, worms, gastropods, mites and …

The sulfide‐rich Frasassi cave system hosts an aphotic, subsurface microbial ecosystem
including extremely acidic (pH 0–1), viscous biofilms (snottites) hanging from the cave walls …

The known, perceived and potential relationships between hydrogeology and groundwater
ecology are explored, along with the spatial and temporal scale of these relations, the limit of …

Despite extremely starved conditions, caves contain surprisingly diverse microbial
communities. Our research is geared toward understanding what ecosystems drivers are …