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Far From Roads, Challenges Arise: Unravelling Knowledge Gaps in the Occurrence of Cave‐Restricted Species on the African Continent

African Journal of Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 8, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Understanding patterns of biodiversity distribution is fundamental for ecology, biogeography, and conservation. However, persistent challenges arise from the inaccessibility of many regions and habitats. Subterranean environments, in particular, host highly distinctive and specialised faunal assemblages, yet their investigation is hindered by ...
Lais Furtado Oliveira, Rodrigo Antônio Castro‐Souza, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Marconi Souza‐Silva   +3 more
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A Comprehensive Occurrence Dataset for European Ostracoda Inhabiting Groundwater and Groundwater‐Dependent Ecosystems

Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 34, Issue 6, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Motivation Groundwater ecosystems sustain a unique and globally important biodiversity but remain understudied due to sampling and exploration challenges, as well as a shortage of taxonomic experts. Groundwater ostracods, like other groundwater taxa, exhibit a high degree of endemism, rarity and subterranean specialisation, positioning them as
Nataša Mori, Živa Vehovar, Traian Brad, Gergely Balázs, Constanze Englisch, Cene Fišer, Santiago Gaviria, Sanja Gottstein, Christian Griebler, Marius Kenesz, Lee R. F. D. Knight, Florian Malard, Stefano Mammola, Pierre Marmonier, Alejandro Martínez, Maja Zagmajster   +15 more
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EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)

Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Motivation Subterranean biodiversity is increasingly threatened by multiple intertwined anthropogenic impacts, including habitat loss, pollution, overexploitation of resources, biological invasions and climate change. Worryingly, subterranean biodiversity is still poorly represented in conservation agendas, also due to persisting gaps in our ...
Francesco Cerasoli, Barbara Fiasca, Mattia Di Cicco, Emma Galmarini, Ilaria Vaccarelli, Stefano Mammola, Florian Malard, Fabio Stoch, Diana M. P. Galassi   +8 more
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Co‐benefits between biodiversity and hydrological ecosystem services allow an efficient conservation planning proposal for the Riviera Maya, Mexico

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 6, Issue 12, December 2024.
The results confirm: (1) Biodiversity and HES priority sites have different spatial patterns, sharing only 24% of priority sites, (2) HES priority sites achieve a high percentage (95%) of biodiversity conservation targets, showing that they can potentially be used for biodiversity representation, and (3) integrating HES and biodiversity into one model ...
Juan Alberto Aguilar‐Sánchez, Melanie Kolb   +1 more
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Postcard of Mammoth Cave Hotel, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

, 2019
Postcard of a picture of the Mammoth Cave Hotel, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, erected in 1930 overlooking the deep, richly wooded cave and Green River valleys.Digitization of the Kentucky Postcard collection was sponsored in part by a grant from the Kentucky ...
Mammoth Cave Operating Committee
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Exploring the microbial community and biotechnological potential of the sponge Xestospongia sp. from an anchialine cave in the Yucatán Peninsula

Ciencias Marinas
Sponge-associated microorganisms are key influencers of nutrient biogeochemistry and important sources of bioactive natural products. This study provides the first insights into the taxonomic diversity of the microbial community associated with the ...
Pablo Suárez-Moo, Ninette C García-Martínez, Norma A Márquez-Velázquez, Mario Figueroa, Eric Allen, Alejandra Prieto-Davó   +5 more
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First record of the genus Limnohalacarus (Acari: Halacaridae) from Mexico

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2016
Limnohalacarus cultellatus Viets, 1940 was collected from an anchialine cave (Cenote Bang) in the Ox Bel Ha System located near Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Margarita Ojeda, Gerardo Rivas, Fernando Álvarez   +2 more
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Hydroacoustic Observations Reveal Drivers of Mixing and Salinization of a Karst Subterranean Estuary During Intense Precipitation

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 51, Issue 22, 28 November 2024.
Abstract Karst subterranean estuaries within globally ubiquitous carbonate aquifers are coastal groundwater ecosystems that provide an essential water resource for human populations. To understand the drivers of salinization within a coastal aquifer in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico), we employed hydroacoustics in flooded caves to observe how oceanic ...
Neil K. Ganju, John W. Pohlman, Steven E. Suttles, David Brankovits   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Female mating preferences in blind cave tetras Astyanax fasciatus (Characidae, Teleostei). [PDF]

, 2006
The Mexican tetra Astyanax fasciatus has evolved a variety of more or less color- and eyeless cave populations. Here we examined the evolution of the female preference for large male body size within different populations of this species, either surface-
Rohde, Matthias, Schlupp, Ingo, Plath, Martin, Taebel-Hellwig, Angelika, Schröder, Thekla   +4 more
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Unraveling the Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Potamalpheops Sp. (Purple Zebra Shrimp) (Crustacea: Decapoda) Provides Insights Into Its Phylogenetic Relationships and Gene Order Rearrangements

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 11, November 2024.
Potamalpheops sp. is the species belong to family Alpheidae, and this is the first report from Taiwan. Also, the mitogenome of this species has been sequenced for the first time as there was a lack of sequence information regarding this species.
Sofia Priyadarsani Das, Yu‐Kai Kao, Huu‐The Nguyen, Yu‐Ru Lin, Zhen‐Hao Liao, Yeh‐Fang Hu, Fan‐Hua Nan   +6 more
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