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Diversity, 2023 In the Lessini Mountains, the southernmost prealpine area in the Veneto region, thousands of caves are found, many of which have been extensively studied from the biological point of view.
Leonardo Latella
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Diversity, 2023 The Dinaric Karst is a global hotspot for subterranean diversity, with two distinct peaks of species richness in the northwest and southeast, and an area of a lower species richness in the central part.
Marko Lukić +10 more
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1st Croatian Biospeleological expedition - Biokovo 2017 [PDF]
ARPHA Conference Abstracts, 2018 Biokovo Mountain in Croatia is a Dinaric hotspot of subterranean biodiversity and its area of 196 km 2 is protected as a nature park. Until now, more than 400 caves have been registered here, however, only in about 30% of them biospeleological research has been carried out.
Martina Pavlek +4 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 An extraordinary longevity has been observed in some cave species, and this raised the hypothesis that a longer lifespan may be considered one of the characteristic traits of these animals. However, only a few cave species have been studied thus far, and
Enrico Lunghi, Helena Bilandžija
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Impacts of invasive rats on Hawaiian cave resources
International Journal of Speleology, 2020 Although there are no published studies and limited data documenting damage by rodents in Hawaiian caves, our incidental observations during more than 40 years of surveying caves indicate that introduced rodents, especially the roof rat, Rattus rattus ...
Francis G. Howarth, Fred D. Stone
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Diversity, 2021 Speleomantes are the only plethodontid salamanders present in Europe. Multiple studies have been performed to investigate the trophic niche of the eight Speleomantes species, but none of these studies included hybrid populations.
Enrico Lunghi +6 more
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Hypogean Communities as Cybernetic Systems: Implications for the Evolution of Cave Biotas
Diversity, 2020 Ramón Margalef proposed in 1968 that ecosystems could be better understood if they were viewed as cybernetic systems. I tested this hypothesis in the case of hypogean ecosystems using available pieces of evidence. I looked on how information on feedbacks,
Aldemaro Romero
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 IntroductionUsing an integrative taxonomic approach, we investigated the morphological and molecular characters to identify the species of the genus Pseudosinella occurring in caves of the Western Carpathians and to clarify their phylogenetic ...
Ĺubomír Kováč +5 more
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Hotspots of Subterranean Biodiversity
Diversity, 2020 Worldwide, caves and groundwater habitats harbor thousands of species modified and limited to subterranean habitats in karst. Data are concentrated in Europe and USA, where a number of detailed analyses have been performed.
Tanja Pipan +2 more
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Neobisium crucis n. sp. and N. pluzinensis n. sp., two new cave-dwellers from Montenegro (Neobisiidae, Pseudoscorpiones) [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2013 The cave-dwelling forms of the genus Neobisium L. koch comprise many phyletic lines, some less specialized and others highly adapted to cave life.
Ćurčić B.P.M. +5 more
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