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Historical development of biospeleology in Romania after the death of Emile Racovitza

open access: yesTravaux de l'Institut de Speologie Emile Racovitza, 2007
This is a modest contribution to the history of science, respectively the history of the Romanian biospeleology. Biospeleology, the science created by Emile Racovitza in 1907, knew, after the death of the scientist a second period of great development ...
ŞTEFAN NEGREA
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A Brief History of Biospeleology in Virginia

open access: yes, 2013
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Holsinger, John R
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Contributions to Speleobiology Appearing in Acta Carsologica

open access: yesActa Carsologica, 2016
Although primarily known as a journal of karst geosciences and hydrology, Acta Carsologica has played a vital role in the development of speleobiology. A total of 65 biological papers on speleobiology were published in the journal from 1955 to 2014. Many
Tanja Pipan, David C Culver
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Does Size Matter? Two Subterranean Biodiversity Hotspots in the Lessini Mountains in the Veneto Prealps in Northern Italy

open access: yesDiversity, 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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Subterranean Fauna of the Lukina Jama–Trojama Cave System in Croatia: The Deepest Cave in the Dinaric Karst

open access: yesDiversity, 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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New data on the spiders (araneae) in the caves of Balkan peninsula [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Biological Sciences, 2014
New faunistic and taxonomic data for the species: Sulcia oculata Kratochvil, 1938, Thyphlonesticus absoloni (Kratochvil, 1934), Centromerus serbicus Deltshev, 2003, Palliduphantes spelaeorum (Kulczyński, 1914) and Porrhomma convexum (Westring ...
Deltshev C.   +6 more
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Longevity in Cave Animals

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Ecological Observations on Hybrid Populations of European Plethodontid Salamanders, Genus Speleomantes

open access: yesDiversity, 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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Troglomorphic adaptations on the northern European frontier: the phylogeny of the cave Pseudosinella (Hexapoda, Collembola) in the Western Carpathians

open access: yesFrontiers 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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1st Croatian Biospeleological expedition - Biokovo 2017 [PDF]

open access: yesARPHA 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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