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Microhabitat selection of a Sicilian subterranean woodlouse and its implications for cave management
International Journal of Speleology, 2021 Human activities in subterranean environments can affect different ecosystem components, including the resident fauna. Subterranean terrestrial invertebrates are particularly sensitive to environmental change, especially microclimatic variations.
Giuseppe Nicolosi +6 more
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Jurnal Fisika Flux, 2023 Research has been carried out on the mineral content of caves in the Leang Lonrong Pangkep Karst Area with experimental research methods. The purposes of this study are to analyze the characteristics of Leang Lonrong Cave, explain the mineral content of ...
Nur Rahmi MS +2 more
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Tham Chiang Dao: A Hotspot of Subterranean Biodiversity in Northern Thailand
Diversity, 2023 The Doi Chiang Dao massif, which became a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 2021, is the highest karst mountain in Thailand. Tham Chiang Dao cave is located at the foot of this massif and is among the best-known caves in Thailand, having been visited since ...
Louis Deharveng +3 more
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Distribution and Ecology of Decapod Crustaceans in Mediterranean Marine Caves: A Review
Diversity, 2022 Decapod crustaceans are important components of the fauna of marine caves worldwide, yet information on their ecology is still scarce. Mediterranean marine caves are perhaps the best known of the world and may offer paradigms to the students of marine ...
Carlo Nike Bianchi +3 more
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The bat fauna of the Kararaô and Kararaô Novo caves in the area under the influence of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, in Pará, Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2015 Brazil’s large territory displays significant richness in caves with about 12 thousand caves already recorded. Nevertheless, studies on bats in these environments are extremely scarce and fragmented.
M. Zortéa, NA. Bastos, TC. Acioli
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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 +4 more
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Biological Monitoring in Caves
Acta Carsologica, 2016 Leta 1999 sva opisala 20 jam in kraških vodnjakov, v katerih živi po 20 ali več na podzemlje vezanih vrst živali. Pet izmed teh jam je ali pa je bilo urejenih za turistično izrabo: Postojnsko-planinski jamski sistem (Slovenija), Sistem Baget - Sainte ...
David C. Culver, Boris Sket
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The faunistic diversity of cave-dwelling spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Greece [PDF]
, 2011 Until today, from Greek caves a total of 109 species of spiders belonging to 25 families are known. One species, the linyphiid Porrhomma convexum (Westring, 1861) was recorded here for the first time in Greece. The 109 species are distributed in caves of
Christo Deltshev, Deltshev, Christo
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Acta Carsologica, 2011 Epikarst biodiversity in relation to environmental conditions was studied for the first time in an ice cave, Snežna jama na planini Arto on Mt. Raduha in north central Slovenia.
Federica Papi, Tanja Pipan
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Mammal fauna during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene in the far northeast of Europe [PDF]
, 2013 The paper summarises materials on the mammal remains in northeastern Europe, dated by radiocarbon. Altogether, 23 local faunas of small mammals and 47 local faunas of large mammals were analysed.
van der Plicht, Johannes +9 more
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