Comparative Embryology and Transcriptomics of Asellus infernus, an Isopod Crustacean From Sulfidic Groundwater. [PDF]
Individuals of Asellus infernus, a sulfidic subterranean population of the Asellus aquaticus species complex from southeastern Romania (left) and surface individuals of A. aquaticus (right). Extreme differences in phenotype are seen comparing the subterranean and surface individuals as adults (top panels) and as embryonic samples (bottom panels ...
Lomheim HJ +8 more
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Record summer rains in 2019 led to massive loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe [PDF]
Glaciers worldwide are shrinking at an accelerated rate as the climate changes in response to anthropogenic influence. While increasing air temperature is the main factor behind glacier mass and volume loss, variable patterns of precipitation ...
A. Perşoiu +13 more
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Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida: Araneae) [PDF]
Stefano Mammola +29 more
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This paper presents the first known and systematically excavated Middle Neolithic pottery workshop in southwestern Thessaly at Imvrou Pigadi. The excavations and in situ finds, along with the pronounced kiln structures, their typological classification ...
Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika +7 more
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The Professionalisation of Science – Claim and Refusal: Discipline Building and Ideals of Scientific Autonomy in the Growth of Prehistoric Archaeology. The Case of Georges Laplace's Group of Typologie Analytique, 1950s–1990s [PDF]
The majority of analyses investigating the professionalisation of scientific domains tend to assume the linear and general features of this transformation.
Plutniak, Sébastien
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For most of its history, biospeleology has been a poor cousin of the other speleological disciplines
Our series of interviews with leading karstologists now turns to cave biologist. David Culver, an emeritus professor of environmental science at the American University (Washington DC, USA), talks about his relationship to karst and what subterranean biology has given to the geoscientific disciplines and what it has taken from them.
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At the turn of the 20th century, the practical examination of caves went through a radical change. Governmental organizations and private clubs were founded in an attempt to establish speleology as an independent academic subject.
Johannes Mattes
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New species of Dolichopoda Bolívar, 1880 (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae) from the Aegean Islands of Andros, Paros and Kinaros (Greece) [PDF]
In this paper two new species of Dolichopoda Bolívar, 1880 from the Cyclades islands of Andros and Paros and one from the Dodecanissos island of Kinaros, are described, increasing the total number of Greek species to 32.
Alexiou, Sotiris +3 more
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Concentration and stable carbon isotopic composition of CO2 in cave air of Postojnska jama, Slovenia [PDF]
Partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) and its isotopic composition (δ13CairCO2) were measured in Postojnska jama, Slovenia, at 10 locations inside the cave and outside the cave during a one-year period.
Albrecht Leis +3 more
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