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Functional convergence underground? The scale‐dependency of community assembly processes in European cave spiders

Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 33, Issue 6, June 2024.
Abstract Aim Quantifying the relative contribution of environmental filtering versus limiting similarity in shaping communities is challenging because these processes often act simultaneously and their effect is scale‐dependent. Focusing on caves, island‐like natural laboratories with limited environmental variability and species diversity, we tested: (
Stefano Mammola, Caio Graco‐Roza, Francesco Ballarin, Thomas Hesselberg, Marco Isaia, Enrico Lunghi, Samuel Mouron, Martina Pavlek, Marco Tolve, Pedro Cardoso   +9 more
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The genus Alpioniscus Racovitza, 1908 in Sardinia: taxonomy and natural history (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Trichoniscidae) [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2018
The genus Alpioniscus Racovitza, 1908 (Trichoniscidae) from Sardinia is revised. Three new cave-dwelling species are described: A. onnisi Taiti & Argano, sp. n., A. stochi Taiti & Argano, sp. n., and A.
Stefano Taiti, Roberto Argano, Paolo Marcia, Fabio Scarpa, Daria Sanna, Marco Casu   +5 more
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The “elongate chelicera problem”: A virtual approach in an extinct pterygotid sea scorpion from a 3D kinematic point of view

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2024.
How pterygotid sea scorpions used their tripartite elongate cheliceres to get prey items close to the mouth region remains a conundrum. We applied four different 3D kinematic settings with regard to insertion and orientation of the cheliceres to examine the most likely way this was realized.
Michel Schmidt, Roland R. Melzer
wiley   +1 more source

Microbiological exploration of the Cueva del Viento lava tube system in Tenerife, Canary Islands

Environmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 16, Issue 2, April 2024.
Cueva del Viento, located in the Canary Islands, Spain, is the world's sixth‐longest lava tube, formed 27,000 years ago. Despite its significant geological importance, the cave's geomicrobiology has yet to be explored. This study aims to uncover the composition of the bacterial community using culture‐dependent methods and metabarcoding data analysis ...
Sara Gutierrez‐Patricio, Jorge R. Osman, José Luis Gonzalez‐Pimentel, Valme Jurado, Leonila Laiz, Alfredo Laínez Concepción, Cesareo Saiz‐Jimenez, Ana Zélia Miller   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Els Rhachomyces (Laboulbenieales, Ascomycotina) paràsits dels caràbids troglobionts als Pirineus

Orsis: organismes i sistemes, 1989
He estudiat els Rhachomyces recollits sobre els gkneres Aphaenops i Geotrechus (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae) troglobionts a la serralada pirinenca. Hi reconec un total de tres espècies: Rhachomycespyrenaeus sp. nov. que proposo en aquest treball, Rhachomyces aphaenopsis Thaxt. i Rhachomyces girardii Lep. & Temp.
openaire   +3 more sources

A troglobitic amphipod in the Ice Caves of the Shawangunk Ridge: Behavior and resistance to freezing

Subterranean Biology, 2015
Stygobromus allegheniensis Holsinger, 1967 (Allegheny Cave Amphipod) is a troglobiotic crustacean commonly found in caves of the Northeast United States. We describe several new populations from the unique tectonic Ice Caves found in the Shawangunk Ridge
Luis Espinasa, Alex McCahill, Amber Kavanagh, Jordi Espinasa, Alyssa Scott, Amy Cahill   +5 more
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Literature survey, bibliographic analysis and a taxonomic catalogue of subterranean fauna from Portugal

Subterranean Biology, 2013
A bibliographic analysis of the hypogean biological studies in Portugal is made, compiling 138 publications related to the subterranean invertebrate fauna, since its begining in 1870 until November 2012.A catalogue of hypogean endemic taxa is provided ...
Ana Reboleira, Fernando Gonçalves, Pedro Oromí   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prilog poznavanju rasprostranjenja troglobiontnog puža Pholeoteras euthrix Sturany, 1904 (Mollusca, Gastropoda)

Natura Croatica : Periodicum Musei Historiae Naturalis Croatici, 1999
Kopneni troglobiontni puž Pholeoteras euthrix Sturany, 1904 dosad je bio poznat iz špilja južne Hrvatske, južne Hercegovine i iz Grčke. Nalazišta u Hrvatskoj bila su samo dva lokaliteta iz šire okolice Dubrovnika, a u Hercegovini je zabilježen na 7 lokaliteta, svi na području Popovog polja.
Štamol, Vesna, Kletečki, Eduard, Jalžić, Branko   +2 more
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A striking new genus and species of troglobitic Campodeidae (Diplura) from Central Asia

Subterranean Biology, 2017
A striking new genus and species of Campodeidae (Diplura), Turkmenocampa mirabilis Sendra & Stoev, gen.n., sp.n., found in Kaptarhana cave in Eastern Turkmenistan is described.
Alberto Sendra, Boris Sket, Pavel Stoev
doaj   +3 more sources

A new troglobiont species of Rhagidiidae (Acari: Eupodoidea) from cave sites in the Ural Mountains (Russia)

Acarologia
A new troglobiont species, Foveacheles uralensis n. sp., is described from the Gremutshaya, Rossiyskaya, and the Shulgan-Tash caves of the Ural Mountains. The new species is characterized by intermediate character states between the genera Foveacheles and Traegaardhia and its taxonomic position is discussed.
Alexander A. Khaustov, Vasiliy B. Kolesnikov, Ilya S. Turbanov, Andrei V. Tolstikov   +3 more
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