Cave animals have historically attracted the attention of evolutionary biologists because of
their bizarre 'regressive'characters and convergent evolution. However, understanding of …

Over the last two decades, Australia has undergone a renaissance in studies of
subterranean biology. This paper sets these recent developments into context from the …

Extreme selective environments are commonly believed to funnel evolution toward a few
predictable outcomes. Caves are well-known extreme environments with characteristically …

A major challenge confronting many contemporary systematists is how to integrate standard
taxonomic research with conservation outcomes. With a biodiversity crisis looming and …

The known, perceived and potential relationships between hydrogeology and groundwater
ecology are explored, along with the spatial and temporal scale of these relations, the limit of …

Australia was historically considered a poor prospect for subterranean fauna but, in reality,
the continent holds a great variety of subterranean habitats, with associated faunas, found …

Southwestern Australia has been recognized as a biodiversity hot spot of global
significance, and it is particularly well known for its considerable diversity of flowering plant …

The arid Yilgarn region of Western Australia contains numerous subterranean calcrete
aquifers with unique assemblages of obligate groundwater invertebrates (stygofauna). We …

The arid Yilgarn region of Western Australia contains numerous isolated calcrete aquifers,
within which a diverse subterranean fauna has been discovered. Genetic and morphological …

Background We investigated the large and small scale evolutionary relationships of the
endemic Western Australian subterranean shrimp genus Stygiocaris (Atyidae) using nuclear …