Drought is one of the major constraints to rain-fed agricultural production, especially under
climate change conditions. Plants evolved an array of adaptive strategies that perceive …

Scientists of different disciplines have recognized the valuable role of terrestrial caves as
ideal natural laboratories in which to study multiple eco-evolutionary processes, from genes …

The use of semi‐isolated habitats such as oceanic islands, lakes and mountain summits as
model systems has played a crucial role in the development of evolutionary and ecological …

Five decades ago, a landmark paper in Science titled The Cave Environment heralded
caves as ideal natural experimental laboratories in which to develop and address general …

Climate change affects all ecosystems, but subterranean ecosystems are repeatedly
neglected from political and public agendas. Cave habitats are home to unknown and …

Aim Groundwater ecosystems harbour a unique biodiversity, but remain poorly studied,
mainly due to difficulties in accessibility and imperfect species detection. Consequently …

The extent to which closely related species share similar niches remains highly debated.
Ecological niches are increasingly analysed by combining distribution records with broad …

Abstract Janzen's hypothesis (1967; American Naturalist) predicts that tropical habitats with
reduced thermal seasonality would select for species with narrow thermal tolerance, thereby …

Physiological traits are key in determining the vulnerability of narrow range, highly
specialized animals to climate change. It is generally predicted that species from more …

Despite the study of subterranean biodiversity facing harsh sampling and map**
challenges, the huge diversity of taxa, ecological adaptations and evolutionary trajectories in …