Climate change going deep: The effects of global climatic alterations on cave ecosystems

S Mammola, E Piano, P Cardoso… - The Anthropocene …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Finding answers in the dark: caves as models in ecology fifty years after Poulson and White

S Mammola - Ecography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Environmental DNA in subterranean biology: range extension and taxonomic implications for Proteus

Š Gorički, D Stanković, A Snoj, M Kuntner… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Europe's obligate cave-dwelling amphibian Proteus anguinus inhabits subterranean waters
of the north-western Balkan Peninsula. Because only fragments of its habitat are accessible …

Evaluation of eDNA for groundwater invertebrate detection and monitoring: a case study with endangered Stygobromus (Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae)

ML Niemiller, ML Porter, J Keany, H Gilbert… - Conservation Genetics …, 2018 - Springer
Effective conservation and management of biodiversity is limited by a lack of critical
knowledge on species' distributions and abundances. This problem is particularly …

Molecular phylogeny of the subterranean genus Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in the Middle East: a comparison with European Niphargids

S Esmaeili-Rineh, A Sari, T Delić… - Zoological Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The subterranean genus Niphargus is one of the most species-rich genera among
freshwater amphipods in the world, distributed in the Western Palearctic. Thus far, taxonomic …

Doomed before they are described? The need for conservation assessments of cryptic species complexes using an amblyopsid cavefish (Amblyopsidae: Typhlichthys …

ML Niemiller, GO Graening, DB Fenolio… - Biodiversity and …, 2013 - Springer
The delimitation of cryptic species and lineages is a common finding of phylogenetic studies.
Species previously considered to be of low conservation priority might actually be comprised …

Diversification in tropics and subtropics following the mid‐Miocene climate change: A case study of the spider genus Nesticella

F Ballarin, S Li - Global change biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Caves may offer suitable refugia for troglophilic invertebrates during periods of unfavourable
climatic conditions because of their stable microclimates. As a consequence, allopatric …

Predicting the occurrence of cave-inhabiting fauna based on features of the earth surface environment

MC Christman, DH Doctor, ML Niemiller, DJ Weary… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
One of the most challenging fauna to study in situ is the obligate cave fauna because of the
difficulty of sampling. Cave-limited species display patchy and restricted distributions, but it …

Caves as microrefugia: Pleistocene phylogeography of the troglophilic North American scorpion Pseudouroctonus reddelli

RW Bryson, L Prendini, WE Savary… - BMC evolutionary biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Survival in microrefugia represents an important paradigm in phylogeography
for explaining rapid postglacial re-colonization by species in temperate regions …

Global Diversification of Anelosimus Spiders Driven by Long-Distance Overwater Dispersal and Neogene Climate Oscillations

Y Luo, SP Goh, D Li, MO Gonzaga, AJ Santos… - Systematic …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Vicariance and dispersal events, combined with intricate global climatic history, have left an
imprint on the spatiotemporal distribution and diversity of many organisms. Anelosimus …