Monitoring of biota is pivotal for the assessment and conservation of ecosystems.
Environments worldwide are being continuously and increasingly exposed to multiple …

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 …

In light of recent alarming trends in human population growth, climate change, and other
environmental modifications, a “Warning to humanity” manifesto was published in …

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 …

Alien species are a significant threat to natural ecosystems and human economies. Despite
global efforts to address this challenge, the documented number of alien species is rapidly …

Caves and other subterranean habitats fulfill the requirements of experimental model
systems to address general questions in ecology and evolution. Yet, the harsh working …

Subterranean ecosystems are among the most widespread environments on Earth, yet we
still have poor knowledge of their biodiversity. To raise awareness of subterranean …

Ever-increasing human pressures on cave biodiversity have amplified the need for
systematic, repeatable, and intensive surveys of cave-dwelling arthropods to formulate …

This book brings together a wide range of sampling methods for investigating different
arthropod groups. Each chapter is organized to describe and evaluate the main sampling …

The climatic variability hypothesis predicts the evolution of species with wide thermal
tolerance ranges in environments with variable temperatures, and the evolution of thermal …