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 …

How anthropogenic stressors affect biodiversity is a central question in a changing world.
Subterranean ecosystems and their biodiversity are particularly vulnerable to change, yet …

The world is constantly facing threats, including the emergence of new pathogens and
antibiotic resistance among extant pathogens, which is a matter of concern. Therefore, the …

Movile Cave hosts one of the world's most diverse subsurface invertebrate communities. In
the absence of matter and energy input from the surface, this ecosystem relies entirely on in …

Ecological Studies is Springer's premier book series treating all aspects of ecology. These
volumes, either authored or edited collections, appear several times each year. They are …

Carbon utilization of bacterial communities is a key factor of the biomineralization process in
limestone-rich curst areas. An efficient carbon catabolism of the microbial community is …

Urea is an abundant nitrogen-containing compound found in urine of mammals and widely
used in fertilizers. This compound is part of the nitrogen biogeochemical cycle and is easily …

In this study, CO2 sequestration was investigated through the microbially-induced calcium
carbonate precipitation (MICP) process with isolates obtained from a cave called 'Cave …

Light represents one of the most reliable environmental cues in the biological world. In this
review we focus on the evolutionary consequences to changes in organismal photic …

Caves are ubiquitous subterranean voids, accounting for a still largely unexplored surface of
the Earth underground. Due to the absence of sunlight and physical segregation, caves are …