Paving the Way for Standardized and Comparable Subterranean Biodiversity Studies

David C Culver; Peter Trontelj; Maja Zagmajster; Tanja  Pipan

doi:10.3897/subtbiol.10.4759

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Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida: Araneae). Biodiversity Data Journal 7: .

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Environmental DNA of insects and springtails from caves reveals complex processes of eDNA transfer in soils. Science of The Total Environment 826: 154022.

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Stefano Mammola, Boris Leroy (2018)
Applying species distribution models to caves and other subterranean habitats. Ecography 41: 1194.

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Stefano Mammola, Shlomi Aharon, Merav Seifan, Yael Lubin, Efrat Gavish-Regev (2019)
Exploring the Interplay Between Local and Regional Drivers of Distribution of a Subterranean Organism. Diversity 11: 119.

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Stygofaunal diversity and ecological sustainability of coastal groundwater ecosystems in a changing climate: The Australian paradigm. Freshwater Biology 67: 2007.

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Hotspots of Subterranean Biodiversity Redux. Diversity 14: 794.

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Stefano Mammola, Pedro Cardoso, Carles Ribera, Martina Pavlek, Marco Isaia (2018)
A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301.

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Laura Macario-González, Sergio Cohuo, Dorottya Angyal, Liseth Pérez, Maite Mascaró (2021)
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Richard Mazebedi, Thomas Hesselberg (2020)
A preliminary survey of the abundance, diversity and distribution of terrestrial macroinvertebrates of Gcwihaba cave, northwest Botswana. Subterranean Biology 35: 49.

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Enrico Lunghi, Barbara Valle, Alessia Guerrieri, Aurélie Bonin, Fabio Cianferoni, Raoul Manenti, G. Francesco Ficetola (2021)
Environmental DNA of Insects and Springtails from Caves Reveals Complex Processes of Edna Transfer in Soils. SSRN Electronic Journal : .

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Marko Lukić, Cene Fišer, Teo Delić, Helena Bilandžija, Martina Pavlek, Ana Komerički, Tvrtko Dražina, Branko Jalžić, Roman Ozimec, Rajko Slapnik, Jana Bedek (2023)
Subterranean Fauna of the Lukina Jama–Trojama Cave System in Croatia: The Deepest Cave in the Dinaric Karst. Diversity 15: 726.

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The Racovitzan impediment and the hidden biodiversity of unexplored environments. Conservation Biology 33: 214.

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Elzbieta Dumnicka, Tanja Pipan, David Culver (2020)
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Ainara Achurra, Pilar Rodriguez, Trefor B. Reynoldson (2015)
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Stefano Mammola, Pedro Cardoso, Dorottya Angyal, Gergely Balázs, Theo Blick, Hervé Brustel, Julian Carter, Srećko Ćurčić, Samuel Danflous, László Dányi, Sylvain Déjean, Christo Deltshev, Mert Elverici, Jon Fernández, Fulvio Gasparo, Marjan Komnenov, Christian Komposch, L'ubomír Kováč, Kadir Boğaç Kunt, Andrej Mock, Oana Teodora Moldovan, Maria Naumova, Martina Pavlek, Carlos E. Prieto, Carles Ribera, Robert Rozwałka, Vlastimil Růžička, Robert S. Vargovitsh, Stefan Zaenker, Marco Isaia (2019)
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William F. Humphreys (2018)
Cave Ecology. Chapter 24: 497.

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Stuart A. Halse (2018)
On the Ecology of Australia’s Arid Zone. Chapter 9: 215.

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David C. Culver, Horton H. Hobbs (2017)
Mammoth Cave. Chapter 15: 227.

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Maja Zagmajster, Mary C. Christman (2019)
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Maja Zagmajster, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, William F. Humphreys, Matthew L. Niemiller, Florian Malard (2023)
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Maja Zagmajster, Florian Malard, David Eme, David C. Culver (2018)
Cave Ecology. Chapter 9: 195.

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Louis Deharveng, Anne Bedos (2019)
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