Caves and karst environments

Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies for Survival

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 320-344

  Lee, Natuschka M ^a   Meisinger, Daniela B ^a   Aubrecht, Roman ^b   Kovačik, Lubomir ^b   Saiz Jimenez, Cesareo ^c   Baskar, Sushmitha ^d   Baskar, Ramanathan ^d   Liebl, Wolfgang ^a   Porter, Megan L ^e   Engel, Annette Summers ^f,g  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^d GURU JAMBHESHWAR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^f LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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