Subterranean Ecosystems

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 49-62

  Culver, David C ^a   Pipan, Tanja ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KARST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Caves; Epikarst; Hyporheic; Hypotelminorheic; Karst; Lava tubes; Stygobiont; Troglobiont

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042825980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384719-5.00224-0     Document Type: Chapter

References (11)

1. Stygofauna mundi 1986, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. L. Botosaneanu (Ed.).
2. Boutin C. Phylogeny and biogeography of metacrangonyctid amphipods in North Africa. Hydrobiologia 1994, 287:49-64.
3. Culver DC (1982) Cave life. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
4. Culver DC, Pipan T The Biology of Caves and Other Subterranean Habitats 2009, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
5. Culver DC, Deharveng L, Bedos A, et al. The mid-latitude biodiversity ridge in terrestrial cave fauna. Ecography 2006, 29:120-128.
6. Culver DC, Kane TC, and Fong DW (1995) Adaptation and Natural Selection in Caves. The Evolution of Gammarus Minus. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
7. Jeffery WR Evolution of eye degeneration in cavefish: The return of pleiotropy. Subterranean Biology 2005, 3:1-12.
8. Pipan T Epikarst - A promising habitat 2005, ZRC Publishing, Karst Research Institute at ZRC-SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
9. Poulson T.L. Cave adaptation in amblyopsid fishes. American Midland Naturalist 1963, 70:257-290.
10. Verovnik R., Sket B., Trontelj P. Phylogeography of subterranean and surface populations of water lice Asellus aquaticus (Crustacea: Isopoda). Molecular Ecology 2004, 13:1519-1532.
11. Subterranean Ecosystems 2000, Elsevier, Amsterdam. H. Wilkens, D.C. Culver, W.F. Humphreys (Eds.).