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Edited by
H. Wilkens, Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum der Universitat Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
D.C. Culver, Department of Biology, The American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, DC 20016-8002, USA
W.F. Humphreys, Western Australian Museum, Biogeography, Ecology & Biospeleology, Terrestrial Invertebrate Zoology, Francis Street, Perth, Western Australia 6000
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Ecosystems of the World, 30
Description
The last 50 years of research on the subterranean biome has revealed considerable taxonomic and ecological diversity as well as unique
lineages of organisms - even a new animal class - dependent on a variety of energy sources. During this time biospeleology has developed
from a descriptive discipline to encompass the whole field of biological science. The marked change of living conditions in the subterranean
realm relative to the surface environment, due to the complete lack of light, provides unique opportunities to test various hypotheses.
This book shows for the first time the importance for the biosphere of a previously neglected biota. The types of animals and habitats
found in subterranean ecosystems are described together with the geological formations in which they occur and their distribution on
earth. The ecology of some subterranean terrestrial and aquatic systems are described together with subterranean ecosystems in different
climatic zones. The nature of the adaptations to life in complete darkness, and to the often sparse and patchily distributed foods or
various trophic origins, are described. A central part of the volume deals with the characteristics and process involved in the adaptation,
speciation and evolution of subterranean animals. The volume concludes with a consideration of the conservation issues arising.
Audience
For ecologists, biologists, speleologists, conservation planners and land managers.
Contents
Part and chapter headings:
Glossary.
Classification, Geological Characterization, and Distribution of the Different Subsurface
Biota.
Generalities and diversity of the karstic and pseudokarstic hypogean habitats in the world (C. Juberthie). Interstitial aquatic
fauna of shallow unconsolidated sediments, particularly hyporheic biotopes (J.V.Ward et al.). Anchialine cave ecology (T.C.
Iliffe).
Cave
Organisms.
Onychophora, Arachnida, Myriapoda and Insecta (M.S. Harvey et al.). Crustacea (H. Hobbs III).
Fish and amphibia (A. Weber).
Adaptation to the Main Abiotic Factors.
Lack of light (T.G. Langecker). Reduced, patchy or periodical
food supply (K. Hüppop). Adaptations to interstitial groundwater life (N. Coineau). Acoustic communication in darkness (H. Hoch).
The ecological role of aggressiveness in darkness (J. Parzefall).
The Trophic Basis of Subsurface Ecosystems.
Input by Guano and
Dead Organic Debris. The trophic basis of subsurface ecosystems (T.L. Poulson, K.H. Lavoie). Guano communities in tropical caves (P.
Gnaspini, E. Trajano). Fallout of dispersing arthropods in supporting invertebrate communities in barren volcanic habitats (N.P. Ashmole,
M.J. Ashmole). Input by Live Plants. Root driven faunas in cave waters (E. Jasinska, B. Knott). Input by Chemoautotrophy. Chemolithoautotrophic
microorganisms and their potential role in subsurface environments (B. Kinkle, T. Kane). Movile cave: a chemoautotrophically based groundwater
ecosystem (S. Sarbu). Food web dynamics and biochemistry of anchialine caves: a stable isotope approach (J.W. Pohlman et al.).
Geology and biology of the Frasassi Caves in central Italy, an ecological multi-disciplinary study of a hypogenic underground karst system
(S. Sarbu et al.).
Evolution.
Critical review of the relevant theories of the evolution of subterranean animals (D.C.
Culver, H. Wilkens). Ecological derivation, colonization, and speciation (J.R. Holsinger). Relict faunas and their derivation (W.F. Humphreys).
Evolutionary rates and phylogenetic age in some stygobiontic species (C. Boutin, N. Coineau). Population genetic structure, speciation
and evolutionary rates in cave dwelling organisms (V. Sbordoni et al.).
Ecosystem and Particular Cave Studies.
Ecosystem
Studies (Parafluvial Aquifers). A groundwater ecosystem in the wetlands of the Danube at Vienna (Austria) (D.L. Danielopol et
al.). Rhone groundwater systems (P. Marmonier et al.). Karst ecosystems in the Rhone river basin (J. Gibert et al.).
Particular Cave Studies. Ice caves in temperate regions Scarisoara Cave, Transsylvania (G. Racovitza). Caves in recently unglaciated
regions: The Segeberg Gypsum Cave (Northern Germany) (A. Ipsen). Arid tropics: the hypogean fauna of the Cape Range peninsula and Barrow
Island, North-West Australia (W.F. Humphreys). Equatorial tropics: the cave fauna of S.-E. Asia. Origin, evolution and ecology (L. Deharveng).
Jameos del Agua: the world's largest lava tube and its fauna (T.C. Iliffe et al.).
Conservation.
Conservation of cave
communities in Australia (E. Hamilton Smith, S. Eberhard). Conservation of the North American cave and karst biota (W.R. Elliott). Conservation
of subterranean habitats and species (C. Juberthie).
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 806 pages, publication date: SEP-2000
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-82299-4
ISBN-10: 0-444-82299-2
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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