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Journal Article
An Overview of Subterranean Biodiversity Hotspots
2021
Overview
Introduction Riding a wave of interest in biodiversity patterns in surface-dwelling communities, in 2000, Culver and Sket [1] published a paper listing 20 caves and karst wells with 20 or more known species. [...]of their study, it was widely recognized that because of the extremely narrow distribution of most cave specialists, the overall species richness of a region or country was the result of the accumulation of species from a number of different caves, and that average single-site species richness (α-diversity) was a minor component of overall species richness (γ-diversity) [2]. Postojna Planina Cave system is by far the richest known subterranean site with respect to species richness; it ranks first with respect to both aquatic and terrestrial species richness [19]. The difficulty is that in areas where the surface fauna is not well studied, such as most of the tropics, it is impossible to ascertain that such non-troglomorphic species are troglobiotic (or stygobiotic) species. [...]numbers of troglobiotic and stygobiotic species may be underestimated or overestimated in these sites.
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MDPI AG
