Keyword

stygobionts

Description: Organisms, especially aquatic invertebrates, that live exclusively in subterranean waters such as caves and groundwater.

Primary topic: Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (86%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q23700457

OpenAlex ID: keywords/stygobionts

An Ecosystem Perspective of Alluvial Rivers: Connectivity and the Hyporheic Corridor

1993 · Jack A. Stanford, J. V. Ward · Journal of the North American Benthological Society · 809

Response of invertebrates to lotic disturbance: is the hyporheic zone a patchy refugium?

1997 · M.‐J. DOLE‐OLIVIER, P. MARMONIER, et al. · Freshwater Biology · 248

The nature of biodiversity in hypogean waters and how it is endangered

1999 · Boris Sket · Biodiversity and Conservation · 192

Shallow Subterranean Habitats

2014 · David C. Culver, Tanja Pipan · Oxford University Press eBooks · 186

Groundwater biodiversity in Europe

2009 · L. DEHARVENG, F. STOCH, et al. · Freshwater Biology · 164

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Assessing and conserving groundwater biodiversity: synthesis and perspectives

2009 · JANINE GIBERT, DAVID C. CULVER, et al. · Freshwater Biology · 116

Groundwater calcrete aquifers in the Australian arid zone: the context to an unfolding plethora of stygal biodiversity

2001 · W.H. Humphreys · Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement · 113

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Distribution patterns of groundwater communities across aquifer types in south‐western Germany

2008 · HANS JÜRGEN HAHN, ANDREAS FUCHS · Freshwater Biology · 112

High Biodiversity in Hypogean Waters and Its Endangerment – the Situation in Slovenia, the Dinaric Karst, and Europe

1999 · Boris Sket · Crustaceana · 94

Patterns of Cave Biodiversity and Endemism in the Appalachians and Interior Plateau of Tennessee, USA

2013 · Matthew L. Niemiller, Kirk S. Zigler · PLoS ONE · 92

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Pattern and process in the biogeography of subterranean amphipods

1994 · John R. Holsinger · Hydrobiologia · 91

Vicariance, dispersal and scale in the aquatic subterranean fauna of karst regions

2007 · DAVID C. CULVER, TANJA PIPAN, et al. · Freshwater Biology · 90

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Relationships between environmental variables and groundwater biodiversity at the regional scale

2009 · MARIE‐JOSÉ DOLE‐OLIVIER, FLORIAN MALARD, et al. · Freshwater Biology · 89

The Ecological Classification of Cave Animals and Their Adaptations

2018 · Francis G. Howarth, Oana Teodora Moldovan · Ecological studies · 86

The subterranean fauna of a biodiversity hotspot region - Portugal: an overview and its conservation

2011 · Ana Sofia Reboleira, Paulo Borges, et al. · International Journal of Speleology · 85

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Mitogenomic Phylogenetic Analysis Supports Continental-Scale Vicariance in Subterranean Thalassoid Crustaceans

2012 · Maria M. Bauzà-Ribot, Carlos Juan, et al. · Current Biology · 79

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Genetic exchange between anchialine cave populations by means of larval dispersal: the case of a new gastropod species Neritilia cavernicola

2004 · Yasunori Kano, Tomoki Kase · Zoologica Scripta · 68

Chemolithoautotrophy supports macroinvertebrate food webs and affects diversity and stability in groundwater communities

2016 · Benjamin T. Hutchins, Annette Summers Engel, et al. · Ecology · 67

Diversity Patterns in the Tropics

2012 · Louis Deharveng, Anne Bedos · Elsevier eBooks · 61

New light in the dark - a proposed multidisciplinary framework for studying functional ecology of groundwater fauna

2019 · Mattia Saccò, Alison Blyth, et al. · The Science of The Total Environment · 59

Microdistribution and high diversity of Copepoda (Crustacea) in a small cave in central Slovenia

2002 · Anton Brancelj · Hydrobiologia · 59

Biodiversity of subterranean amphipod crustaceans: global patterns and zoogeographic implications

1993 · J.R. Holsinger · Journal of Natural History · 59

A highly modified stygobiont diving beetle of the genus Copelatus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae): taxonomy and cladistic analysis based on mitochondrial DNA sequences

2003 · Michael Balke, Chris H. S. Watts, et al. · Systematic Entomology · 55

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Biodiversity of Belgian groundwater fauna in relation to environmental conditions

2009 · PATRICK MARTIN, CLAUDE DE BROYER, et al. · Freshwater Biology · 53

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Groundwater biodiversity in a chemoautotrophic cave ecosystem: how geochemistry regulates microcrustacean community structure

2016 · Diana M. P. Galassi, Barbara Fiasca, et al. · Aquatic Ecology · 47

Works count: 548

Citation count: 6,650