A critical examination of current knowledge and ideas on cave biology, with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation.

The second edition of this widely cited textbook continues to provide a concise but comprehensive introduction to cave and subterranean biology, describing this

This book offers a comprehensive study of species- and genus-level diversity and chorology of the global freshwater fauna to date. It gives a state of the art a

Their work reveals the advantages of caves for studying natural selection: the highly simplified habitats found underground serve as a natural laboratory for th