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  1. Volatile compounds in cave ecosystems and their roles in subterranean carbon cycling

    Article • March 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  2. Conservation profile of the largest Palearctic silverfish and Europe's largest cave-adapted terrestrial insect: Squamatinia algharbica (Zygentoma, Nicoletiidae)

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, March 2026, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  3. Phylogeny of subterranean ground beetles (genus Trechus, Coleoptera, Carabidae) from continental Portugal

    Article • Subterranean Biology, February 2026, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  4. A new chapter for soil biodiversity: launch of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Woodlouse Specialist Group

    Article • Oryx, November 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  5. Terrestrial isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) from Mesovoid Shallow Substratum habitats of Portugal

    Article • Subterranean Biology, October 2025, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  6. Advancing subterranean conservation through Global Research on eDNA in Groundwaters (GReG)

    Article • Subterranean Biology, August 2025, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira, Dr Nuno Simoes

  7. EU needs groundwater ecosystems guidelines

    Article • Science, December 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  8. Bacterioplankton Community Diversity of a Portuguese Aquifer System (Maciço Calcário Estremenho)

    Article • Water, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  9. Domitius lusitanicus (Araneae, Nesticidae) - an umbrella species for the conservation of troglobionts in the Estremenho Karst Massif, Portugal

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, June 2024, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  10. Environmental risk of diclofenac sodium in European groundwaters: implications for setting environmental quality standards

    Article • May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  11. Domitius lusitanicus (Araneae, Nesticidae) - an umbrella species for the conservation of troglobionts in the Estremenho Karst Massif, Portugal

    Article • April 2024, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  12. Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem

    Article • Global Change Biology, December 2023, Wiley

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  13. Temperature variation in caves and its significance for subterranean ecosystems

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  14. Cave-adapted millipedes from Portugal: species conservation profiles

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, November 2023, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  15. A collaborative backbone resource for comparative studies of subterranean evolution: The World Asellidae database

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, October 2023, Wiley

    Oana Moldovan, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  16. Comparable early-stage decomposition but contrasting underlying drivers between surface and cave habitats along an elevational gradient

    Article • Ecological Indicators, October 2023, Elsevier

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  17. Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem

    Article • August 2023, Wiley

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  18. Acetaminophen induced antioxidant and detoxification responses in a stygobitic crustacean

    Article • Environmental Pollution, August 2023, Elsevier

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  19. Paleoprecipitations recorded by rock magnetic properties of stalagmites from the Gruta da Ceramica, Portugal

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  20. How to map potential mesovoid shallow substratum (MSS) habitats? A case study in colluvial MSS

    Article • Subterranean Biology, April 2023, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  21. Physiological tolerance and ecotoxicological constraints of groundwater fauna

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  22. Assessing groundwater ecosystem health, status, and services

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  23. Thermal acclimation and metabolic scaling of a groundwater asellid in the climate change scenario

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  24. Nutrient-limited subarctic caves harbour more diverse and complex bacterial communities than their surface soil

    Article • Environmental Microbiome, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  25. Invertebrate traits, diversity and the vulnerability of groundwater ecosystems

    Article • Functional Ecology, July 2022, Wiley

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  26. Brazilian cave heritage under siege

    Article • Science, March 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    alice hughes, prof. Ľubomír Kováč, Oana Moldovan, Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  27. Species conservation profiles of cave-adapted terrestrial isopods from Portugal

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, February 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  28. Penetrative and non-penetrative interaction between Laboulbeniales fungi and their arthropod hosts

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  29. Cave-adapted beetles from continental Portugal

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, August 2021, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  30. Temporal and spatial dynamics of arthropod groups in terrestrial subsurface habitats in central Portugal

    Article • Zoology, August 2021, Elsevier

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  31. Sensitivity of a widespread groundwater copepod to different contaminants

    Article • Chemosphere, July 2021, Elsevier

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  32. Novel Protocol for Acute In Situ Ecotoxicity Test Using Native Crustaceans Applied to Groundwater Ecosystems

    Article • Water, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  33. Cave-adapted beetles from continental Portugal

    Article • April 2021, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  34. Diversity, ecology, distribution and biogeography of Diplura

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, March 2021, Wiley

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  35. Diplura in caves: diversity, ecology, evolution and biogeography

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, November 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  36. Decomposition of Organic Matter in Caves

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, October 2020, Frontiers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  37. Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology

    Article • Biological Reviews, August 2020, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti, Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  38. Salinity and temperature increase impact groundwater crustaceans

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  39. The first blind spirostreptid millipede, found in a cave in Morocco; with notes on the genus Odontostreptus Attems, 1914 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae)

    Article • European Journal of Taxonomy, June 2020, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  40. The first Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota, Laboulbeniomycetes) from an American millipede, discovered through social media

    Article • MycoKeys, May 2020, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  41. Ecotoxicological effects of anthropogenic stressors in subterranean organisms: A review

    Article • Chemosphere, April 2020, Elsevier

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  42. Flourishing in subterranean ecosystems: Euro-Mediterranean Plusiocampinae and tachycampoids (Diplura, Campodeidae)

    Article • European Journal of Taxonomy, January 2020, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Ana Sofia Reboleira, prof. Ľubomír Kováč

  43. Hyperparasitism in caves: Bats, bat flies and ectoparasitic fungus interaction

    Article • Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, September 2019, Elsevier

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  44. Recommendations for ecotoxicity testing with stygobiotic species in the framework of groundwater environmental risk assessment

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, September 2019, Elsevier

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  45. Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems

    Article • BioScience, June 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Oana Moldovan

  46. The genus Jeekelosoma Mauriès, 1985 – Moroccan cave millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

    Article • European Journal of Taxonomy, May 2019, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  47. Amblypygids of Timor-Leste: first records of the order from the country with the description of a remarkable new species of Sarax (Arachnida, Amblypygi, Charinidae)

    Article • ZooKeys, January 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  48. The first stygobiont species of Coleoptera from Portugal, with a molecular phylogeny of the Siettitia group of genera (Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Hydroporini, Siettitiina)

    Article • ZooKeys, January 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  49. Studies of Laboulbeniales on Myrmica ants (IV): host-related diversity and thallus distribution patterns of Rickia wasmannii

    Article • Parasite, January 2019, EDP Sciences

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  50. Novelty upon novelty visualized by rotational scanning electron micrographs (rSEM): Laboulbeniales on the millipede order Chordeumatida

    Article • PLOS One, November 2018, PLOS

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  51. First continental troglobiont Cylindroiulus millipede (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)

    Article • ZooKeys, November 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  52. 24th International Conference on Subterranean Biology

    Article • Subterranean Biology, October 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  53. Distribution of herpetofauna in caves of Portuguese karst massifs

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, October 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  54. Evaluation of the suitability of sinkhole ponds and springs from two Portuguese karst massifs for amphibian early life stage development

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, October 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  55. Accessing bioactive potential of cave bacterial extracts

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, October 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  56. Caves as a source of new antimicrobial agents: the case study of antibacterial activity from microorganisms inhabiting Cerâmica Cave, Portugal

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, October 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  57. Comparative acute toxicity of the pharmaceutical compound Diclofenac on groundwater and surface water crustaceans

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, September 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  58. Hyperparasitism in caves: bats, bat flies and ectoparasitic fungus

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, September 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  59. Catalogue of the type material in the entomological collection of the Natural History Museum of Denmark: basal hexapods

    Article • Zootaxa, August 2018, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  60. New species of Troglomyces and Diplopodomyces (Laboulbeniales, Ascomycota) from millipedes (Diplopoda)

    Article • European Journal of Taxonomy, April 2018, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  61. Five new hypogean Occidenchthonius (Pseudoscorpiones: Chthoniidae) from Portugal

    Article • Journal of Arachnology, April 2018, American Arachnological Society

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  62. From the depths: Heterocaucaseuma deprofundum sp. nov., the world's deepest-occurring millipede (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Anthroleucosomatidae) from caves in the western Caucasus

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2018, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  63. Subterranean Biology in the Anthropocene

    Article • January 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  64. Energy and speleogenesis: Key determinants of terrestrial species richness in caves

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, October 2017, Wiley

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  65. Subterranean millipedes (Diplopoda) of the Iberian Peninsula

    Article • Zootaxa, September 2017, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  66. First record of a Basidiobolus/Amphoromorpha fungus from a spider

    Article • African Journal of Ecology, June 2017, Wiley

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  67. First Laboulbeniales from harvestmen: the new genus Opilionomyces

    Article • Phytotaxa, May 2017, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  68. A new species of Speonemadus from Portugal, with the revision of the escalerai-group (Coleoptera, Leiodidae)

    Article • European Journal of Taxonomy, January 2017, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  69. The Iberian genus Paraphaenops Jeannel, 1916 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini): Morphology, phylogeny and geographical distribution

    Article • Zoologischer Anzeiger, January 2017, Elsevier

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  70. Taxonomics—next-generation taxonomists

    Article • Organisms Diversity & Evolution, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  71. Mud and silk in the dark: A new type of millipede moulting chamber and first observations on the maturation moult in the order Callipodida

    Article • Arthropod Structure & Development, May 2016, Elsevier

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  72. Hidden biodiversity revealed by collections-based research—Laboulbeniales in millipedes: genus Rickia

    Article • Phytotaxa, January 2016, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  73. The cavernicolous Oniscidea (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Portugal

    Article • European Journal of Taxonomy, December 2015, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  74. Highly disjunct and highly infected millipedes – a new cave-dwelling species of Chiraziulus (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalidae) from Iran and notes on Laboulbeniales ectoparasites

    Article • European Journal of Taxonomy, October 2015, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  75. Redescription of Lusitanipus alternans (Verhoeff, 1893) (Diplopoda, Callipoda, Dorypetalidae) and ecological data on its Laboulbeniales ectoparasites in caves

    Article • Zootaxa, May 2015, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  76. Redescription of Iberoiulus cavernicola Ceuca, 1967, and the relationships of the genus Iberoiulus Mauriès, 1985 (Diplopoda, Julida, Blaniulidae)

    Article • Zootaxa, September 2014, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  77. Hypogenic versus epigenic subterranean ecosystem: lessons from eastern Iberian Peninsula

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, September 2014, University of South Florida Libraries

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  78. Laboulbeniales on millipedes: the genera Diplopodomyces and Troglomyces

    Article • Mycologia, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  79. A New Threat to Groundwater Ecosystems: First Occurrences of the Invasive Crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) in European Caves

    Article • Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, June 2014, National Speleological Society

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  80. Millipedes (Diplopoda) from Caves of Portugal

    Article • Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, June 2014, National Speleological Society

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  81. Insular species swarm goes underground: two new troglobiont Cylindroiulus millipedes from Madeira (Diplopoda: Julidae)

    Article • Zootaxa, April 2014, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  82. Sireuma, a new genus of subterranean millipedes from the Iberian Peninsula (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Opisthocheiridae)

    Article • Zootaxa, April 2014, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  83. A new species of Duvalius from world’s deepest cave (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

    Article • Zootaxa, March 2014, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  84. Iberian Meetings of Subterranean Biology – regional initiatives towards a global comprehension of subterranean ecosystems (2009–2013)

    Article • Subterranean Biology, November 2013, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  85. A new cave-dwelling millipede of the genus Scutogona from central Portugal (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Chamaesomatidae)

    Article • Zootaxa, November 2013, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  86. On hypogean Roncocreagris (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisiidae) from Portugal, with descriptions of three new species

    Article • Zootaxa, June 2013, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  87. Subterranean species of Acipes Attems, 1937 (Diplopoda, Julida, Blaniulidae)

    Article • Zootaxa, May 2013, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  88. The genus Boreviulisoma Brolemann, 1928—an Iberian-N African outlier of a mainly tropical tribe of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)

    Article • Zootaxa, May 2013, Magnolia Press

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  89. Acute Toxicity of Copper Sulfate and Potassium Dichromate on Stygobiont Proasellus: General Aspects of Groundwater Ecotoxicology and Future Perspectives

    Article • Water Air & Soil Pollution, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  90. Literature survey, bibliographic analysis and a taxonomic catalogue of subterranean fauna from Portugal

    Article • Subterranean Biology, February 2013, Pensoft Publishers

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  91. The world's deepest subterranean community - Krubera-Voronja Cave (Western Caucasus)

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, July 2012, University of South Florida Libraries

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  92. Reviews of the genera Schaefferia Absolon, 1900, Deuteraphorura Absolon, 1901, Plutomurus Yosii, 1956 and the Anurida Laboulbène, 1865 species group without eyes, with the description of four new species of cave springtails (Collembola) from Krubera-Vo...

    Article • Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, January 2012, Brill

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

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

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, January 2011, University of South Florida Libraries

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  94. Two new species of cave dwelling Trechus Clairville, 1806 of the fulvus -group (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae) from Portugal

    Article • Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, May 2009, Wiley

    Ana Sofia Reboleira

  95. The effect of environmental parameters and cyanobacterial blooms on phytoplankton dynamics of a Portuguese temperate Lake

    Article • Hydrobiologia, July 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ana Sofia Reboleira, Professor Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro