All Stories

  1. Living at the Interface: Behavioral, Evolutionary and Ecological Insights of Spring Use by Highly Mobile Stygobiont Crustaceans, Troglocaris planinensis (Decapoda: Atyidae)
  2. Dietary data from surface and subterranean populations of Speleomantes cave salamanders
  3. Genetic and Environmental Similarities Drive Repeated Genomic Evolution in Island Lizards
  4. Importance of Spring Habitats for Amphibians: The Case of Estavelle Ecotones in the Classical Karst Region
  5. First report of overwintering tadpoles in the endemic Italian agile frog Rana latastei
  6. Light in the Darkness: Responses to Light and Diel Activity Rhythm in an Eyeless Cave Flatworm (Dendrocoelum italicum)
  7. Integrating formal surveys and local knowledge: Insights into the subterranean fauna of Apulia
  8. First report of overwintering tadpoles in the endemic Italian agile frogRana latastei
  9. Differences in estimates of extinction risk between occupancy and abundance data
  10. Population Genomic Divergence Reveals Uncertainties in Species Identification of Cave‐Dwelling Isopods
  11. Integrating adult occurrence and reproduction data to identify conservation measures for amphibians
  12. Back from the underworld: the exploitation of spring habitats by stygobiont species
  13. Four years monitoring of the endangered European plethodontid salamanders
  14. A gap in media communication of human-bear conflicts management
  15. The Role of Experience in the Visual and Non-Visual Prey Recognition of Fire Salamander Populations from Caves and Streams
  16. Microplastic pollution calls for urgent investigations in stygobiont habitats: A case study from Classical karst
  17. Microclimatic Influences on the Abundance of Three Non-Troglobiont Species
  18. Occurrence in Surface of the Olm (Proteus anguinus) Suggests to Approach Cave Biology Processes with More Flexibility
  19. Wandering outside of the Styx: Surface activity of an iconic subterranean vertebrate, the olm (Proteus anguinus)
  20. Enigmatic cysts discovered in a population of European salamanders
  21. Sit-and-wait foraging is not enough in food-deprived environments: evidence from groundwater and salamanders
  22. Decline and Extinction of the Italian Agile Frog Rana latastei from Core Areas of Its Range
  23. Human Dimensions and Visitors’ Perspective in Freshwater Crayfish Conservation: The Case of a Protected Area in Italy
  24. Decline and Extinction of the Italian Agile Frog Rana latastei from Core Areas of Its Range
  25. Landscape of fear in freshwater ecotones: How predation risk and light conditions affect mesopredator activity and foraging in springs
  26. Environmental Factors Affecting Amphibian Communities in River Basins of the Southern Apennines
  27. Both Light Stimuli and Predation Risk Affect the Adult Behavior of a Stygobiont Crustacean
  28. Larval development and poor trophic resource availability: Local adaptations and plasticity in a widespread amphibian species
  29. Behavioural drivers of ecotone exploitation: activity of groundwater animals in spring
  30. All that changes is not shift: methodological choices influence niche shift detection in freshwater invasive species
  31. Condition- and context-dependent variation of sexual dimorphism across lizard populations at different spatial scales
  32. Differential biochemical and behavioral responses induced by cocaine and benzoylecgonine exposure to the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii
  33. Assessing Population Trends of Species with Imperfect Detection: Double Count Analyses and Simulations Confirm Reliable Estimates in Brown Frogs
  34. Resistance of groundwater invertebrates to droughts: Two new cases in planarians and isopods
  35. Global response of conservationists across mass media likely constrained bat persecution due to COVID-19
  36. Caves as evolutionary dead end? The journey of the stygobiont isopod Monolistra pavani toward sunlight
  37. Groundwater invertebrates and droughts: resistance in stygobiont isopods and planarians
  38. Preliminary study on differences characterizes the populations of olm (Proteus anguinus) in cave and those found in epigean environment
  39. The laboratory of subterranean biology “Enrico Pezzoli”: a new underground facility for zoological research.
  40. The roles of landscape of fear and light in allowing the exploitation of spring habitats by subterranean amphipods: an experimental and field approach
  41. How Trophic Conditions Affect Development of Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra) Larvae: Two Extreme Cases
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  43. Environmental DNA of insects and springtails from caves reveals complex processes of eDNA transfer in soils
  44. Explaining declines of newt abundance in northern Italy
  45. Capture–mark–recapture data on the strictly protected Speleomantes italicus
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  47. A New Disease Caused by an Unidentified Etiological Agent Affects European Salamanders
  48. Similar species, different fates: Abundance dynamics in spatially structured populations of common and threatened frogs
  49. Joint letter inspired by Hymas et al. (2021): There’s nothing new under the sun – lessons conservationists could learn from previous pandemics
  50. Invasive predators induce plastic and adaptive responses during embryo development in a threatened frog
  51. Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment
  52. Don’t forget the vertical dimension: assessment of distributional dynamics of cave-dwelling invertebrates in both ground and parietal microhabitats
  53. Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator
  54. A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome
  55. Raised by aliens: constant exposure to an invasive predator triggers morphological but not behavioural plasticity in a threatened species tadpoles
  56. Between darkness and light: spring habitats provide new perspectives for modern researchers on groundwater biology
  57. Climate and land-use changes drive biodiversity turnover in arthropod assemblages over 150 years
  58. Conservation Studies on Groundwaters’ Pollution: Challenges and Perspectives for Stygofauna Communities
  59. Ecological Observations on Hybrid Populations of European Plethodontid Salamanders, Genus Speleomantes
  60. Diel activity of Niphargus amphipods in spring habitats
  61. Updating salamander datasets with phenotypic and stomach content information for two mainland Speleomantes
  62. Value-conflicts in the conservation of a native species: a case study based on the endangered white-clawed crayfish in Europe
  63. Fluorescence Properties of a Novel Isoquinoline Derivative Tested in an Invertebrate Chordate, Ciona intestinalis
  64. Planarians, a Neglected Component of Biodiversity in Groundwaters
  65. Lockdown policy effects on invasive species: a perspective
  66. Not Only Environmental Conditions but Also Human Awareness Matters: A Successful Post-Crayfish Plague Reintroduction of the White-Clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) in Northern Italy
  67. Embryotoxicity characterization of the flame retardant tris(1‐chloro‐2‐propyl)phosphate (TCPP) in the invertebrate chordate  Ciona intestinalis
  68. Long‐term drivers of persistence and colonization dynamics in spatially structured amphibian populations
  69. Switching from mesopredator to apex predator: how do responses vary in amphibians adapted to cave living?
  70. The post hoc measurement as a safe and reliable method to age and size plethodontid salamanders
  71. The good, the bad and the ugly of COVID-19 lockdown effects on wildlife conservation: Insights from the first European locked down country
  72. Are the Neglected Tipuloidea Crane Flies (Diptera) an Important Component for Subterranean Environments?
  73. Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology
  74. Rapid adaptation to invasive predators overwhelms natural gradients of intraspecific variation
  75. Invasive Species and Amphibian Conservation
  76. Interspecific and interpopulation variation in individual diet specialization: Do environmental factors have a role?
  77. Photographic database of the European cave salamanders, genus Hydromantes
  78. Same Diet, Different Strategies: Variability of Individual Feeding Habits across Three Populations of Ambrosi’s Cave Salamander (Hydromantes ambrosii)
  79. Cave Communities: From the Surface Border to the Deep Darkness
  80. Do Salamanders Limit the Abundance of Groundwater Invertebrates in Subterranean Habitats?
  81. Invasive crayfish does not influence spawning microhabitat selection of brown frogs
  82. Exploring miR-9 Involvement in Ciona intestinalis Neural Development Using Peptide Nucleic Acids
  83. Microhabitat analyses support relationships between niche breadth and range size when spatial autocorrelation is strong
  84. Cave morphology, microclimate and abundance of five cave predators from the Monte Albo (Sardinia, Italy)
  85. Is landscape of fear of macroinvertebrate communities a major determinant of mesopredator and prey activity?
  86. Network‐scale effects of invasive species on spatially‐structured amphibian populations
  87. Thirty years of invasion: the distribution of the invasive crayfish Procambarus clarkii in Italy
  88. On the stability of the dorsal pattern of European cave salamanders (genus Hydromantes)
  89. miR-7 Knockdown by Peptide Nucleic Acids in the Ascidian Ciona intestinalis
  90. Predation on Amphibians May Enhance Eurasian Otter Recovery in Southern Italy
  91. Continental‐scale determinants of population trends in European amphibians and reptiles
  92. Use of prediction equations to evaluate body composition generate fake and dangerous results
  93. Transgressive niche across a salamander hybrid zone revealed by microhabitat analyses
  94. Safe as a cave? Intraspecific aggressiveness rises in predator-devoid and resource-depleted environments
  95. Consider species specialism when publishing datasets
  96. Environmental DNA and metabarcoding for the study of amphibians and reptiles: species distribution, the microbiome, and much more
  97. Think of what lies below, not only of what is visible above, or: a comprehensive zoological study of invertebrate communities of spring habitats
  98. Even worms matter: cave habitat restoration for a planarian species increased environmental suitability but not abundance
  99. Causes and consequences of crayfish extinction: Stream connectivity, habitat changes, alien species and ecosystem services
  100. What shapes the trophic niche of European plethodontid salamanders?
  101. The stenoendemic cave-dwelling planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) of the Italian Alps and Apennines: Conservation issues
  102. Differences between microhabitat and broad-scale patterns of niche evolution in terrestrial salamanders
  103. N-mixture models reliably estimate the abundance of small vertebrates
  104. Field-recorded data on the diet of six species of European Hydromantes cave salamanders
  105. Environmental suitability models predict population density, performance and body condition for microendemic salamanders
  106. Birds biodiversity in urban and periurban forests: environmental determinants at local and landscape scales
  107. Batracobdella leeches, environmental features and Hydromantes salamanders
  108. Is the Italian stream frog (Rana italica Dubois, 1987) an opportunistic exploiter of cave twilight zone?
  109. Teratogenic potential of nanoencapsulated vitamin A evaluated on an alternative model organism, the tunicate Ciona intestinalis
  110. The first ecological study on the oldest allochthonous population of European cave salamanders (Hydromantes sp.)
  111. Effects of diet quality on morphology and intraspecific competition ability during development: the case of fire salamander larvae
  112. Cave exploitation by an usual epigean species: a review on the current knowledge on fire salamander breeding in cave
  113. Biphasic predators provide biomass subsidies in small freshwater habitats: A case study of spring and cave pools
  114. Fire salamander (<em>Salamandra salamandra</em>) males’ activity during breeding season: effects of microhabitat features and body size
  115. Cave features, seasonality and subterranean distribution of non-obligate cave dwellers
  116. Cases of albinism and leucism in amphibians in Italy: new reports
  117. Mountain protected areas as refuges for threatened freshwater species: the detrimental effect of the direct introduction of alien species
  118. Factors driving semi-aquatic predator occurrence in traditional cattle drinking pools: conservation issues
  119. Amphibians breeding in refuge habitats have larvae with stronger antipredator responses
  120. Thermal equilibrium and temperature differences among body regions in European plethodontid salamanders
  121. Environmental factors associated with amphibian breeding in streams and springs: effects of habitat and fish occurrence
  122. Seasonal variation in microhabitat of salamanders: environmental variation or shift of habitat selection?
  123. The distribution of cave twilight-zone spiders depends on microclimatic features and trophic supply
  124. Environmental factors determining growth of salamander larvae: A field study
  125. Role of density and resource competition in determining aggressive behaviour in salamanders
  126. Austropotamobius pallipes reduction vs. Procambarus clarkii spreading: Management implications
  127. Dry stone walls favour biodiversity: a case-study from the Appennines
  128. Do cave features affect underground habitat exploitation by non-troglobite species?
  129. Foraging plasticity favours adaptation to new habitats in fire salamanders
  130. Salamanders breeding in subterranean habitats: local adaptations or behavioural plasticity?
  131. Odonata Occurrence in Caves: Active or Accidentals? A new Case Study
  132. Spatial segregation among age classes in cave salamanders: habitat selection or social interactions?
  133. Antagonizing Retinoic Acid and FGF/MAPK Pathways Control Posterior Body Patterning in the Invertebrate Chordate Ciona intestinalis
  134. Do cave salamanders occur randomly in cavities? An analysis with Hydromantes strinatii
  135. Can patterns of spatial autocorrelation reveal population processes? An analysis with the fire salamander
  136. Usefulness of volunteer data to measure the large scale decline of “common” toad populations
  137. Spatial autocorrelation and the analysis of invasion processes from distribution data: a study with the crayfish Procambarus clarkii
  138. Early assessment of the impact of alien species: differential consequences of an invasive crayfish on adult and larval amphibians
  139. Water, stream morphology and landscape: complex habitat determinants for the fire salamander Salamandra salamandra