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  1. Ten simple rules for making the supplement increase your paper’s impact
  2. Urban habitat use by bats at species and community levels across multiple spatial scales
  3. Blind spots in conservation planning: How well are subterranean species and habitats protected across the European Natura 2000 network?
  4. Where We're Going, We Won't Need Eyes to See: Distributional Range Size Drivers of European Subterranean Spiders
  5. Advances, challenges and frontiers for omics in subterranean ecosystems
  6. The power of naming: shorter and simpler species names draw more attention
  7. Temperature Series for 19 Caves Across the Western Italian Alps
  8. Statistically significant chuckles: who is using humour at scientific conferences?
  9. Acidification and deoxygenation matter in assessing redistribution of global cold‐water coral biodiversity induced by climate change
  10. Intertwined threats of nationalized nature and privatized ecological research for global biodiversity conservation
  11. Elevated extinction risk of sea moths under climate change
  12. Factors Influencing Species Distribution Model Performance in Tropical Reef Fishes
  13. Ensuring reliable cave temperature data for climate change research
  14. Non‐native parrot species expand the trait space of avian communities by filling empty niches in urban areas
  15. Representation of obligate groundwater‐dwelling copepod diversity in European protected areas
  16. Groundwater ecosystem services: social-ecological insights
  17. The impacts of biological invasions
  18. Bridging worlds: exploring synergies between the arts and biodiversity conservation
  19. How a 5% GDP military investment could impact European Union biodiversity
  20. Integrating expert range maps and opportunistic occurrence records of marine fish species in range estimates
  21. Adapted Yet at Risk: The Paradox of Thermotolerant Species in a Warming World
  22. Advancing subterranean conservation through Global Research on eDNA in Groundwaters (GReG)
  23. Evidence of population stress linked to droughts in cave-dwelling spiders: the case of Meta bourneti in north-western Italy
  24. A unifying theoretical framework for conservation flagships
  25. Scholarly discourse in polarizing interdisciplinary contexts
  26. An expert-curated dataset on cave-dwelling spider communities in the Western Italian Alps –an open tool for eco-evolutionary research
  27. Socio‐Economic Status and Non‐Native Species Drive Bird Ecosystem Service Provision in Urban Areas
  28. Beyond mental well-being: A One Health perspective on biophobias
  29. Population Genomics of a Cave‐Dwelling Arachnid (Palpigradi, Eukoeneniidae) From the South‐Western Italian Alps
  30. The use of eponyms can also promote gender equity in modern taxonomy
  31. Impact of climate and land use change on the distribution of orchids in Estonia
  32. Social media filtering of sensationalistic news on spiders—A global overview
  33. Subterranean environments contribute to three-quarters of classified ecosystem services
  34. Ecosystem services provided by spiders
  35. A Comprehensive Occurrence Dataset for European Ostracoda Inhabiting Groundwater and Groundwater‐Dependent Ecosystems
  36. Impacts of bat use of anthropogenic structures on bats and humans
  37. On the quest for novelty in ecology
  38. Integrating intraspecific trait variability in functional diversity: An overview of methods and a guide for ecologists
  39. Macroinvertebrate diversity patterns in a guano-rich temperate cave
  40. The what, how, and why of trait‐based analyses in ecology
  41. Differences in predictions of marine species distribution models based on expert maps and opportunistic occurrences
  42. Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature
  43. Too much and not enough data: Challenges and solutions for generating information in freshwater research and monitoring
  44. On art, science, and the conservation of subterranean ecosystems
  45. Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration
  46. Macroinvertebrate diversity patterns in a guano-rich temperate cave
  47. Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology
  48. Conceptual and ethical considerations in invasion science
  49. EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)
  50. Moving forward: Mitigating the effect of climate change in subterranean ecosystems
  51. EU needs groundwater ecosystems guidelines
  52. Conservation needs and opportunities drive LIFE funding allocation for European birds
  53. The influence of spider news on online information-seeking
  54. Protecting subterranean ecosystems for the wellbeing of surface environments and humanity
  55. Long‐term monitoring of a population of greater horseshoe bat emphasises the importance of a pest beetle prey on demographic trends
  56. Cross‐validation matters in species distribution models: a case study with goatfish species
  57. Competency in invasion science: addressing stagnation challenges by promoting innovation and creative thinking
  58. The what, how and why of trait-based analyses in ecology
  59. A gap in media communication of human-bear conflicts management
  60. Intercontinental invasion dynamics of Cercopagis pengoi, an IUCN-listed planktonic invasive species
  61. Incorporating physiological knowledge into correlative species distribution models minimizes bias introduced by the choice of calibration area
  62. Biological invasions are a population‐level rather than a species‐level phenomenon
  63. Calculating functional diversity metrics using neighbor‐joining trees
  64. Functional convergence underground? The scale‐dependency of community assembly processes in European cave spiders
  65. Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science
  66. From caves to continents: phylogeography and niche shift of an invasive subterranean spider
  67. Where do the antibiotic resistance genes come from? A modulated analysis of sources and loads of resistances in Lake Maggiore
  68. Perspectives and pitfalls in preserving subterranean biodiversity through protected areas
  69. Considering biotic interactions exacerbates the predicted impacts of climate change on coral‐dwelling species
  70. Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem
  71. Biodiversity communication in the digital era through the Emoji tree of life
  72. A global meta-analysis reveals multilevel and context-dependent effects of climate change on subterranean ecosystems
  73. Drivers of species knowledge across the tree of life
  74. Drivers of species knowledge across the tree of life
  75. Behavioural adjustments enable the colonization of subterranean environments
  76. What drives our aesthetic attraction to birds?
  77. Drivers of species knowledge across the Tree of Life
  78. Identifying ‘climate keystone species’ as a tool for conserving ecological communities under climate change
  79. Drivers of species knowledge across the Tree of Life
  80. Effective conservation of subterranean‐roosting bats
  81. A dark side of conservation biology: Protected areas fail in representing subterranean biodiversity
  82. The searchscape of fear: A global analysis of internet search trends for biophobias
  83. An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems
  84. Toward a cohesive understanding of ecological complexity
  85. The iratebirds Citizen Science Project: a Dataset on Birds’ Visual Aesthetic Attractiveness to Humans
  86. The power of academic and public opinion in conservation: The case of Ayyalon Cave, Israel
  87. A relict subterranean spider (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Troglohyphantes) reveals a unique component of the biogeography of Corsica
  88. Drivers of species knowledge across the Tree of Life
  89. Functional convergence underground? The scale-dependency of community assembly processes in European cave spiders
  90. On the quest for novelty in ecology
  91. Environmental factors shaping copepod distributions in cave waters of the Lessinian unsaturated karst (NE-Italy)
  92. On the quest for novelty in ecology
  93. Taxonomic practice, creativity and fashion: what’s in a spider name?
  94. Aliens in caves: the global dimension of biological invasions in subterranean ecosystems
  95. An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems
  96. How much biodiversity is concealed in the word ‘biodiversity’?
  97. Dissolving morphological and behavioral traits of groundwater animals into a functional phenotype
  98. Physiological tolerance and ecotoxicological constraints of groundwater fauna
  99. Climate change will redefine taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of Odonata in space and time
  100. A literature-based database of the natural heritage, the ecological status and tourism-related impacts in show caves worldwide
  101. Trends in habitat suitability and conservation status of aquatic spiders in Europe
  102. How much biodiversity is concealed in the word “biodiversity”?
  103. Quantifying the internationalization and representativeness in research
  104. The cost of war for biodiversity: a potential ecocide in Ukraine
  105. A protocol for reproducible functional diversity analyses
  106. Species conservation profiles of the endemic spiders Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from the Alps and the north-western Dinarides
  107. The global spread of misinformation on spiders
  108. Global response of conservationists across mass media likely constrained bat persecution due to COVID-19
  109. Dimension and impact of biases in funding for species and habitat conservation
  110. The global social-economic dimension of biological invasions by plankton: Grossly underestimated costs but a rising concern for water quality benefits?
  111. Convergent behaviours in subterranean species
  112. On the conservation of subterranean ecosystems
  113. The effects of protected areas on the ecological niches of birds and mammals
  114. Species conservation profiles of the endemic spiders Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from the Alps and the North-western Dinarides
  115. Measuring the influence of non-scientific features on citations
  116. Priorities for research and action to prevent a New World vulture crisis
  117. A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders
  118. Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities
  119. The promise and perils of engineering cave climates: response to Turner et al.
  120. Towards a cohesive understanding of ecological complexity
  121. Quantifying troglomorphism in hyperspace
  122. Overview: Recent advances in the understanding of the northern Eurasian environments and of the urban air quality in China – a Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) programme perspective
  123. Climate change will redefine taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity patterns of Odonata in space and time
  124. Life in the Darkness of Caves
  125. An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites
  126. Towards evidence‐based conservation of subterranean ecosystems
  127. Brazilian cave heritage under siege
  128. Climatic stability, not average habitat temperature, determines thermal tolerance of subterranean beetles
  129. Unique and shared effects of local and catchment predictors over distribution of hyporheic organisms: does the valley rule the stream?
  130. The global spread of (mis)information on spiders
  131. Taxonomic practice, creativity, and fashion: What’s in a spider name?
  132. A multi-layered approach uncovers overlooked taxonomic and physiological diversity in Alpine subterranean spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Troglohyphantes)
  133. Quantifying the international collaboration of researchers and research institutions
  134. Climate and landscape changes enhance the global spread of a bloom-forming dinoflagellate related to fish kills and water quality deterioration
  135. Getting the ‘most out of the hotspot’ for practical conservation of groundwater biodiversity
  136. Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators
  137. A protocol for reproducible functional diversity analyses
  138. The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits
  139. Rarity facets of biodiversity: Integrating Zeta diversity and Dark diversity to understand the nature of commonness and rarity
  140. Potential niche displacement in species of aquatic bdelloid rotifers between temperate and tropical areas
  141. A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome
  142. Concepts and applications in functional diversity
  143. The use of the term ‘limnology’ and its scientometrics consequences for limnologists
  144. Intraspecific genetic variation matters when predicting seagrass distribution under climate change
  145. Don’t forget subterranean ecosystems in climate change agendas
  146. Plant scientists’ research attention is skewed towards colourful, conspicuous and broadly distributed flowers
  147. Habitat differences filter functional diversity of low dispersive microscopic animals (Acari, Halacaridae)
  148. Exploring ecological specialization in pipefish using genomic, morphometric and ecological evidence
  149. Collecting eco‐evolutionary data in the dark: Impediments to subterranean research and how to overcome them
  150. Specialized terminology reduces the number of citations of scientific papers
  151. Spider conservation in Europe: a review
  152. Global distribution of microwhip scorpions (Arachnida: Palpigradi)
  153. Front Cover
  154. Intraspecific genetic variation matters when predicting seagrass distribution under climate change
  155. Microhabitat selection of a Sicilian subterranean woodlouse and its implications for cave management
  156. Lineage‐level distribution models lead to more realistic climate change predictions for a threatened crayfish
  157. Niche Partitioning at Emergence of Two Syntopic Dragonflies
  158. Collecting eco-evolutionary data in the dark: Impediments to subterranean research and how to overcome them
  159. Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators
  160. Concepts and applications in functional diversity
  161. Automated Discovery of Relationships, Models, and Principles in Ecology
  162. Towards a taxonomically unbiased European Union biodiversity strategy for 2030
  163. Explainable artificial intelligence enhances the ecological interpretability of black‐box species distribution models
  164. Let research on subterranean habitats resonate!
  165. Does weighting presence records improve the performance of species distribution models? A test using fish larval stages in the Yangtze Estuary
  166. A trade‐off between latitude and elevation contributes to explain range segregation of broadly distributed cave‐dwelling spiders
  167. Impact of the reference list features on the number of citations
  168. Niche‐based processes explaining the distributions of closely related subterranean spiders
  169. Towards establishment of a centralized spider traits database
  170. Standardised spider (Arachnida, Araneae) inventory of Kilpisjärvi, Finland
  171. Integrating Multiple Lines of Evidence to Explore Intraspecific Variability in a Rare Endemic Alpine Plant and Implications for Its Conservation
  172. Media framing of spiders may exacerbate arachnophobic sentiments
  173. Taxonomic and functional homogenisation of macroinvertebrate communities in recently intermittent Alpine watercourses
  174. Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology
  175. Specialized terminology limits the reach of new scientific knowledge
  176. To invade or not to invade? Exploring the niche-based processes underlying the failure of a biological invasion using the invasive Chinese mitten crab
  177. Towards a taxonomically unbiased EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
  178. Global wildlife trade permeates the Tree of Life
  179. Functional diversity metrics using kernel density n ‐dimensional hypervolumes
  180. On Deepest Caves, Extreme Habitats, and Ecological Superlatives
  181. Alien Crayfish Species in the Deep Subalpine Lake Maggiore (NW-Italy), with a Focus on the Biometry and Habitat Preferences of the Spiny-Cheek Crayfish
  182. Exploring the homogeneity of terrestrial subterranean communities at a local spatial scale
  183. Media representation of spiders may exacerbate arachnophobic sentiments by framing a distorted perception of risk
  184. [Final version available] Explainable Artificial Intelligence enhances the ecological interpretability of black-box species distribution models
  185. Scientometric correlates of high-quality reference lists in ecological papers
  186. Social Media and Large Carnivores: Sharing Biased News on Attacks on Humans
  187. Future climate change will severely reduce habitat suitability of the Critically Endangered Chinese giant salamander
  188. Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions
  189. Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects
  190. Functional diversity metrics using kernel densityn-dimensional hypervolumes
  191. Environmental filtering and convergent evolution determine the ecological specialisation of subterranean spiders
  192. Taxonomy, ecology and conservation of the cave-dwelling spider Histopona palaeolithica, with the description of H. petrovi sp. nov. (Araneae: Agelenidae)
  193. Modelling the potential impacts of climate change on the distribution of ichthyoplankton in the Yangtze Estuary, China
  194. Local- versus broad-scale environmental drivers of continental β -diversity patterns in subterranean spider communities across Europe
  195. Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida: Araneae)
  196. Distributional dynamics of a specialized subterranean community oppose the classical understanding of the preferred subterranean habitats
  197. Exploring the Interplay Between Local and Regional Drivers of Distribution of a Subterranean Organism
  198. Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems
  199. Assessing similarity of n‐ dimensional hypervolumes: Which metric to use?
  200. Extending Janzen's hypothesis to temperate regions: a test using subterranean ecosystems
  201. Associations between habitat quality, body size and reproductive fitness in the alpine endemic spider Vesubia jugorum
  202. Climate change going deep: The effects of global climatic alterations on cave ecosystems
  203. An inventory of the spider species of Barcelonnette (France), with taxonomic notes on Piniphantes agnellus n. comb. (Araneae, Linyphiidae)
  204. Systematics, ecology and distribution of the mygalomorph spider genus Cteniza Latreille, 1829 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae)
  205. Tracking the ice: Subterranean harvestmen distribution matches ancient glacier margins
  206. Artificial lighting triggers the presence of urban spiders and their webs on historical buildings
  207. What happens in cave at night?
  208. Exploring the morphospace in subterranean spiders
  209. On climate change and subterranean spiders
  210. Are caves good models systems in ecology?
  211. Ecological speciation in darkness? Spatial niche partitioning in sibling subterranean spiders (Araneae : Linyphiidae : Troglohyphantes)
  212. Cave Communities and Species Interactions
  213. Graphical abstract from: Mammola S, Piano E, Giachino P, Isaia M (2017) An ecological survey of the invertebrate community at the epigean/hypogean interface. Subterranean Biology 24: 27-52. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.24.21585
  214. An ecological survey of the invertebrate community at the epigean/hypogean interface
  215. A review of subterranean spiders in Europe, with a checklist of the species
  216. A discussion on the use of species distribution models in subterranean biology
  217. The Spider World Record: a list of record-breaking achievements by spiders
  218. Competition affect large scale distribution of competing Meta spiders
  219. Modelling the future spread of native and alien congeneric species in subterranean habitats — the case of Meta cave-dwelling spiders in Great Britain
  220. Human-induced Alterations of the Mycobiota in an Alpine Show Cave (Italy, SW-Alps)
  221. Spider World Records: a resource for using organismal biology as a hook for science learning
  222. Spider World Records: a resource for using organismal biology as a hook for science learning
  223. A review on cave-dwelling spiders worldwide
  224. Effect of Global warming on subterranean - cave - ecosystems
  225. IUCN assessment of Pimoa delphinica, a cave spider endemic to Italy
  226. New data on Troglohyphantes cave spiders in Italy, with a phylogeny of the alpine species
  227. IUCN assessment of Vesubia jugorum, a high alpine endangered spider
  228. A comprehensive review on the subterranean habitat Mesovoid Shallow Stratum (MSS)
  229. Niche dynamics in two cave apex predators evaluated via Hutchinson' niche hypervolumes
  230. The first study on the ecological preferences of the water spider Argyroneta aquatica
  231. What happens to spider silk with ageing?
  232. Ecological niche: a study focusing on spiders in artifical mines
  233. Unexpected diversity in the relictual European spiders of the genus Pimoa (Araneae : Pimoidae)
  234. Biogeography of two cave spiders through ecological niche modeling and genetic inferences
  235. Microclimatic niche and dispersal of the beetles Sphodropsis ghilianii and Dellabeffaella roccae
  236. Nesting strategies affect altitudinal distribution and habitat use in Alpine dung beetle communities
  237. Environmental factors driving the deposition of spider cocoons (Meta menardi) in caves
  238. Interspecific competition through conditional differentiation in two congeneric cave spiders