Tag: karst

A morphological and molecular taxonomic study describes Caridina tashanica sp. nov., the first exclusively subterranean atyid shrimp reported from Iran ...

A new study in Nature Conservation maps plant diversity across steep karst hillslopes in southwestern China, revealing inverted U-shaped diversity ...

A dwarf, winter-flowering primrose with an extraordinary corolla tube has been described as Primula xingyiensis from karst cliffs in Guizhou, ...

A new survey of Morocco's Aziza cave documents 26 cave-restricted species, the richest known subterranean fauna in Africa.

Dedicated surveys of two Costa Rican karst caves have produced the first taxonomically verified, DNA-corroborated records of cave-dwelling catfish populations ...

A newly described loach, Oreonectes jinxiuensis, from Guangxi's karst streams brings the genus to thirteen species and reveals widespread misidentification ...

Botanists have described Oreocharis fulvovillosa, a critically endangered yellow-flowered gesneriad known from a single limestone cliff in western Yunnan, China.

Researchers modified a leaf litter trap with a retractable fine-mesh enclosure to safely capture federally threatened Salado Salamanders from a ...

A two-decade survey of Georgia's caves and mines has documented twenty bat species, including a national first, and identified the ...

A new genetic study finds that the cave spider Phanetta subterranea, North America's most widespread troglobiont, shows remarkably low genetic ...