Climate change may drive cave spiders to extinction

Subterranean ecosystems present ideal opportunities to study mechanisms underlying responses to changes in climate because species within them are often adapted to a largely constant temperature. We have characterized the thermal conditions of caves in the Western Alps, and relate these hypogean cli...

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Main Authors: Mammola, Stefano, Goodacre, S.L., Isaia, Marco
Format: Article
Published: Wiley 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46552/