Shallow Subterranean Habitats
Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 June 2014
- ISBN 9780199646173
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 249x195x19 mm
- Weight 784 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book concentrates on shallow subterranean habitats of intermediate size (seepage springs, spaces between rocks, cracks in lava etc.), describing the habitats, their fauna, and the ecological and evolutionary questions posed.
MoreLong description:
Shallow subterranean habitats (SSHs) are areas of habitable space that are less than 10 m in depth from the surface. These range from large areas such as shallow caves and lava tubes, to tiny areas such as cracks in ceilings, or spaces in soil. Whilst being very different in many ways, they are often bound together by shared characteristics of the habitats and their faunas, and their study can help us to understand subterranean habitats in general. This book concentrates on the more typical SSHs of intermediate size (seepage springs, spaces between rocks, cracks in lava etc.), describing the habitats, their fauna, and the ecological and evolutionary questions posed. Similarities and differences between the habitats are considered and discussed in a broader ecological and evolutionary context. The book is mainly aimed at students and researchers in the field of subterranean biology, but will also be of interest to a wider range of ecologists, evolutionary biologists, freshwater biologists, and conservationists. There will also be an audience of environmental professionals.
Pioneering is uncommon in any area of contemporary science, and that has skillfully been completed by Culver and Pipan's book. They harmoniously succeed in a thorough presentation in never-overwhelming details of the Shallow Subterraneous Habitats ... This is a fine, illustrated work that offers a broad perspective about a vast new world, the fascinating SSH, never treated as exclusively as deserved, and as they were in this excellent book, entirely dedicated to them.
Table of Contents:
The shallow subterranean domain
Seepage springs and the hypotelminorheic habitat
Epikarst: the soil-rock interface in karst
Intermediate-sized terrestrial shallow subterranean habitats
Calcrete aquifers
Interstitial habitats along rivers and streams
Soil
Lava tubes
The role of light in shallow subterranean habitats
Environmental fluctuations and stresses in shallow subterranean habitats
Organic carbon and nutrients in shallow subterranean habitats
Evolution of morphology in shallow subterranean habitats
Colonization and dispersal in shallow subterranean habitats
Phylogeny in shallow subterranean habitats
Conservation and protection of shallow subterranean habitats
Epilogue and prospects
