Review: The dark side of relict species biology: Cave animals as ancient lineages
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Relict species: Phylogeography and conservation biology. ed. / Jan Christian Habel; Thorsten Assmann. Heidelberg [u.a.]: Springer, 2010. p. 91-103.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Review: The dark side of relict species biology
T2 - Cave animals as ancient lineages
AU - Aßmann, Thorsten
AU - Casale, Achille
AU - Drees, Claudia
AU - Habel, Jan Christian
AU - Schuldt, Andreas
AU - Matern, Andrea
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Due to their fascinating biology and phenomena belonging to the realmof scientific curiosity, cave animals have been objects of study for zoologists fornumerous decades. This chapter not only focuses on the extremes (e.g., absenceof eyes, specialization to extreme environments), but also serves as an introduction to understand the geographic distribution patterns and history of these highly diverse ecological groups with their relict characteristics. After an introduction to the subterranean environment in Sect. 1, we briefly review the biology and ecology of cave animals with their regressive and progressive evolutionary tendencies in order to understand the innate reasons for restricted distribution patterns (Sect. 2).In Sect. 3, we summarize the main aspects of our knowledge regarding the distribution of these species, especially in the Holarctic; and finally in Sect. 4, we highlight the relict characteristics of cave animal distribution and the ancient phylogenetic splits between cave and surface lineages.
AB - Due to their fascinating biology and phenomena belonging to the realmof scientific curiosity, cave animals have been objects of study for zoologists fornumerous decades. This chapter not only focuses on the extremes (e.g., absenceof eyes, specialization to extreme environments), but also serves as an introduction to understand the geographic distribution patterns and history of these highly diverse ecological groups with their relict characteristics. After an introduction to the subterranean environment in Sect. 1, we briefly review the biology and ecology of cave animals with their regressive and progressive evolutionary tendencies in order to understand the innate reasons for restricted distribution patterns (Sect. 2).In Sect. 3, we summarize the main aspects of our knowledge regarding the distribution of these species, especially in the Holarctic; and finally in Sect. 4, we highlight the relict characteristics of cave animal distribution and the ancient phylogenetic splits between cave and surface lineages.
KW - Biology
KW - Glacial Period
KW - Ground Beetle
KW - Disjunct Distribution
KW - Species Richness Pattern
KW - Cave Population
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959948316&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-92160-8_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-92160-8_4
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-540-92159-2
SP - 91
EP - 103
BT - Relict species
A2 - Habel, Jan Christian
A2 - Assmann, Thorsten
PB - Springer
CY - Heidelberg [u.a.]
ER -