Diatom flora in subterranean ecosystems: a review

In scarcity of light and primary producers, subterranean ecosystems are generally extremely oligotrophic habitats, receiving poor supplies of degradable organic matter from the surface. Human direct impacts on cave ecosystems mainly derive from intensive tourism and recreational caving, causing impo...

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Main Authors: Elisa Falasco, Luc Ector, Marco Isaia, Carlos E. Wetzel, Lucien Hoffmann, Francesca Bona
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of South Florida Libraries 2014-09-01
Series:International Journal of Speleology
Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol43/iss3/1/