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The earth's subsurface contains abundant and active microbial biomass, living in water, occupying pore space, and colonizing mineral and rock surfaces. Caves are one type of subsurface habitat, being natural, solutionally- or collapse-enlarged openings in rock. Within the past 30 years, there has been an increase in the number of microbiology studies from cave environments to understand cave ecology, cave geology, and even the origins of life. By emphasizing the microbial life of caves, and the ecological processes and geological consequences attributed to microbes, this book provides the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the microbial life of caves for students, professionals, and general readers.

Biospeleology. --- Cave ecology. --- Microbiology. --- Cave animals. --- Cave plants. --- Underground ecology. --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Microorganisms --- Caves --- Underground ecology --- Cave biology --- Cave life --- Speleology --- Underground area ecology --- Ecology --- Cave flora --- Biospeleology --- Plants --- Cave fauna --- Animals

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Cave ecology. --- Caves. --- Caves --- Cave ecology --- Cavernes --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Life Sciences --- Biology --- Periodicals --- speleology --- biospeleology --- cave ecology --- Underground ecology --- Caverns --- Grottoes --- Rock shelters --- Rockshelters --- Landforms --- Speleology --- Ecology

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Groundwater Ecology and Evolution, Second Edition is designed to meet a multitude of audience needs. The state of the art in the discipline is provided by the articulation of six sections. The first three sections successively carry the reader into the basic attributes of groundwater ecosystems (section 1), the drivers and patterns of biodiversity (section 2), and the roles of organisms in groundwater ecosystems (section 3). The next two sections are devoted to evolutionary processes driving the acquisition of subterranean biological traits (section 4) and the way these traits are differently expressed among groundwater organisms (section 5). Finally, section 6 shows how knowledge acquired among multiple research fields (sections 1 to 5) is used to manage groundwater biodiversity and ecosystem services in the face of future groundwater resource use scenarios. Emphasis on the coherence and prospects of the whole book is given in the introduction and conclusion.

Evolution (Biology) --- Groundwater ecology. --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Groundwater --- Aquatic ecology --- Underground ecology --- Ecology --- Écologie des eaux souterraines. --- Évolution (biologie) --- Écologie des eaux souterraines. --- Évolution (biologie) --- Groundwater ecology