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Changing Perspectives on Subterranean Habitats

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In this chapter, we review the status of the hypothesis that the dichotomy between shallow and deep subterranean habitats is a fundamental one, updating the original book-length presentation of this hypothesis (Culver and Pipan 2014), and consider the status of dim light habitats, such as leaf litter and partially de-roofed caves (Mejía-Ortíz et al. 2018).

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  1. Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Karst Research Institute, Postojna, Slovenia

    Matej Blatnik, Franci Gabrovšek, Martin Knez, Blaž Kogovšek, Janja Kogovšek, Cyril Mayaud, Andrej Mihevc, Janez Mulec, Magdalena Năpăruş-Aljančič, Bojan Otoničar, Metka Petrič, Tanja Pipan, Mitja Prelovšek, Nataša Ravbar, Trevor Shaw, Tadej Slabe, Stanka Šebela & Nadja Zupan Hajna

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    Martin Knez

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Blatnik, M. et al. (2020). Changing Perspectives on Subterranean Habitats. In: Knez, M., Otoničar, B., Petrič, M., Pipan, T., Slabe, T. (eds) Karstology in the Classical Karst. Advances in Karst Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26827-5_10

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