Subterranean Ecosystems: A Truncated Functional Biodiversity. (cover story)

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    • Subject Terms:
      FOOD chains; ECOSYSTEM management; RELICTS (Biology); BIODIVERSITY
    • Abstract:
      Discusses the truncated nature of subterranean biodiversity at the bottom, where there are no primary producers, and the top, where there are very few strict predators, of food webs. Implications of this truncation from functional and evolutional perspectives; Patterns in subterranean species biodiversity in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; Origins and ultimate determinants of biodiversity, including a high level of relict taxa.