Microorganisms colonize caves extensively, and in caves open for tourism they may cause
alterations on wall surfaces. This is a major concern in caves displaying Paleolithic art …

Remote sensing observations and rover missions have documented the presence of playas,
salts, and wind erosion landforms of lacustrine sediments on Mars. All of these observations …

The use of semi‐isolated habitats such as oceanic islands, lakes and mountain summits as
model systems has played a crucial role in the development of evolutionary and ecological …

Caves are typified by their permanent darkness and a shortage of nutrients. Consequently,
bacteria play an important role in sustaining such subsurface ecosystems by dominating …

Enhanced monsoon duration and soil acidification from acid rain are expected to impact the
distribution of microbial communities in surface and subsurface environments, although …

Abstract Structure and assembly processes of soil bacterial communities under different land
use at karst areas remained poorly understood to date. To address this issue, soil samples …

Moonmilk speleothems of limestone caves host a rich microbiome, among which
Actinobacteria represent one of the most abundant phyla. Ancient medical texts reported that …

Karst caves are usually considered as natural laboratories to study pristine microbiomes in
subsurface biosphere. However, effects of the increasingly detected nitrate in underground …

Research into organic matter in speleothems has progressed recently to encompass new
analytical approaches and applications, which offer increased potential in areas such as …

To achieve a sufficient understanding of the spatial dynamics of terrestrial climate variability,
new proxies and networks of data that cover thousands of years and run up to the present …