A literature-based database of the natural heritage, the ecological status and tourism-related impacts in show caves worldwide

Elena Piano; Giuseppe Nicolosi; Stefano Mammola; Valentina Balestra; Benedetta Baroni; Rossana Bellopede; Elena Cumino; Nicola Muzzulini; Anna Piquet; Marco Isaia

doi:10.3897/natureconservation.50.80505

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Nature Conservation 50: 159-174
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Veronica Nanni, Elena Piano, Pedro Cardoso, Marco Isaia, Stefano Mammola (2023)
An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems. Biological Conservation 283: 110136.

DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110136

Leandro Mata da Rocha Melo, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Marconi Souza Silva (2025)
A review of the factors influencing invertebrate community structure in subterranean habitats. Community Ecology : .

DOI: 10.1007/s42974-025-00243-8

Federico Biagioli, Claudia Coleine, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Youzhi Feng, Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez, Laura Selbmann (2024)
Outdoor climate drives diversity patterns of dominant microbial taxa in caves worldwide. Science of The Total Environment 906: 167674.

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167674

Laura Sanna, Veronica Chiarini, Jo De Waele (2023)
Underground Geodiversity of Italian Show Caves: an Overview. Geoheritage 15: .

DOI: 10.1007/s12371-023-00876-z

G. Nicolosi, A. Galimberti, N. Tommasi, M. Isaia (2025)
The invasive tropical planaria Bipalium kewense invades urban subterranean habitats in the city of Catania (Sicily, Italy). Biological Invasions 27: .

DOI: 10.1007/s10530-024-03493-1

Giuseppe Nicolosi, Stefano Mammola, Laura Verbrugge, Marco Isaia (2023)
Aliens in caves: the global dimension of biological invasions in subterranean ecosystems. Biological Reviews 98: 849.

DOI: 10.1111/brv.12933

Jo De Waele, Chuan-Chou Shen, Bartolomeo Vigna, Adriano Fiorucci, Paola Marini, Chun-Yuan Huang, Hsun-Ming Hu (2025)
Speleogenesis of Valdemino Cave (Borgio Verezzi, Liguria, Northern Italy) shows very slow uplift of this coast since Middle Pleistocene. Geomorphology 473: 109636.

DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109636

Teo Delić, Tanja Pipan, Roman Ozimec, David C. Culver, Maja Zagmajster (2023)
The Subterranean Species of the Vjetrenica Cave System in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Diversity 15: 912.

DOI: 10.3390/d15080912

Elena Piano, Stefano Mammola, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Marco Isaia (2024)
Advancing tourism sustainability in show caves. Cell Reports Sustainability 1: 100057.

DOI: 10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100057

Stefano Mammola, Florian Altermatt, Roman Alther, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca I. Băncilă, Paulo A. V. Borges, Traian Brad, David Brankovits, Pedro Cardoso, Francesco Cerasoli, Claire A. Chauveau, Teo Delić, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Arnaud Faille, Cene Fišer, Jean-François Flot, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Christian Griebler, Lara Konecny-Dupré, Alejandro Martínez, Nataša Mori, Veronica Nanni, Žiga Ogorelec, Susana Pallarés, Alice Salussolia, Mattia Saccò, Fabio Stoch, Ilaria Vaccarelli, Maja Zagmajster, Carina Zittra, Melissa B. Meierhofer, David Sánchez-Fernández, Florian Malard (2024)
Perspectives and pitfalls in preserving subterranean biodiversity through protected areas. npj Biodiversity 3: .

DOI: 10.1038/s44185-023-00035-1

Daying Zhou, Yingchun Deng, Xinyi Wei, Taohong Li, Ziyi Li, Sirui Wang, Yunke Jiang, Wenqin Liu, Bo Luo, Jiang Feng (2024)
Behavioral responses of cave-roosting bats to artificial light of different spectra and intensities: Implications for lighting management strategy. Science of The Total Environment 916: 170339.

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170339

Valentina Balestra, Rossana Bellopede (2023)
Microplastics in caves: A new threat in the most famous geo-heritage in the world. Analysis and comparison of Italian show caves deposits. Journal of Environmental Management 342: 118189.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118189

Melissa B. Meierhofer, Joseph S. Johnson, Janette Perez‐Jimenez, Fernanda Ito, Paul W. Webela, Sigit Wiantoro, Enrico Bernard, Krizler C. Tanalgo, Alice Hughes, Pedro Cardoso, Thomas Lilley, Stefano Mammola (2024)
Effective conservation of subterranean‐roosting bats. Conservation Biology 38: .

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