"We discovered that climate changes over time and the evolution of local vegetation, as well as the establishment of seasonal climate, drove the biotic colonization of subtropical East Asian caves ...

For as long as I can remember, my dad had one goal: to live longer than his dad did. I never met my grandfather — or as we call him in Tamil: Appappa. He died of a heart attack when he was 56: before ...

Caves have an isolated, strongly zonal environment and are home to unique and fragile biotas with high levels of endemism. However, little is known about how the biotic colonization of caves developed ...