Conference program

SUNDAY 29 AUG : Karst Research Institute

17:00 and ongoing Registration

19:00 and ongoing Welcome reception sponsored by the Municipality of Postojna

MONDAY 30 AUG : Conference venue Jamski Dvorec

8:00 and ongoing Registration, poster hanging

9:00 10:00 Opening ceremony

Mr. Matjaž Berčon, Director Turizem Kras, Conference Host

prof. Giuseppe Messana President of the International Society of

Subterranean Biology

dr. Roko Žarnić, Minister Slovenian Ministry of the Environment and

Spatial Planning

10:00 10:50 Opening lecture

Sket, B. Subterranean fauna of the wider Dinaric area –
from first discoveries to a global hotspot and its
up-to-date biological evaluation

10:50 11:20 Coffee break

Introductory lectures to special symposium: Superficial Subterranean Habitats

11:20 12:00 Culver, D. C.*, Pipan, T. Shallow subterranean habitats – gateway to the
subterranean realm

12:00 12:20 Hahn, H. J.*, Bork, J., Schmidt, S. I. What is groundwater? A new approach, and
what this means to fauna

12:20 13:00 Humphreys, W.*, Guzik, M., Bradford, T., Groundwater calcretes: sheets of subterranean
Cooper, S., Austin, A., Leijs, R., habitat scattered on an Archaean landscape
Watts, C.
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13:00 14:00 Lunch

Introductory lectures to special symposia: Microbiology and Geomicrobiology;

Adaptation, Development, Physiology; Annelida; Countdown 2010 and Conservation
14:00 14:20 Paoletti, M. G. A newly discovered cave foodweb: the
Cansiliella story

14:20 15:00 Jeffery, W. R. Pleiotropic tradeoffs between constructive and

regressive traits during troglomorphic evolution

15:00 15:20 Martínez-Ansemil, E., Sambugar, B.* Annelida, an often neglected component
of groundwater ecosystems

15:20 15:40 Eberhard, S. Impacts of Climate Change on Stygofauna in

Southwest Western Australia

15:40 16:10 Coffee break

Introductory lectures to special symposia: Patterns and Processes in Subterranean

Biodiversity; Subterranean Beetles
16:10 16:30 Porter, M. L.*, Culver, D. C. Tethyan distribution of stygobionts: fact or
fiction

16:30 16:50 Zagmajster, M. Distribution and patterns in terrestrial

subterranean fauna

16:50 17:10 Schuldt, A., Drees, C., Drescher, N., What determines subterranean ground beetle
Schäfer, K., Assmann, T.* diversity in the West Palaearctic? A
macroecological approach using country-based
distribution data (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

17:10 17:50 Casale, A. From Anophthalmus schmidti to molecular

phylogenies: past and present in the knowledge
of subterranean carabid beetles (Coleoptera:
Carabidae)

17:50 19:00 Break, poster hanging ISSB Council Meeting

19:00 20:00 Visit to Postojna Cave

TUESDAY 31 AUG : Conference venue Jamski Dvorec

8:00 and ongoing Registration, poster hanging

SPECIAL SYMPOSIA 1 SPECIAL SYMPOSIA 2

Superficial Subterranean Habitats Phylogeography and Phylogeny

8:30 8:50 Pipan, T.*, Organic carbon in aquatic Kornobis, E.*, Phylogeny of
Culver, D. C., shallow subterranean Pálsson, S. Crangonyctoidea: taxonomic
Simon, K. S. habitats status and origin of
groundwater amphipods,
endemic to Iceland, based on
two nuclear genes

8:50 9:10 Marmonier, P.*, Particulate organic matter Leijs, R. Evolution of chiltoniid
Navel, S. , breakdown in shallow amphipods from
Piscart, C., interstitial habitat of a rural subterranean and surface
Chauvet, E. stream habitats in Australia

9:10 9:30 Gottstein, S.*, Life history traits of the Abrams, K.*, Systematics and
Žgane, K., epigean populations of Guzik, M., phylogeography of
Cetin Krnjević V., Niphargus dalmatinus Cooper, S., Australian Parabathynellidae
Popijač, A. (Crustacea: Amphipoda) King, R., (Crustacea: Bathynellacea)
along the Cetina River, Austin, A.
Croatia

9:30 9:50 Fong, D. W.*, Population dynamics of the Baratti, M.*, New biogeographical and
Kavanaugh, K. E. stygobiotic amphipod Messana, G., phylogenetic data about the
crustacean Stygobromus tenuis Filippelli, M., genus Sphaeromides and its
potomacus and isopod Sket, B. relatives (Crustacea: Isopoda:
crustacean Caecidotea kenki at Cirolanidae)
a single hypotelminorheic
habitat over a two-year span

9:50 10:10 Meleg, I. N.*, Heterogeneous copepod Verovnik, R.*, Phylogeny of the Western
Fiers, F., distribution in different Stoch, F., taxa of the genus Monolistra
Kelemen ,B., groundwater habitats from Sket, B. (Crustacea: Isopoda:
Popescu, O., northwestern Romania Sphaeromatidae)
Moldovan, O. T.

10:10 10:30 Papi, F.*, Ecological studies of an Lukić-Bilela, L.*, The mitochondrial genome
Pipan, T., epikarst community in Pleše, B., analysis of the unique cave
Culver, D. C. Alpine cave Snežna jama na Bruvo-Mađarić, dwelling sponge Eunapius
planini Arto: preliminary B., subterraneus Sket &
results Imešek, M., Velikonja, 1984 (Porifera:
Bilandžija, H., Spongillidae)
Ćetković, H.
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10:30 11:00 Coffee break

Superficial Subterranean Habitats, Phylogeography and Phylogeny,

continued continued

11:00 11:20 Juberthie, C. Mesovoid shallow Allegrucci, G.*, Patterns of speciation in

substratum (MSS) Trucchi, E., Dolichopoda cave crickets
Sbordoni, V. (Orthoptera,
Rhaphidophoridae)

11:20 11:40 Novak, T.*, Candidates for superficial Mugue, N. Caucasus and vicinity:
Perc, M., subterranean habitats and comparative phylogeography
Janžekovič, F. epikarst among terrestrial of Ponto-Caspian and
cave inhabiting species subterranean crustaceans

11:40 12:00 Oromí, P.*, Diversity and allopatric Jugovic, J.*, Linking molecular
López, H., distribution in the Canarian Prevorčnik, S., phylogeny to morphological
Manhert, V. MSS: a case study in an old Blejec, A., evolution in Troglocaris
island Sket, B. (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Atyidae)

12:00 12:20 Růžička, V. Central European spiders Zakšek, V.*, Phylogeography of the cave
adapted to life in Sket, B., shrimp Troglocaris s. str.: a
subterranean habitats Trontelj, P. basis for a comparative
phylogeography of Dinaric
subterranean fauna

Patterns and Processes in Subterranean Phylogeography and Phylogeny,

Biodiversity continued

12:20 12:40 Eberhard, S.*, Troglofauna in the Pilbara Palandačić, A.*, Genetic evidence of
Stevens, N., region, Western Australia – Zupančič, P., subterranean migration of
Perina, G., Patterns in diversity and Matschiner, M., imotska gaovica
Bell, P. distribution, and sampling Snoj, A. Delminichthys adspersus
considerations for (Pisces: Cyprinidae)
conservation assessment

12:40 13:00 Halse, S. Distribution patterns of Strecker, U.*, Problems of taxonomy in

different groups of Wilkens, H. Mexican Astyanax
troglofauna in the Pilbara
region, Western Australia:
are arachnids the most
restricted troglofauna?
TUESDAY 31 AUG : Conference venue Jamski Dvorec, continued
13:00 14:00 Lunch

Patterns and Processes in Subterranean

Systematics and Faunistics
Biodiversity, continued

14:00 14:20 Berkhoff, S.E.*, Recording the stygofauna of Sidorov, D. A. Pseudocrangonyctidae

Matzke, D., the federal state of Sachsen- (Crustacea: Amphipoda) and
Fuchs, A., Anhalt, Germany its forming pathways
Bork, J.,
Hahn, H. J.

14:20 14:40 Moldovan, O. T.*, Habitat fragmentation and Semenchenko, Water mites (Hydrachnidia)
Meleg, I., its effects on groundwater K. A. from interstitial habitats of
Perşoiu, A. populations the Russian Far East and
their relationship with faunas
of adjacent lands

14:40 15:00 Bork J.* , Nine years of long-term Eberhard, S., Review of the Subterranean
Fuchs A., stygofauna monitoring in Moulds, T.* Biodiversity of the Nullarbor
Barufke K. P., Southwest Germany Plain, Southern Australia
Hahn H. J.

15:00 15:20 Stein, H.*, Spatial distribution patterns Deharveng, L.*, Invertebrate biodiversity of
Berkhoff, S., of faunal groundwater Tian, M., Li,Y., the Guangxi caves (southern
Matzke, D., communities across Bedos, A. China)
Hahn, H. J. Germany

15:20 15:40 Stoch, F.* , Regional species richness Drescher, N., Unexpected rich terrestrial
Gasparo, F. and diversity patterns of Loos, L., subterranean fauna in Israel:
obligate cave-dwelling fauna Levanony, T., first results from the
in the Classic Karst in Italy Dayan, T., inventory of 13 caves
Schuldt, A.,
Schäfer, K.,
Assmann, T.*

15:40 16:00 Lopes Ferreira, R.* The cave lithology Subhash Babu, The Hypogean fauna of
Souza Silva, M. determining the structure of K. K , selected ecosystems of
the cave invertebrate Bijoy Nandan, Kerala, India with two new
communities in the Brazilian S.* records
Atlantic Rain Forest

16:00 16:30 Coffee break

TUESDAY 31 AUG : Conference venue Jamski Dvorec, continued
Patterns and Processes in Subterranean Systematics and Faunistics,
Biodiversity, continued continued

16:30 16:50 Bedek, J. Data analysis of spatial Kováč, L.*, Contribution to morphology
distribution of cave Ľuptáčik, P., of palpigrade Eukoenenia
terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Papáč, V., spelaea (Peyerimhoff, 1902)
Oniscidea) in Croatia Mock, A., and its distribution in the
Mourek, J. Western Carpathians

16:50 17:10 Maurice, L.*, Spatial variations in Mock, A. Terrestrial isopods and
Robertson, A., stygobite distributions in the millipedes in Slovak caves:
Bloomfield, J., English Chalk results of long-term
Allen, D. exploration

17:10 17:30 Short movie Mlinar, C. The aquatic life of the Postojna-Planina Cave
System

17:40 19:00 Poster Session I

19:10 20:00 Visit to Vivarium Proteus for first group

WEDNESDAY 1 SEP : MID-CONFERENCE EXCURSION

THURSDAY 2 SEP : Conference venue Jamski Dvorec

8:00 and ongoing Registration, poster hanging

SPECIAL SYMPOSIA 3 SPECIAL SYMPOSIA 4

Countdown 2010 and Conservation of

Adaptation, Development, Physiology
Subterranean Life

8:30 8:50 Souza Silva, M.*, Conservation of cave Šustr, V.*, Feeding biology of the cave
Parentoni Martins, invertebrates and study of Nováková, A., isopod Mesoniscus graniger
R., impacts on caves located in Lukešová, A., (food preference and
Lopes Ferreira, R. the Brazilian Atlantic rain Vošta, O. digestive enzymes)
forest
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8:50 9:10 Muriel-Cunha, Biospeleological research in Vittori, M.*, The gland-piliferous organs
J.*, the Amazon: the case of Žnidaršič, N., of Titanethes albus
Cardoso, N. A., Planaltina cave at ecoregion Štrus, J. (Crustacea: Isopoda)
Martinelli Filho, Xingu-Tapajós, Brazil
J. E.,
Gutembergue,
G.,
Albino, U.

9:10 9:30 Dravec, L., Protection of speleological Lipovšek, S.* , Role of the fat body in the
Kostelić, B.*, objects in the region of Istria Novak, T., cave crickets Troglophilus
Mandić, A. through the European Janžekovič, F., cavicola and T. neglectus
Union projects Pabst, M. A. (Rhaphidophoridae,
Saltatoria) during
overwintering

9:30 9:50 Ozimec, R.*, Biospeleological component Antolinc, E.*, Cold-hardiness in central
Polak, S., of the project KUP (Karst Janžekovič, F., European troglophiles and
Bedek, J., Underground Protection) in Perc, M., trogloxenes
Zakšek, V. Istra Peninsula Novak, T.

9:50 10:10 Ipsen, A. How efficient are the non
invasive protection measures
in the Segeberg Cave in
Northern Germany for the
population of bats and
subterranean beetles
Trajano, E.*, Chronobiological studies on
Herrero, J.C.H., Brazilian subterranean
Menna-Barreto, fishes: a summary and new
L. data on locomotor activity
rhythms under light-dark
cycles

10:10 10:30 Susac, R. A. J.* , Comparisons of Aljančič, G. Fifty years of Tular Cave
Anderson, J., subterranean biodiversity Laboratory
Moulds, T. A. from the West Kimberley
Karst, Australia

10:30 11:00 Coffee break Coffee break

Countdown 2010 and Conservation of Adaptation, Development, Physiology,

Subterranean Life, continuing continuing

11:00 11:20 Dvorščak, K. History of the presentation Karaman, I.*, New long-legged cave-
of the proteus (Proteus Ozimec, R. dwelling representatives of
anguinus) in Postojna Cave the Balkan genus
Cyphophthalmus (Opiliones,
Cyphophthalmi, Sironidae)
and the question of
functional significance of
troglobite appendage
elongation
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11:20 11:40 Goater, S.*, Are Stygofauna Really Zacharda, M. Troglomorphisms in
Gardner, A., Protected in Western Rhagidiidae (Acari:
Knott, B. Australia? Prostigmata): are they all
a morphological clock of
adaptation ?

Countdown 2010 and Conservation of

Subterranean Aquatic Annelida
Subterranean Life, continuing

11:40 12:00 Beltram, G.* , Subterranean habitats as Martínez, A.*, Annelid diversity in
Sket, B. Wetlands of International Kvindebjerg, K., anchialine systems: unique
Importance Worsaae, K. adaptations and functional
morphology of Protodrilus n.
sp. to the cave environment
of La Corona lava tube
(Canary Islands, Lanzarote)

12:00 12:20 Reboleira, A. S. Subterranean biology of Dumnicka, E. Stygobiontic oligochaetes in

P. S.*, mainland Portugal: historical Poland with remarks on
Gonçalves, F., review and new insights their occurence and
Oromí, P. distribution in Central
Europe

12:20 12:40 Semikolennykh, An environmental impact Achurra, A.*, Molecular and

A.* , assessment of spent calcium des Châtelliers, morphological analyses
Rakhleeva, A., carbide disposal in caves and M. C., reveal the presence of two
Poputnikova, T. mines Rodriguez, P. species in the stygobiont
oligochaete Troglodrilus
galarzai

12:40 13:00 Fajdiga, B., Subterrane protection starts Giani, N.*, Groundwater oligochaetes
Stupar, M.* on the surface Sambugar, B., (Annelida, Clitellata) of
Martínez- Slovenia
Ansemil, E.,
Martin, P.,
Schmelz, R.

13:00 14:00 Lunch Lunch

THURSDAY 2 SEP : Conference venue Jamski Dvorec, continued
Evolution and Systematics of
Microbiology and Geomicrobiology
Subterranean Beetles

14:00 14:20 Silva Taylor, E. Microbiological study for a Giachino, P. M. From the cavernicolous to
L.* , management plan in a the subterranean concept:
Lopes Ferreira, touristic cave in Brazil past and present in
R., Leptodirinae (Coleoptera,
Aparecida de Cholevidae)
Resende
Stoianoff, M.

14:20 14:40 Nováková, A. Cave microscopic fungi as
food source for caves
inhabiting springtails and
some microfungal records
Vrezec, A.*, The influence of
Kapla, A. aboveground invasions on
the diversity and distribution
patterns of subterranean
carabids (Carabidae)

14:40 15:00 Tkavc, R.*, Entomopathogenic fungi Fresneda, J., The geographic and
Sonjak, S., associated with two Grebennikov, V. phylogenetic limits of
Gunde- troglophilic moths V., Leptodirini
Cimerman, N. Scoliopteryx libatrix L. and Ignacio Ribera,
Triphosa dubitata I.*

15:00 15:20 Hermosin, B., Microbial Observatory of Polak, S. Suprageneric systematics of

Nováková, A., Spanish Caves: Assessing leptodirine beetles
Jurado, V., the origin of fungal (Leiodidae, Cholevinae):
Laiz, L., outbreaks molecular verus
Porca, E.*, morphological characters
Rogerio, M. A.,
Sanchez-Moral,
S.,
Saiz-Jimenez, C.

15:20 15:40 Brannen, K. M.*, Creating humic matter Friedrich, M.*, The blind cave beetle that
Summers Engel, indices for the interpretation Rai, P., isn’t: histological, behavioral
A., of ecosystem energetics Barret, R., and molecular evidence of
Birdwell, J. E. Daine, B., functional photoreceptors in
Chen, R. Ptomaphagus hirtus

15:40 16:00 Mulec, J.*, Airborne microorganisms Michel Perreau, What does palaeontology
Walochnik, J. and relation to atmospheric M. reveal on the radiation of
parameters in big cave Leiodidae, Cholevinae and
systems (Postojnska jama, their colonisation of the
Slovenia) subterranean biotopes?

16:00 16:30 Coffee break Coffee break

THURSDAY 2 SEP : Conference venue Jamski Dvorec, continued

Microbiology and Geomicrobiology, Evolution and Systematics of

continuing Subterranean Beetles, continuing

16:30 16:50 Pašić, L.*, Kovče, Diversity of microbial Hauser, B. Leo Weirather (1887-1965)
B., communities colonizing the revisited
Sket, B., walls of a Karstic cave in
Herzog- Slovenia
Velikonja, B.,
Porca, E.,
Jurado, V.,
Saiz-Jimenez, C.

16:50 17:10 Zakotnik, T., Composition and activity of Pavićević, D.* , First finding of the
Mulec, J., bacterial microbial Ozimec, R. troglobitic genus
Turk, V., communities in the Postojna Seracamaurops (Coleoptera,
Avguštin, G., cave sediments: are the Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)
Stres, B.* microbes in 700 000 years for Croatia
old sediments still active?

17:10 17:30 Short movie Lukić, M.*, Bedek, J. Behavior of Cave Fauna

17:40 19:00 Poster Session II

19:10 20:00 Visit to Vivarium Proteus for second group

FRIDAY 3 SEP : Conference venue Jamski Dvorec

8:00 and ongoing Registration

8:40 9:00 In Memoriam

Marmonier, P. Janine Gibert (1945-2009)
Latella, L. Sandro Ruffo (1915-2010)

New Models, Methods, and Concepts for Subterranean Biology

9:00 9:40 Douady, C. J.*, Malard, F., A new phylogenetic framework to decipher
Konecny, L., Morvan, C., evolutionary processes involved in groundwater
Colson-Proch, C., Calvignac, S.

9:40 10:00 Morvan, C.*, Konecny, L., Malard, F., Is stygobiont diversification a consequence of
Douady, C. J. extrinsic factors?
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10:00 10:20 Malard, F.*, Konecny, L., Magniez, G., The large distribution ranges of northern
Douady, C. stygobiotic species of Proasellus (Isopoda): a
test of cryptic diversity.

10:20 10:40 Avguštin, G.*, Gramc, S., Bizjak Mali, L., The structure and diversity of the microbial
Bulog, B., Ambrožič Avguštin, J. community inhabiting the hind gut of the olm
(Proteus anguinus)

10:40 11:10 Coffee break

New Models, Methods, and Concepts for Subterranean Biology, continuing

11:10 11:30 Prevorčnik, S.*, Trontelj, P., Sket, B. Rapid re-invasion and evolution following the
mysterious disappearance of Racovitza’s Asellus
aquaticus cavernicolus (Crustacea: Isopoda:
Asellidae)

11:30 11:50 Konec, M. Microsatellites as new tools to study the

evolution of subterranean crustaceans

11:50 12:10 Fowler, R. Quantitative Real-Time PCR as a tool for the

quantification and characterization of
microorganisms in caves and karst aquifers:
Phytoplankton, lampenflora, bacterial
communities, and fecal source tracking

12:10 12:30 Moškrič, A. A bioinformatic quest for phylogenetic

resolution: adding new nuclear genes to the
Niphargus supermatrix

12:30 12:50 Trajano, E. Source versus sink populations concept applied

to The Schiner-Racovitza classification of
subterranean organisms

13:00 14:00 Lunch

New Models, Methods, and Concepts for Subterranean Biology, continuing

14:00 14:20 Slay, M. E.*, Fong, D. W. Preliminary estimates of species detection

probabilities for North American troglobionts

14:20 14:40 Turjak, M.*, Trontelj, P. A new tree-based method for the quantitative
analysis of phylogenetic character patterns: a
case study with Niphargus (Amphipoda;
Crustacea)

14:40 15:00 Flot, J. F.*, Bauermeister, J., Dattagupta, S. Niphargus amphipods and their Thiothrix
ectosymbionts in Frasassi (central Italy): a tale
of multiple invasions and host specificity
FRIDAY 3 SEP : Conference venue Jamski Dvorec, continued
15:00 15:20 Fišer, C.*, Trontelj, P. Adaptive morphology of subterranean
amphipod communities

15:20 15:40 Lopes Ferreira, R. Translocation of Cave fauna in Brazilian Iron

ore cave

15:40 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 16:20 Conference Close

Presentation of next conference venue

17:00 19:00 General Assembly of the International Society for Subterranean Biology; Meeting of the
new Council

20:00 Conference dinner