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List of works by William F. Humphreys

'Phaconeura' (Homoptera: Meenoplidae) attended by ants of the genus 'Paratrechina' (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in caves

scientific article published in July 1998

A Last Glacial Maximum through middle Holocene stalagmite record of coastal Western Australia climate

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A NEW GENUS OF EPACTERISCID CALANOID COPEPOD FROM AN ANCHIALINE SINKHOLE ON NORTHWESTERN AUSTRALIA

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A New Genus of Epacteriscid Calanoid Copepod from an Anchialine Sinkhole on Northwestern Australia

scientific article published in 2001

A Stalagmite record of Holocene Indonesian–Australian summer monsoon variability from the Australian tropics

scientific article published in October 2013

A highly modified stygobiont diving beetle of the genus Copelatus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae): taxonomy and cladistic analysis based on mitochondrial DNA sequences

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A new genus and six new species of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from underground waters in the Yilgarn palaeodrainage system of Western Australia

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A new genus and six new species of the Parabathynellidae (Bathynellacea, Syncarida) from the Kimberley region, Western Australia

scholarly article by Joo‐Lae Cho published in 2005

A new species of the blind cave gudgeon Milyeringa (Pisces: Gobioidei, Eleotridae) from Barrow Island, Western Australia, with a redescription of M. veritas Whitley

scientific article (publication date: 19 February 2013)

Allegory of a cave crustacean: systematic and biogeographic reality of Halosbaena (Peracarida: Thermosbaenacea) sought with molecular data at multiple scales

scholarly article by Timothy J Page et al published 17 September 2016 in Marine Biodiversity: international journal of marine science

Allozyme variation in the troglobitic millipede Stygiochiropus communis (Diplopoda: Paradoxosomatidae) from arid tropical Cape Range, northwestern Australia: population structure and implications for the management of the region

scientific article published in 2001

An annotated bibliography of the research on marine organisms and environments at Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

article by Jean-Paul A Hobbs et al published 2014 in The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Aquifers and hyporheic zones: Towards an ecological understanding of groundwater

Aquifers: the ultimate groundwater-dependent ecosystems

scientific article published in 2006

Blind scolopendrid centipedes of the genus Cormocephalus from subterranean habitats in Western Australia (Myriapoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)

Bunderanthura bundera gen. et sp. nov. from Western Australia, first anchialine Leptanthuridae (Isopoda) from the Southern Hemisphere

Can Otolith Microchemistry Reveal Whether the Blind Cave Gudgeon, Milyeringa veritas (Eleotridae), is Diadromous within a Subterranean Estuary?

Comment on Assessing the Need for Groundwater Quality Guidelines for Pesticides Using the Species Sensitivity Distribution Approach by Hose (2005)

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Consequences of evolutionary transitions in changing photic environments

Copepods from ground waters of Western Australia, VI. Cyclopidae (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Yilgarn Region and the Swan Coastal Plain

scientific article published in 2001

Corrigendum to “A stalagmite record of Holocene Indonesian–Australian summer monsoon variability from the Australian tropics” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 78 (2013) 155–168]

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Corrigendum to “North Atlantic forcing of millennial-scale Indo-Australian monsoon dynamics during the Last Glacial period” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 72 (2013) 159–168]

scientific article published in April 2017

DNA barcoding of stygofauna uncovers cryptic amphipod diversity in a calcrete aquifer in Western Australia's arid zone

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Danielopolina kornickeri sp. n. (Ostracoda, Thaumatocypridoidea) from a western Australian anchialine cave: morphology and evolution

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Decoupling of monsoon activity across the northern and southern Indo-Pacific during the Late Glacial

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Description of the anchialine ostracode, Danielopolina sp. cf. D. kornickeri from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean

article by Louis Kornicker et al published 2006 in Crustaceana

Divergent molecular lineages and not-so-cryptic species: the first descriptions of stygobitic chiltoniid amphipods (Talitroidea: Chiltoniidae) from Western Australia

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Diversity and distribution of groundwater fauna in a calcrete aquifer: does sampling method influence the story?

Elucidating stygofaunal trophic web interactions via isotopic ecology

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Endemic species of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Evidence for population fragmentation within a subterranean aquatic habitat in the Western Australian desert

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Evidence for speciation underground in diving beetles (Dytiscidae) from a subterranean archipelago

scientific article published on 21 November 2020

Evolution of blind beetles in isolated aquifers: a test of alternative modes of speciation

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Evolution of subterranean diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporini, Bidessini) in the arid zone of Australia

scientific article published in December 2003

Evolutionary transition from surface to subterranean living in Australian water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) through adaptive and relaxed selection

scientific article published on 19 October 2023

Expansion and Contraction of the Indo-Pacific Tropical Rain Belt over the Last Three Millennia

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Experimental Re-Establishment of Pulse-Driven Populations in a Terrestrial Troglobite Community

scientific article published in 1991

Extreme genetic diversity among springtails (Collembola) in subterranean calcretes of arid Australia

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Extreme rainfall activity in the Australian tropics reflects changes in the El Niño/Southern Oscillation over the last two millennia

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Fine-scale comparative phylogeography of a sympatric sister species triplet of subterranean diving beetles from a single calcrete aquifer in Western Australia

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First Record of Spelaeogriphacea From Australasia: a New Genus and Species From an Aquifer in the Arid Pilbara of Western Australia

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Flank margin cave development and tectonic uplift, Cape Range, Australia

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Fourteen New Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the Genera Limbodessus Guignot, Paroster Sharp, and Exocelina Broun from Underground Waters in Australia

scholarly article by C.H.S. Watts published in 2009

Groundwater estuaries of salt lakes: buried pools of endemic biodiversity on the western plateau, Australia

scientific article published on 28 February 2009

Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem

scientific article published in 2023

Hydrogeology and groundwater ecology: does each inform the other?

article published in 2008

Identification of trophic niches of subterranean diving beetles in a calcrete aquifer by DNA and stable isotope analyses

scholarly article by Tessa M. Bradford published in January 2014

Imperilled subsurface waters in Australia: Biodiversity, threatening processes and conservation

scientific article published in 2003

Islands under the desert: molecular systematics and evolutionary origins of stygobitic water beetles (Coleoptera : Dytiscidae) from central Western Australia

Massive Parallel Regression: A Précis of Genetic Mechanisms for Vision Loss in Diving Beetles

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Milyeringa Veritas (Eleotridae), a remarkably versatile Cave Fish from the Arid Tropics of Northwestern Australia

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Milyeringa Veritas (Eleotridae), a remarkably versatile cave fish from the arid tropics of northwestern Australia

scientific article published in 2001

Molecular phylogenetic analyses reveal a new southern hemisphere oniscidean family (Crustacea : Isopoda) with a unique water transport system

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Molecular systematics and biodiversity of oniscidean isopods in the groundwater calcretes of central Western Australia

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Multiple molecular markers reinforce the systematic framework of unique Australian cave fishes (Milyeringa : Gobioidei)

scientific article published in 2018

New aquatic Oniscidea (Crustacea: Isopoda) from groundwater calcretes of Western Australia

scholarly article by Stefano Taiti published in 2001

New light in the dark - a proposed multidisciplinary framework for studying functional ecology of groundwater fauna

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

North Atlantic forcing of millennial-scale Indo-Australian monsoon dynamics during the Last Glacial period

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On the origin and evolution of a new anchialine stygobitic <i>Microceratina</i> species (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)

article by Tadeusz Namiotko et al published 1 May 2004 in Journal of Micropalaeontology

On the origin of Danielopolina baltanasi sp. n. (Ostracoda, Thaumatocypridoidea) from three anchialine caves on Christmas Island, a seamount in the Indian Ocean

article by William Humphreys et al published 2009 in Crustaceana

Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles: a comparison of surface and subterranean photic niches

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Patterns of population genetic variation in sympatric chiltoniid amphipods within a calcrete aquifer reveal a dynamic subterranean environment

scientific article published on 3 April 2013

Phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of Remipedia (Nectiopoda) from Bayesian analysis of molecular data

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Phylogenetic evidence that both ancient vicariance and dispersal have contributed to the biogeographic patterns of anchialine cave shrimps

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Phylogenetic placement and description of Ngaliadessus humphreysi gen. et sp. nov., Watts &amp; Villastrigo (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), a subterranean diving beetle from the Ngalia Basin in central Australia

scientific article published in August 2023

Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Atopobathynella Schminke (Bathynellacea:Parabathynellidae)

Phylogeny and diversity of Timiriaseviinae ostracods (Podocopida, Cytheroidea) with description of one new species from arid Western Australia

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Phylogeography of the ancient Parabathynellidae (Crustacea:Bathynellacea) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia

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Prionospio thalanji sp. nov. (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from an anchialine cave, Cape Range, north-west Western Australia

Production efficiency in small mammal populations

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Protecting the innocent: studying short-range endemic taxa enhances conservation outcomes

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Rainfall as a trigger of ecological cascade effects in an Australian groundwater ecosystem

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Refining trophic dynamics through multi-factor Bayesian mixing models: A case study of subterranean beetles

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Reply to Nott: Assessing biases in speleothem records of flood events

scientific article published on 10 August 2015

Rising from Down Under: developments in subterranean biodiversity in Australia from a groundwater fauna perspective

scholarly article by William F. Humphreys published in 2008

Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems

Scratching the surface of subterranean biodiversity: Molecular analysis reveals a diverse and previously unknown fauna of Parabathynellidae (Crustacea: Bathynellacea) from the Pilbara, Western Australia

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Second species of Mangkurtu (Spelaeogriphacea) from north-western Australia

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Shedding light on the hidden world of subterranean fauna: A transdisciplinary research approach

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Shrimps down under: evolutionary relationships of subterranean crustaceans from Western Australia (Decapoda: Atyidae: Stygiocaris)

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Sieve-type pore canals in the Timiriaseviinae-A contribution to the comparative morphology and the systematics of the Limnocytheridae (Ostracoda, Crustacea)

article by Dan L. Danielopol et al published 3 October 2018 in Zootaxa

Spider Induced Egg Mortality in a Skink Population

scientific article published on 17 May 1976

Stabilimenta as parasols: shade construction by Neogea sp. (Araneae:Araneidae,Argiopinae) and its thermal behaviour

scholarly article in Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, vol. 9 no. 2, 1992

Stygofaunal community trends along varied rainfall conditions: Deciphering ecological niche dynamics of a shallow calcrete in Western Australia

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Stygofaunal diversity and ecological sustainability of coastal groundwater ecosystems in a changing climate: The Australian paradigm

scientific article published in 2022

Subterranean archipelago in the Australian arid zone: mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of amphipods from central Western Australia

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Subterranean archipelago: mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of stygobitic isopods (Oniscidea:Haloniscus) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia

scholarly article by Andrew D. Austin published in 2008

Subterranean fauna of Christmas Island: habitats and salient features

article by William F Humphreys published 2014 in The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Taxonomy of Paraplatyarthrus Javidkar and King (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Paraplatyarthridae) with description of five new species from Western Australia, and comments on Australian Trichorhina Budde-Lunde, 1908 (Platyarthridae)

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Temporally diphasic dispersal in siblings of a wolf spider: a game of Russian roulette?

scholarly article in Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, vol. 6 no. 3, 1983

Ten new species of the genusBrevisomabathynellaCho, Park and Ranga Reddy, 2006 (Malacostraca, Bathynellacea, Parabathynellidae) from Western Australia

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The Effect of Habitat Utilization on Species-Area Curves: Implications for Optimal Reserve Area

scientific article published in 1982

The Evolution of Epigean and Stygobitic Species of Koonunga Sayce, 1907 (Syncarida: Anaspidacea) in Southern Australia, with the Description of Three New Species

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The Population Dynamics of an Australian Wolf Spider, Geolycosa godeffroyi (L. Koch 1865) (Araneae: Lycosidae)

scientific article published in February 1976

The Respiration of Geolycosa godeffroyi (Araneae: Lycosidae) under Conditions of Constant and Cyclic Temperature

scientific article published in 1975

The critical thermal maximum of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): a comparison of subterranean and surface-dwelling species

scientific article published in 2021

The demography and physiology ofMelomyssp. (Rodentia: Muridae) in the Mitchell Plateau area, Kimberley, Western Australia

scientific article published in July 1987

The food consumption of a wolf spider, Geolycosa godeffroyi (Araneae: Lycosidae), in the Australian Capital Territory

scientific article published on 01 December 1975

The influence of burrowing and thermoregulatory behaviour on the water relations of Geolycosa godeffroyi (Araneae: Lycosidae), an Australian wolf spider

scientific article published on 01 December 1975

The linking of plate tectonics and evolutionary divergence.

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The subterranean fauna of Barrow Island, north-western Australia: 10 years on

article published in 2013

The thermal biology of Geolycosa godeffroyi and other burrow inhabiting Lycosidae (Araneae) in Australia

scientific article published in January 1978

The thermal biology of the wolf spider Lycosa tarentula (Araneae: Lycosidae) in northern Greece

scholarly article in Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, vol. 7 no. 4, 1987

Thirteen new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Boongurrus Larson, Tjirtudessus Watts & Humphreys and Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys, from underground waters in Australia

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Three new genera and five new species of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from underground waters in Australia

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Too hot to handle: Cenozoic aridification drives multiple independent incursions of Schizomida (Hubbardiidae) into hypogean environments

scientific article published on 08 June 2019

Tracking down carbon inputs underground from an arid zone Australian calcrete

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Twenty-Six New Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the Genera Limbodessus Guignot and Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys, from Underground Waters in Australia.

scientific article published in January 2006

Twenty-five new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Tjirtudessus Watts & Humphreys, Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys and Bidessodes Regimbart, from underground waters in Australia

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VIEWPOINT. Is the Australian subterranean fauna uniquely diverse?

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What lies beneath: molecular phylogenetics and ancestral state reconstruction of the ancient subterranean Australian Parabathynellidae (Syncarida, Crustacea).

scientific article published on 29 March 2012

World Register of marine Cave Species (WoRCS): a new Thematic Species Database for marine and anchialine cave biodiversity

‘Anchialine’ redefined as a subterranean estuary in a crevicular or cavernous geological setting

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