The DOI matches its Crossref record; 2 of the 2 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
A world review of fungi, yeasts, and slime molds in caves
Open accessAbstract
We provide a review of fungi, yeasts, and slime molds that have been found in natural solution caves and mines worldwide. Such habitats provide frequent roost sites for bats, and in eastern North America the environmental conditions that support white-nose syndrome, a lethal fungal disease currently devastating bat populations. A list of 1029 species of fungi, slime moulds, and yeasts in 518 genera have been documented from caves and mines worldwide in 225 articles. Ascomycota dominate the cave environment. Most research has been conducted in temperate climates, especially in Europe. A mean of 17.9±24.4SD fungal species are reported per study. Questions remain about the origin and ecological roles of fungi in caves, and which, if any, are cave-specialists. In the northern hemisphere, caves are generally characterized by relatively stable, low temperatures and a lack of organic substrates. This environment favors communities of oligotrophic, psychrotolerant fungi. Data that may help explain how cave environmental features and faunas inf luence the introduction and transmission of cave fungi remains scant.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Xiao, C.-Q., Chi, R.-A., Huang, X.-H., Zhang, W.-X., Qiu, G.-Z., & Wang, D.-Z. (2008) · Ecological Engineering · doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2008.04.001 · Cited by 97
Montagna, M. T., Santacroce, M. P., Caggiano, G., Tatò, D., & Ajello, L. (2003) · Medical Mycology · doi:10.1080/13693780310001602785 · Cited by 17
Metadata
- Authors
- Vanderwolf, K., Malloch, D., McAlpine, D., & Forbes, G.
- Venue
- International Journal of Speleology
- Published
- 2013-01
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 77-96
- ISSN
- 0392-6672 (ISSN-L)
- 1827-806X
- OpenAlex
- W2132217610
- Cited by
- 196
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 9.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: A world review of fungi, yeasts, and slime molds in caves. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.5038/1827-806x.42.1.9
- The paper
- Vanderwolf, K., Malloch, D., McAlpine, D., & Forbes, G. (2013). A world review of fungi, yeasts, and slime molds in caves. International Journal of Speleology. https://doi.org/10.5038/1827-806x.42.1.9
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
