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Books on Caves
The study of life in caves and other underground geological features
(such as springs and underground rivers) is sometimes called biospeleology.
Some of the most unique and endangered species in North America occur
in these habitats.
 Biospeleology.
Texas Memorial Museum. A wonderful web site dealing with animals that
live in the caves of Texas. You'll find all sorts of resources here including
a list, photographs, and information about the cave life of Texas caves,
articles on the biodiversity of caves, cave conservation, a color map
of the karst regions of the United States and the biodiversity found in
them, photos, links, and more. Highly recommended.
Illinois
Natural History Survey Biospeleology. A very nice introduction to
the animals found in caves. Learn about the habitats and zones of a cave
and the animals that live there. You'll also find information on terminology,
endangered species and the law, and a bibliography. There is a very nice
gallery of cave animals.
Groundwater
Biology Home Page. Giuseppe Pesce. A page of links to web sites dealing
with animals found in caves and springs. Some of the links are to original
material of this site, particularly on crustaceans.
Biospeologica
Bibliographia. An extensive bibliography of books and papers on caving
and biospeleology.
Conservation
of the North American Cave and Karst Biota. William R. Elliot. An
online article on many aspects of cave conservation and the animals that
live in them. The article covers extinct and endangered cave species,
threats to cave and karst communities, and the management and restoration
of caves.
Cueva de Villa
Luz. This cave is located in the state of Chiapas, Mexico and technically
falls outside the scope of Nearctica. However this site has a number of
very nice features including movies from inside the cave, a kids page
with information and pictures, and information on "snotites",
a mucous formation formed by bacteria and fungi that seems to be unique
to this page.
Systematics
of Amphipod Crustaceans in the Families Crangonyctidae and Hadziidae.
John Holzinger. Amphipods are important animal inhabitants of a variety
of freshwater, underground habitats such as underground streams and caves.
This site is a prospectus for a research project, but it includes general
information on amphipods, and subterranean amphipods in particular.
The
Amphipod Homepage. Old Dominion University. This web site brings together
links from a variety of places related, directly or indirectly, to amphipods.
The most important component of this web site is "The Subterranean
Amphipod Database", a database of technical information on amphipods
living in underground streams, springs, caves, and the like.
Cavebiology.com.
Thomas M. Iliffe. Cavebiology.com is devoted to studying the animals living
in Anchialine caves. Anchialine caves are coastal caves formed in limestone
or lava and flooded with seawater. None of the caves described occurs
in the United States or Canada, but in the Bahamas and Mexico. However
the pictures are so great and the animals so interesting that we are including
the site in Nearctica. You can find information about specific
caves and also about the animals that occur in them.
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