Caves and Cave Life |
Contents
Editors Preface | 7 |
The Cave Habitat | 27 |
Limestone Caves in Britain and Ireland | 65 |
Copyright | |
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Caves and Cave Life (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 79) Philip Chapman No preview available - 2019 |
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amphipods animals aquatic bacteria beetles beneath Britain and Ireland British caves British Isles Burren carbon cave biologists cave communities cave entrances cave fauna cave habitats cave passages cave streams cave systems cave wall cavernicoles cavers caves in Britain chamber Clare Collembola contain cracks Crustacea dark deep deposits depth Derbyshire detritivores detritus diving Doolin exploration feed floods flow fossil fungi fungus Gill glacial Greater Horseshoe Bats Green Holes groundwaters habitats Horseshoe Bats inhabit insects invertebrates Irish caves isopod karst kilometres Kingsdale known large number larvae limestone living macrocaverns Mendip mesocavernous metres microclimate millipedes mites Niphargus occur Ogof Ffynnon Ddu organic Otter Hole Peak Cavern Peak District phreatic Pleistocene pools populations pothole recorded rock roosts sediments soil South Wales species speleothems spiders spring springtails streamway subterranean sump surface temperature terrestrial troglobites tropical trout underground valley Wookey Hole Yorkshire zone