The Natural History of BiospeleologyAna Isabel Camacho |
Contents
Karst caves and biospeleology | 31 |
The development of exokarst | 37 |
Karst in coastal areas | 43 |
A classification of the aquatic and terrestrial | 57 |
Introduction | 61 |
The aquatic subterranean environment | 69 |
Abiotic characteristics of the subterranean environment | 79 |
Classification of cave fauna | 88 |
Light sensitivity of cave vertebrates Behavioral | 295 |
Introduction | 299 |
Morphological aspects | 313 |
References | 321 |
Behavioural aspects in animals living in caves | 327 |
Regression evolution and behaviour | 368 |
Analysis | 377 |
Summary | 390 |
57 | 97 |
Sampling methods for groundwater animals | 107 |
Acknowledgements | 109 |
The freezing corer | 115 |
Sampling the subterranean Biota Cave aquatic | 135 |
A natural history of the subterranean environment | 171 |
Introduction | 175 |
Conclusions | 195 |
Fossils and caves J A Alcover | 199 |
Introduction | 203 |
Species that play am important role in the formation of cave deposits | 211 |
Spontaneous locomotion behaviour in cavernicolous | 225 |
the outline of a question | 229 |
The characid Astyanax mexicanus circadian relicts in cave fishes with almost | 239 |
Stochastic regularities in aperiodic patterns of activity and rest | 245 |
Acknowledgements | 255 |
Biological processes at the population level | 263 |
Introduction | 267 |
Behaviour and Biology | 275 |
Conclusion | 288 |
Neutral Mutations and Evolutionary Progress | 401 |
Colonization | 423 |
Introduction | 427 |
The stages of evolution and speciation in the continental interstitial stygobionts | 438 |
Conclusion | 445 |
Introduction | 457 |
The impact of Biospeleology on Evolutionary Theory | 469 |
Introduction | 531 |
Ecological consideration | 545 |
Acknowledgement | 563 |
Introduction | 573 |
Terrestrial ecosystems in Mammoth Cave | 582 |
Comparative studies of species biologies | 596 |
Introduction | 617 |
Characteristic of anchialine taxa | 625 |
Introduction | 641 |
Composition and origins of the movile cave fauna | 648 |
Acknowledgements | 663 |
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