The Natural History of Biospeleology

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Ana Isabel Camacho
Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press, 1992 - Biospeleology - 680 pages
 

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

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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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