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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Editors’ Preface

1. The Fascination of Caves

The lure of caves

The sporting science

Underground naturalists

2. The Cave Habitat

What is a cave?

What lives in caves?

Caves in Limestone

Types of cave habitat

Food supply

Microclimate

3. Limestone Caves in Britain and Ireland

Karst: the landscape of caves

Caves in Britain and Ireland

Mendip

Pennines

South Wales

Derbyshire’s Peak District

Sligo-Fermanagh

Clare

Other areas

4. Cave Fauna and Flora

The origin and classification of cavernicoles

Life on the threshold

A place of shelter

Waifs and strays

Denizens of darkness

Submariners

5. Cave Communities

The wall association

Terrestrial mud bank community

‘Batellites’

Pool surface associations

Freshwater stream communities

6. Caves Through the Pleistocene

The age of ice

Pleistocene survivors and recent colonists

Troglodytes

7. The Future of Caves

Cave conservation and the caver

External threats to caves, groundwater pollution and public safety

Impact of human activity on cave faunas

Conservation of cave-roosting bats

Limestone quarrying

Acid rain, caves and flue gas desulphurization

Cave SSSIs

Databases

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements

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