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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
About the Publisher
