65.41 - Troglobiont invertebrate temperate caves

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Caves under normally oxygenated, buffered microclimates, dry, humidified by seeps or crossed by permanent or temporary watercourses, but not retaining glaciers, and harbouring communities of troglobiont invertebrates, often including remarkable relict species.

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Cei & al., 1982: 26-31; Schembri, 1989: 72, 74, 75; Tvrtkovic, 1996; Mrsic, 1997.