65.22 - Continental bat caves

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Caves of the Eurasian and North African landmasses, under normally oxygenated, buffered microclimates, generally large and crossed by watercourses or excavated near epigean watercourses, with permanent or temporary colonies of bats, in majority belonging to the Vespertilionidae.

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)

Stebbings, 1988; Ransome, 1990; Schober and Grimmberger, 1991; Macdonald and Barrett, 1993; Tvrtkovic, 1996.