65 - Caves

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Natural caves, cave systems, underground waters and subterranean interstitial spaces. Caves and their associated waters (units 65.1-65.7) harbour varied, but paucispecific, communities of animals, fungi and algae that are restricted to them (troglobiont organisms), or are physiologically and ecologically capable of conducting their entire life cycle within them (troglophile organisms), or are dependent on them for part of the life cycle (subtroglophile organisms). Underground waters not associated with caves (stygon, unit 65.8) and interstitial spaces (units 65.9, 65.A) harbour distinctive faunas.

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)

Thinès and Tercafs, 1972; Ginet and Decou, 1977; Vornatscher, 1979; Neuherz, 1979; Passauer, 1979; Cei & al., 1982; Culver, 1986; Leser, 1994; Einarsson, 1994; Gudmundsson and Kjartansson, 1996; Bozicevic, 1996; Celhar, 1997.