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Rapid Review Histology and Cell Biology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access by E. Robert Burns PhD, M. Donald Cave PhD, 2006-11-15 Histology and Cell Biology (Book with CD-ROM) by E. Robert Burns PhD, M. Donald Cave PhD, 2002-05-15 Caves and Speleology in Bulgaria by Petar Beron, Trifon Daaliev, et all 2006-11-30 The Hunters or the Hunted?: An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy by C. K. Brain, 1983-08-01 The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel: A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography, and Society (Bulletin (American School of Prehistoric Research)) by Mary C. Stiner, 2006-02-28 ADVANCE OF LIFE (COMMONWEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY. BIOLOGY DIVISION) by BRIAN VICTOR CAVE, 1966 Early Modern Humans at the Moravian Gate: The Mladec Caves and their Remains Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle Pleistocene: The Porcupine Cave Fauna from Colorado Owls, Caves and Fossils: Predation, Preservation and Accumulation of Small Mammal Bones in Caves, with an Analysis of the Pleistocene Cave Faunas From Westbury-Sub-Mendip, Somerset, U.K. by Peter Andrews, 1990-08-30 Dark Life: Martian Nanobacteria, Rock-Eating Cave Bugs, and Other Extreme Organisms of Inner Earth and Outer Space by Michael Ray Taylor, 1999-04-09 Cave Bears and Modern Human Origins by Robert H. Gargett, 1996-04-02 Mysteries of Life by Godfrey Cave, 1992-08-27 The Early Modern Human from Tianyuan Cave, China (Texas A&M University Anthropology Series) by Dr. Hong Shang PhD, Erik Trinkaus, 2010-06-18 Lonavala-Khandala: Lonavla, Lohagad, Visapur Fort, Karla Caves, Chikki, Khandala, Sudhagad, Bhaja Caves, Tung Fort, Korigad, Rajmachi

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21. Cave Biology Photo Index
    cave biology Photo Index. Caves are of great interest to biologistsbecause they are generally isolated from the main nutrient source  
    http://www.bostongrotto.org/Grotto/bg-photo-bio.html
    
    Extractions: Cave Biology Photo Index Caves are of great interest to biologists because they are generally isolated from the main nutrient source of the surface world - the sunlight that provides the energy for the surface plants to grow. Since the animals on the surface ultimately depend on the plants for nutrition, neither plants nor animals are found in profusion in caves, like they are on the surface. Even the "cave mud" is (nearly) sterile, unlike surface soil which swarms with microorganisms. The result of this scarcity of resources is that the community of creatures that do inhabit the caves form relatively simple ecosystems, compared to the surface world. This makes these ecosystems interesting, because the important relationships, like "who eats what", and "where does the waste go", have much simpler answers than they normally do on the surface. Recent discoveries in the extremely low energy caves of the Southwestern USA have extended these ideas to the world of bacteria. A large number of new species, some with potential medical benefits, have been discovered living in extremely nutrient-poor cave environments. Most cavers don't notice the microorganisms, or even the small insects and springtails in the cave pools and the mud banks. They do notice, however, the larger visitors that use the cave as a temporary dwelling place or refuge from the surface world. Many a caver has unexpectedly encountered a snake hiding in an entrance passage, a pack rat who has chewed partway through his favorite rope, or a porcupine den with a pile of scat obscuring a passage that needs surveying.

22. Cave Biology
    cave biology. There are several ways to look at cave biology and the ecologyof Fisher Cave. The ecosystem approach is a useful beginning.  
    http://www.missouri.edu/~jad4bc/biology.htm
    
    Extractions: There are several ways to look at cave biology and the ecology of Fisher Cave. The ecosystem approach is a useful beginning. In general, an ecosystem consists of biotic and abiotic elements interacting, while energy flows and nutrients cycle through the system. A cave is a low ordered systemin other words, it is relatively simple. First of all, caves lack the producer (or first trophic) level: there are no plants. Surface systems are usually diverse and complex, and thus stable. Caves, on the other hand, have low stability and are vulnerable to disturbance. As for trophic webs (that is, food chains), caves have a detritus food chain, not a grazing chain ( . The pathway from the base of the web is the breakdown of organic material, not plant-grazing. Energy is limited in caves: it comes second-hand from the surface, via a relatively small quantity of detritus. The conversion of energy from one level to the next is inefficient. Whereas most surface ecosystems convert energy at roughly a 10 percent rate (for example, from plant to herbivore to carnivore), in caves the conversion rate is about 2.5 percent. In a nutshell, a cave ecosystem is characterized by ecological simplicity, scarcity of energy (and thus food), and climatic stability.

23. Critically Endangered Anchialine Cave Species: A Case History From Bermuda
    Similar pages Groundwater Biology Home Page GRAHAM PROUDLOVE'S cave biology EMAIL LIST. cave biology GROUP. THE EDWARDSAQUIFER HOME PAGE. The cave biology Web Site by T. Iliffe by T. Iliffe.  
    http://www.tamug.tamu.edu/marb/faculty/iliffe/research/cave3.html
    
    Extractions: The anchialine lakes in Church and Bitumen caves contain at least eleven species of endemic, troglobitic invertebrates, nine of which are on the IUCN Red List as critically endangered. The fauna includes five species of copepods, two isopods and one each of ostracod, amphipod, shrimp and polychaete. Many of these species represent ancient lineages that have survived in the refuge provided by the caves. Water column profiles of salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, and pH in Church Cave were made in December 1995 using a Hydrolab Datasonde III probe (Figure ). Bermuda cave pools characteristically contain a thin, brackish layer overlying waters approaching typical open ocean salinities. Water temperatures are lowest at the surface and increase gradually with increasing depth. Seasonal variations, although most pronounced in the surface waters, are minor in comparison with those in open water. Depleted dissolved oxygen levels are found in the deeper waters of all cave systems. Oxygen levels in the surface waters were close to saturation since air exchange and drip waters maintain the oxygen supply. Dissolved oxygen levels in deeper cave waters were significantly lower in 1995 than observed in the same cave in 1982 ( Figure 5 ). pH values dropped abruptly from 7.9 at the surface to 7.6 at the halocline and below.

24. The Title!
    At present, these habitats, according to the resolution from the International Congressof Marine cave biology held in Bermuda during 1984, are definitively  
    http://www.geocities.com/~mediaq/caves/anchial.html
    
    Extractions: At present, these habitats, according to the resolution from the International Congress of Marine Cave Biology held in Bermuda during 1984, are definitively defined as flooded inland marine caves and groundwaters that lack any direct surface connection with the open sea, with a wide range of different salinities, and showing the following subterranean features: For the most part anchialine conditions developed on the islands or continental media, probably pending plio-pleistocenic sea regressions. Anchialine fauna has drawn particular attention because it mostly embraces endemic organisms, as well as tethyan relicts. Anchihaline species, as a rule, originated directly from sea waters ancestors, but at present their non subterranean marine relatives do not exist or they inhabit some unfavourable, extreme habitats; only a few taxa colonized the anchihaline systems from limnic inland conditions. Anchialine habitats are rich of remarkable and unusual crustaceans (copepods, ostracods, atyid shrimps, thermosbaenaceans, hadziid amphipods, cirolanid isopods, remipedes, etc.), In last decade noteworthy representatives of copepods have been discovered, such as platycopioids, calanoids, speleoithonids, novocriniids, etc.

25. NCCNSW Links: : Cave Biology (biospeleology)
    Title cave biology (biospeleology). URL http//www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/.www/biospeleology/.Comment This site has amazing photos  
    http://www.nccnsw.org.au/water/links/19990608_cave.html
    
    Extractions: Title: Cave Biology (biospeleology) URL http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/.www/biospeleology/ Comment: This site has amazing photos of all sorts of cave biology (including the W.A. eyeless fish!), also abstracts and heaps of other links. water Category: groundwater NCC Category: By Environment subject: - 2.22 Water up to Web Links index

26. Cave Biology Innovations And Patents
    cave biology Innovations and Patents © 2002, XQ23.COM Research (air.xq23.com) Moreinformation on cave biology and cave biology Research References.  
    http://www.air.xq23.com/energy_science_resources/Cave_Biology.html

27. Rationale
    The cave biology Research Group (CBRG) at New York University. contains evolutionists,developmental biologists, conservationists and educators.  
    http://pages.nyu.edu/~rb4/Rationale.htm
    
    Extractions: The Cave Biology Research Group (CBRG) at New York University contains evolutionists, developmental biologists, conservationists and educators. Current projects include comparative genomic mapping to find the genes responsible for eye regression and depigmentation in different populations of cave fishes, phylogenetic studies, and educational projects. For information about the CBRG, e-mail to rb4@scires.nyu.edu Details of the research rationale for the laboratory of Richard Borowsky (Department of Biology, NYC, NY 10003) are as follows: Research Interests and Rationale: The Evolution of Troglomorphy Regressive Evolution The Genetics of Complex Traits The Importance of Replication in Evolutionary Studies My laboratory currently concentrates on the study of cave fishes, viewing them as powerful models for the investigation of interesting problems in evolutionary biology, including speciation, the genetics of trait evolution, and regressive evolution. About eighty species of cave fishes are presently known world-wide, and the rate of discovery of new ones is accelerating. While these species fall into a number of very distinct and different fish families, they share a set of characteristics typical of all cave animals. The most obvious of these traits are reduced eyes and pigment, but they also tend to share other heightened extraoptic senses ( e.g

28. Home Page
    The Evolutionary Biology of Cave Fishes. Work from the cave biologyResearch Group. Department of Biology. New York University. Under  
    http://pages.nyu.edu/~rb4/
    
    Extractions: This page is intended to disseminate information about our laboratory's work on the biology and genetics of cave fishes. The focus on cave fishes stems from long-term research interests in the evolution of complex traits and the phenomenon of regressive evolution. Two of the fishes we work on are illustrated below: The top photograph shows the Waterfall Climbing Cave Fish of Thailand, Cryptotora ("Homaloptera") thamicola (Photo by Denis Belliveau ), a balitorid hillstream loach. The bottom photograph shows the Blind Mexican Tetra, Astyanax mexicanus , a characid related to the pirahna These two fishes, from distantly related families, illustrate two obvious convergences of cave adapted species: both are blind and depigmented. The Cave Biology Research Group ( CBRG ) at New York University is dedicated to discovering the genetic and evolutionary mechanisms for this convergence.

29. Directory :: Look.com
    Biospeleology (cave biology) Texas Memorial Museum's web site on biospeleology.Information on the biota of caves, karst, and groundwater.  
    http://www.look.com/searchroute/directorysearch.asp?p=121838

30. Directory :: Look.com
    Accommodation (10) Bats (44) cave biology (19) Cave Diving (21) Cave Photography(18) Cave Rescue (39) Cave Surveying (23) Directories (21) Equipment  
    http://www.look.com/searchroute/directorysearch.asp?p=8178

31. Cave-Related Links
    Scientific. cave biology; Biospeleology (cave biology); Cave CreaturesLive Without Light; Exeter Speleothem Research Group Database;  
    http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/speleo/links.html
    
    Extractions: Cave-Related Links See also UK and Europe or World-wide links Cave Picture Postcards and Ephemera ... notes for collectors Cave Scanner Limestone Research Group (University of Huddersfield) World Cave Database Longest and deepest caves Memoirs of a Moldywarp (exploration in the Northern Dales) Souterrains (Artificial cavities) Souterrains in the Netherlands Caving clip art Virtual Cave (Includes information on all speleothem types) Virtual Cavern 3D cave visualizations Pooh Caving (not Winnie The Pooh!)

32. Bats In Caves
    cave biology. Graham Proudlove of the Northern Pennine Club g.proudlove@umist.ac.ukcan be contacted. with any general cave biology questions.  
    http://www.redrosecpc.demon.co.uk/easegill/text/bats.htm
    
    Extractions: See North Yorkshire Bat Group for more info The only MAMMAL (order Chiroptera) capable of true flight. Numbering between 1,000 and 2,000 species, bats range in size from less than 1 in. (2.5 cm) to 15 in. (45 cm), with a wingspan of from less than 2 in. (5 cm) to 5 ft (150 cm). The body is furry and mouselike, with the forelimbs and extensions of the skin of the back and belly modified to form wings. Bats are most abundant in the tropics, and temperate species often hibernate or migrate to warmer areas in the winter. Most species frequent crevices, caves, or buildings, and are active at night or twilight; they roost during the day, often in large numbers and usually hanging by their feet. Most bats see well but depend on echolocation to navigate in the dark. Bats are fruit-eaters (fruit, nectar, pollen) or insect-eaters (fruit, insects, small animals, and fish); one species, the South American vampire bat, feeds exclusively on the blood of living animals, chiefly mammals. Though there are lots of bat species worldwide there are only 14 in the UK and not all those occur in the north of England e.g. no Horseshoe bats in the north.

33. Ease Gill Caverns Conservation Work
    cave biology Group. Graham Proudlove at UMIST runs a cave biology email discussiongroup for cave biology. Contact the website below for more details.  
    http://www.redrosecpc.demon.co.uk/easegill/text/conservation.htm
    
    Extractions: The Ease Gill Caves System forms part of the Leck Beck Head Catchment Area S.S.S.I. administered by English Nature. See page on Damage to Formations Sites of Special Scientific Interest are notified by English Nature because of their plants, animals or geological or physiographical features. Most SSSIs are privately owned or managed. About 40% are owned or managed by public bodies such as the Forestry Commission, Ministry of Defence and The Crown Estate, or by the voluntary conservation movement. SSSIs cover approximately 7% of England's total area. English Nature liaises with about 23,000 owners and occupiers on these sites. Casterton Fell area is owned by the Bowring family. SSSIs are notified under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, in recognition of their special biological and/or geological interest, having been selected according to rigorous and published guidelines. Together they comprise a nationally important series of areas representing all that is best in England's natural heritage. Yet they do not stand alone -they are part of the characteristic natural areas that are England's countryside and they depend on how the remaining countryside is cared for by our society. Why is the Ease Gill Caverns System an S.S.S.I.

34. EBroadcast Internet Directories :: You'll Find It At The Internet Directories!
    url www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/grahamp/intro.htm. Biospeleology (cave biology)Add to favorites Texas Memorial Museum's web site on biospeleology.  
    http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/cgi-bin/etopic/index.cgi?base=/Science/Biology/Ecol

35. Caves
    4, Biospeleology (cave biology). Texas Memorial Museum's web siteon biospeleology. 7, Graham Proudlove's cave biology EMail List.  
    http://www.ad.com/Recreation/Outdoors/Speleology/__Cave_Biology/

36. Listings Of The World Science Biology Ecology Ecosystems
    http//www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~sjtaylor/cave/biospeleol.html Added Nov-27-02; Biospeleology(cave biology) Post Review Texas Memorial Museum's web site on  
    http://listingsworld.com/Science/Biology/Ecology/Ecosystems/Caves/

37. Biospeleological Links
    Graham Proudlove's cave biology List. Then, after the enrolment, in order to envoya message to the list, you must write to the address cavebiology@mcc.ac.uk.  
    http://digilander.libero.it/enrlana/e_linkb.htm
    
    Extractions: Then, after the enrolment, in order to envoy a message to the list, you must write to the address: cave-biology@mcc.ac.uk Suggested italian site (in English language) Groundwater Biology Home Page Complete site on the groundwater systems Biology by prof. Giuseppe L. Pesce Others italian sites: Biospeleologia 1 Biospeleologia 2 Lorenzo Grassi sites Laboratorio di Biologia Sotterranea di Verona The underground laboratory in Verona (that is: G. Caoduro's exploit)

38. SIBIOS Websites - Les Sites De La Société Internationale De Biospéologie
    Graham Proudlove's cave biology email list gives regular informations about subterraneanecosystems and cave life to a world wide net of speleologists and  
    http://www.fi.cnr.it/sibios/websites.htm
    
    Extractions: The SIBIOS webgroup is composed of Danilo ALLEGRINI Technical support Jean-Jacques GEOFFROY [Brunoy / Paris, France] Web editor, Webmaster Giuseppe MESSANA [Firenze, Italy] Sibios President, CNR contact, website structure Jos NOTENBOOM [Bilthoven, The Netherlands] Website structure Graham PROUDLOVE [Manchester, UK] Raymond TERCAFS Weblinks and structure THIS SITE IS NO MORE VALID FOR SIBIOS INFORMATIONS !!! Some biospeleological and bibliographical data available on http://members.aol.com/blebre0760/index.htm Graham Proudlove's Cave Biology e-mail list gives regular informations about subterranean ecosystems and cave life to a world wide net of speleologists and biospeleologists. Any information should be sent to Graham's e-mail address g.proudlove@umist.ac.uk

39. Caves Website Results :: Linkspider UK
    Biospeleology in Canada and on the WWW Includes a directory of biospeleology researchersworldwide, Canadian cave biology directory, and many internet links.  
    http://www.linkspider.co.uk/Science/Biology/Ecology/Ecosystems/Caves/
    
    Extractions: See Also: Recreation: Outdoors: Speleology Science: Biology: Flora and Fauna Science: Earth Sciences: Geology: Geomorphology: Caves and Karst Biospeleology - Illinois Natural History Survey web site. Within caves a diverse biota may be found, exhibiting varying degrees of adaptation to the subterranean environment. Information and links about cave habitats and fauna, as well as cave protection and related topics. Caving Canada: Biospeleology in Canada and on the WWW - Includes a directory of biospeleology researchers worldwide, Canadian cave biology directory, and many internet links. Biospeleology (cave biology) - Texas Memorial Museum's web site on biospeleology. Information on the biota of caves, karst, and groundwater. Anchialine Caves and Cave Fauna - Research on the diversity, significance and distribution of cave animals in anchialine caves coastal caves formed in limestone or volcanic rock and flooded with seawater. Graham Proudlove's Cave Biology E-Mail List - Subscription instructions for e-mail list for scientific discussion of cave biology.

40. CAVE1
    cave biology RESEARCH,  
    http://biology.uky.edu/Cooper/CAVE1.htm
    
    Extractions: http://www.webpub.com/jhagee/bgg.html Sloan's Valley Conservation Task Force, National Speleological Society (NSS) (1997-present). As a member of this task force I work to protect the ecology and educate the public concerning the 23.5 miles of the Sloan Valley Cave system in Kentucky. We monitor the water quality and status of the biota throughout the cave system. We also have implemented an experimental research station to observe the behavioural interactions of various species of blind cave-adapted crayfish. There are a number of recent concerns that the task force is working on related to agricultural pollutants and run off from county landfills that affect the cave biology and cave dynamics. Dr. Hiliary Lambert Hopper is the founder and director o

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