Encyclopedia of Caves

Herausgeber: White, William B; Pipan, Tanja; Culver, David C

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Produktbeschreibung

Features 14 new chapters and 13 completely rewritten chapters Contains beautifully illustrated content, with more than 500 color images of cave life and features Provides extensive bibliographies that allow readers to access their subject of interest in greater depth

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 1250
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 215mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 2379g
• ISBN-13: 9780128141243
• ISBN-10: 0128141247
• Artikelnr.: 53692204

Inhaltsangabe

A: Adaptation to low food
Adaptations: Low oxygen
Adaptation to darkness
Adaptations: Behavioral
Adaptation: Morphological
Adaptation and natural selection in caves
Adaptive shifts
Anchihaline (Anchialine) caves and fauna
Ancient cavers in Eastern North America
Art in European caves
Asellus aquaticus: A model system for historical biogeography
Astyanax mexicanus: A vertebrate model for evolution, adaptation, and development in caves B: Bats
Beetles
Biodiversity patterns in Australia
Biodiversity: China
Biodiversity in Europe
Biodiversity in the United States and Canada
Biodiversity in South America
Breakdown
Burnsville Cove, Virginia C: Camps
Castleguard Cave, Canada
Cave dwellers in Southwest Asia
Cave ecosystems
Cavefishes
Cavefish of China
Definition of cave
Caver communities and organizations: Cultural and historical considerations
Chemolithoautotrophy
Clastic sediments in caves
Closed depressions in karst areas
Coastal caves
Collembola
Contamination of cave waters by heavy metals
Contamination of cave waters by nonaqueous-phase liquids
Crustacea
Dating cave sediments with cosmogenic nuclides D: Dating cave sediments with cosmogenic nuclides
Dinaric karst-Geography and geology
Biodiversity in the tropics
Documentation and databases E: Ecological and evolutionary classifications of subterranean organisms
Entrances
Environmental DNA as a conservation tool
Epikarst
Epikarst communities
Exploration of caves-General
Exploration of caves: Underwater exploration
Exploration of caves-Vertical caving techniques F: Folklore, myth, and legend, caves in
Food sources
The Frasassi Caves, Italy
Friars Hole System G: Gammarus minus: A model system for the study of adaptation to the cave environment
Geophysics for locating karst and caves
Glacier caves
Guano communities
Gypsum caves
Gypsum flowers and related speleothems H: Hang Son Doong and other caves of the Phong Nha-K? Ba`ng karst, Qu?ng Bi`nh Province, Vietnam
Helictites and related speleothems
History: Caves and other underground spaces in medieval Britain and Ireland
Huautla cave system (Sistema Huautla), Mexico
Hydrogeology of Karst aquifers
Hydrothermal caves I: Ice in caves
Iron formation caves: Genesis and ecology
Isotopes in karst waters and cave sediments J: Jewel cave, South Dakota K: Karren, cave
Karren, surface
Karst
Kazumura Cave, Hawaii
Krubera (Voronja) cave L: Lampenflora
Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico
Life histories M: Magnetism of cave sediments
Mammals and birds-vertebrate visitors
Mammoth Cave System, Kentucky
Mapping subterranean biodiversity
Maya caves
Microbes
Minerals in caves
Modeling of karst aquifers
Modeling the evolution of karst aquifers
Molluscs
Mulu caves, Malaysia
Myriapods N: Niphargus-A model system for evolution and ecology
Nitrate contamination in karst groundwater
Nullarbor Caves, Australia O: The Omega Cave System
Orthoptera P: Paleoclimate records from speleothems
Paleontology of caves
Passage growth and development
Postojna-Planina Cave System, Slovenia
Protecting cave life
Protecting caves
Pseudokarst Q: Quartzite and quartz sandstone caves of South America R: Recreational caving S: Salamanders
Saltpeter mining
Scallops
Shallow subterranean habitats
Show caves
Siebenhengste cave system, Switzerland
Sinkholes
Solution caves in regions of high-relief
Solution caves in regions of moderate relief
Species interactions
Speleogenesis-Hypogen?
Speleogenesis: Telogenetic
Speleothem deposition
Speleothems
Spiders and related groups
Springs
Stalactites and stalagmites
Submarine springs in coastal karst
Sulfuric acid caves
Surveying caves T: Tiankeng, Definition of
Time markers in landscape evolution, caves as U: Ukraine giant gypsum caves
Underwater Caves of the Yucatan Peninsula
Uranium series dating of speleothems V: Vicariance and dispersal in caves
Vjetrenica Cave, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Volcanic rock caves W: Wakulla spring underwater cave system, Florida
Water chemistry in caves
Water tracing in karst aquifers
Wetlands in cave and karst regions
White-nose syndrome: A fungal disease of North American hibernating bats
Worms X: Xe Bang Fai Cave, Laos