The Amazing Biogeography of Caves

Today we're learning about both the geographic and biologic factors that influence life underground to see if we can get a better understanding of cave biogeography! Support me on Patreon here: Follow me on Twitter @theatlaspro Sources / Further Reading: https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24044 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0513-8 https://www.touristlink.com/global/cat/caves/map.html#google_vignette https://landlubbers.co.za/about-the-drakensberg/entry-points/cobham-wilderness-area/chameleon-cave/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10040-020-02139-5 https://www.showcaves.com/english/other/region/aq.html https://www.showcaves.com/english/explain/Maps/index.html https://www.un-igrac.org/news/new-world-karst-aquifer-map-allow-better-global-quantification-karst-systems https://environmental-geol.pressbooks.tru.ca/chapter/karst-landscapes-and-systems/ https://environmental-geology-dev.pressbooks.tru.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/73/2021/07/Fig-5-scaled-1.jpg https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1156/pdf/of2014-1156_hi-res-pdfs/of2014-1156_figure_1.pdf https://biodiversitymapping.org/index.php/amphibians/ https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/31422221/2009_De_Waele_Env_Geol_58-libre.pdf?1392313062=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DEvaluating_disturbance_on_Mediterranean.pdf&Expires=1706976148&Signature=LK23l8AlL4eywOhZLfnOQl-FmVbxw6r29ROyi85nm~eUE8U~kjnhTl-2B1uYZRok8ENo6k~jsq0ETi0RVY-tlJSEIfS3lB3wnfyEoR8l7CnWoRn1D4JFXigELtq7HYr3Qa7khrTPf0QLBYzqxNNXJUNIBM6CGZ7BheX7dv6oAxsD8saeqrlcchlpFmd3atBK5tylXnOrfXDePObfI5AjtJCYypYd32jkLdsMCP4J70glbBeSEhTjzrjdSDye0D4VqSy-mj3TnVuRrIlwrHTf~k~sygTnWJGh00VCLuX76FXrY3eLdKFuUXQMulwbuNMav4pDWtvmA2BJYg0yMwBdPg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Location-of-the-study-area-a-Schematic-map-of-karst-areas-of-Sardinia-b-Location-map_fig1_258099249 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/DISTRIBUTION-MAP-OF-CAVES-AND-CAVE-ANIMALS-IN-THE-Culver-Hobbs/46d1ba7a8c1df10f008949eb662789bb77a20bd9 https://www.herpconbio.org/Volume_16/Issue_3/Niemiller_etal_2021.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mapa-del-karst-en-Mexico-Instituto-de-Geografia-2017-Nuevo-atlas-nacional-de-Mexico_fig1_352399492 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B978012814124300025X https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-98852-8 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-boxed-areas-in-the-larger-map-of-Europe-A-show-the-geographic-locations-Expanded_fig1_236870648 https://www.hylawerkgroep.be/jeroen/index.php?id=53 https://www.hylawerkgroep.be/jeroen/index.php?id=104 https://www.gbra.org/news/2022/03/cascade-caverns-salamander/ https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/grotto-salamander https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128141243001047 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew-Niemiller/publication/256692416_Conservation_Status_of_the_Georgia_Blind_Salamander_Eurycea_wallacei_from_the_Floridan_Aquifer_of_Florida_and_Georgia/links/00b7d5239d507041df000000/Conservation-Status-of-the-Georgia-Blind-Salamander-Eurycea-wallacei-from-the-Floridan-Aquifer-of-Florida-and-Georgia.pdf http://www.speleobiology.com/niemiller/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/Niemiller_etal_2010c_40.pdf https://www.whymap.org/whymap/EN/Maps_Data/Wokam/wokam_node_en.html https://geoportal.bgr.de/mapapps/resources/apps/geoportal/index.html?lang=en#/geoviewer?metadataId=3ec2f7e4-57af-4519-b93c-8ce2e5e33475 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Location-of-the-study-area-To-the-right-Sardinia-its-karst-areas-blue-and-the-areas_fig2_254861696 https://projekte.cen.uni-hamburg.de/lithomap/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.10437 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Conservation-status-of-the-Georgia-Blind-Salamander-Fenolio-Niemiller/1f9dbfa7ceb11d1ac56c2f929d5b1f28a580271f/figure/4 http://francoisbourgeot.com/site/_Nouveau_site/_jalbum_output/Amphibians%20and%20Reptiles/European%20Cave%20Salamanders/Speleomantes%20sarrabusensis/index.html# https://www.astolinto.it/SchedeVA/GeotritoneB.php https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-21819-8 https://www.herpsafari.nl/trip-reports-eu/2020-7-sardinia/ https://brill.com/display/book/9789004285620/BP000008.xml