Caving Canada

***********TAXONOMIC GROUPS************
• The I.N.H.S. Center for Annelida Resources. Information, bibliographies, WWW hotlinks on the Annelida. Includes groundwater and cave annelids. Maintained by Dr. Mark Wetzell, Illinois Natural History Survey.

• Annelids Aquatic Survey of Montana (Dr. D. L. Gustafson).

• Hypogean Amphipods Systematics of Amphipod Crustaceans in the Families Crangonyctidae and Hadziidae. Authored and maintained by Dr John Holsinger.

• The biology of cave-dwelling (hypogean) fishes Authored and maintained by Graham Proudlove.

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  **************AUSTRALIA**************

• Refugia for biological diversity in Arid and Semi-arid Australia: Caves of Oscar and Napier Ranges
• Refugia for biological diversity in Arid and Semi-arid Australia: Carnarvon
• The Cave Life Page. Photographs of Australian* cave animals by Rauleigh Webb. (*Rauleigh is interested in getting good photographs of cave life from elsewhere for The Cave Life Page.)
  ***************BELGIUM***************

• CPSS Press release relating to the conservation of caves and cave fauna in Belgium.
  ****************BRAZIL***************

• Sociedade Brasileira Para O Progresso da Cijncia.
  ***************CANADA****************

• Island Karst Research
• Canadian BatResources
• Bats in Nova Scotian Caves
  ****************FRANCE***************

• Hydrobiologie et Ecologie Souterraines Groundwater ecology website, Universiti Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.
  ****************ITALY****************

  So far, Italian speleologists have been the most active in putting biospeleology information on the Internet:-

• Institute of Biospeleology
• Ex Istituto di Zoologia

• Links to G.Pesce's superb site on Italian groundwater fauna:-
• Groundwater Biology Home Page
• HOME PAGE or go directly to any of the following links:-
  • First discovery of troglobite sponges
  • Groundwater Taxa
  • Origin of the fauna
  • Current Research
  • Stygofaunal Provinces of Italy
  • Ecology
  • Museums
  • Caves
  • Endangered Species
  • New Species

• Biospeologia Excellent site, providing hotlinks to several items on bats, and to material (including full text articles) on aquatic stygofauna of Italy, especially amphipods. (mostly in Italian).
  ***************ROMANIA****************

• Romanian biospeleology
• Facts about Emil Racovita
• Romanian Speleological Institute
  ***************SLOVAKIA****************

• Slovak cave fauna
  **************SLOVENIA*****************

• Proteus anguinus
  **************** USA ******************

• University of Texas Biospeleology Website. (created and maintained by Bill Elliott).

• Cave Biology Site Information on the biology of marine and anchialine caves in the Bahamas, Bermuda and Yucatan Peninsula (created and maintained by Tom Iliffe, Texas A&M University at Galveston)

• Karst Waters Institute, Inc.

• Missouri Cave Fauna

• INHS Biospeleology Website (created and maintained by Steve Taylor and others, Illinois Natural History Survey).

• cave microbiology. (The Home Page of Peter Febbroriello. Information on Peter's own research in this field, plus external links: MOVILE CAVE and related topics.)

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