Obligate Cave Fauna of the 48 Contiguous United States
By D. Culver, L. Master, M. Christman, H. H. Hobbs. 2000
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Subfields: Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, Paleontology
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- The North American obligate cave fauna: regional patterns (2003, methodology): “The obligate cave fauna has the highest reported level of endemism of any taxonomic or ecological group of organisms in the United States (L. Master, personal communication).”
- Using biogeographical patterns of endemic land snails to improve conservation planning for limestone karsts (2008, background): “In karst caves, high endemism in animal communities (e.g., fishes, bats, arthropods, etc.) can also result due to evolutionary changes arising from prolonged cohabitation of species from different ecological and biogeographical origins (e.g., Culver et al., 2000; Gibert and Deharveng, 2002).”
- Lost along the way: the significance of evolution in reverse (2003, background): “Termed ‘troglomorphy’, this suite of changes includes reduction in pigment and eye size, hypertrophy of nonoptic sensory organs and a reduced metabolic rate [9, 17 ].”
- Limestone Karsts of Southeast Asia: Imperiled Arks of Biodiversity (2006, background): “…sensitive plants (Kiew 1991), (b) drive away cave-visiting animals such as mammals and arthropods that supply organic matter to guano communities (Culver et al. 2000), (c) pollute cave streams and kill resident fauna, and (d) diminish bat populations that depend heavily on surrounding forests…”
- Diversity, ecology and evolution of groundwater copepods (2009, background): “Recent estimates of stygobiotic species richness in cave waters of the U.S.A. returned surprisingly low numbers of copepods (Culver et al., 2000; Pipan, 2004; Pipan & Culver, 2005; Lewis & Reid, 2007), a result possibly biased by undersampling of meiofauna in North American caves and unconsolidated…”
- Is the Australian subterranean fauna uniquely diverse (2010, background): “In the USA, 973 obligate subterranean species and subspecies were recorded by Culver et al. (2000), comprising 673 terrestrial species and 269 aquatic species.”
- A molecular test for cryptic diversity in ground water: how large are the ranges of macro-stygobionts? (2009, background): “counties (Culver et al., 2000), number of biogeographic regions (Sket, 1999a), or number of 400-km cells of a geographical grid (Ferreira, 2005).”
- The relationship between cave biodiversity and available habitat (2001, background): “Of the 973 species and subspecies known from caves in the 48 contiguous United States, 594 (61%) are restricted to a single county and an additional 23% are restricted to a single state (Culver et al., 2000).”
- Conservation relevance of bat caves for biodiversity and ecosystem services (2017, background): “In just the contiguous 48 states of the U.S., at least 927 species in 96 families are troglobites (obligate cave dwellers), but only 4% of those species enjoy any level of federal protection (Culver et al., 2000).”
- Habitat use, diet and roost selection by the Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus) in North America: a case for conserving an abundant species (2002, background): “Bats are also important components of cave environments, where the accumulation of guano supports a diverse invertebrate community (Poulson, 1972; Culver et al., 2000).”