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© Biospeologica Bibliographia Publications 2010-1 Page 28 sur 116 Southern Australia:39. In: 20 th International Conference on Subterranean Biology, Postojna, Slovenia, 29 August-3 September 2010, ICSB 2010 Abstract Book, edited by: Ajda MOŠKRIČ and Peter TRONTELJ, ISBN 978-961- 269-286-5. ABS: The Nullarbor Plain covers an area over 200000 km 2 and is one of the largest areas of continuous exposed karst in the world. Scientific documentation of the caves and biological collections commenced in the late 19 th century although much of this earlier information on caves and cave fauna has remained scattered in scientific journals, unpublished reports, museum collections, speleological databases and private records. This has hindered integration and coherent assessment of the region's karstic and subterranean biodiversity values, needed for informed conservation management of this highly significant karst area. The purpose of this study was to compile an inventory of caves and karst features, and develop a preliminary characterization of subterranean biodiversity values, including knowledge gaps and future research needs. Presently, more than 687 caves and nearly 3000 other karst features (dolines, blowholes, rock shelters, etc) have been recorded, of which approximately 200 have had biological collections. The compiled database of biological collections comprised nearly 2000 occurrence records of 309 provisional taxa belonging to 134 families. Invertebrates comprised 90% of these records, with bats and birds representing the remainder. The most well represented invertebrate taxa were arachnids (157 taxa), followed by insects, crustaceans, and myriapods. The overall taxonomic resolution was low, with less than onehalf (49%) of the fauna identified to species level, however, the obligate subterranean fauna known to date comprises at least 26 species in 19 genera. Stygobionts are conspicuously absent from most Nullarbor caves despite the presence of large saline lakes in about a dozen caves. Stygobionts with marine affinities have been recorded from caves on the Roe Plain, a portion of the Nullarbor karst which was subject to a marine transgression in the Pliocene-Early Pleistocene. To assist with setting conservation priorities, the caves were assigned a preliminary biological importance ranking based on a combination of obligate species richness, total species richness, and cave length. This study identified major gaps in taxonomic knowledge, geographic sampling coverage, and reservation status for biologically important caves, and highlighted the need for further systematic surveys. http://www.icsb2010.net/ EBERHARD (S. M.), STEVENS (N.), PERINA (G.) & BELL (P.), 2010. Troglofauna in the Pilbara region, Western Australia - Patterns in diversity and distribution, and sampling considerations for conservation assessment:38. In: 20 th International Conference on Subterranean Biology, Postojna, Slovenia, 29 August-3 September 2010, ICSB 2010 Abstract Book, edited by: Ajda MOŠKRIČ and Peter TRONTELJ, ISBN 978-961- 269-286-5. ABS: Discovery of diverse terrestrial invertebrate assemblages in subterranean habitats associated with iron-ore bearing rocks in the Pilbara region has driven a spate of troglofauna surveys as part of pre-mining environmental impact assessment. We present the results from recent surveys undertaken by mining companies which contribute new understanding towards this remarkable hidden element of biodiversity in Western Australia’s arid regions. Patterns in the systematic composition, species richness and abundance of troglofauna assemblages collected from mining exploration drill holes are described. The systematic composition of the assemblages includes arachnids (Araneae, Pseudoscorpionida, Schizomida, Palpigrada), insects (Diplura, Thysanura, Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Blattodea), myriapods (Diplopoda, Chilopoda, Symphyla, Pauropoda) and crustaceans (Isopoda). Species distribution patterns, which ranged from regionally widespread to highly localised short-range endemics, were not necessarily concordant with geologic habitat discontinuities. Among the taxa which exhibited morphological modifications to subterranean life (troglomorphy), such as loss of eyes and pigment and elongation of appendages, their degree of specialization varied, and a proportion of troglomorphic taxa were more typically associated with soil, plant roots or leaf litter, as opposed to deep subterranean habitats. The emerging patterns and characteristics of the subterranean assemblages have important ramifications for interpretation of ecological survey data, and the conservation assessment of "troglofauna". We identify some key issues involved with survey and assessment of troglofauna, and highlight future challenges in this rapidly developing research field. http://www.icsb2010.net/ Bernard LEBRETON & Jean-Pierre BESSON Créé le : 01.01.2010 Modifié le : 30.06.2010 EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) Panel on Animal Health and Welfare, 2010. Scientific Opinion on African Swine Fever. EFSA Journal 8(3):1556, 149 p. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2010.1556. Available online: www.efsa.europa.eu/efsajournal.htm. BL: Ornithodoros tholozani, cave tick. EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) Panel on Animal Health and Welfare, 2010. Scientific Opinion on the Role of Tick Vectors in the Epidemiology of Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever and African Swine Fever in Eurasia. EFSA Journal 8(8):1703, 156 p. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2010.1703. Available online: www.efsa.europa.eu/efsajournal.htm. ELIAS (N. A.), HASHIM (R.) & KINGSTON (T.), 2010. Energy and nutritional demands in Hipposideros bicolor 142 kHz giving birth right on time:127. In: 15 th International Bat Research Conference, Prague, 22-27 August 2010, the conference manual: Programme, abstracts, list of participants, edited by: Ivan HORÁČEK and Petr BENDA, ISBN 978-80-87154-46-5, 380 p. ABS: The high energetic and nutritional demands of pregnancy and lactation in bats are presumed to require that species in seasonal habitats breed when food availability is greatest. Failure to match parturition with food availability could incur individual fitness costs and, should mismatches occur repeatedly, lead to population declines. In this study, we determine whether an insectivorous rainforest bat from Malaysia, Hipposideros bicolor 142 kHz, synchronizes reproductive activity with insect availability, and if insect availability correlates with local climate variables (temperature and rainfall). The study was conducted in lowland dipterocarp forest around Kuala Lompat Research Station (3°43'N, 102°10'E), Pahang, Malaysia between February and December 2009. Bats were trapped with four-bank harp traps in the forest understorey for five nights each week, and once a month at a nearby cave. A total of 180 female adults were captured, and within-month recaptures were excluded. Females were assigned to five major reproductive categories by examination of the condition of mammary glands and pubic nipples and abdominal palpation: not reproductive; early pregnancy; pregnant; lactating; post-lactating. Two light traps were run simultaneous to the trapping in order to correlate the presence of insects as food source for these small flying mammals. HOBO Automated Weather Station was used to monitor the temperature and rainfall in the study area. Our findings suggest that Hipposideros bicolor 142 kHz has a restricted seasonal monoestry pattern of reproduction in which females produce one litter in a single season each year. Pregnancy was detected as early as February and lactating individuals recorded from April until September. The highest percentage of lactating individuals was recorded in May, which corresponded to the maximum mean rainfall and the highest mean insect dry biomass at the study site, suggesting that this species synchronizes parturition and lactation with the period of maximum food abundance in the habitat. ELLIS (M.), 2010. The Caves of Phitsanulok. December 2010, 21 p. ELLIS (M.), 2010. The Caves of Thailand. 5. The Caves of Chiang Mai. Published by Takobi Ltd Lom Sak Phetchabun Thailand, takobiltd@yahoo.co.uk, http://www.thailandcaves.shepton.org.uk, Copyright © Martin ELLIS, 2010, 79 p. ELLISON (L. E.), 2010. A Retrospective Survival Analysis of Townsend's Big-Eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii) from Washington State. Northwestern Naturalist 91(2):172-182. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1898/NWN09- 10.1. ABS: Townsend's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii) is a species of conservation concern for many states and provinces. However, little is known about key demographic parameters, such as survival, for this species due to its sensitivity to human disturbance. This species can also be vulnerable to injuries from wing bands; the most commonly applied marking technique used in the past to estimate survival in bats. During the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Bat Banding Program (1932- 1972), CM Senger banded 1346 Townsend's Big-eared Bats at 3 major cave systems in Washington during 1964-1975, and continued to
© Biospeologica Bibliographia Publications 2010-1 Page 29 sur 116 recapture banded bats until 1980. I applied current mark-recapture techniques to retrospectively estimate survival of hibernating Townsend's Big-Eared Bats banded by CM Senger. I also investigated sex, time, and trend effects on survival and capture probabilities of these 3 populations of bats using Cormack-Jolly-Seber (CJS) open models and the modeling capabilities of program MARK. For each location, estimates of annual survival and capture probabilities varied somewhat by sex and ranged from 0.54 to 0.68 for males and 0.60 to 0.67 for females. During the banding study, band injuries were noted and populations declined at all locations potentially violating assumptions of the CJS model. However, the dataset from which these estimates were derived is likely to be the most complete and well-maintained dataset in the Bat Banding Program files. Resulting annual survival estimates from these data were relatively precise and modeling provided evidence of time and trend effects and differences in survival between the sexes. These results provide historical, post hoc estimates of an important life-history parameter for this species of bat wintering in caves in 3 localized areas of Washington State. KW: Bat banding, Corynorhinus townsendii, mark-recapture, survival analysis, Townsend's Big-eared Bat, Washington. ENGEL (A. S.), 2010. Book Review. ROMERO Aldemaro, 2009, Cave Biology: Life in Darkness, New York, Cambridge University Press, 306 p. ISBN: 978-0-521- 82846-8 (hardback) and ISBN: 978-0-521-53553-3 (paperback). Integrative and Comparative Biology 50(4, October 19):689-691. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icq067. ABS: Karst landscapes comprise roughly 20% of earth's ice-free land surface underlain by soluble rocks. These landscapes typically consist of extensive underground water-flow systems that include sinking streams, sinkholes, and caves. Caves are generally considered to be solutional or collapseenlarged openings in rock that are enterable by humans, but certainly such openings can exist that are inaccessible to humans. Most cave systems form from some sort of a surface to subsurface hydrological connection within a drainage basin, but lithological and tectonic constraints often limit connectivity of passages across drainage basins. Therefore, cave systems are considered discontinuous habitats. Because of potential geographical and hydrological isolation, caves and other subterranean habitats can provide insight into evolutionary processes, assuming that answers to questions related to how the subsurface came to be colonized, or what the tempo of evolution has been for animals, can be agreed upon. Certainly, to colonize the subsurface, organisms have had to adapt to potential energy and nutrient limitations, oxygen deprivation, geochemically variable solutions, and even the higher water pressures that come with living at depth. The idea that life could flourish in the absolute darkness of caves and other subterranean terrestrial habitats has perplexed naturalists, scientists, and biologists for centuries, including even the most well known of these like Charles Darwin. Cave animals are undoubtedly peculiar creatures, with distinctive troglomorphic characteristics that include being eyeless, depigmented, and having elongated appendages. However, troglomorphy is not limited to organisms from caves, as interstitial (i. e., relating to water-bearing strata, including the hyporheic zone and deep aquifers) and superficial (i. e., epikarst, talus slopes, seeps) subterranean habitats also yield a remarkably rich troglomorphic fauna. Was the ability to live in subsurface habitats derived from preadaptive metabolic, behavioral, or even genetic traits of ancestral individuals, or was it from genetic modification or phenotypic plasticity of individuals... ENGEL (A. S.), 2010. Chapter 10. Microbial Diversity of Cave Ecosystems:219-238. DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481- 9204-5_10. In: BARTON (L. L.), MANDL (M.) & LOY (A.), Geomicrobiology: Molecular and Environmental Perspective. Springer Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York. Library of Congress Control Number: 2010931683. i-xiv + 435 p. ISBN 978-90-481-9203-8, e- ISBN 978-90-481-9204-5. DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481- 9204-5, BARTON (L. L.), MANDL (M.) & LOY (A.), editors. ABS: The formation of natural caves (speleogenesis) is due to any number of processes that result in the hollowing out of rock, including dissolution, mechanical weathering, volcanic activity, or even the melting of glacial ice. Caves are classified based on the solid rock that they developed within, the proximity to the groundwater table (e. g., above, at, or below it), the speleogenetic history of a feature, and the overall passage morphology and organization (e. g., cave length, passage Bernard LEBRETON & Jean-Pierre BESSON Créé le : 01.01.2010 Modifié le : 30.06.2010 shape, passage arrangement, passage levels) (Fig. 10.1). Caves are one type of feature that characterizes a karst landscape, which develops in soluble rocks (e. g., limestone, dolomite, gypsum, halite) that roughly coincides with the global distribution of carbonate sedimentary rocks of all geologic ages (e. g., Ford & Williams, 2007). Although karst comprises ~15-20% of the Earth's ice-free land surface, karst caves are not interconnected, not within the same hydrological drainage basin and definitely not across different drainage basins. ESMAEILI RINEH (S.), AKMALI (V.) & SHARIFI (M.), 2010. Tadovan Cave - a living ecosystem in Iran for study of bats. Poster 45:70. In: 15 th International Bat Research Conference, Prague, 22-27 August 2010, the conference manual: Programme, abstracts, list of participants, edited by: Ivan HORÁČEK and Petr BENDA, ISBN 978-80- 87154-46-5, 380 p. ESMAEILI RINEH (S.), AKMALI (V.) & SHARIFI (M.), 2010. Tadovan Cave - a living ecosystem for study of bats in Iran:130. In: 15 th International Bat Research Conference, Prague, 22-27 August 2010, the conference manual: Programme, abstracts, list of participants, edited by: Ivan HORÁČEK and Petr BENDA, ISBN 978-80- 87154-46-5, 380 p. ABS: The Tadovan cave is locating in the village of Tadovan, about 65 km north of Jahrom in the Fars province. The Tadovan cave is a large and complex cave inhabited by many species of bats. The cave is a home to approximately 10000 bats (at least eight species including Rhinopoma microphyllum, R. muscatellum, Myotis blythii, M. capaccinii, Rinolophus blasii, R. euryale, R. hipposideros, and Miniopterus schreibersi) in four seasons. In the first chamber, we found approximately 300 Rhinopoma individuals of both species. In other parts of the cave, Rhinolophus euryale, R. blasii, R. hipposideros, Myotis blythii, M. capaccinii, and Miniopterus schreibersii hung from the cave ceiling. Several bat specimens were surveyed for ectoparasites. The found ectoparasites included the genera Spinturnix, Eyndhovenia, Ixodes, Pencilidia, and the family Sterblidae. The inventory of the cave includes identification of the bat species, population estimate, ectoparasite load and reproduction state in the bats inhibiting the cave. This information are of particular interest as the cave could be impacted by human disturbance including developmental projects of ecotourism. ESMAEILI RINEH (S.) & SARI (A.), 2010. Niphargids of Iran with focus on the Zagros Mountains:142, poster presentation. In: 20 th International Conference on Subterranean Biology, Postojna, Slovenia, 29 August-3 September 2010, ICSB 2010 Abstract Book, edited by: Ajda MOŠKRIČ and Peter TRONTELJ, ISBN 978-961- 269-286-5. ABS: Pervious studies on Iranian niphargids were limited to a single record of Niphargus valachicus. Despite many underground sources of water in Iran, especially at the Zagros Mountains, there are no further studies on hypogean amphipods associated with caves and springs with underground origin. The Iranian basin is a large triangular depression flanked by Elburz Mountains in the north and Zagros Mountains in the west. The Zagros Mountains extend diagonally from eastern Turkey to the north of the Persian Gulf and Pakistan border. The current survey aims to study members of the genus Niphargus in Iran taxonomically and phylogenetically. At the First step, the karst areas and springs in the west of Iran were located. The specimens were collected from several localities including: Dimeh spring in Chaharmahal-Va- Bakhtiari province, Brolan spring in Azarbaijan province, Sasan River in Fars province, Ghori-Ghale cave in Kermanshah province, Razbashi spring in Lorestan province and Ghaemshahr and Danial cave in Mazandaran province, Cheshmeh-Siah in Kohgiloyeh-Va-Boyerahmad Province. All species of the current study belong to the genus Niphargus. Drawings of the key characters were made using Camera Lucida on a compound microscope. Geographical distribution of all species is plotted around the Zagros Mountains. It seems there are at least three new species among the specimens collected from different water source around the Zagros Mountains. The main diagnostic characters of each species will be used in an illustrated key for niphargids of Iran. http://www.icsb2010.net/ ESPINASA (L.), FURST (S.), ALLEN (T.) & SLAY (M. E.), 2010. A New Genus of the Subfamily Cubacubaninae (Insecta: Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) from Caves in South-
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