NEW FAUNAL AND FUNGAL RECORDS FROM CAVES IN GEORGIA, USA
NEW FAUNAL AND FUNGAL RECORDS FROM CAVES IN GEORGIA, USA
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美国乔治亚州洞穴的新动物和真菌记录
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2000
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J. Ozier
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作者:
W. Reeves;J. Jensen;J. Ozier
The cave fauna of Georgia has attracted less attention than that of neighboring Alabama and Tennessee, yet Georgia contains many unique cave systems. Limestone caves are found in two geological regions of the state, the Coastal Plain, and the Appalachian Plateau and Valley. Over five hundred caves in Georgia are known, but biological information has been reported for less than 15%. Culver et al. (1999) reviewed the distributions of cavernicoles in the United States. Their records of obligate cave dwellers in Georgia were significantly less than records for adjacent counties of Alabama and Tennessee. Holsinger and Peck (1971) reviewed the cave faunal records of Georgia and included their own collection records in an annotated checklist. Since that publication, new records and species descriptions have been published. As indicated by Gosz (1999), the longer the sampling effort in a biodiversity survey, the more likely rare or seasonal species will be collected. The objective of our paper is to update the cave faunal and fungal records in Georgia by reporting recently collected material and reviewing relevant literature published after Holsinger and Peck (1971). MATERIALS AND METHODS