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FIGURE 113 in The Cave Fauna of California
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- 1. Cave biologist (retired), Missouri Department of Conservation, 914 Bannister Drive, Jefferson City, Missouri, 65109 (Email:speodesmus@gmail.com);
- 2. Curator Emeritus of Cave Invertebrates, Texas Natural History Collections, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas 78712;
- 3. USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 506 Hayter St., Nacogdoches, Texas 75965;
- 4. Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, California 95819-6077;
- 5. Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 94118;
- 6. Zara Environmental LLC, 1707 W. FM 1626, Manchaca, Texas 78652;
- 7. Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61820-6953
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FIGURE 113. Scatterplot and linear regression of SR (species richness) for 221 caves vs. their vertical cave depth. Although the correlation is low, the positive regression is statistically significant (two-tailed test, p = 0.008) indicating that deeper caves are richer in species than shallow caves. However, the true ecological relationship may be with moisture/humidity rather than cave depth. Shallow caves tend to be warmer and drier, which are less hospitable for moisture-sensitive arthropods.
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Published as part of Elliott, William R., Reddell, James R., Rudolph, D. Craig, Graening, G.O., Briggs, Thomas S., Ubick, Darrell, Aalbu, Rolf L., Krejca, Jean & Taylor, Steven J., 2017, The Cave Fauna of California, pp. 1-311 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 64 on page 77, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13164223
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