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Cave Invertebrates

A bit of Info and cool pictures on Cave Invertebrates:

http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~sjtaylor/cave/mexico/JK/pdf/Karst_Invertebrates.pdf

Elliott 2000. Conservation of the North American Cave and Karst Biota.

http://www.tmm.utexas.edu/sponsored_sites/biospeleology/namcons.htm

see Factor C: Disease or Predation
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List a Karst Meshweaver, Cicurina cueva, as an Endangered Species. Federal Register: February 1, 2005. Vol. 70 (20): 5123-5128.
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/2005/February/Day-01/e1765.htm

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for Seven
Bexar County, TX, Invertebrate Species. Federal Register: April 8, 2003. Vol 68 (67): 17155-17231.http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/2003/April/Day-08/e7735.htm

Taylor and Others

Taylor & Phillips. 2003. A survey of Plethodan sp. (Plethodontidae) Salamander Populations in Caves and Sinkholes at Fort Hood, Texas. http://owww.cecer.army.mil/techreports/DeNight_salamander/DeNight_Salamander.pdf

Taylor et al. 2003. The Foraging Range of a Central Texas Cave Cricket, Ceuthophilus secretus (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae). National Cave and Karst Management Symposium in Gainesville, Florida.The 16^th National Cave and Karst Management Symposium. (Abstract)

http://www.nckms.com/abstracts.htm

Taylor et al. 2002. Preliminary report on investigations of Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) impacts on karst invertebrate communities at Fort Hood, Texas. (Abstract)

http://www.cecer.army.mil/td/tips/pub/details.cfm?PUBID=4584&AREA=12

Future Publications

Kathirithamby, J. and S. J. Taylor. A new species of Halictophagus (Insecta: Strepsiptera: Halictophagidae) from Texas, and a checklist of Strepsiptera from the United States and Canada. Zootaxa (submitted 16 February 2005)

Smith, J. E., S. J. Taylor, C. J. Whelan, M. L. Denight, and M. M. Stake. Fire ant impacts on avian species: nest predation and energetic costs to the Black-capped Vireo. Condor (submitted 12 July 2004).

Taylor, S. J., J. K. Krejca, and M. L. Denight. 2005. Foraging range and habitat use of Ceuthophilus secretus (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae), a key trogloxene in central Texas cave communities. American Midland Naturalist 154:97-114. (temporary access to pdf)

Taylor, S. J., J. K. Krejca, J. E. Smith, and M. L. Denight. Assessing red imported fire ant impacts on cave invertebrates. Journal of Applied Ecology

Taylor, S. J., J. K. Krejca, J. E. Smith, M. E. T. Muyot and M. L. Denight. in prep. Temporal and spatial distribution of cave invertebrates in six Texas caves in relation to environmental
parameters. Ecological Entomology.

TTU Biology Seminar (Spring 2005)

Cave Crickets and Cave Communities in Central Texas

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