Invertebrate Survey of Roaring Springs Cave, Grand Canyon National Park-September 1994
Drost CA and Blinn DW. 1995. Invertebrate Survey of Roaring Springs Cave, Grand Canyon National Park-September 1994. Flagstaff, AZ
Roaring Springs Cave was investigated in response to a plan for closing part of the cave to protect the park water source; to help determine effects on the cave ecology, information about the invertebrate fauna was gathered. Earlier surveys found several unique invertebrate species, and this study found an amphipod tentatively identified as a new species. There is a list of the aquatic taxa discovered, with a note that no protozoans, rotifers, or copepods were found. A discussion of the terrestrial taxa reports that most were found in the twilight zone about a hundred meters in from the cave entrance. The report also includes a description of the cave's geological and physical environment. The conclusion is that little disturbance of the invertebrate inhabitants would be expected from sealing one of the six known entrances. Brief bibliography, species list
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Drost, Charles; Blinn, Dean
- Date of Issue
- 1995-01-15
- Units
- GRCA
- Keywords
- Algae, Amphipods (Amphipoda), Animals, Aquatic Invertebrates, Biology, Caves, Checklist, copepod (Lernaea Cyprinaceae), Food, Insects (Insecta), Inventory (Baseline), NPSRecord, Plankton, Resource Management, Roaring Springs Cave (GRCA), Spiders (Araneae), Terrestrial