Fifty years of cave arthropod sampling: techniques and best practices

• Published in: International journal of speleology Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 33 - 48
• Main Authors: Wynne, J., Howarth, Francis, Sommer, Stefan, Dickson, Brett
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bologna University of South Florida Board of Trustees, a public body corporate, having locations in Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Sarasota 01.01.2019; University of South Florida Libraries
• Subjects: Arthropods; Best practices; Biodiversity; Caves; Climate change; conservation; Decisions; Ecological monitoring; Ecology; Ecosystem biology; Ecosystems; Inventories; Inventory management; Invertebrates; Management; Management decisions; pitfall trapping; repeatability; Sampling; Sampling designs; Standardization; Studies; Surveys; systematic sampling; New Mexico; United States > US; Texas

Ever-increasing human pressures on cave biodiversity have amplified the need for systematic, repeatable, and intensive surveys of cave-dwelling arthropods to formulate evidence-based management decisions. We examined 110 papers (from 1967 to 2018) to: (i) understand how cave-dwelling invertebrates h...