Cave habitats

Cave habitats can be divided by several factors, but all of them have some common features:

  • lack of light, with the exception of cave entrances
  • relatively small amount of food, which all comes from outside of the caves
  • relative humidity is very high and stabile, and depends on air flow and circulation in caves
  • relatively stable air temperature which usually mach annual average temperature of the cave area, but also depends on the morphology, hidrology and proportions of the cave
  • relatively low and stabile temperature of water

Cave habitats can be divided in terrestrial, transitional and aquatic habitats.