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Subterranea Croatica, Vol. 15 No. 2, 2017.

Professional paper

1st Biospeleological Expedition - Biokovo 2017

Vedran Sudar orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-2864-5471 ; Croatian biospeleological society, Zagreb, Croatia
Nikolina Kuharić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-4408-9791 ; Croatian biospeleological society, Zagreb, Croatia
Petra Bregović orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-2849-5546 ; Croatian biospeleological society, Zagreb, Croatia
Alen Kirin ; Croatian biospeleological society, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

It is conjectured that there are over 1000 caves on the Biokovo Mountain of which more than 400 have been found so far and 115 have been biologically surveyed. Earlier research suggested that the Biokovo Mountain is home to the richest subterranean fauna in Croatia and that further understanding of the cave biology was necessary.
The “1st Biospeleological Expedition - Biokovo 2017” was organised by the Croatian Biospeleological Society in cooperation with the Breganja Association and Imber Speleological Section.  The two main goals of the expedition were to biologically survey eight deep caves in the Biokovo Nature Park and to update the survey of Vilimova Jama (A-2).
The main part of the expedition took place from 17th to 25th June 2017 but it took two other visits in May and June to mark the approaches to the deep caves and to equip most of them. More work was also done in October after the expedition. According to preliminary results, around 10 new species have been found, two deep caves (Jama Pod Kamenitim Vratima and Nova Velika) and four shallower caves were completely surveyed, and Vilimova Jama (A-2) Cave and A-1 Cave were mapped to depths of 101 m and 110 m, respectively.  Biospeleological research was carried out in 26 caves of which eight are deep caves. Altogether 52 people participated in the expedition of which 43 were speleologists or biospeleologists from twenty different speleological and biological associations. Among the participants, six people were from other countries.

Keywords

Biokovo; Expedition; Biospeleology; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

197109

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/197109

Publication date:

1.12.2017.

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