Ecology of Wisqoq Cave, a raccoon-inhabited cave in Nova Scotia

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Publication Date

January 2013

Publication Title

Speleobiology Notes

Volume Number

5

Abstract

Wisqoq Cave is a natural dissolution cave formed in Mississippian age gypsum anhydrite evaporites on the Avon Peninsula, Hants County, Nova Scotia. It is the only biologically pristine cave discovered in Nova Scotia in recent decades and is the only known cave in the Canadian Maritime provinces in which the cavernicolous invertebrate community is dependent on raccoon dung.

Keywords

Gypsum Cave, Temperature, Threshold Vegetation, Raccoon, Bats, Guano Fauna

Document Type

Article

Language

English

Identifier

SFS0072896_00001

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