Thanks to:
Lee Knight for writing text and support of the project.
Barry Hill for assistance with the web site.
All those who helped with cave photography and cave leaders on Mendip for giving up their time to show me round the caves.

PHOTOGRAPHS
Microniphargus leruthi Marcin Penk and Lee Knight, all other photos Andy Lewington.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

CAVE LIFE and ECOLOGY
Cave Biology:Life in Darkness: Aldemaro Romero: CUP: 2009
Biology of caves and other subterranean habitats; Culver Pipan; OUP; 2009
Caves and Cave Life, Collins 1993 Phil Chapman. (Back in print October 2009)
Limestone and Caves of Mendip 1975
The Soil, Collins, Davis 1992
British Bats, Altringham, Collins 2003
Mosses and Liverworts, Porley and Hodgetts, Collins
Caves and Caving: Caves and Karst Science; Jefferson, Chapman and others
Meta menardi in underground systems in the south west of Britain , C. Rogers; 1996
Ferns, Page, Collins 1988

IDENTIFICATION GUIDES
Mosses and Liverwort Field Guide , British Bryological Association 2010
Spiders Field Guide, Roberts, Collins 1996
Field Studies Council - wide range of keys and guides
Freshwater Biological Association - guides to aquatic life

WEBSITES
Hypogean Crustacea recording scheme website (Antrobathynella, Proasellus & Niphargus spp.),  including species descriptions and photos, notes on sampling methodologies and notes on ecology.  A database of the scheme’s records and a booklet ‘Cave Life in Britain’ available as downloads.
Niphargus website detailing species descriptions, distribution and ecology of the European species of Niphargus, hosted by University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. 
Molluscs
Collembola ecology and biology including descriptions and photographs of cavernicolous species

GENERAL CAVING
Mendip Underground, Irwin & Jarratt, 1999
Speleology, Moore and Sullivan 1978

OTHER LINKS
BCRA biology special interest page on the website of the British Cave Research Association
Council of Southern Caving Clubs
Mendip cave registry and archive.
British Caving Association
Bat Conservation Trust
International Society for Subterranean Biology

CAVING CLUBS
Bristol Exploration Club, hut near Priddy.
Mendip Nature Research Committee, hut on east Mendips.
Mendip Caving Group, hut at Charterhouse, close to Priddy.
Wessex Caving Club, hut near Priddy.
Shepton Mallet Caving Club, hut near Priddy.
Cerberus Spelaeological Society, hut on east Mendips.

SHOW CAVES
Cheddar Caves/Gough's Cave
Wookey Hole

Web site created by Andy Lewington November 2010