Cave diving, significant method of investigation and karst groundwater protection
Milanovic, S.(Rudarsko-geoloski fakultet, Beograd (Serbia and Montenegro). Institut za hidrogeologiju)
Data collecting during cave diving investigations appreciably yield to reconstruction of karst process evolution in particular region, what is very important in prediction of karstification and determination of main groundwater directions. In past thirty years more than 40 speleologicals objects as spring, caves and ponors were investigated in Serbia and Montenegro by cave divers. Protection of karst groundwater is getting more and more as important parameter of regional planning and development of karstic regions. One of the groundwater protection aspects totally unattended is human influence on endemic species which are settleing karstic channels filled with water. Thanks to cave diving it is enable to observate and investigate some of this species directly in their environment. Besides human fish (Proteus anguinus) and fish gaovica (Paraphoxinus ghetaldi) one of most often inhabitant is amphipoda rank (of Nipharus) which is till now find in many location of Dinaric karst. Protection of speleofauna and endemic species is directly connected with groundwater protection. Unfortunately, partly because of unawared and partly because of irresponsibility, survival of this species is in the mark of questions.
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