The Impact of Geomorphology and Human Disturbances on the Faunal Distributions in Tiquara and Angico Caves of Campo Formoso, Bahia, Brazil

Characterization of fauna is important for the understanding ofcommunities and ecosystems, enabling the design of actions forconservation. In the present piece of work, we identified total 45 morphospecies belonging to the order Acarina, Pseudoscorpionida,Dictyoptera, Araneida, Amblypygi, Isopoda, Plecoptera, Amphipoda,Zygentoma, Spirostreptida, Coleoptera, Collembola, Diptera, Ensifera, Heteroptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Psocoptera from two distinct types of caves of Campo Formoso, state of Bahia in Brazil. It was made toprovide subsidies for conservation studies. The targeted caves were Tiquara Cave suffered for many years from saltpeter extraction and Angico Cave less visited cave having high tourist potential. Though the conservation status is much better in Angico cave, but we found comparatively moremorphospecies in Tiquara cave