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Biodiversity endokarstic of the Middle Atlas (Morocco): An Underground Richness to Inventory

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Geoheritage of the Middle Atlas (Morocco)

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The endokarst heritage of the Middle Atlas is of high geological and geomorphological value, and biodiversity is one of its main elements. Not well known and still insufficiently taken into account, it is also very rich and varied. An inventory of aquatic and terrestrial species currently recorded allows to reveal the richness and variety of this heritage increasingly affected by environmental changes and various human impacts.

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Ms. Khaoula Baadi for giving me the opportunity to present this chapter on the subterranean biodiversity of the Middle Atlas and for agreeing to translate it into English; Mr. Axel Hernandez, University Pasquale Paoli of Corsica (France), for allowing me to publish the photograph of Salamandra algira atlantica Hernandez and Escoriza 2019; Ms. Soumia Moutaouakil, Cadi Ayyad University (Morocco), for the additional information she so kindly provided and for allowing me to publish some of her photographs; and the Groupe d’Études de Biospéologie (GEB) of the Commission Scientifique (CoSci) de la Fédération Française de Spéléologie (FFS), https://geb.ffspeleo.fr/. Accessed 14 October 2022.

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Lebreton, B. (2023). Biodiversity endokarstic of the Middle Atlas (Morocco): An Underground Richness to Inventory. In: Baadi, K. (eds) Geoheritage of the Middle Atlas (Morocco). Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27073-4_12

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