Is it true there is a cave in Central Kalimantan?
First time in doing penelitia about cave in Borneo by the PALAWA UAJY Karihun Betung National Park and Roberts (1990), a French adventurer who cave to do research on the caves in Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan. His research is in the doing of good that comes to fauna and diversity of life. The cave is located in Central Kalimantan is located in the Fall Topus, Hulu Sungai Barito. It turned out that there are caves in the Fall Topus not only one but quite a lot. From the results of a survey exploring Research Center Agency - Biology (LIPI) have obtained fourteen cavern with details of nine caves mapped and the remaining five caves are not mapped. There's also a different cave locations of the eleven pieces in the cave Panat, Samali two caves and one cave in the town Puruk Cahu (district Glum Kingdom). The length of cave passage that is mapped 2952 meters, the longest cave is the cave of Liang Hajud.
Cave environment has a very unique ecosystem to observe, because the cave was never a light in his life (dark), that is what sets it apart from other ecosystems crate of tropical rain forest ecosystems, rice field ecosystems, coastal ecosystems, the ecosystem of the river, and lake ecosystems. Thus, the diversity of the cave and save a lot of behavior from biotiknya components (flora and fauna). Cave environment to differentiate into 3 parts, namely the light zone, transition zone, and the dark zone.
Fauna (animals) that live in the cave had to be able to adapt to the cave to lingkngan can preserve fauna species (species). The level of adaptation of the living fauna in the cave ecosystem is divided into three groups, namely troglosen, troglofil, and troglobit. Troglobit for the terrestrial and aquatic areas referred to by stigosen. These terms are then used as a "title" of the relevant to the cave ecosystem. Troglosen groups are groups of animals that live light areas, is a group troglofil animals that live in the transition area, and troglobit are animals that live in dark areas.
Fallen is scope Topus Source Barito district and the village is the most upstream end of the Barito river.
