Advances and Challenges in Studying Cave Microbial Diversity -- Cave Biofilms and Their Potential for Novel Antibiotic Discovery -- Cave Conservation: A Canadian caver's Perspective -- Cave Conversation: A Microbiologist's Perspective -- Microbial Ecology: Caves as an Extreme Habitat -- Studies of Antibiotic Production by Cave Bacteria.  .

This book details recent findings in the field of cave microbiology and builds on fast-paced efforts to exploit an unconventional and underexplored environment for new microorganisms which may provide an untapped source of drugs: microorganisms from caves.