Table 1.

Caves considered in this study. Numbers between brackets correspond with the caves shown in Figure 1 and Figure 3. Water presence has four ordered levels (1, occasional presence of areas of water or humid spots; 2, presence of scattered areas of water in the form of more or less continuous drops; 3, presence of permanent pools throughout the cave; 4, presence of rivers or streams), the tropic level has three ordered levels (1, oligotrophic, not having organic material; 2, mesotrophic, scattered organic material present along the cave; 3, meso‐eutrophic, with accumulations of organic material present along the cave), and genesis has two categories (0, epigenic; 1, hypogenic)

Cave name	Altitude (m.s.n.m.)	Size of entrance (m2)	Linear extension (m)	Water	Trophic level	Genesis
Cueva de los Chorros (1)	1,122	300	30,000	4	1	0
Cueva del Farallón (2)	1,250	1.2	600	3	2	0
Cueva‐Sima de los Ladrones (3)	1,570	1	315	2	2	0
Cueva Secreta del Poyo Manquillo (4)	1,500	3	296	2	2	0
Sistema de la Murcielaguina (5)	1,085	10	4,500	2	3	0
Cueva Secreta del Sagreo (6)	1,000	1	236	2	3	0
Cueva del Javalí (7)	1,520	1.5	190	2	3	0
Sima de los 30 Años (8)	1,383	4	340	2	2	0
Cueva de la Morciguilla (9)	700	0.5	480	2	2	0
Sima del Campamento (10)	887	15	538	2	2	0
Sima de la Tubería (11)	930	0.5	65	2	2	0
Cueva del Puerto (12)	495	0.5	5,000	2	1	1
Cova Joliana (13)	653	1	1,100	3	2	0
Cova del Far (14)	120	0.8	1,100	2	2	1
Cova del Somo (15)	860	4.5	1,318	2	2	0
Cova de les Meravelles (Cocentaina) (16)	1,070	0.5	157	2	2	0
Cova de la Punta de Benimaquía (17)	60	12	208	2	3	0
Cova Sant Joan (18)	250	0.8	15	1	2	0
Cova de les Meravelles (Alzira) (19)	60	8	60	2	3	0
Cueva Negra (20)	1,180	72	380	1	1	0
Cueva de la Autopista (21)	90	8	8,000	2	1	1