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The International Journal of Speleology is the official journal of the Union Internationale de Spéléologie since 1978 and was founded in 1964. It is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, international scientific journal that publishes research and review articles concerning all sciences involved in karst and caves, such as geology, geomorphology, hydrology, archeology, paleontology, (paleo)climatology, cave meteorology, (geo)microbiology, environmental sciences, physics, chemistry, mineralogy, etc. IJS is published three times per year.

Articles are open access at http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ijs. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the following services: Directory of Open Access Journals, ISI Thomson Services (Science Citation Index-Expanded including the Web of Science, ISI Alerting Service, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences), Bibliography & Index of Geology (GeoRef, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, EarthScienceWISE (Oxmill Publishing), EBSCO publishing, Geobase, Speleological Abstracts (UIS), Ulrich’s Periodical Directory ™, BIOSIS Zoological record, SCOPUS (Elsevier), and SCImago Journal and Country Rank.

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SPECIAL ISSUE IN PROGRESS: Volume 54, issue 3 (2025)

Current Issue: Volume 54, Issue 3 (2025) Cave monitoring

Cave Monitoring: Special Issue

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The integrated monitoring of karst systems (MIKS) model, applied in karst studies in Bulgaria
Petar Stefanov, Dilyana Stefanova, and Peter Nojarov

  • Theoretical-methodological platform ProKARSTerra for karst studies
  • Integrated Monitoring of Karst Systems (MIKS) model
  • MIKS comprises 6 types of monitoring
  • Speleo-MIKS model is used for monitoring in cave systems
  • Many problems in organizing and maintaining MIKS are described in this study

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Designing a Cave Air Monitoring System: Guide and feedback from 15 years of monitoring the Cussac Cave (France)
Nicolas Peyraube, Jessica D. Villanueva, Fabien Naessens, Roland Lastennet, Sylvain Mateo, and Alain Denis

  • Providing a flow chart of question to be answered when creating a monitoring system
  • Providing feedback from 15 years of monitoring in a cave
  • Examples of long time series of CO2 monitoring
  • Example of sort time event influence on cave air