This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2018
The Muknal cave near Tulum, Mexico: An early-Holocene funeral site on the Yucatán peninsula, Sarah R. Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, and Alejandro Terrazas
The Oldowan industry from Swartkrans cave, South Africa, and its relevance for the African Oldowan, Kathleen Kuman, Morris B. Sutton, Travis Rayne Pickering, and Jason L. Heaton
The Origins of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia and the evolution of the genus Homo
The Paleontology Synthesis Project and Establishing a Framework for Managing National Park Service Paleontological Resource Archives and Data, Vincent L. Santucci, Justin Tweet, and Tim Connors
The Phosphates of Pleistocene–Holocene Sediments of the Eastern Gallery of Denisova Cave, M. V. Shunkov, N. A. Kulik, and M. B. Kozlikin
The role of mites in the construction and weathering of siliceous biospeleothems, María José López-Galindo
The use of Harris Matrices in rock art research
Tooth fractures in the Krapina Neandertals, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Valentina Mariotti, Alessandro Riga, and Benedetta Bonfiglioli
Trichoderma polysporum selectively inhibits white-nose syndrome fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans amidst soil microbes, Amanpreet Singh, Erica Lasek-Nesselquist, and Vishnu Chatervedi
Trouble on the dating scene, David G. Pearce and Adelphine Bonneau
Two new species of cave-adapted pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisiidae, Chthoniidae) from Guangxi, China, Zhizhong Gao, J. Judson Wynne, and Feng Zhang
Two subspecies of bent-winged bats (Miniopterus orianae bassanii and oceanensis) in southern Australia have diverse fungal skin flora but not Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Peter H. Holz, Linda F. Lumsden, and Mark S. Marenda
UIS Bulletin, Volume 60, No. 2, December 2018, Efraín Mercado
Unconfined hypogene evaporite karst: West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, USA, Kevin W. Stafford, Jon T. Ehrhart, Adam F. Majzoub, Jessica M. Shields, and Wesley A. Brown
Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS) Commission on Volcanic Caves, John Bush and Ed Waters
United States Bat Species of Concern: A Synthesis, Thomas J. O’Shea, Michael A. Bogan, and Paul Cryan
United States bat species of concern: A synthesis, Thomas J. O'Shea, Paul M. Cryan, and Michael A. Bogan
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Observations of Water Surface Elevation and Bathymetry in the Cenotes and Lagoons of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Filippo Bandini, Alejandro Lopez-Tamayo, and Gonzalo Merediz-Alonso
Unsuspected retreats: autumn transitional roosts and presumed winter hibernacula of little brown myotis in Colorado, Daniel J. Neubaum
Unusual internal structure of cm-sized coldwater calcite: Weichselian spars in former pools of the Zinnbergschacht Cave (Franconian Alb/SE Germany), Detlev K. Richter, Rolf D. Neuser, Martin Harder, Hardy Schabdach, and Denis Scholz
U–Pb-dated flowstones restrict South African early hominin record to dry climate phases, Robyn Pickering, Andy I.R. Herries, and Jon D. Woodhead
Update from the 2017 and 2018 Excavations by the University of Oregon Archaeology Field School at Connley Caves 2 and 5 (35LK50), Fort Rock Basin, Oregon, Katelyn N. McDonough, Ritchie Rosencrance, and Justin A. Holcomb
U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art, D. L. Hoffmann, C. D. Standish, and M. García-Diez
Utilization status of rainwater harvesting and its improvement techniques in bare karst areas for domestic use and ecological restoration, Guanghui Jiang, Fang Guo, and Kwong Fai Andrew Lo
Variation in regional and landscape effects on occupancy of temperate bats in the southeastern U.S., Benjamin D. Neece, Susan C. Loeb, and David S. Jachowski
Variation in regional and landscape effects on occupancy of temperate bats in the southeastern U.S.., Benjamin D. Neece, Susan C. Loeb, and David S. Jachowski
Vulnerability of Tri-Colored Bats (Perimyotis subflavus) to White-Nose Syndrome in the Southeastern United States, Pallavi Sirajuddin
Water-quality observations of the San Antonio segment of the Edwards aquifer, Texas, with an emphasis on processes influencing nutrient and pesticide geochemistry and factors affecting aquifer vulnerability, 2010–16, Stephan P. Opsahl, MaryLynn Musgrove, and Barbara Mahler
When did modern humans leave Africa?, Chris Stringer and Julia Galway-Witham
White-nose syndrome is associated with increased replication of a naturally persisting coronaviruses in bats, Christina M. Davy, Michael E. Donaldson, and Sonu Sobudhi
Wild, insectivorous bats might be carriers of Campylobacter spp., Wilma C. Hazeleger, Wilma F. Jacobs-Reitsma, and Peter H.C. Lina
Submissions from 2017
50,000 years of archaeological site stratigraphy and micromorphology in Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, Western Australia, I. Ward, P. Veth, and L. Prossor
A Bükki Karsztvíz Észlelő Rendszer Bővítése És a Mért Eredmények Felhasználása a Bükk Környékének Vízgazdálkodásában, Gondárné Sőregi Katalin, Gondár Károly, and Muszaki Foldtudomanyi Kozlemenyek
A Carved Speleothem Monument at Yaxchilan, Mexico, Christophe G.B. Helmke
A checklist of subterranean arthropods of Iran, Mohammad J. Malek-Hosseini and Alireza Zamani
A Collection of Fiber Sandals from Last Supper Cave, Nevada, and Its Implications for Cave and Rock Shelter Abandonment during the Middle Holocene, Aaron P. Ollivier, Geoffrey M. Smith, and Pat Barker
A compact field fluorometer and its application to dye tracing in karst environments, Amaël Poulain, Gaëtan Rochez, and Jean-Pierre Van Roy
A Comparative Analysis of Viral Richness and Viral Sharing in Cave-Roosting Bats, Anna R. Willoughby, Kendra L. Phelps, and Kevin J. Olival
A Conceptual Model for Hypogene Speleogenesis in Grand Canyon, Arizona, Victor J. Polyak, Carol A. Hill, Yemane Asmerom, and David D. Decker
A coupled groundwater-flow-modelling and vulnerability-mapping methodology for karstic terrain management, Konstantina P. Kavouri, George P. Karatzas, and Valérie Plagnes
A culture-based survey of fungi in soil from bat hibernacula in the eastern United States and its implications for detection of Geomyces destructans, the causal agent of bat white-nose syndrome, Jeffrey M. Lorch, Daniel Lindner, and Andrea Gargas
A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia, Kay Prüfer, Cesare de Filippo, and Steffi Grote
Alkerdi 2: a new Gravettian rock art cave in Western Pyrenees, Diego Garate Maidagán, J. Tapia, O. Rivero, and V. Abendaño
A multi-method approach for groundwater resource assessment in coastal carbonate (karst) aquifers: the case study of Sierra Almijara (southern Spain), B. Andreo, J. A. Barberá, and M. Mudarra
Analysis of Flow Dimension from a Pumping Test in a Karst Aquifer, Alireza Nassimi and Zargham Mohammadi
Ancient Digs and Modern Myths: The Age and Context of the Kent's Cavern 4 Maxilla and the Earliest Homo sapiens Specimens in Europe, Mark White and Paul Pettitt
Ancient Pueblo Rock Art Depicts a 'Celebratory' Solar Eclipse, Tracy Staedter
An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–63,000 years ago, K. E. Westaway, J. Louys, and R. D. Awe
A new genus for Cirolana troglexuma Botosaneanu & Iliffe, 1997, an anchialine cave dwelling cirolanid isopod (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from the Bahamas, Niel L. Bruce, Saskia Brix, and Nicholas Balfour
A new genus for Cirolana troglexuma Botosaneanu & Iliffe, 1997, an anchialine cave dwelling cirolanid isopod (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from the Bahamas, Niel L. Bruce, Saskia Brix, and Nicholas Balfour
A new genus of horse from Pleistocene North America, Peter D. Heintzman, Grant D. Zazula, and Ross D. E. MacPhee
A new species of Cavernocypris Hartmann, 1964 (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from caves in South Korea, Robin James Smith, Takahiro Kamiya, and Yong-gun Choi
A new species of Trichopeltis Pocock, 1894 from southern China, with a checklist and a distribution map of Trichopeltis species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Cryptodesmidae), Natdanai Likhitrakarn, Sergei I. Golovatch, and Ruttapon Srisonchai
Anthropogenic infilling of a Bermudian sinkhole and its impact on sedimentation and benthic foraminifera in the adjacent anchialine cave environment, Jacquelyn N. Cresswell, Peter J. van Hengstum, Thomas M. Iliffe, Bruce E. Williams, and Gil Nolan
Aquifer Discharge Drives Microbial Community Change in Karst Estuaries, Daminan M. Menning, William A. Carraher-Stross, and Elaina D. Graham
Archaeology of the Niah Caves: The archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak. Volume II, Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson, and Tim Reynolds
A recharge-discharge water budget and evaluation of water budgets for the Edwards Aquifer associated with Barton Springs, Raymond M. Slade
A resilient landscape at Teixoneres Cave (MIS 3; Moià, Barcelona, Spain): The Neanderthals as disrupting agent, Jordi Rosell, Ruth Blasco, and Florent Rivas
Argentina Subterránea, Volume 17, No. 41, April 2017, Carlos Benedetto
Argentina Subterránea, Volume 17, No. 42, October 2017, Carlos Benedetto
Artists before Columbus: A multi-method characterization of the materials and practices of Caribbean cave art, Alice V.M. Samson, Lucy J. Wrapson, and Caroline R. Cartwright
Assessing flow paths in a karst aquifer based on multiple dye tracing tests using stochastic simulation and the MODFLOW-CFP code, Amin Assari and Zargham Mohammadi
Assessing preservation priorities of caves and karst areas using the frequency of endemic cave-dwelling species, Eugen Nitzu, Marius Vlaicu, Andrei Giurginca, Ioana N. Meleg, Ionut Popa, Augustin Nae, and Ştefan Baba
A step-wise semi-distributed simulation approach to characterize a karst aquifer and to support dam construction in a data-scarce environment, R. Adinehvand, E. Raeisi, and A. Hartmann
A striking new genus and species of troglobitic Campodeidae (Diplura) from Central Asia
Astronomical Alignments at Teotihuacan, Mexico, Ivan Šprajc
Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District Management Plan, Mary Stone, Blayne Stansberry, and Blake Doorsett
Bat Guano: A Possible New Source for Paleoclimate Reconstructions, JoAnna Wendel
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans surveillance in salamanders of southeastern Virginia, USA, Amanda Guthrie and Roger Sweeney
Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 14. Bat fauna of the Socotra Archipelago, Yemen, Petr Benda, Abdul Karim Nasher, and Kay Van Damme
Bat urea-derived minerals in arid environment. First identification of allantoin, C4H6N4O3, in Kahf Kharrat Najem Cave, United Arab Emirates, Philippe Audra, Pavel Bosák, Fernando Gázquez, Didier Cailhol, Roman Skála, Lenka Lisá, Šárka Jonášová, Amos Frumkin, Martin Knez, Tadej Slabe, Nadja Zupan Hajna, and Asma Al-Farraj
Bat white-nose syndrome: a real-time TaqMan polymerase chain reaction test targeting the intergenic spacer region of Geomyces destructans, Laura K. Muller, Jeffrey M. Lorch, and Daniel L. Lindner
Bat wing biometrics: using collagen–elastin bundles in bat wings as a unique individual identifier, Sybill K. Amelon, Sarah E. Hooper, and Kathryn M. Womack
Bedrock geology and hydrostratigraphy of the Edwards and Trinity aquifers within the Driftwood and Wimberley 7.5-minute quadrangles, Hays and Comal Counties, Texas, Allan K. Clark and Robert Morris
Behavioral inferences from the high levels of dental chipping in Homo naledi, Ian Towle, Joel D. Irish, and Isaelle De Groote
Beneath the Forest, Volume 10, No. 1, Spring 2017, Johanna L. Kovarik
Beneath the Forest, Volume 10, No. 2, Fall 2017, Johanna L. Kovarik
Bioaccumulation of metallic trace elements and antioxidant enzyme activities in Apfelbeckia insculpta (L. Koch, 1867) (Diplopoda: Callipodida) from the cave Hadži-Prodanova Pećina (Serbia), Jelena Vranković, Slavica Borković-Mitić, Bojan Ilić, Milanka Radulović, Slaviša Milošević, Slobodan Makarov, and Bojan Mitić
Body temperatures of hibernating little brown bats reveal pronounced behavioural activity during deep torpor and suggest a fever response during white-nose syndrome, Heather W. Mayberry, Liam P. McGuire, and Craig K. R. Willis
Bone Technology from Late Pleistocene Caves and Rockshelters of Sri Lanka, Nimal Perera, Patrick Roberts, and Michael Petraglia
Calcite raft geochemistry as a hydrological proxy for Holocene aquifer conditions in Hoyo Negro and Ich Balam (Sac Actun Cave System), Quintana Roo, Mexico, Shawn E. Kovacs, Eduard G. Reinhardt, James C. Chatters, and Dominique Rissolo
Carbonate diagenetic products and processes from various diagenetic environments in Permian paleokarst reservoirs: a case study of the limestone strata of Maokou formation in Sichuan Basin, South China, Xuesong Tian, Zejin Shi, and Guan Yin
Carbonate secondary porosity development in a polyphase paleokarst from Precambrian system: upper Sinian examples, North Tarim basin, northwest China, Fei Yang, Zhidong Bao, and Demin Zhang
Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Natural resource condition assessment, Kevin M. Benck, Kathy Allen, Andy J. Nadeau, and Hannah Hutchins
Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Natural resource condition assessment, K. M. Benck, K Allen, A. J. Nadeau, and H. Hutchins
Cave acoustics in prehistory: Exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response, Bruno Fazenda, Scarre, and Rupert Till
Cavefish and the basis for eye loss, Jaya Krishnan and Nicolas Rohner
Cave millipedes of the United States. XIV. Revalidation of the genus Speorthus Chamberlin, 1952 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Macrosternodesmidae), with a description of a new species from Texas and remarks on the families Polydesmidae and Macrosternodesmidae in North America, William A. Shear and James M. Reddel
Cave monitoring in the Béke and Baradla caves (Northeastern Hungary): implications for the conditions for the formation cave carbonates, György Czuppon, Attila Demény, Szabolcs Leél-Őssy, Mihály Óvari, Mihály Molnár, József Stieber, Klaudia Kiss, Krisztina Kármán, Gergely Surányi, and László Haszpra
Cave Research Foundation Annual Report 2016-2017, Ed Klausner
Cave Talk, February 2017, Robert A. Holt
Cavidades naturales en rocas magmáticas:las cuevas en rocas plutónicas, Marcos Vaqueiro Rodríguez
Challenges for creating a site-specific groundwater-use record for the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system (central USA) from 1900 to 2010, Katherine J. Knierim, Anna M. Nottmeier, and Scott Worland
Characterization and hydraulic behaviour of the complex karst of the Kaibab Plateau and Grand Canyon National Park, USA, Casey J.R. Jones, Abraham E. Springer, and Benjamin W. Tobin
Characterization of Microsatellites in Pseudogymnoascus destructans for White-nose Syndrome Genetic Analysis, Kevin P. Drees, Katy Parise, and Stephanie M. Rivas
Chemical deposits in evaporite caves: an overview, Paolo Forti
Chronology, stable isotopes, and glaciochemistry of perennial ice in Strickler Cavern, Idaho, USA, Jeffrey S. Munroe, Samuel S. O’Keefe, and Andrew L. Gorin