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Submissions from 2018

Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS) Commission on Volcanic Caves, John Bush and Ed Waters

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United States Bat Species of Concern: A Synthesis, Thomas J. O’Shea, Michael A. Bogan, and Paul Cryan

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United States bat species of concern: A synthesis, Thomas J. O'Shea, Paul M. Cryan, and Michael A. Bogan

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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

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Unsuspected retreats: autumn transitional roosts and presumed winter hibernacula of little brown myotis in Colorado, Daniel J. Neubaum

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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

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U–Pb-dated flowstones restrict South African early hominin record to dry climate phases, Robyn Pickering, Andy I.R. Herries, and Jon D. Woodhead

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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

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U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art, D. L. Hoffmann, C. D. Standish, and M. García-Diez

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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

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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

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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

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Vulnerability of Tri-Colored Bats (Perimyotis subflavus) to White-Nose Syndrome in the Southeastern United States, Pallavi Sirajuddin

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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

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When did modern humans leave Africa?, Chris Stringer and Julia Galway-Witham

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White-nose syndrome is associated with increased replication of a naturally persisting coronaviruses in bats, Christina M. Davy, Michael E. Donaldson, and Sonu Sobudhi

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Wild, insectivorous bats might be carriers of Campylobacter spp., Wilma C. Hazeleger, Wilma F. Jacobs-Reitsma, and Peter H.C. Lina

Submissions from 2017

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50,000 years of archaeological site stratigraphy and micromorphology in Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, Western Australia, I. Ward, P. Veth, and L. Prossor

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A Bükki Karsztvíz Észlelő Rendszer Bővítése És a Mért Eredmények Felhasználása a Bükk Környékének Vízgazdálkodásában, Gondárné Sőregi Katalin, Gondár Károly, and Muszaki Foldtudomanyi Kozlemenyek

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A Carved Speleothem Monument at Yaxchilan, Mexico, Christophe G.B. Helmke

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A checklist of subterranean arthropods of Iran, Mohammad J. Malek-Hosseini and Alireza Zamani

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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

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A compact field fluorometer and its application to dye tracing in karst environments, Amaël Poulain, Gaëtan Rochez, and Jean-Pierre Van Roy

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A Comparative Analysis of Viral Richness and Viral Sharing in Cave-Roosting Bats, Anna R. Willoughby, Kendra L. Phelps, and Kevin J. Olival

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A Conceptual Model for Hypogene Speleogenesis in Grand Canyon, Arizona, Victor J. Polyak, Carol A. Hill, Yemane Asmerom, and David D. Decker

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A coupled groundwater-flow-modelling and vulnerability-mapping methodology for karstic terrain management, Konstantina P. Kavouri, George P. Karatzas, and Valérie Plagnes

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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

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A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia, Kay Prüfer, Cesare de Filippo, and Steffi Grote

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A Jaunt Through the Constructed Wilderness: The Nohoch Tunich Ritual Bedrock Outcrop and Late Classic Period Urbanism at Pacbitun, Cayo District, Belize, Jon Spenard

Alkerdi 2: a new Gravettian rock art cave in Western Pyrenees, Diego Garate Maidagán, J. Tapia, O. Rivero, and V. Abendaño

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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

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Analysis of Flow Dimension from a Pumping Test in a Karst Aquifer, Alireza Nassimi and Zargham Mohammadi

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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

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Ancient Pueblo Rock Art Depicts a 'Celebratory' Solar Eclipse, Tracy Staedter

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An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–63,000 years ago, K. E. Westaway, J. Louys, and R. D. Awe

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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

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A new species of Cavernocypris Hartmann, 1964 (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from caves in South Korea, Robin James Smith, Takahiro Kamiya, and Yong-gun Choi

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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

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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

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Aquifer Discharge Drives Microbial Community Change in Karst Estuaries, Daminan M. Menning, William A. Carraher-Stross, and Elaina D. Graham

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Archaeology of the Niah Caves: The archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak. Volume II, Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson, and Tim Reynolds

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A recharge-discharge water budget and evaluation of water budgets for the Edwards Aquifer associated with Barton Springs, Raymond M. Slade

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A resilient landscape at Teixoneres Cave (MIS 3; Moià, Barcelona, Spain): The Neanderthals as disrupting agent, Jordi Rosell, Ruth Blasco, and Florent Rivas

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Argentina Subterránea, Volume 17, No. 41, April 2017, Carlos Benedetto

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Argentina Subterránea, Volume 17, No. 42, October 2017, Carlos Benedetto

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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

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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

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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

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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

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A striking new genus and species of troglobitic Campodeidae (Diplura) from Central Asia

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Astronomical Alignments at Teotihuacan, Mexico, Ivan Šprajc

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Audio-magnetotelluric surveys to constrain the origin of a network of narrow synclines in Eocene limestone, Western Desert, Egypt

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Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District Management Plan, Mary Stone, Blayne Stansberry, and Blake Doorsett

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Bat Guano: A Possible New Source for Paleoclimate Reconstructions, JoAnna Wendel

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Batrachochytrium dendro­batidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans surveillance in salamanders of southeastern Virginia, USA, Amanda Guthrie and Roger Sweeney

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Behavioral inferences from the high levels of dental chipping in Homo naledi, Ian Towle, Joel D. Irish, and Isaelle De Groote

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Beneath the Forest, Volume 10, No. 1, Spring 2017, Johanna L. Kovarik

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Beneath the Forest, Volume 10, No. 2, Fall 2017, Johanna L. Kovarik

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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

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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

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Bone Technology from Late Pleistocene Caves and Rockshelters of Sri Lanka, Nimal Perera, Patrick Roberts, and Michael Petraglia

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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

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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

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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

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Natural resource condition assessment, Kevin M. Benck, Kathy Allen, Andy J. Nadeau, and Hannah Hutchins

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Natural resource condition assessment, K. M. Benck, K Allen, A. J. Nadeau, and H. Hutchins

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Cave acoustics in prehistory: Exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response, Bruno Fazenda, Scarre, and Rupert Till

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Cavefish and the basis for eye loss, Jaya Krishnan and Nicolas Rohner

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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

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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

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Cave Research Foundation Annual Report 2016-2017, Ed Klausner

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Cave Talk, February 2017, Robert A. Holt

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Cavidades naturales en rocas magmáticas:las cuevas en rocas plutónicas, Marcos Vaqueiro Rodríguez

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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

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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

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Characterization of Microsatellites in Pseudogymnoascus destructans for White-nose Syndrome Genetic Analysis, Kevin P. Drees, Katy Parise, and Stephanie M. Rivas

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Chemical deposits in evaporite caves: an overview, Paolo Forti

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Chronology, stable isotopes, and glaciochemistry of perennial ice in Strickler Cavern, Idaho, USA, Jeffrey S. Munroe, Samuel S. O’Keefe, and Andrew L. Gorin

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City of New Braunfels Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan Impervious Cover and Water Quality Protection - 5.7.6 Water Quality Protection Plan Phase I, Alan Plummer Associates, Inc.

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Climate change may drive cave spiders to extinction, Stefano Mammola, Sara L. Goodacre, and Marco Isaia

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Climatological trends and anticipated karst spring quantity and quality: case study of the Slovene Istria, Nataša Ravbar, Gregor Kovačič, and Metka Petrič

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Connectivity in a Karst System Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Network Theory, Mariana Gómez‐Nicolás, Mario Rebolledo‐Vieyra, and Efrain Canto‐Lugo

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Conservation relevance of bat caves for biodiversity and ecosystem services, Rodrigo A. Medellin, Ruscena Wiederholt, and Laura Lopez-Hoffman

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Contamination risk and drinking water protection for a large-scale managed aquifer recharge site in a semi-arid karst region, Jordan, Julian Xanke, Tanja Liesch, and Nadine Goeppert

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Continental Oxygen Isotopic Record of the Last 170,000 Years in Jerusalem, Amos Frumkin, Henry Schwarcz, and Derek C. Ford

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Contrasting definitions for the term ‘karst aquifer’, Stephen R.H. Worthington, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, and E. C. Alexander

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Convergent Evolution of Unique Morphological Adaptations to a Subterranean Environment in Cave Millipedes (Diplopoda), Weixin Liu, Sergei I. Golovatch, and Thomas Wesener

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CRONOESTRATIGRAFÍA RELATIVA DE EVENTOS PALEOSÍSMICOS, Leslie Morelio, Evelio Baldo Piedra, and Lisbeth Nunez

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Crowd vocal learning induces vocal dialects in bats: Playback of conspecifics shapes fundamental frequency usage by pups, Yosef Prat, Lindsay Azoulay, and Roi Dor

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Current Research at the Connley Caves (35LK50): Late Pleistocene/early Holocene Western Stemmed Tradition Occupations in the Fort Rock Basin, Oregon, Dennis L. Jenkins, Justin A. Holcomb, and Katelyn N. McDonough

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Cytology and sexuality of 11 species of Elatostema (Urticaceae) in limestone karsts suggests that apomixis is a recurring phenomenon, Long‐Fei Fu, Lan‐Ying Su, and Azim Mallik

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Darkness and the Imagination: The Role of Environment in the Development of Spiritual Beliefs, Holley Moyes, Lillian Rigoli, Stephanie Huette, and Daniel R. Montello

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Dating Palaeolithic cave art: Why U–Th is the way to go, Alistair W.G. Pike, D. L. Hoffmann, and M. García-Diez