This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2020
The Ceremonial Karstscape of Pacbitun, John Spenard, Michael J. Mirro, and C. L. Kieffer
The chronological, sedimentary and environmental context for the archaeological deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa, Zenobia Jacobs, Brian G. Jones, and Hayley C. Cawthra
The Easternmost European Palaeolithic Artists: Iconography and Graphic Features at Kapova Cave (Southern Urals, Russia), Aitor Ruiz-Redondo, Katherin Yanovskaya, and Vladislav S. Zhitenev
The emergence of the Levallois technology in the Levant: A view from the Early Middle Paleolithic site of Misliya Cave, Israel, Yossi Zaidner and Mina Weinstein-Evron
The evolutionary history of extinct and living lions, Marc de Manuel, Ross Barnett, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, and Nobuyuki Yamaguchi
The evolutionary history of Neanderthal and Denisovan Y chromosomes, Martin Peter, Mateja Hajdinjak, and Quiaomei Fu
The impact of sample processing and media chemistry on the culturable diversity of bacteria isolated from a cave, Katey E. Bender, Katelyn Glover, Alexander Archey, and Hazel A. Barton
The karst water environment in Southeast Asia: characteristics, challenges, and approaches, Guanghui Jiang, Zhao Chen, Chaiporn Siripornpibul, Eko Haryono, Nam Xuan Nguyen, Thida Oo, Liza Socorro Juanico Manzano, Sinxay Vongphachanh, Sitha Kong, and Fang Guo
The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain), Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Jeanne-Marie Geiling, Jennifer R. Jones, Manuel R. González Morales, Lawrence G. Straus, and Michael P. Richards
The Natural and Constructed Landscape of Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala, Brent Skoy Kerry Woodfill and Marc Wolf
The Neandertal bone industry at Chagyrskaya cave, Altai Region, Russia, Malvina Baumann, Hugues Plisson, William Rendu, Serge Maury, Kseniya Kolobova, and Andrey Krivoshapkin
The Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: A lost world and extinct ecosystem, Naomi Cleghorn, Alastair J. Pots, and Hayley C. Cawthra
The Pleistocene geoarchaeology and geochronology of Con Moong Cave, North Vietnam: Site formation processes and hominin activity in the humid tropics, Conor McAdams, Mike W. Morley, Xiao Fu, Alexander V. Kandyba, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Dong T. Nguyen, Nguyen G. Doi, and Richard G. Roberts
The red coloration of Goikoetxe Cave’s speleothems (Busturia, Spain): An indicator of paleoclimatic changes, V. Martínez-Pillado, I. Yusta, and E. Iriarte
The response of three Mediterranean karst springs to drought and the impact of climate change, Sofia D. Nerantzaki and Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis
The role of microhabitats in structuring cave invertebrate communities in Guatemala, Gabrielle S.M. Pacheco, Marconi Souza Silva, Enio Cano, and Rodrigo L. Ferreira
The Role of Snowmelt on the Spatio-Temporal Variability of Spring Recharge in a Dolomitic Mountain Group, Italian Alps, Giorgia Lucianetti, Daniele Penna, Lucia Mastrorillo, and Roberto Mazza
The state of the art of biospeleology in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union: a review of the cave (endogean) invertebrate fauna. 1. Introduction—crustacea, I. S. Turbanov, D. M. Palatov, and S. I. Golvatch
The state of the art of biospeleology in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union: A review of the cave (endogean) invertebrate fauna. 2. Arachnida—acknowledgments, I. S. Turbanov, D. M. Palatov, and S. I. Golvatch
The state of the art of biospeleology in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union: A review of the cave (endogean) invertebrate fauna. 3. References, I. S. Turbanov, D. M. Palatov, and S. I. Golvatch
The use of ash at Late Lower Paleolithic Qesem Cave, Israel—An integrated study of use-wear and residue analysis, C. Lemorini, E. Cristiani, S. Cesaro, F. Venditti, A. Zupancich, and A. Gopher
The Waterbirds and Dynamics of Lagoa Santa Karst Temporary Lakes, José Eugênio Côrtes Figueira, Paula Fernanda Albonette de Nóbrega, Tulio Dornas, and Janaina Aparecida Batista Aguiar
Thoracic scales of moths as a stealth coating against bat biosonar, Thomas R. Neil, Zhiyuan Shen, Daniel Robert, Bruce W. Drinkwater, and Marc W. Holderied
Time of night and moonlight structure vertical space use by insectivorous bats in a Neotropical rainforest: an acoustic monitoring study, Dylan G.E. Gomes, Giulliana Appel, and Jesse R. Barber
Tracing human mobility in central Europe during the Upper Paleolithic using sub-seasonally resolved Sr isotope records in ornaments, Nina Kowalik, Robert Anczkiewicz, Jarosław Wilczyński, and Piotr Wojtal
Tracking sickness effects on social encounters via continuous proximity sensing in wild vampire bats, Simon P. Ripperger, Sebastian Stockmaier, and Gerald G. Carter
Transcriptional host–pathogen responses of Pseudogymnoascus destructans and three species of bats with white-nose syndrome, Christina M. Davy, Michael E. Donaldson, Hana Bandouchova, Ana M. Breit, Nicole A.S. Dorville, Yvonne A. Dzal, Veronika Kovacova, Emma L. Kunkel, Natália Martínková, Kaleigh J.O. Norquay, James E. Paterson, Jan Zukal, Jiri Pikula, Craig K.R. Willis, and Christopher J. Kyle
Ultrafine calcite formed in Namsan karst cave of DPR of Korea, Hyon Hwangbo, Hak-Chol Sim, and Chol-Man Choe
Ultra-sharp pinnacles sculpted by natural convective dissolution, Jinzi Mac Huang, Joshua Tong, and Michael Shelley
Uncertainties associated with the use of erosional cave scallop lengths to calculate stream discharges, Gregory S. Springer and Andrew Hall
Urine volume reduction during long-duration cave exploration by a light-weight and portable forward osmosis system, Sebastian Engelhardt, Katey E. Bender, Jörg Vogel, Stephen E. Duirk, Francisco B. Moore, and Hazel A. Barton
U-series dating at Nerja cave reveal open system. Questioning the Neanderthal origin of Spanish rock art, Edwige Pons-Branchu, José Luis Sanchidrián, Michel Fontugne, and Mª Ángeles Medina-Alcaide
Using speleothems to constrain late Cenozoic uplift rates in karst terranes, John Engel, Jon Woodhead, and John Hellstrom
Vocal production learning in the pale spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus discolor, Ella Z. Lattenkamp, Sonja C. Vernes, and Lutz Wiegrebe
What the recent restoration of the Lion Man figurine of Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave tells us about its treatment in the Early Upper Palaeolithic, Sibylle Wolf, Nicole Ebinger, Kurt Wehrberger, and Claus-Joachim Kind
Who painted that? The authorship of Schematic rock art at the Los Machos rockshelter in southern Iberia, Francisc Martínez-Sevilla, Meritxell Arqués, Xavier Jordana, and Assumpció Malgosa
Who peeled the bones? An actualistic and taphonomic study of axial elements from the Toll Cave Level 4, Barcelona, Spain, Ruth Blasco, Maite Arilla, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Míriam Andrés, Iván Ramírez-Pedraza, Anna Rufà, Florent Rivals, and Jordi Rosell
World longest Conglomerate Cave list, Bob Gulden
Submissions from 2019
ABCB1 protects bat cells from DNA damage induced by genotoxic compounds, Javier Koh, Yoko Itahana, Ian H. Mendenhall, Dolyce Low, Eunice Xin Yi Soh, Alvin Kunyao Guo, Yok Teng Chionh, Lin-Fa Wang, and Koji Itahana
A combined-method approach to trace submarine groundwater discharge from a coastal karst aquifer in Ireland, Philip Schuler, L. Stoeckl, and P. A. Schnegg
A conceptual model for groundwater circulation using isotopes and geochemical tracers coupled with hydrodynamics: A case study of the Lez karst system, France, C. c. Bicalho, C. Batiot-Guilhe, J.D. Taupin, N. Patris, S. Van Exter, and H. Jourde
Adapting the EPIK method to Brazilian Hydro(geo)logical context of the São Miguel watershed to assess karstic aquifer vulnerability to contamination, Débora Lara Pereira, Paulo Galvão, Thiago Lucon, and Maria Augusta Fujaco
Adaptive shifts, Francis G. Howarth
Additive effects of climate change and human hunting explain population decline and extinction in cave bears, Alessandro Mondanaro, Mirko di Febbraro, and Marina Melchionna
A genetic analysis of the Gibraltar Neanderthals, Lukas Bokelmann, Mateja Hajdinjak, Stéphane Peyrégne, Selina Brace, Elena Essel, Cesare de Filippo, Isabelle Glocke, Steffi Grote, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Sarah Nagel, Janet Kelso, Kay Prüfer, Benjamin Vernot, Ian Barnes, Svante Pääbo, Matthias Meyer, and Chris Stringer
A geophysical attempt to locate a potential cave in the near-vicinity of a water well at Anacacho Limestone setting, Medina County, Texas, Mustafa Saribudak and Alf Hawkins
A high-resolution perspective on MIS 5c-d lithic assemblages from Klasies River main site Cave 1, Mareike J. Brenner and Sarah Wurz
A holistic approach to groundwater protection and ecosystem services in karst terrains, Nico Goldscheider
A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau, Fahu Chen, Frido Welker, and Chuan-Chou Shen
A long record of MIS 7 and MIS 5 climate and environment from a western Mediterranean speleothem (SW Sardinia, Italy), Andrea Columbu, Christoph Spötl, Jo De Waele, and Tsai-Luen Yu
A metaanalysis of bat phylogenetics and positive selection based on genomes and transcriptomes from 18 species, John A. Hawkins, Maria E. Kaczmarek, Marcel A. Müller, Christian Drosten, William H. Press, and Sara L. Sawyer
A modified point dilution test for the assessment of groundwater flux in karst aquifers, Milan M. Radulović, Sergej Poleksić, and Momčilo Blagojević
Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late Pleistocene of the “Caverne Marie-Jeanne” (Hastière-Lavaux, Namur, Belgium): Systematics, paleobiogeography, and paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Almudena Martínez Monzón, Juan Manuel López-García, Iván Lozano-Fernández, and Annelise Folie
A multidisciplinary approach to a unique Palaeolithic human ichnological record from Italy (Bàsura Cave), Marcoo Romano, Paolo Citton, and Isabella Salvador
A multiparameter analysis of environmental gradients related to hydrological conditions in a binary karst system (underground course of the Pivka River, Slovenia), Janez Mulec, Metka Petrič, Alenka Koželj, Clarissa Brun, Erika Batagelj, Aleš Hladnik, and Ladislav Holko
A multiscale stratigraphic investigation of the context of StW 573 ‘Little Foot’ and Member 2, Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa, Laurent Bruxelles, Dominic J. Stratford, and Richard Maire
An 18 ka to present pollen- and phytolith-based vegetation reconstruction from Hall's Cave, south-central Texas, USA, Carlos E. Cordova and William C. Johnson
Analysis of Archaeobotancial Samples from Cuychen: Natural and Cultural Cave Taphonomy, Kendall Baller, Marcus Lorang, Christopher Schwartz, and Christopher Morehart
Analysis of Master Recession Curve (MRC) and flood hydrograph components for karstification degree estimation in Kiskendo Cave, Jonggrangan Karst System, Indonesia, A. Nurkholis, T. N. Adji, E. Haryono, A. Cahyadi, W. A. Waskito, H. Fathoni, I. A. Kurniawan, and R. F. Agniy
Analysis of the Imagry and Text of the Cuychen Vase, Christophe G.B. Helmke
Analysis of the water turbidity in karst springs from S Spain and its relationship with other natural responses, Contribution ID: 712,, J. F. Martín-Rodriguez, M. Mudarra, B. Andreo, and D. Sánchez
Analyzing climate change and surface-subsurface interactions using the Postojna Planina Cave System (Slovenia) as a model system, Tanja Pipan, Metka Petrič, and Stanka Šebela
A Natural Laboratory for Understanding Volcano-Speleogenetic Processes and Planetary Caves, Francesco Sauro, Riccardo Pozzobon, and Tommaso Santagata
An early Aurignacian arrival in southwestern Europe, Miguel Cortés-Sánchez, Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo, María D. Simón-Vallejo, and Chris Stringer
A New Genus and Species of Vesper Bat from West Africa, with Notes on Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), Rainer Hutterer, Jan Decher, Ara Monadjem, and Jonas Astrin
A new troglobitic species of Metopioxys (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Brazilian iron ore caves, ANGÉLICO ASENJO, THADEU PIETROBON, and RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA
Animals from the Dark: An Analysis of Fauna from Midnight Terror Cave, Joseph M. Orozco
An integrated framework to identify and analyze karst sinkholes, V. Zumpano, L. Pisano, and M. Parise
An integrated geophysical and geological interpretation of the area around Unicorn Cave (Southern Harz Mountains, Germany)., Heinz-Gerd Röhling, Ralf Nielbock, Georg Kaufmann, David Colin Tanner, Jan Igel, Ulrich Polom, Henning Zellmer, and Detlef Vogel
Anthropization level of Lascaux Cave microbiome shown by regional‐scale comparisons of pristine and anthropized caves, Lise Alonso, Thomas Pommier, Bernard Kaufmann, Audrey Dubost, David Chapulliot, Jeanne Doré, Christophe J. Douady, and Yvan Moënne‐Loccoz
Anticipating white‐nose syndrome in the Southern Hemisphere: Widespread conditions favourable to Pseudogymnoascus destructans pose a serious risk to Australia's bat fauna, Christopher Turbill and Justin A. Welbergen
Application of the DC resistivity method in urban geological problems of karstic areas, Zsuzsanna Plank and Dorottya Polgár
A probable genetic origin for pitting enamel hypoplasia on the molars of Paranthropus robustus, Ian Towle and Joel D. Irish
Archaeological Investigations at Cuychen, Macal River Valley, Belize, Christophe G.B. Helmke
Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation, Xiu-Jie Wu, Shu-Wen Pei, and Yan-Jun Cai
Are microclimate conditions in El Malpais National Monument caves in New Mexico, USA suitable for Pseudogymnoascus growth?, Terry J. Torres-Cruz, Andrea Porras-Alfaro, Nicole A. Caimi, Ogochukwu Nwabologu, Edward W. Strach, Kaitlyn J.H. Read, Jesse M. Young, Debbie C. Buecher, and Diana E. Northup
Are microclimate conditions in El Malpais National Monument caves in New Mexico, USA suitable for Pseudogymnoascus growth?, Terry J. Torres-Cruz, Porras-Alfaro, and Nicole A. Caimi
A reply to the comment on “Assessing preservation priorities of caves and karst areas using the frequency of endemic cave-dwelling species” by Nitzu et al. (2018), Int. J. Speleol., 47 (1): 43-52, Eugen I. Nitzu, Ioana N. Meleg, and Andrei Giurginca
A review of the major threats and challenges to global bat conservation, Winifred F. Frick, Tigga Kingston, and Jon Flanders
Arrillor cave (Basque Country, northern Iberian Penisula). Chronological, palaeo-environmental and cultural notes on a long Mousterian sequence, M.J. Iriarte-Chiapusso, R. Wood, and A. Sáenz de Buruaga
Assessment of aquifer karstification degree in some karst sites on Java Island, Indonesia, Tjahyo N. Adji, Eko Haryono, and Asyroful Mujib
Assessment of regional flow type and groundwater sensitivity to pollution using hydrograph analyses and hydrochemical data of the Selita and Blue Eye karst springs, Albania, Romeo Eftimi and Peter Malík
A three-dimensional analysis of tooth-root morphology in living bears and implications for feeding behaviour in the extinct cave bear, Alejandro Pérez-Ramos, Kornelius Kupczik, Anneke H. Van Heteren, Gernot Rabeder, Aurora Grandal-D’Anglade, Francisco J. Pastor, Francisco J. Serrano, and Borja Figueirido
A three-dimensional analysis of tooth-root morphology in living bears and implications for feeding behaviour in the extinct cave bear, Alejandro Pérez-Ramos, Kornelius Kupczik, Anneke H. Van Heteren, Gernot Rabeder, Aurora Grandal-D’Anglade, Francisco J. Pastor, Francisco J. Serrano, and Borja Figueirido
Availability of an Environmental Assessment for Field Testing of a Pseudogymnoascus destructans Vaccine, Live Raccoon Poxvirus Vector (RCN–CAL/SP), Department of Agriculture. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Balamkanché Reevaluando: Observaciones Preliminares, James E. Brady, Guillermo de Anda, and Melanie Saldaña
Barite replacement boxwork in the Frasassi caves (Italy), Sandro Galdenzi
Barton Springs segment of the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer, central Texas, Brian B. Hunt, Brian B. Smith, and Nico M. Hauwert
Bat boxes and climate change: testing the risk of over-heating in the Mediterranean region, Garazi Martin Bideguren, Adrià López-Baucells, Xavier Puig-Montserrat, Maria Mas, Xavier Porres, and Carles Flaquer
Bat Coronaviruses in China, Yi Fan, Kai Zhao, and Zheng-Li Shi
Bats and Coronaviruses, Arinjay Banerjee, Kirsten Kulcsar, Vikram Misra, Matthew Frieman, and Karen Mossman
Bats as potential suppressors of multiple agricultural pests: A case study from Madagascar, James Kemp, Adrià López-Baucells, and Ricardo Rocha
Bat tolerance to viral infections, David T. S. Hayman
Bayesian Calibration and Sensitivity Analysis for a Karst Aquifer Model Using Active Subspaces, Mario Teixeira Parente, Daniel Bittner, Steven A. Mattis, Gabriele Chiogna, and Barbara Wohlmuth
Beeswax rock art from Limmen National Park (Northern Territory), northern Australia: new insights into technique-based patterning and absence in the rock art record, Liam M. Brady, John J. Bradley, and Daryl Wesley
Beneath the Forest, Volume 12, No. 1, Spring 2019, Dan Seifert
Better constraining silica-enthalpy mixing models in a setting of two separate (karst and non-karst) dilution regimes, Horia Mitrofan, Constantin Marin, and Ioan Povara
Between Worlds: Understanding Ritual Cave Use in Later Prehistor, Lindsey Büster, Eugène Warmenbol, and Dimitrij Mlekuž
