This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2018
Recalibration and Predictive Simulations of the Analytic Element Tool to Evaluate the Trinity Aquifer in Hays County, Texas, Wade Oliver and James Pinkard
Recent advances in karst research: from theory to fieldwork and applications
Receptor Usage of a Novel Bat Lineage C Betacoronavirus Reveals Evolution of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Related Coronavirus Spike Proteins for Human Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 Binding, Susanna K.P. Lau, Libiao Zhang, and Hayes K. H. Luk
Reconstructing the sedimentary history of Lezetxiki II cave (Basque Country, northern Iberian Peninsula) using micromorphological analysis, Martin Arriolabengoa, Eneko Iriarte, and Arantza Aranburu
Regional Geologic Geodatabase Project, Central Texas, Lane Cockrell, Brian B. Hunt, and Robin Gary
Relations between surface and underground karst forms inferred from terrestrial laser scanning, Aleksandar S. Petrović, Jelena Ćalić, and Aleksandra Spalević
Replication and reinsertion of stalagmites sampled for paleoclimatic purposes, Eleuterio Baeza, Rafael P. Lozano, and Carlos Rossi
Reply to “Comment on “Ecological niche of Neanderthals from Spy Cave revealed by nitrogen isotopes of individual amino acids in collagen.” [J. Hum. Evol. 93 (2016) 82–90]” [J. Hum. Evol. 117 (2018) 53–55], Yuichi I. Naito, Yoshito Chikaraishi, and Dorothée G. Drucker
Resistance to DNA damage and enhanced DNA repair capacity in the hypoxia-tolerant blind mole rat Spalax carmeli, Vered Domankevich, Hossam Eddini, and Amani Odeh
Response to Comment on “U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art”, D. L. Hoffmann, C. Standish, and M. García-Diez
Restriction-site associated DNA sequences of Eurycea salamanders
Rethinking Emireh Cave: The lithic technology perspectives, Omry Barzilai and Natalia Gubenko
Review: karst springs in Shanxi, China, Zhixiang Zhang, Yongxin Xu, and Yongbo Zhang
Review of the Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Robert A.L. Wray (1966-2017), Robert W. Young
Sequential Incisions on a Cave Bear Bone from the Middle Paleolithic of Pešturina Cave, Serbia, Ana Majkić, Francesco d'Errico, and Stefan Milosević
Serological Evidence of Bat SARS-Related Coronavirus Infection in Humans, China, Ning Wang, Shi-Yue Li, and Xing-Lou Yang
Set-up of an Early Warning System for an Improved Raw Water Management of Karst Groundwater Resources in the Semi-arid Side Wadis of the Jordan Valley, Felix Grimmeisen, David Riepl, Sebastian Schmidt, and Julian Xanke
Seven new species of the spider genus Ochyrocerafrom caves in Floresta Nacional de Carajás, PA, Brazil (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae), Antonio D. Brescovit, Igor Cizauskas, and Leandro P. Mota
Short-tailed mice with a long fossil record: the genus Leggadina (Rodentia: Muridae) from the Quaternary of Queensland, Australia, Jonathan Cramb, Gilbert J. Price, and Scott A. Hocknull
SNO KARST: A French Network of Observatories for the Multidisciplinary Study of Critical Zone Processes in Karst Watersheds and Aquifers, H. Jourde, N. Massei, N. Mazzilli, S. Binet, C. Batiot-Guilhe, D. Labat, M. Steinmann, V. Bailly-Comte, J.L. Seidel, B. Arfib, J.B. Charlier, V. Guinot, A. Jardani, M. Fournier, M. Aliouache, M. Babic, C. Bertrand, P. Brunet, J.F. Boyer, J.P. Bricquet, T. Camboulive, S.D. Carrière, H. Celle-Jeanton, K. Chalikakis, N. Chen, C. Cholet, V. Clauzon, L. Dal Soglio, C. Danquigny, C. Défargue, S. Denimal, and C. Emblanch
Spar caves as fossil hydrothermal systems: Timing and origin of ore deposits in the Delaware Basin and Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas, USA, David D. Decker, Victor J. Polyak, and Yemane Asmerom
Stratigraphic Evaluation Of Trinity Aquifers In Hays And Western Travis County And Implications For Groundwater Availability, Brian A. Smith, Brian B. Hunt, and Nick Soto-kerans
Stream Centric Methods for Determining Groundwater Contributions in Karst Mountain Watersheds, B. T. Neilson, H. Tennant, T. L. Stout, M. P. Miller, R. S. Gabor, Y. Jameel, M. Millington, A. Gelderloos, G. J. Bowen, and P. D. Brooks
Subglacial Conduit Roughness: Insights From Computational Fluid Dynamics Models, Yunxiang Chen, Xiaofeng Liu, and Jason D. Gulley
Submarine and intertidal groundwater discharge through a complex multi-level karst conduit aquifer, Philip Schuler, L. Duran, and T. McCormack
Subterranean Biodiversity Patterns from Global to Regional Scales, Maja Zagmajster, Florian Malard, and David Eme
Subterranean Fishes of the World: An account of the subterranean (hypogean) fishes with a bibliography from 1436., Graham Proudlove and William R. Elliott
Sulfur and oxygen isotopes in the gypsum deposits of the Provalata sulfuric acid cave (Macedonia), Marjan Temovski, István Futó, Marianna Túri, and László Palcsu
Sulfur Cave (Romania), an extreme environment with microbial mats in a CO2-H2S/O2 gas chemocline dominated by mycobacteria, Serban M. Sarbu, Joost W. Aerts, Jean-François Flot, Rob J.M. Van Spanning, Calin Baciu, Artur Ionescu, Boglárka M. Kis, Reka Incze, Sándor Sikó-Barabási, Zoltan Para, Botond Hegyeli, Nicu-Viorel Atudorei, Casey Barr, Kenneth Nealson, Ferenc L. Forray, Cristian Lascu, Emily J. Fleming, Wilbert Bitter, and Radu Popa
Sulfuric acid caves in Calabria (South Italy): Cave morphology and sulfate deposits, Sandro Galdenzi and Teruyuki Maruoka
Sulfur (34S/32S) isotope composition of gypsum and implications for deep cave formation on the Nullarbor Plain, Australia, Matej Lipar, Mateja Ferk, Sonja Lojen, and Milo Barham
Sulphuric acid geofluid contribution on thermal carbonate coastal springs (Italy), L. E. Zuffianò, M. Polemio, R. Laviano, and G. De Giorgio
Summary of Findings: Upper Onion Creek Dye Trace, Hays County, Texas, Winter 2017, Jeffery A. Watson, Brian B. Hunt, and Alex S. Broun
Surface landforms and speleological investigation for a better understanding of karst hydrogeological processes: a history of research in southeastern Italy, M. Parise and L. Benedetto
Tafoni and honeycomb structures as indicators of ascending fluid flow and hypogene karstification, Alexander B. Klimchouk
Tephrostratigraphy of Grotta del Cavallo, Southern Italy: Insights on the chronology of Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Mediterranean, Giovanni Zanchetta, Biagio Giaccio, Monica Bini, and Lucia Sarti
Testing the climatic variability hypothesis in edaphic and subterranean Collembola (Hexapoda), Natália Raschmanová, Vladimír Šustr, and Ľubomír Kováč
The activity of saccharolytic enzymes in Collembola is associated with species affinity for caves, Andrea Parimuchová, Vladimír Šustr, Miloslav Devetter, Ondřej Vošta, Ionuţ Popa, and Ľubomír Kováč
The Blacones Fault Zone Segment of the Edwards Aquifer of South-Central Texas, Kevin W. Stafford, Stephen F. Austin, and George Veni
The cave bear’s hibernation: reconstructing the physiology and behaviour of an extinct animal, Aurora Grandal-d’Anglade, Pérez-Rama, and Ana García-Vázquez
The Chan Hol cave near Tulum (Quintana Roo, Mexico): evidence for long‐lasting human presence during the early to middle Holocene, Fabio Hering, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, and Jens Folmeister
The Chan Hol cave near Tulum (Quintana Roo, Mexico): evidence for long‐lasting human presence during the early to middle Holocene, Fabio Hering, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Jens Folmeister, and Eberhard Frey
The conservation status of Texas groundwater invertebrates, Benjamin T. Hutchins
The Cyrilka Cave—the longest crevice-type cave in Czechia: structural controls, genesis, and age, Jan Lenart, Martin Kašing, Petr Tábořík, Natalia Piotrowska, and Jacek Pawlyta
The earliest modern humans outside Africa, Gerhard W. Weber
The easternmost MiddlePaleolithic (Mousterian) from Jinsitai Cave,North China, Feng Li, Steven L. Kuhn, and Fuyou Chen
The evolution of a series of behavioral traits is associated with autism-risk genes in cavefish, Masato Yoshizawa, Alexander Settle, and Meredith C. Hermosura
The first vertebrate fossil from Socotra Island (Yemen) is an early Holocene Egyptian fruit bat, Kay Van Damme, Petr Benda, and Dirk Van Damme
The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father, Viviane Slon, Fabrizio Mafessoni, and Benjamin Vernot
The Hydromorphic Evolution of the Owl Mountain and Nolan Creek Provinces, Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas, Melinda Faulkner, Matthew McBroom, and Kenneth Farrish
The impact of fire on the geochemistry of speleothem-forming drip water in a sub-alpine cave, Katie Coleborn, Andy Baker, Pauline C. Treble, and Martin S. Andersen
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 SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems, Kamolphat Atsawawaranunt, Laia Comas-Bru, Sahar Amirnezhad Mozhdehi, Michael Deininger, Sandy P. Harrison, Andy Baker, Meighan Boyd, Nikita Kaushal, Syed Masood Ahmad, Yassine Ait Brahim, Monica Arienzo, Petra Bajo, Kerstin Braun, Yuval Burstyn, Sakonvan Chawchai, Wuhui Duan, István Gábor Hatvani, Jun Hu, Zoltán Kern, Inga Labuhn, Matthew Lachniet, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Andrew Lorrey, Carlos Pérez-Mejías, Robyn Pickering, and Nick Scroxton
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
V2Karst V1.1: a parsimonious large-scale integrated vegetation–recharge model to simulate the impact of climate and land cover change in karst regions, Fanny Sarrazin, Andreas Hartmann, Francesca Pianosi, Rafeal Rosolem, and Thorsten Wagener
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
Vibration Monitoring Data from a Bat Hibernaculum at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, March 2016, Ryan F. Adams, William S. Morrow, and Carolyn M. Koebel
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
