This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2019
Talking stones: Cherokee syllabary in Manitou Cave, Alabama, Beau Duke Carroll, Alan Cressler, Tom Belt, Julie Reed, and Jan F. Simek
Taxonomic review of the Amazonian millipede genus Parastenonia Hoffman, 1977 and description of a new species from iron-ore caves (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae), Rodrigo S. Bouzan, Luiz Felipe M. Iniesta, Claudio A. R. de Souza, Robson A. Zampaulo, and Antonio D. Brescovit
Technological successions in the Middle Stone Age sequence of Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa, Guillaume Porraz, Pierre-Jean Texier, and Will Archer
Temperature and CO2 dependency of global carbonate weathering fluxes – Implications for future carbonate weathering research, G. Romero-Mujalli, J. Hartmann, and J. Börker
Temperature and CO2 dependency of global carbonate weathering fluxes – Implications for future carbonate weathering research, G. Romero-Mujalli, J. Hartmann, and J. Börker
The African Humid Period, rapid climate change events, the timing of human colonization, and megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar during the Holocene: Evidence from a 2m Anjohibe Cave stalagmite, Lixin Wang, George A. Brook, David A. Burney, and Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa
The Anthropogenic Use of Firewood During the European Middle Pleistocene: Charcoal Evidence from Levels XIII and XI of Bolomor Cave, Eastern Iberia (230–160 ka), Paloma Vidal-Matutano, Ruth Blasco, Pablo Sañudo, and Josep Fernández Peris
THE ASTYANAX CAVES OF MEXICO: CAVEFISHES OF TAMAULIPAS, SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, AND GUERRERO, Graham Proudlove
The Biology of Caves and Other Subterranean Habitats, David C. Culver and Tanja Pipan
The bony labyrinth of StW 573 (“Little Foot”): Implications for early hominin evolution and paleobiology, Amélie Beaudet, Ronald J. Clarke, and Laurent Bruxelles
The case for seasonal surface changes at Titan’s lake district, S. M. MacKenzie, J. W. Barnes, and J. D. Hofgartner
The cave-dwelling dipluran (Diplura, Campodeidae) on the edge of the Last Glacial Maximum in Vancouver Island caves, North America (Canada), Alberto Sendra and Craig Wagnell
The characteristics and controlling factors of facies-controlled coastal eogenetic karst: insights from the Fourth Member of Neoproterozoic Dengying Formation, Central Sichuan Basin, China, Zhengqiang Che, Xiucheng Tan, and Jiating Deng
The Châtelperronian Neanderthals of Cova Foradada (Calafell, Spain) used imperial eagle phalanges for symbolic purposes, A. Rodríguez-Hidalgo, J. I. Morales, and A. Cebrià
The control of the formation of karst collapse through the ancient Yellow River Fault zone in Xuzhou, China, Longyu Cui, Jingnun Huang, and Xin Wu
The dental remains from the Early Upper Paleolithic of Manot Cave, Israel, Rachel Sarig, Cinzia Fornai, and Ariel Pokhojaev
The dissolution mechanism and karst development of carbonate rocks in karst rocky desertification area of Zhenfeng–Guanling–Huajiang County, Guizhou, China, You'en Bai, Qi Liu, and Zhanfei Gu
The EAA Act: A Success Story, Edwards Aquifer Authority
The early Upper Palaeolithic of Cova de les Cendres (Alicante, Spain), Valentín Villaverde, Christina Real, Dídac Roman, and Rosa María Albert
The Edwards Aquifer: The Past, Present, and Future of a Vital Water Resource, Brian A. Smith and Brian B. Hunt
The Effect of Volatile Organic Compounds on Pseudogymnoascus Destructans the Causative Agent of White Nose Syndrome in Bats, Victoria Lois Korn
The endocast of StW 573 (“Little Foot”) and hominin brain evolution, Amélie Beaudet, Ronald J. Clarke, and Edwin J. de Jager
The first Neanderthal specimen from Serbia: Maxillary first molar from the Late Pleistocene of Pešturina Cave, Predrag Radoović, Joshua Lindal, and Dušan Milhailović
The geochemistry and origin of fluids in the carbonate structure of the Hranice Karst with the world's deepest flooded cave of the Hranicka Abyss, Czech Republic, O. Sracek, M. Geršl, and J. Faimon
The Impact of Visit Frequency on Kreo Cave Tourism Development, N Bashit, S Subiyanto, Y Prasetyo, A Sukmono, and S. A. Br Sitepu
The lampenflora in show caves and its treatment: an emerging ecological problem, Carlos Baquedano Estévez, Luis Moreno Merino, Almudena de la Losa Román, and Juan J. Durán Valsero
The Misunderstood Lives Of Bats, Andi Murphy
The multifaceted effects induced by floods on the macroinvertebrate communities inhabiting a sinking cave stream, Octavian Pacioglu, Nicoleta Ianovici, Mărioara N. Filimon, Adrian Sinitean, Gabriel Iacob, Henrietta Barabas, Alexandru Pahomi, Andrei Acs, Hanelore Muntean, and Lucian Pârvulescu
The origin and distribution of Ordovician Yingshan dolomite on the northern slope of Tazhong area in Tarim Basin, Zhao Jiahui, Zhao Rui, and Wu Yasheng
The Paleolithic Burials at Qafzeh Cave, Israel, Bernanrd Vandermeersch and Ofer Bar-Yosef
The Paleolithic Burials at Qafzeh Cave, Israel, Bernard Vandermeersch and Ofer Bar-Yosef
The Significance of Air Circulation and Hearth Location at Paleolithic Cave Sites, Yafit Kedar and Ran Barkai
The skull of StW 573, a 3.67 Ma Australopithecus prometheus skeleton from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa, Ronald J. Clarke and Kathleen Kuman
The Translation of a Maya Cosmogram onto an Uncooperative Terrestrial Landscape, James E. Brady
The Upwelling Groundwater Flow in the Karst Area of Grassano-Telese Springs (Southern Italy), Francesco Fiorillo, Guido Leone, Mauro Pagnozzi, Vittorio Catani, Giovanni Testa, and Libera Esposito
The Upwelling Groundwater Flow in the Karst Area of Grassano-Telese Springs (Southern Italy), Francesco Fiorillo, Guido Leone, Mauro Pagnozzi, Vittorio Catani, Giovanni Testa, and Libera Esposito
Time series analysis application for karst aquifer characterisation in Pindul Cave karst system, Indonesia, Afid Nurkholis, Tjahyo Nugroho Adji, Eko Haryono, Ahmad Cahyadi, and Slamet Suprayogi
Timing and structure of Termination II in north China constrained by a precisely dated stalagmite record, Wuhui Duan, Hai Cheng, Ming Tan, Xianglei Li, and R. Lawrence Edwards
Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia, Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li, and Michael V. Shunkov
Towards Organic Carbon Isotope Records from Stalagmites: Coupled δ13C and 14C Analysis Using Wet Chemical Oxidation, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Susan Q. Lang, Negar Haghipour, and Cameron McIntyre
Transition or Replacement? Radiocarbon Dates from Hohle Fels Cave (Alb-Donau-Kreis / D) and the Passage from Aurignacian to Gravettian, Andreas Taller and Nicholas J. Conard
Trou de la Mère Clochette, Jonathan Ozcelebi
UIS Commission on Volcanic Caves Newsletter, No. 74, May 2019, Ed Waters
UIS Commission on Volcanic Caves Newsletter, No. 75, December 2019, Ed Waters
Understanding flooding in poljes: A modelling perspective, Cyril Mayaud, Franci Grabovšek, Matej Blatnik, and Blaž Kogovšek
Understanding Ritual Cave Use in Later Prehistory, Lindsey Büster, Eugène Warmenbol, and Dimitrij Mlekuž
Understanding the Banff Hot Springs through Karst Hydrogeology, Charles Yonge
Use of remote sensing and long-term in-situ time-series data in an integrated hydrological model of the Central Kalahari Basin, Southern Africa, Moiteela Lekula and Maciek W. Lubczynski
USGS 08170990 Jacobs Well Spg nr Wimberley, TX, U.S. Geological Survey
USGS 08171000 Blanco Rv at Wimberley, TX, U.S. Geological Survey
U-Th and radiocarbon dating of calcite speleothems from gypsum caves (Emilia Romagna, North Italy), Andrea Columbu, Russell Drysdale, John Hellstrom, Jon Woodhead, Hai Cheng, Quan Hua, Jian-xin Zhao, Paolo Montagna, Edwige Pons-Branchu, and R. Lawrence Edwards
U-Th dated speleothem recorded geomagnetic excursions in the Lower Brunches, Jean-Pierre Pozzi, Louis Rousseau, Christophe Falguères, and Geoffroy Mahieux
Vampire Bats that Cooperate in the Lab Maintain Their Social Networks in the Wild, Simon P. Ripperger, Gerald G. Carter, and Niklas Duda
Vampire Venom: Vasodilatory Mechanisms of Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) Blood Feeding, Rahini Kakumanu, Wayne C. Hodgson, and Ravi Ravina
Variability in Middle Stone Age symbolic traditions: The marine shell beads from Sibudu Cave, South Africa, Marian Vanhaeren, Lyn Wadley, and Francesco d'Errico
Variable responses of karst springs to recharge in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco, Brett A. Howell, Alan E. Fryar, and Lahcen Benaabidate
Variation in the Number of Hibernating Cave Myotis (Myotis Velifer) in Western Oklahoma and Northwest Texas Caves Prior to the Arrival of White-nose Syndrome, William Caire, Loucks Lynda Samanie, and Jason B. Shaw
Virally-vectored vaccine candidates against white-nose syndrome induce anti-fungal immune response in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus), Tonie E. Rocke, Brock Kingstad-Bakke, and Marcel Wüthrich
Virus- and Interferon Alpha-Induced Transcriptomes of Cells from the Microbat Myotis daubentonii, Martin Hölzer, Andreas Schoen, Julia Wulle, Marcel A. Müller, Christian Drosten, Manja Marz, and Friedemann Weber
Viruses in bats and potential spillover to animals and humans, Lin-Fa Wang and Danielle E. Anderson
Water and air dynamics within a deep vadose zone of a karst massif: Observations from the Lukina jama–Trojama cave system (-1,431 m) in Dinaric karst (Croatia), Andrej Stroj and Dalibor Paar
Water quality and the bad-water (saline-water) zone of the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer, John M. Sharp and Brian A. Smith
Water tracing in karst aquifers, William K. Jones
Weathering fronts, Jonathan D. Phillips, Łukasz Pawlik, and Pavel Šamonil
Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records, Alexander Budsky, Jasper Wassenburg, and Regina Mertz-Kraus
White-nose Syndrome And Immune Responses In A Resistant Bat Species (Eptesicus Fuscus), Keslie Skye Naffa
White-nose syndrome dramatically altered the summer bat assemblage in a temperate Southern Appalachian forest, Joy M. O’Keefe, Joseph L. Pettit, and Susan C. Loeb
White-nose syndrome restructures bat skin microbiomes, Meghan Ange-Stark, Tina L. Cheng, Joseph R. Hoyt, Kate E. Langwig, Katy L. Parise, Winifred F. Frick, A. Marm Kilpatrick, Matthew D. MacManes, and Jeffrey T. Foster
Winter habitats of bats in Texas, Melissa B. Meierhofer, Joseph S. Johnson, and Samantha J. Leivers
World Subterranean Heritage, E. Trofimova and A. Trofimov
Yucatán carnivorans shed light on the Great American Biotic Interchange, Blaine W. Schubert, James C. Chatters, and Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales
Zooarchaeology of Cuychen: Natural and Cultural Cave Taphonomy, Gavin B. Wisner, Katie K. Tappan, and Chrissina C. Burke
Submissions from 2018
A Bibliometric Study of Research Output on White-Nose Syndrome, Sonia Bansal
A biological switching valve evolved in the female of a sex-role reversed cave insect to receive multiple seminal packages, Kazunori Yoshizawa
A DTM-based volume extraction approach: from micro-scale weathering forms to planetary lava tubes, Riccardo Pozzobon, Silvia Salvini, and Claudio Mazzoli
A genetic classification of caves and its application in eastern Austria, P. Oberender and P. Plan
A highly resolved record of relative sea level in the western Mediterranean Sea during the last interglacial period, Victor J. Polyak, Bogdan P. Onac, and Joan J. Fornós
A Late Classic Hilltop Cache from Northern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, Brent Skoy Kerry Woodfill
A MIS 9/MIS 8 speleothem record of hydrological variability from Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.), Eleonora Regattieri, Giovanni Zanchetta, Ilaria Isola, and Petra Bajo
Ammonia oxidation (amoA) and nitrogen fixation (nifH) genes along metasandstone and limestone caves of Brazil, Eric de Lima Silva Marques, Eduardo Gross, João Carlos Teixeira Dias, Carlos Priminho Pirovani, and Rachel Passos Rezende
A multi-frequency radar sounder for lava tubes detection on the Moon: Design, performance assessment and simulations, Leonardo Carrer, Christopher Gerekos, and Lorenzo Bruzzone
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, M. Mudarra, and A. I. Marín
An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa, Christopher S. Henshilwood, Francesco d’Errico, and Karen L. van Niekerk
Analysis of Water Control in an Underground Mine Under Strong Karst Media Influence (Vazante Mine, Brazil), Hugo Ninanya, Nilson Guiguer, and Eurípedes A. Vargas Jr.
An approach for understanding site location preferences on Pas River Basin during Late Magdalenian. Landscape analysis of Las Monedas cave, Paula Ortega Martínez and Aitor Ruiz-Redondo
Ancient DNA of the extinct Jamaican monkey Xenothrix reveals extreme insular change within a morphologically conservative radiation, Roseina Woods, Samuel T. Turvey, and Selina Brace
An epigenetic mechanism for cavefish eye degeneration, Aniket V. Gore, Kelly A. Tomins, James Iben, Li Ma, Daniel Castranova, Andrew E. Davis, Amy Parkhurst, William R. Jeffery, and Brant M. Weinstein
A new archaic bat (Chiroptera: Archaeonycteridae) from an Early Eocene forest in the Paris Basin, Suzanne J. Hand and Bernard Sigé
A new model for simulating spring discharge recession and estimating effective porosity of karst aquifers, Bin Xu, Ming Ye, and Shuning Dong
A new model for simulating spring discharge recession and estimating effective porosity of karst aquifers, Bin Xu, Ming Ye, Shuning Dong, Zhenxue Dai, and Yongzhen Pei
Antimicrobial activities of culturable microorganisms (actinomycetes and fungi) isolated from Chaabe Cave, Algeria, Larbi Belyagoubi, Nabila Belyagoubi-Benhammou, Valme Jurado, Joëlle Dupont, Sandrine Lacoste, Fatima Djebbah, Fatima Z. Ounadjela, Souad Benaissa, Salim Habi, Djamel E. Abdelouahid, and Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez
A parsimonious distributed model for simulating transient water flow in a high-relief karst aquifer, Eulogio Pardo-Igúzquiza, Peter Dowd, and Antonio Pulido Bosch
A post-Jaramillo age for the artefact-bearing layer TD4 (Gran Dolina, Atapuerca): New paleomagnetic evidence, Claudia Álvarez-Posada, Josep María Parés, and Gloria Cuenca-Bescós
A potential central role of Thaumarchaeota in N-Cycling in a semi-arid environment, Fort Stanton Cave, Snowy River passage, New Mexico, USA, Jason C. Kimble, Ara S. Winter, Michael N. Spilde, Robert L. Sinsabaugh, and Diana E. Northup
Application of artificial neural networks for hydrological modelling in Karst, Miljan Kovačević, Nenad Ivanišević, Tina Dašić, and Ljubo Marković
Application of Water Isotopes to Identify the Sources of Groundwater Recharge in a Karstified Landscape of Western Himalaya, Ghulam Jeelani, Rouf A. Shah, and Rajendrakumar D. Deshpande
Applications of Electronic-Nose Technologies for Noninvasive Early Detection of Plant, Animal and Human Diseases, Alphus Dan Wilson
Applying Dye Tracing to Characterize Surface-water and Groundwater Interactions in the Trinity Aquifers, Central Texas, Brian A. Smith, Brian B. Hunt, and Marcus O. Gary
A Reconsideration of Sacred Landscape: Excavations in a Small Depression at Dos Hombres, Belize, James Brady and F. Valdez Jr.
A Review and Statistical Assessment of the Criteria for Determining Cave Significance, Augusto S. Auler, Tatiana A.R. Souza, and Daniela C. Sé
