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Submissions from 2015

A Bükk karsztvizei [Karstwaters of the Bükk], E. Szegedi-Darabos, L. Lénárt, M. Tóth, and R. Miklós

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A case study of bats and white-nose syndrome demonstrating how to model population viability with evolutionary effects, Brooke Maslo and Nina H. Fefferman

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A checklist of millipede genus Hyleoglomeris Verhoeff, 1910 in mainland China, with descriptions of seven new species (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae), Weixin Liu and Mingyi Tian

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A comparative study of two data-driven methods in detection of vuggy zones: a case study from a carbonate reservoir, west of Iran, Amir Mollajan, Yousef Asgarinezhad, and Behzad Tokhmechi

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A composite annual-resolution stalagmite record of North Atlantic climate over the last three millennia, Andy Baker, John C. Hellstrom, and Bryce F. J. Kelly

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Adaptive Molecular Evolution of PHYE in Primulina, a Karst Cave Plant, Junjie Tao, Qingwen Qi, and Ming Kang

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A Five-Year Assessment of Mortality and Geographic Spread of White-Nose Syndrome in North American Bats and a Look to the Future, Gregory G. Turner, DeeAnn M. Reeder, and Jeremy T. H. Coleman

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Agency, art, and altered consciousness: a motif in French (Quercy) Upper Palaeolithic parietal art, J. D. Lewis-Williams

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A global model for cave ventilation and seasonal bias in speleothem paleoclimate records, Eric W. James, Jay L. Banner, and Benjamin Hadt

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A global synthesis of survival estimates for microbats, Pia E. Lentini, Tomas J. Bird, Stephen R. Griffiths, and Lisa N. Godinho

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A high-density linksage map for Astyanax mexicanus using genotyping-by-sequencing technology, Brian M. Carlson, Samuel W. Onusko, and Joshua B. Gross

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A Hominin Femur with Archaic Affinities from the Late Pleistocene of Southwest China, Darren Curnoe, Xueping Ji, and Wu Liu

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A large-scale simulation model to assess karstic groundwater recharge over Europe and the Mediterranean, A. Hartmann, T. Gleeson, and R. Rosolem

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A Late Holocene environmental history of a bat guano deposit from Romania: an isotopic, pollen and microcharcoal study, L. Forray Ferenc, Bogdan P. Onac, and Ioan Tanţău

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A Milk and Ochre Paint Mixture Used 49,000 Years Ago at Sibudu, South Africa, Paola Villa, Luca Pollarolo, and Ilaria Degano

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Analysis of Site Formation and Assemblage Integrity Does Not Support Attribution of the Uluzzian to Modern Humans at Grotta del Cavallo, J. Zilhão, W. E. Banks, and Francesco d’Errico

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‘Anchialine’ Redefined as a Subterranean Estuary in a Crevicular or Cavernous Geological Setting, Renee E. Bishop, William F. Humphreys, and Neven Cukrov

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Ancient Maya Ritual Pathways: Performing Power Outside The Cave At Las Cuevas, Belize, Marieka Laurren Arksey and Holley Moyes

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Ancient Maya Stone Tools and Ritual Use Of Deep Valley Rockshelter, Belize, James W. Stemp, Gabriel D. Wrobel, and Jessica Haley

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An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor, Qiaomei Fu, Mateja Hajdinjak, and Oana Teodora Moldovan

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A new family of Gonyleptoidea from South America (Opiliones, Laniatores), Cibele Bragagnolo, Marcos R. Hara, and Ricardo Pinto‐da‐Rocha

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A new highly specialized cave harvestman from Brazil and the first blind species of the genus: Iandumoema smeagol sp. n. (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae), Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Rafael Fonseca-Ferreira, and Bichuette Maria Elina

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A new microenvironment for the formation of clay minerals: the example of authigenic halloysite-7Å and gibbsite in a stalactite from Agios Georgios Cave, Kilkis, north Greece, Elena Ifandi, Basilios Tsikouras, Dimitrios Papoulis, Konstantin Hatzipanagiotou, and Aspasia Antonelou

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An integrative approach to characterize Malagasy bats of the subfamily Vespertilioninae Gray, 1821, with the description of a new species of Hypsugo, Steven M. Goodman, Beza Ramasindrazana, and Claude Fabienne Rakotondramanana

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Antibodies to Pseudogymnoascus destructans are not sufficient for protection against white-nose syndrome, Joseph S. Johnson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, and Thomas M. Lilley

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Anticipating and managing engineering problems in the complex karst environment, Mario Parise, Damien Closson, and Francisco Gutiérrez

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Apparent glacially induced structural controls on limestone conduit development in Ohio Caverns, United States, Adrienne M. Watts and Ira D. Sasowsky

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A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF CAVE 1 AT THE SITE OF CHAWAK BUT’O’OB, James E. Brady

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A procedure for evaluating the susceptibility to natural and anthropogenic sinkholes, Mario Parise

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A Rebuttal to Comments on ‘Sacrifice of the Social Outsider’, C. L. Kieffer

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Artifact densities and assemblage formation: Evidence from Tabun Cave, Steven L. Kuhn and Amy E. Clark

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A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence, Vineet D. Menachery, Boyd L. Yount Jr., and Kari Debbink

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A second life: Recycling production waste during the Middle Palaeolithic in layer L at Grotta del Cavallo (Lecce, Southeast Italy), Francesca Romagnoli

A sinuous tumulus over an active lava tube at Kīlauea Volcano: evolution, analogs, and hazard forecasts, Tim R. Orr, Jacob E. Bleacher, and Matthew R. Patrick

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Assessing karst-hydraulic hazards in tunneling—the Brunnmühle spring system—Bernese Jura, Switzerland, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, Arnauld Malard, and Demian Rickerl

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Bacteria Isolated from Bats Inhibit the Growth of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the Causative Agent of White-Nose Syndrome, Joseph R. Hoty, Tina L. Cheng, and Kate E. Langwing

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Bacteria Isolated from Bats Inhibit the Growth of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the Causative Agent of White-Nose Syndrome PLOS One, Joseph R. Hoyt, Tina L. Cheng, and Kate E. Langwig

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Basin-scale conceptual groundwater flow model for an unconfined and confined thick carbonate region, Judit Mádl-Szőnyi and Ádám Tóth

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Bats as ‘special’ reservoirs for emerging zoonotic pathogens, Cara E. Brook and Andrew P. Dobson

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Bats swarm where they hibernate: compositional similarity between autumn swarming and winter hibernation assemblages at five underground sites, Jaap van Schaik, René Janssen, and Thijs Bosch

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Beyond the Ecofact: Toward a Social Paleoethnobotany in Mesoamerica, Christopher T. Morehart and Shanti Morell-Hart

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Biotic and abiotic effects on CO2 sequestration during microbially-induced calcium carbonate precipitation, Tugba Onal Okyay and Debora F. Rodrigues

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Boletín EspeleoAr, Año 7, Número 12, May 2015, Gabriel Redonte

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Bubble-Induced Cave Collapse, Lakshika Girihagama, Doron Nof, and Cathrine Hancock

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Bulgarian Speleological Studies in Albania 1991-2013, Alexey Zhalov

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Buried hill karst reservoirs and their controls on productivity, Jincai Wang, Lun Zhao, and Xiangzhong Zhang

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Carbon flux and landscape evolution in epigenic karst aquifers modeled from geochemical mass balance, Lee J. Florea

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Catalog of Engineering Works in Karst and Their Effects, Petar Milanović

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Cave And Karst Hydrology: A Field Trip Through Owen, Monroe, And Lawrence Counties, Indiana (2015), Lee Florea and Sam Frushour

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Cave Conservation Priority Index to Adopt a Rapid Protection Strategy: A Case Study in Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest, Marconi Souza Silva, Rogerio Parentoni Martins, and Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira

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Cave Cyanobacteria showing antibacterial activity, Vasiliki Lamprinou, Kyriaki Tryfinopoulou, Emmanuel N. Velonakis, Alkiviadis Vatopoulos, Smaragdi Antonopoulou, Elizabeth Fragopoulou, Adriani Pantazidou, and Athena Economou-Amilli

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Cave development by frost weathering, Pauline Oberender and Lukas Plan

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Cave development in an uplifting fold-and-thrust belt of the Tatra Mountains, Poland, Jacek Szczygieł

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Cave Diplopoda of southern China with reference to millipede diversity in Southeast Asia, Sergei I. Golovatch

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Cave-dwelling “slime curtains” cycle nitrogen and iron, Cody Sullivan

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Cavefish eye loss in response to an early block in retinal differentiation progression, Manuel Stemmer, Laura-Nadine Schuhmacher, and Nicholas S. Foulkes

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Cave microbial community composition in oceanic islands: disentangling the effect of different colored mats in diversity patterns of Azorean lava caves, Cristina Riquelme, François Rigal, and Jennifer M. Hathaway

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Cave micro-climate and tourism: towards 200 years (1819 – 2015) at Postojnska jama (Slovenia), Stanka Šebela and Tanja Pipan

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Cave monitoring and the potential for palaeoclimate reconstruction from Cueva de Asiul, Cantabria (N. Spain), Andrew C. Smith, Peter M. Wynn, Philip A. Barker, Melanie J. Leng, Steve R. Noble, and Andrew Stott

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Cave ventilation and rainfall signals in dripwater in a monsoonal setting – a monitoring study from NE India, Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach, Franziska A. Lechleitner, and Hanno Meyer

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Characteristics and Formation Mechanism of Karst Reservoir in Ordovician Carbonate Rock Covered Area in Halahatang Area, Liang Bin, Zhang Qingyu, Cao Jianwen, and Li Jingrui

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Characteristics of channel networks in unconfined carbonate aquifers., Stephen R.H. Worthington

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Characterization and fluorescence of yellow biofilms in karst caves, southwest Slovenia, Janez Mulec, Andreea Oarga-Mulec, Rok Tomazin, and Tadeja Matos

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Characterization of Karst Aquifer, Zoran Stevanovic

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Chlorophyll f-driven photosynthesis in a cavernous cyanobacterium, Lars Behrendt, Asker Brejnrod, and Martin Schliep

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Collembola of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with descriptions of five endemic cave-restricted species, Ernest C. Bernard, Felipe N. Soto-Adames, and J. Judson Wynne

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Comparing flow-through and static ice cave models for Shoshone Ice Cave, Kaj E. Williams and Christopher McKay

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Comparison of morphometric aspects of dolines between two zones in Berici hills (Vicenza, Italy), Benedetta Castiglioni

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Conservation implications of ameliorating survival of little brown bats with white‐nose syndrome, Brooke Maslo, Mick Valent, John F. Gumbs, and Winifred F. Frick

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Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Conservation and Restoration, Gregory P. Dietl, Susan M. Kidwell, Mark Brenner, and David A. Burney

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Conservation Physiology and Conservation Pathogens: White-Nose Syndrome and Integrative Biology for Host–Pathogen Systems, Craig K.R. Willis

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Conspecific disturbance contributes to altered hibernation patterns in bats with white-nose syndrome, James M. Turner, Lisa Warnecke, and Alana Wilcox

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Context-dependent conservation responses to emerging wildlife diseases, Kate E. Langwig

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Crevice Interments Deconstructed, Stephen L. Black, M. Katherine Spradley, and Michelle D. Hamilton

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Cuevas heladas en Picos de Europa: clima, morfologías y dinámicas, Manuel Gómez Lende

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Cyanobacteria, algae and microfungi present in biofilm from Božana Cave (Serbia), Slađana Popović, Gordana Subakov Simić, Miloš Stupar, Nikola Unković, Dragana Predojević, Jelena Jovanović, and Milica Ljaljević Grbić

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Del Chicomostoc al sepulcro sagrado: Cambio y transformación en los cultos subterráneos en el Altiplano Central, Natália Moragas Segura

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Description of a new species of the Miniopterus aelleni group (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from upland areas of central and northern Madagascar, Steven M. Goodman and Beza Ramasindrazana

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Destructin-1 is a collagen-degrading endopeptidase secreted by Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of white-nose syndrome, Anthony J. O’Donoghue, Giselle M. Knudsen, and Chapman Beekman

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Detection of new genetic variants of Betacoronaviruses in Endemic Frugivorous Bats of Madagascar, Norosoa H. Razanajatovo, Lalaina A. Nomenjanahary, and David A. Wilkinson

Determining Status in Looted and Sacrificial Contexts at Midnight Terror Cave, C. L. Kieffer

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Development Of A Finite-element Method Groundwater Flow Model For The Edwards Aquifer, S B. Fratesi, R T. Green, F P. Bertetti, and R N. McGinnis

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Diagnostic tests for conceptualizing transport in bedrock aquifers., Stephen R.H. Worthington

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Direct Detection of Fungal Siderophores on Bats with White-Nose Syndrome via Fluorescence Microscopy-Guided Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Samantha J. Mascuch, Wilna J. Moree, and Cheng-Chih Hsu

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Disease alters macroecological patterns of N orth A merican bats, Winifred F. Frick, Sébastien J. Puechmaille, Joseph R. Hoyt, and Barry A. Nickel

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Disease alters macroecological patterns of North American bats, Winifred F. Frick, Sébastien J. Puechmaille, and Joseph R. Hoyt

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Dissolution on Titan and on Earth: Toward the age of Titan's karstic landscapes, Thomas Cornet, Daniel Cordier, and Tangui Le Bahers

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Dolomitization and burial history of lower triassic carbonate reservoir-rocks in the Persian Gulf (Salman offshore field), Maryam Peyravi, Hossain Rahimpour-Bona, and Fadi H. Nader

Dreams at Las Cuevas: A Location of High Devotional Expression of the Late Classic Maya., Holley Moyes, Mark Robinson, Barbara Voorhies, and Laura Kosakowsky

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Dynamics of biosonar systems in Horseshoe bats, Rolf Müller

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Early Pleistocene human hand phalanx from the Sima del Elefante (TE) cave site in Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain), Carlos Lorenzo, Adrián Pablos, and José M. Carretero

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Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan 2015 Annual Report, Edwards Aquifer Authority

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Effectiveness of quadrat sampling on terrestrial cave fauna survey - a case study in a Neotropical cave, Maria Elina Bichuette, Luiza Bertelli Simões, and Diego Monteiro von Schimonsky

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Effect of oceanic straits on gene flow in the recently endangered little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) in maritime Canada: implications for the spread of white-nose syndrome, B. A. McLeod, L. E. Burns, and T. R. Frasier

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Effects of the conduit network on the spring hydrograph of the karst aquifer, Yong Chang, Jichun Wu, and Ling Liu

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Efficacy of Visual Surveys for White-Nose Syndrome at Bat Hibernacula, A. F. Janicki, W. F. Frick, and A. M. Kilpatrick

Efficacy of Visual Surveys for White-Nose Syndrome at Bat Hibernacula, Amanda F. Janicki, Winifred F. Frick, and A. M. Kilpatrick

Efficacy of Visual Surveys for White-Nose Syndrome at Bat Hibernacula, Amanda F. Janicki, Winifred F. Frick, and Marm Kilpatrick

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Elongated tufaceous stalagmites in the entrance of Batu Cave (Selangor, Malaysia), Dominique Dodge-Wan

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Estimation of Groundwater Mean Residence Time in Unconfined Karst Aquifers Using Recession Curves, Alireza Kavousi and Ezzat Raeisi