This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2016
Use of multiple sequencing technologies to produce a high-quality genome of the fungus pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of bat white-nose syndrome, Kevin P. Drees, Jonathan M. Palmer, and Robert Sebra
Using a novel partitivirus in pseudogymnoascus destructans to understand the epidemiology of white-nose syndrome, Vaskar Thapa, Gregory G. Turner, and Susan Hafenstein
Using isotopic, hydrogeochemical-tracer and temperature data to characterize recharge and flow paths in a complex karst groundwater flow system in northern China, Ziyong Sun, Rui Ma, and Yanxin Wang
U/Th and 14C Crossdating of Parietal Calcite Deposits: Application to Nerja Cave (Andalusia, Spain) and Future Perspectives, Hélène Valladas, Edwige Pons-Branchu, Jean Pascal Dumoulin, and Anita Quiles
Vitamin B2 as a virulence factor in Pseudogymnoascus destructans skin infection, Miroslav Flieger, Hana Bandouchova, and Jan Cerny
Weekly variations of discharge and groundwater quality caused by intermittent water supply in an urbanized karst catchment, Felix Grimmeisen, Moritz Zemann, Nadinwe Goeppert, and Nico Goldscheider
What bats have to say about speech and language, Sonja C. Vernes
What is for Dinner? First Report of Human Blood in the Diet of the Hairy-Legged Vampire Bat Diphylla ecaudata, Fernando Ito, Enrico Bernard, and Rodrigo A. Torres
WHAT IS KARST? AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
White-Nose Syndrome Disease Severity and a Comparison of Diagnostic Methods, Liam P. McGuire, James M. Turner, and Lisa Warnecke
White-nose syndrome survivors do not exhibit frequent arousalsassociated with Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection, Thomas Mikael Lilley, Joseph Samuel Johnson, Lasse Ruokolainen, and Elisabeth Jeannine Rogers
White-nose syndrome without borders: Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection tolerated in Europe and Palearctic Asia but not in North America, Jan Zukal, Hana Bandouchova, and Jiri Brichta
‘Who do you want to kill?’ Affectual and relational understandings at a sorcery rock art site in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, Liam M. Brady and John J. Bradley
Widespread Bat White-Nose Syndrome Fungus, Northeastern China, Joseph R. Hoyt, Keping Sun, and Katy L. Parise
Winter Activity of Coastal Plain Populations of Bat Species Affected by White-Nose Syndrome and Wind Energy Facilities, John F. Grider, Angela L. Larsen, and Jessica A. Homyack
Xibalba, the Place of Fear: Caves and the Ancient Maya Underworld, Holley Moyes
Younger Dryas Archaeology and Human Experience at the Paisley Caves in the Northern Great Basin, Dennis L. Jenkins, Loren G. Davis, and Thomas W. Stafford
YouTube as a crowd-generated water level archive, N. Michelsen, H. Dirks, and S. Schulz
Submissions from 2015
A Bükk karsztvizei [Karstwaters of the Bükk], E. Szegedi-Darabos, L. Lénárt, M. Tóth, and R. Miklós
A case study of bats and white-nose syndrome demonstrating how to model population viability with evolutionary effects, Brooke Maslo and Nina H. Fefferman
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
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
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
Adaptive Molecular Evolution of PHYE in Primulina, a Karst Cave Plant, Junjie Tao, Qingwen Qi, and Ming Kang
Advancements in the use of speleothems as climate archives, Corinne I. Wong and Daniel O. Breecker
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
Agency, art, and altered consciousness: a motif in French (Quercy) Upper Palaeolithic parietal art, J. D. Lewis-Williams
A global model for cave ventilation and seasonal bias in speleothem paleoclimate records, Eric W. James, Jay L. Banner, and Benjamin Hadt
A global synthesis of survival estimates for microbats, Pia E. Lentini, Tomas J. Bird, Stephen R. Griffiths, and Lisa N. Godinho
A high-density linksage map for Astyanax mexicanus using genotyping-by-sequencing technology, Brian M. Carlson, Samuel W. Onusko, and Joshua B. Gross
A Hominin Femur with Archaic Affinities from the Late Pleistocene of Southwest China, Darren Curnoe, Xueping Ji, and Wu Liu
A large-scale simulation model to assess karstic groundwater recharge over Europe and the Mediterranean, A. Hartmann, T. Gleeson, and R. Rosolem
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
A Milk and Ochre Paint Mixture Used 49,000 Years Ago at Sibudu, South Africa, Paola Villa, Luca Pollarolo, and Ilaria Degano
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
‘Anchialine’ Redefined as a Subterranean Estuary in a Crevicular or Cavernous Geological Setting, Renee E. Bishop, William F. Humphreys, and Neven Cukrov
Ancient Maya Ritual Pathways: Performing Power Outside The Cave At Las Cuevas, Belize, Marieka Laurren Arksey and Holley Moyes
Ancient Maya Stone Tools and Ritual Use Of Deep Valley Rockshelter, Belize, James W. Stemp, Gabriel D. Wrobel, and Jessica Haley
An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor, Qiaomei Fu, Mateja Hajdinjak, and Oana Teodora Moldovan
A new family of Gonyleptoidea from South America (Opiliones, Laniatores), Cibele Bragagnolo, Marcos R. Hara, and Ricardo Pinto‐da‐Rocha
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
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
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
Antibodies to Pseudogymnoascus destructans are not sufficient for protection against white-nose syndrome, Joseph S. Johnson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, and Thomas M. Lilley
Anticipating and managing engineering problems in the complex karst environment, Mario Parise, Damien Closson, and Francisco Gutiérrez
Apparent glacially induced structural controls on limestone conduit development in Ohio Caverns, United States, Adrienne M. Watts and Ira D. Sasowsky
A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT of CAVE 1 AT THE SITE of CHAWAK BUT’O’OB, James E. Brady
A procedure for evaluating the susceptibility to natural and anthropogenic sinkholes, Mario Parise
A Rebuttal to Comments on ‘Sacrifice of the Social Outsider’, C. L. Kieffer
Artifact densities and assemblage formation: Evidence from Tabun Cave, Steven L. Kuhn and Amy E. Clark
A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence, Vineet D. Menachery, Boyd L. Yount Jr., and Kari Debbink
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
Assessing karst-hydraulic hazards in tunneling—the Brunnmühle spring system—Bernese Jura, Switzerland, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, Arnauld Malard, and Demian Rickerl
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
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
Basin-scale conceptual groundwater flow model for an unconfined and confined thick carbonate region, Judit Mádl-Szőnyi and Ádám Tóth
Bats Aggregate to Improve Prey Search but Might Be Impaired when Their Density Becomes Too High, Noam Cvikel, Katya Egert Berg, Eran Levin, Edward Hurme, Ivailo Borissov, Arjan Boonman, Eran Amichai, and Yossi Yovel
Bats as ‘special’ reservoirs for emerging zoonotic pathogens, Cara E. Brook and Andrew P. Dobson
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
Beyond the Ecofact: Toward a Social Paleoethnobotany in Mesoamerica, Christopher T. Morehart and Shanti Morell-Hart
Biotic and abiotic effects on CO2 sequestration during microbially-induced calcium carbonate precipitation, Tugba Onal Okyay and Debora F. Rodrigues
Boletín EspeleoAr, Año 7, Número 12, May 2015, Gabriel Redonte
Bubble-Induced Cave Collapse, Lakshika Girihagama, Doron Nof, and Cathrine Hancock
Bulgarian Speleological Studies in Albania 1991-2013, Alexey Zhalov
Buried hill karst reservoirs and their controls on productivity, Jincai Wang, Lun Zhao, and Xiangzhong Zhang
Carbon flux and landscape evolution in epigenic karst aquifers modeled from geochemical mass balance, Lee J. Florea
Catalog of Engineering Works in Karst and Their Effects, Petar Milanović
Cave And Karst Hydrology: A Field Trip Through Owen, Monroe, And Lawrence Counties, Indiana (2015), Lee Florea and Sam Frushour
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
Cave Cyanobacteria showing antibacterial activity, Vasiliki Lamprinou, Kyriaki Tryfinopoulou, Emmanuel N. Velonakis, Alkiviadis Vatopoulos, Smaragdi Antonopoulou, Elizabeth Fragopoulou, Adriani Pantazidou, and Athena Economou-Amilli
Cave development by frost weathering, Pauline Oberender and Lukas Plan
Cave development in an uplifting fold-and-thrust belt of the Tatra Mountains, Poland, Jacek Szczygieł
Cave Diplopoda of southern China with reference to millipede diversity in Southeast Asia, Sergei I. Golovatch
Cave-dwelling “slime curtains” cycle nitrogen and iron, Cody Sullivan
Cavefish eye loss in response to an early block in retinal differentiation progression, Manuel Stemmer, Laura-Nadine Schuhmacher, and Nicholas S. Foulkes
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
Cave micro-climate and tourism: towards 200 years (1819 – 2015) at Postojnska jama (Slovenia), Stanka Šebela and Tanja Pipan
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
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
Changes in Population Size and Clustering Behavior of Hibernating Bats in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan After Arrival of White-Nose Syndrome, Allen Kurta and Steven M. Smith
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
Characteristics of channel networks in unconfined carbonate aquifers., Stephen R.H. Worthington
Characterization and fluorescence of yellow biofilms in karst caves, southwest Slovenia, Janez Mulec, Andreea Oarga-Mulec, Rok Tomazin, and Tadeja Matos
Characterization of Karst Aquifer, Zoran Stevanovic
Chlorophyll f-driven photosynthesis in a cavernous cyanobacterium, Lars Behrendt, Asker Brejnrod, and Martin Schliep
Cleaning the dead: Neolithic ritual processing of human bone at Scaloria Cave, Italy, John Robb, Ernestine S. Elster, Eugenia Isetti, Christopher J. Knüsel, Mary Anne Tafuri, and Antonella Traverso
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
Comparing flow-through and static ice cave models for Shoshone Ice Cave, Kaj E. Williams and Christopher McKay
Comparison of morphometric aspects of dolines between two zones in Berici hills (Vicenza, Italy), Benedetta Castiglioni
Conservation implications of ameliorating survival of little brown bats with white‐nose syndrome, Brooke Maslo, Mick Valent, John F. Gumbs, and Winifred F. Frick
Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Conservation and Restoration, Gregory P. Dietl, Susan M. Kidwell, Mark Brenner, and David A. Burney
Conservation Physiology and Conservation Pathogens: White-Nose Syndrome and Integrative Biology for Host–Pathogen Systems, Craig K.R. Willis
Conspecific disturbance contributes to altered hibernation patterns in bats with white-nose syndrome, James M. Turner, Lisa Warnecke, and Alana Wilcox
Context-dependent conservation responses to emerging wildlife diseases, Kate E. Langwig
Crevice Interments Deconstructed, Stephen L. Black, M. Katherine Spradley, and Michelle D. Hamilton
Cuevas heladas en Picos de Europa: clima, morfologías y dinámicas, Manuel Gómez Lende
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
Del Chicomostoc al sepulcro sagrado: Cambio y transformación en los cultos subterráneos en el Altiplano Central, Natália Moragas Segura
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
