This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2018
Small mammal taxonomy, taphonomy, and the paleoenvironmental record during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic at Geißenklösterle Cave (Ach Valley, southwestern Germany), Sara E. Rhodes, Reinhard Ziegler, Britt M. Starkovich, and Nicholas J. Conard
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
Spatial resolution of transport parameters in a subtropical karst conduit system during dry and wet seasons, Anna Ender, Nadine Goeppert, and Nico Goldscheider
Species delimitation and mitogenome phylogenetics in the subterranean genus Pseudoniphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda), Morten Stokkan, José A. Jurado-Rivera, Pedro Oromí, Carlos Juan, Damià Jaume, and Joan Pons
Speleotourism in Slovenia: balancing between mass tourism and geoheritage protection, J. Tičar, N. Tomić, M. Breg Valjavec, M. Zorn, S. B. Marković, and M. B. Gavrilov
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
Sulphate partitioning into calcite: Experimental verification of pH control and application to seasonality in speleothems, Peter M. Wynn, Ian J. Fairchild, Andrea Borsato, Christoph Spötl, Adam Hartland, Andy Baker, Silvia Frisia, and James U.L. Baldini
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
Symbolic emblems of the Levantine Aurignacians as a regional entity identifier (Hayonim Cave, Lower Galilee, Israel), José-Miguel Tejero, Anna Belfer-Cohen, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Vitaly Gutkin, and Rivka Rabinovich
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 Casa del Diablo cave (Puno, Peru) and the late Pleistocene demise of megafauna in the Andean Altiplano, Natalia A. Villavicencio and Lars Werdelin
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 Coldest Places in Hawaii: The Ice-Preserving Microclimates of High-Altitude Craters and Caves on Tropical Island Volcanoes, Norbert Schörghofer, Steven Businger, and Matthias Leopold
The conservation status of Texas groundwater invertebrates, Benjamin T. Hutchins
The Cuban Crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) from Late Quaternary Underwater Cave Deposits in the Dominican Republic, Gary S. Morgan, Nancy A. Albury, Renato Rímoli, Phillip Lehman, Alfred L. Rosenberger, and Siobhán B. Cooke
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 discovery of Bombali virus adds further support for bats as hosts of ebolaviruses, Tracey Goldstein, Simon J. Anthony, Aiah Gbakima, Brian H. Bird, James Bangura, Alexandre Tremeau-Bravard, Manjunatha N. Belaganahalli, Heather L. Wells, Jasjeet K. Dhanota, Eliza Liang, Michael Grodus, Rohit K. Jangra, Veronica A. DeJesus, Gorka Lasso, Brett R. Smith, Amara Jambai, Brima O. Kamara, Sorie Kamara, William Bangura, Corina Monagin, Sagi Shapira, Christine K. Johnson, Karen Saylors, Edward M. Rubin, Kartik Chandran, W. Ian Lipkin, and Jonna A. K. Mazet
The dynamics of tourist excursion ratios in Slovakia show caves from 2000 to 2014, Alena Gessert, Janetta Nestorová–Dická, and Ivo Sninčák
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 Ecological Classification of Cave Animals and Their Adaptations, Francis G. Howarth and Oana Teodora Moldovan
The Egyptian Rousette Genome Reveals Unexpected Features of Bat Antiviral Immunity, Stephanie S. Pavlovich, Sean P. Lovett, Galina Koroleva, Jonathan C. Guito, Catherine E. Arnold, Elyse R. Nagle, Kirsten Kulcsar, Albert Lee, Françoise Thibaud-Nissen, Adam J. Hume, Elke Mühlberger, Luke S. Uebelhoer, Jonathan S. Towner, Raul Rabadan, Mariano Sanchez-Lockhart, Thomas B. Kepler, and Gustavo Palacios
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 IFN Response in Bats Displays Distinctive IFN-Stimulated Gene Expression Kinetics with Atypical RNASEL Induction, Pamela C. De La Cruz-Rivera, Mohammed Kanchwala, Hanquan Liang, Ashwani Kumar, Lin-Fa Wang, Chao Xing, and John W. Schoggins
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 Mousterian Musical Instrument from the Divje babe I cave (Slovenia): Arguments on the Material Evidence for Neanderthal Musical Behaviour, Matija Turk, Ivan Turk, Ljuben Dimkaroski, Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, François Zoltán Horusitzky, Marcel Otte, Giuliano Bastiani, and Lidija Korat
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 echolocation strategies for niche differentiation in bats, Annette Denzinger, Marco Tschapka, and Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler
The role of gene flow in rapid and repeated evolution of cave related traits in Mexican tetra, Astyanax mexicanus, Adam Herman, Yaniv Brandvain, James Weagley, William R. Jeffery, Alex C. Keene, Thomas J. Y. Kono, Helena Bilandžija, Richard Borowsky, Luis Espinasa, Kelly O’Quin, Claudia P. Ornelas-García, Masato Yoshizawa, Brian Carlson, Ernesto Maldonado, Joshua B. Gross, Reed A. Cartwright, Nicolas Rohner, Wesley C. Warren, and Suzanne E. McGaugh
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 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, Nick Scroxton, and SISAL Working Group Members
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
Turbulent and Laminar Flow in Karst Conduits Under Unsteady Flow Conditions: Interpretation of Pumping Tests by Discrete Conduit‐Continuum Modeling, M. Giese, T. Reimann, V. Bailly‐Comte, J.‐C. Maréchal, M. Sauter, and T. Geyer
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
Use of trace and rare earth elements to quantify autogenic and allogenic inputs within a lowland karst network, Laurence W. Gill, Michael G. Babechuk, Balz S. Kamber, Ted McCormack, and Clodagh Murphy
Using stable isotopes and major ions to identify hydrogeochemical characteristics of karst groundwater in Xide country, Sichuan Province, Jianfei Yuan, Fen Xu, Guoshi Deng, and Yeqi Tang
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
What is driving range expansion in a common bat? Hints from thermoregulation and habitat selection, Leonardo Ancillotto, Ivana Budinski, Valentina Nardone, Ivy Di Salvo, Martina Della Corte, Luciano Bosso, Paola Conti, and Danilo Russo
What Makes a First-Magnitude Spring?: Global Sensitivity Analysis of a Speleogenesis Model to Gain Insight into Karst Network and Spring Genesis, Wesley R. Henson, Rob de Rooij, and Wendy Graham
When did modern humans leave Africa?, Chris Stringer and Julia Galway-Witham
White-nose syndrome detected in bats over an extensive area of Russia, Veronika Kovacova, Jan Zukal, Hana Bandouchova, Alexander D. Botvinkin, Markéta Harazim, Natália Martínková, Oleg L. Orlov, Vladimir Piacek, Alexandra P. Shumkina, Mikhail P. Tiunov, and Jiri Pikula
White-nose syndrome is associated with increased replication of a naturally persisting coronaviruses in bats, Christina M. Davy, Michael E. Donaldson, and Sonu Sobudhi
Why do karst catchments exhibit higher sensitivity to climate change? Evidence from a modified Budyko model, Meixian Liu, Xianli Xu, Alexander Y. Sun, Wei Luo, and Kelin Wang
Wild, insectivorous bats might be carriers of Campylobacter spp., Wilma C. Hazeleger, Wilma F. Jacobs-Reitsma, and Peter H.C. Lina
Wind turbines impact bat activity, leading to high losses of habitat use in a biodiversity hotspot, Lara Millon, Célia Colin, Fabrice Brescia, and Christian Kerbiriou
Submissions from 2017
33 million year old Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and the rapid global radiation of modern bats, Gregg F. Gunnell, Richard Smith, and Thierry Smith
50,000 years of archaeological site stratigraphy and micromorphology in Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, Western Australia, I. Ward, P. Veth, and L. Prossor
Abiotic and seasonal control of soil-produced CO2 efflux in karstic ecosystems located in Oceanic and Mediterranean climates, Elena Garcia-Anton, Soledad Cuezva, Angel Fernandez-Cortes, Miriam Alvarez-Gallego, Concepcion Pla, David Benavente, Juan Carlos Cañaveras, and Sergio Sanchez-Moral
