This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2021
Flow dynamics in a vadose shaft – a case study from the Hochschwab karst massif (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria), Eva Kaminsky, Lukas Plan, Thomas Wagner, Barbara Funk, and Pauline Oberender
Geochemistry of phosphatic nodules as a tool for understanding depositional and taphonomical settings in a Palaeolithic cave site (San Teodoro, Sicily), Gerlando Vita, Vittorio Garilli, Mirko Andrea Vizzini, Renato Giarrusso, Angelo Mulone, Massimiliana Pinto Vraca, Valeria La Parola, Pierluigi Rosina, Laura Bonfiglio, and Luca Sineo
Geochronological implications of 210Pb and 137Cs mobility in cave guano deposits, Donald A. McFarlane and Joyce Lundberg
Groundwater vulnerability to pollution in karst aquifers, considering key challenges and considerations: application to the Ubriquesprings in southern Spain, Ana I. Maria, Jose Francisco Martin Rodriguez, and Juan Antonio Barbera
Increased cave use by butterflies and moths: a response to climate warming?, Otto Moog, Erhard Christian, and Rudolf Eis
In Memoriam: Ezio Burri (1946 - 2021), Jo De Waele
Karst groundwater in UNESCO protected areas: a global overview, John Gunn
Low impact sampling of speleothems – reconciling scientific study with cave conservation, Claire L.V. MacGregor, John C. Hellstrom, Jon D. Woodhead, Russell N. Drysdale, and Rolan S. Eberhard
Microbially-mediated carbonate dissolution and precipitation; towards a protocol for ex-situ, cave-analogue cultivation experiments, Vanessa E. Johnston, Andrea Martín-Pérez, Sara Skok, and Janez Mulec
Microbiological study in a gneissic cave from Sri Lanka, with special focus on potential antimicrobial activities, Ethige Isuru P. Silva, Pathmakumara Jayasingha, Saman Senanayake, Anura Dandeniya, and Dona Helani Munasinghe
Microhabitat selection of a Sicilian subterranean woodlouse and its implications for cave management, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Stefano Mammola, Salvatore Costanzo, Giorgio Sabella, Rosolino Cirrincione, Giovanni Signorello, and Marco Isaia
Molecular genetic analysis of stygobiotic shrimps of the genus Xiphocaridinella (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) reveals a connection between distant caves in Central Abkhazia, southwestern Caucasus, Ivan Marin and Ilya Turbanov
Molecular phylogeny of cave dwelling Eremogryllodes crickets (Orthoptera, Myrmecophilidae) across Zagros Mountains and Southern Iran, Mohadeseh Sadat Tahami, Mina Hojat-Ansari, Anna Namyatova, and Saber Sadeghi
Monitoring photosynthetic activity using in vivo chlorophyll a fluorescence in microalgae and cyanobacteria biofilms in the Nerja Cave (Malaga, Spain), Yolanda Del Rosal, Juan Muñoz-Fernández, Paula S.M. Celis-Plá, Mariona Hernández-Mariné, Félix Álvarez-Gómez, Salvador Merino, and Félix L. Figueroa
Multi-criteria analysis for mapping susceptibility to iron formation caves development in the Gandarela mountain range (MG), southeast Brazil, Iraydes Tálita Nola and Luis Almeida Bacellar
On the genesis of aluminum-rich speleothems in a granite cave of NW Spain, Jorge Sanjurjo-Sanchez, Carlos Arce Chamorro, Juan Ramón Vidal Romaní, Marcos Vaqueiro-Rodríguez, Victor Barrientos, and Joeri Kaal
Protura (Arthropoda: Hexapoda) in Slovenian caves, Loris Galli, Franc Janžekovič, Peter Kozel, and Tone Novak
Speleogenesis in a lens of metamorphosed limestone and ankerite: Ochtiná Aragonite Cave, Slovakia, Pavel Bella, Pavel Bosák, Petr Pruner, Helena Hercman, Katarína Pukanská, Karol Bartoš, Ľudovít Gaál, Dagmar Haviarová, Peter Tomčík, and Šimon Kdýr
Structural, geomorphic, and hydrochemical influences on the karst hydrogeology of the Haney Limestone in south-central Structural, geomorphic, and hydrochemical influences on the karst hydrogeology of the Haney Limestone in south-central Kentucky, USA, Sarah M. Arpin and Chris Groves
The impact of burning on the structure and mineral composition of bat guano, Joyce Lundberg and Donald A. McFarlane
The relative importance of wind-driven and chimney effect cave ventilation: Observations in Postojna Cave (Slovenia), Lovel Kukuljan, Franci Gabrovsek, and Matthew Covington
Vermiculations in painted caves: New inputs from laboratory experiments and field observations, Perrine Freydier, Eric Weber, Jérôme Martin, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, Béatrice Guerrier, and Frédéric Doumenc
Submissions from 2020
12,000-Year-old Aboriginal rock art from the Kimberley region, Western Australia, Damien Finch, Andrew Gleadow, and Janet Hergt
3D Digital Geological Models: From Terrestrial Outcrops to Planetary Surfaces, R. Pozzobon, C. Mazzoli, and S. Salvini
A 14C chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, Helen Fewlass, Sahra Talamo, and Lukas Wacker
Active growth of non-hydrothermal subaqueous and subaerial barite (BaSO4) speleothems in Lechuguilla Cave (New Mexico, USA), Max Wisshak, Hazel A. Barton, Katey E. Bender, and Harvey R. DuChene
A Funerary Cave at Moxviquil, Chiapas, Mexico, Elizabeth H. Paris, Roberto López Bravo, and Stanley Serafin
A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote, and Cesare de Filippo
A karst hydrology model for the geomorphic evolution of Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA, Carol A. Hill and J. Polyak
A late Neanderthal tooth from northeastern Italy, Matteo Romandini, Gregorio Oxilia, Eugenio Bortolini, and Stéphane Peyrégne
A massacre of early Neolithic farmers in the high Pyrenees at Els Trocs, Spain, Kurt W. Alt, Cristina Tejedor Rodríguez, and Manuel A. Rojo Guerra
A multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands, Hanying Li, Ashish Sinha, Aurèle Anquetil André, and Christoph Spötl
Ancestors of domestic cats in Neolithic Central Europe: Isotopic evidence of a synanthropic diet, Magdalena Krajcarz, Maciej Tomasz Krajcarz, Mateusz Baca, and Chris Baumann
Anchialine biodiversity in the Turks and Caicos Islands: New discoveries and current faunal composition, Brett C. Gonzalez, Alejandro Martínez, Jørgen Olesen, Sarit B. Truskey, Lauren Ballou, Marc Allentoft-Larsen, Joost Daniels, Paul Heinerth, Mark Parrish, Naqqi Manco, Jon Ward, Thomas M. Iliffe, Karen J. Osborn, and Katrine Worsaae
Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history, Mark Lipson, Isabelle Ribot, and Swapan Mallick
An Epigravettian hypogeal site in the Grotta del Fiume Cave at Frasassi (northeastern Apennines, Italy): Environmental and geochronologic assessments, Alessandro Montanari, Artur Adamek, Angelo Curatolo, Marco P. Ferretti, Maurizio Mainiero, Sandro Mariani, David McGee, Gaia Pignocchi, and Stefano Recanatini
A new and remarkable troglobitic Lepidocampa Oudemans, 1890 species from La Réunion Island, with a discussion on troglobiomorphic adaptations in campodeids (Diplura), Alberto Sendra, Alberto Jiménez-Valverde, and Jacques Rochat
A new species of Cavernocypris(Ostracoda) from Texas(U.S.A.) with a taxonomic key, Okan Kulkoyluoglu
A new species of Laoennea microsnail (Stylommatophora, Diapheridae) from a cave in Laos, Adrienne Jochum, Estée Bochud, Adrien Favre, and Marina Ferrand
An investigation of ancient Maya intentional dental modification practices at Midnight Terror Cave using anthroposcopic and paleogenomic methods, Cristina Verdugo, Kimberly Zhu, and Michael Prout
Antifungal Norditerpene Oidiolactones from the Fungus Oidiodendron truncatum, a Potential Biocontrol Agent for White-Nose Syndrome in Bats, Yudi Rusman, Michael B. Wilson, and Jessica M. Williams
A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin, Peng Zhou, Xing-Lou Yang, Xian-Guang Wang, and Ben Hu
Aquatic fauna from the Takarkori rock shelter reveals the Holocene central Saharan climate and palaeohydrography, Wim Van Neer, Francesca Alhaique, and Wim Wouters
A rare miniature and small-scale stencil assemblage from the Gulf of Carpentaria: replication and meaning in Australian rock art, Liam M. Brady, John J. Bradley, and Amanda Kearney
Archaeological evidence for two separate dispersals of Neanderthals into southern Siberia, Kseniya A. Kolobova, Richard G. Roberts, and Victor P. Chabai
Assessing the Risks Posed by SARS-CoV-2 in and via North American Bats—Decision Framing and Rapid Risk Assessment, M. C. Runge, E. H.C. Grant, J. T.H. Coleman, and J. D. Gibbs
A Terminal Classic Period Moldedcarved Ceramic Production Mold from Actun Xtuyul, Pacbitun, Belize, Jon Spenard and Christophe G. Helmke
Bat coronavirus phylogeography in the Western Indian Ocean, Léa Joffrin, Steven M. Goodman, and David A. Wilkinson
Biomechanical simulations reveal a trade-off between adaptation to glacial climate and dietary niche versatility in European cave bears, Alejandro Pérez-Ramos, Z. J. Tseng, and Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade
Boletín EspeleoAr, Número 21, February 2020, Gabriel Redonte
Boletin GEA, Numero 58, February 2020, Maria Agustina Barbarich
Bubble trail and folia in cenote Zapote, Mexico: petrographic evidence for abiotic precipitation driven by CO2 degassing below the water table, Rafael López-Martínez, Fernando Gázquez, José M. Calaforra, Philippe Audra, Jean Y. Bigot, Teresa Pi Puig, Rocío J. Alcántara-Hernández, Ángel Navarro, Philippe Crochet, Liliana Corona Martínez, and Raquel Daza Brunet
Buccal dental-microwear and feeding ecology of Early Pleistocene Theropithecus oswaldi from Cueva Victoria (Spain), L. M. Martínez, F. Estebaranz-Sánchez, and C. Ferràndez-Cañadell
Büster L., Warmenbol E. and Mlekuž M. (Eds.), 2019. Between worlds: Understanding ritual cave use in later prehistory, Konstantinos P. Trimmis
Capturing the Forest: Ancient Maya Ritual Caves as Built Environments, Holley Moyes
Caribbean cyclone activity: an annually-resolved Common Era record, Dominik Schmitt, Eberhard Gischler, Flavio S. Anselmetti, and Hendrik Vogel
Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Paleontological resource inventory (public version), S. Kottkamp, V. L. Santucci, J. S. Tweet, and R. D. Horrocks
Cave airflow mechanism of a crevice-type cave: A case study from Czechia, Martin Kašing and Jan Lenart
Cave Research Foundation Quarterly, Volume 48, No. 1, February 2020, Laura Lexander
Caves and Dam Safety Improving Design with Evidences from Paleoseismology and Paleohydrology, L. F. Molerio-León
Círculo De Interés De Carsología Y Espeleología: Una Experiencia De Trabajo, Yudiel Baldoquin Reyes and Javier Yraola Rodríguez
Climate and ecology of the palaeo-Agulhas Plain from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in bovid tooth enamel from Nelson Bay Cave, South Africa, Judith Sealy, Navashni Naidoo, and Vincent J. Hare
Colonisation and early peopling of the Colombian Amazon during the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene: New evidence from La Serranía La Lindosa, Gaspar Morcote-Ríos, Francisco Javier Aceituno, José Iriarte, and Mark Robinson
Comparison of climate and environment on the edge of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain to the Little Karoo (South Africa) in Marine Isotope Stages 5–3 as indicated by speleothems, Kerstin Braun, Miryam Bar-Mathews, and Alan Matthews
Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa, Andy I.R. Herries, Jesse M. Martin, and A. B. Leece
Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago, Lyn Wadley, Backwell, and d’Errico
Cosmogenic nuclide dating of cave sediments in the Eastern Alps and implications for erosion rates, Philipp Häuselmann, Lukas Plan, Peter Pointner, and Markus Fiebig
Cultural Landscapes Inventory reports, National Park Service
Culture dependent analysis of bacterial diversity in Canada’s Raspberry Rising Cave revealed antimicrobial properties, Soumya Ghosh, Gabrielle Kam, Monique Nijjer, Christian Stenner, and Naowarat Cheeptham
Darcy’s model with optimized permeability distribution for the simulation of Stokes flow and contaminant transport in karst aquifers, Mohammad S. Jamal and Abeeb A. Awotunde
Decimated little brown bats show potential for adaptive change, Giorgia G. Auteri and L. L. Knowles
Defining the hydrogeological behavior of karst springs through an integrated analysis: a case study in the Berici Mountains area (Vicenza, NE Italy), Filippo Torresan, Paolo Fabbri, and Leonardo Piccinini
Defining the hydrogeological behavior of karst springs through an integrated analysis: a case study in the Berici Mountains area (Vicenza, NE Italy), Filippo Torresan, Paolo Fabbri, and Leonardo Piccinini
Definition of groundwater genesis and circulation conditions of the complex hydrogeological karst system Mlava–Belosavac–Belosavac-2 (eastern Serbia), Ljiljana Vasić, Saša Milanović, and Zoran Stevanović
Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau, Ann Gibbons
Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau, Dongju Zhang, Huan Xia, Fahu Chen, and Bo Li
Determination of recharge, storage and flow characteristics of a karst aquifer using multi-method approaches (Kocaeli, Turkey), Ahmet Şener, İrfan Yolcubal, and Ercan Sanğu
Determining the salinity sources of the Barme Jamal karstic spring, Meydavod, Iran, N. Kalantari and H. Rouhi
Development of a quantitative transport-time-based groundwater vulnerability model for non-point-source pollution in karst aquifers: a conceptual approach and example from the Tanour and Rasoun spring catchment, north-western Jordan, Ibraheem Hamdan, Thomas Ptak, and Bettina Wiegand
Development of New Food-Sharing Relationships in Vampire Bats, Gerald G. Carter, Damien R. Farine, and Rachel J. Crisp
Did you wash your caving suit? Cavers’ role in the potential spread of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of White-Nose Disease, Violeta Zhelyazkova, Antonia Hubancheva, Georgi Radoslavov, Nia Toshkova, and Sebastien J. Puechmaille
Discovery of a significant cave entrance in stripe karst, Horsethief Creek Group, Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, Catherine Hickson, John Pollack, and Lambertus Struik
Disease recovery in bats affected by white-nose syndrome, Nathan W. Fuller, Liam P. McGuire, and Evan L. Pannkuk
Distribution of crickets (Subfamily: Phalangopsinae) in caves of Baratang Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, Amruta Dhamorikar, Dhanusha Kawalkar, and Shirish Manchi
Earliest African evidence of carcass processing and consumption in cave at 700 ka, Casablanca, Morocco, Camille Daujeard, Christophe Falguères, and Qingfeng Shao
Early ground axe technology in Wallacea: The first excavations on Obi Island, Ceri Shipton, Sue O'Connor, Mahirta Shimona Kealy, and Indah N. Syarqiyah
Early isotopic evidence for maize as a staple grain in the Americas, Douglas J. Kennett, Kelth M. Prufer, and Brendan J. Culleton
Early isotopic evidence for maize as a staple grain in the Americas, Douglas J. Kennett, Kelth M. Prufer, and Brendan J. Culleton
Echolocating bats detect but misperceive a multidimensional incongruent acoustic stimulus, Sasha Danilovich, Gal Shalev, Arjan Boonman, and Yossi Yovel
End of Green Sahara amplified mid- to late Holocene megadroughts in mainland Southeast Asia, Michael L. Griffiths, Kathleen R. Johnson, and Francesco S.R. Pausata
End of Green Sahara amplified mid- to late Holocene megadroughts in mainland Southeast Asia, Michael L. Griffiths, Kathleen R. Johnson, Francesco S. R. Pausata, and Joyce C. White
Evaluating the Potential Groundwater Availability Within a Lower Trinity Aquifer Well Field, Balcones Fault Zone, Hays County, Central Texas, Justin CAMP, Brian B. Hunt, and Brian A. Smith
Evaluation of species identification and rabies virus characterization among bat rabies cases in the United States, Emily G. Pieracci, Jennifer A. Brown, David L. Bergman, and Amy Gilbert
Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum, Ciprian F. Ardelean, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, and Jean-Luc Schwenninger
Exploraciones en la Sierra de Lleràs. Botet de Casa Rei (2017-2019) (Tremp, Lérida)., Pere Rodríguez Colom
Exploring Maya Ritual through Absorbed Residues in the Belize Valley, Adam King, Terry G. Powis, Jon Spenard, and Nilesh Gaikwad
Field Surveys South of Coba, Quintana Roo, Miguel Covarrubias Reyna
Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa, Lyn Wadley, Irene Esteban, and Paloma de la Peña
