This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2022
An Ordovician carbonate reservoir in strike-slip structures producing from fault-associated fracture systems, 3D seismic region of Northern Shun 8 block (Tarim Basin), Li Bing, Zhao Rui, and Kong Qiangfu
An Overview of the Karst Areas in British Columbia, Canada, Tim R. Stokes and Paul A. Griffiths
Anthropogenic impacts on the Glowworm Cave, Waitomo, New Zealand: a microclimate management approach, Chris Hendy, David J. Merritt, and Shannon Corkill
Anthropogenic use, modification, and preservation of coastal cave resources in Puerto Rico, Michael J. Lace
Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia, Katerina Harvatie, Carolin Röding, and Abel M. Bosman
Application of a cave inventory system to stimulate development of management strategies: The case of west-central Florida, USA, Grant L. Harley, Jason S. Polk, and Leslie A. North
Application of EPIK and KDI methods for identification and evaluation of karst vulnerability at Intervales State Park and surrounding region (Southeastern Brazil), Bruno D. Lenhare and William S. Filho
Application of Integrated Geophysical Techniques to Characterize the Edwards Aquifer, Texas, Charles B. Connor and Stewart K. Sandberg
Application of the flow dimension concept for numerical drawdown data analyses in mixed-flow karst systems, M. Giese, T. Reimann, and R. Liedl
Applying species distribution models to caves and other subterranean habitats, Stefano Mammola and Boris Leroy
Aquifers and hyporheic zones: Towards an ecological understanding of groundwater, Peter J. Hancock, Andew J. Boulton, and William F. Humphreys
Aquifers of the Edwards Plateau, Robert E. Mace and Edward S. Angle
Dye trace and springs, MWSD Stormwater
Empirical roughness coefficients for moderate floods in an open conduit cave: Fullers stream canyon, Culverson Creek Cave System, West Virginia, Lydia T. Albright and Gregory S. Springer
Flow regime evolution of a major cave system in the Eastern Alps (Hirlatzhöhle, Dachstein), Lukas Plan, Gottfried Buchegger, Eva Kaminsky, Gabriella Koltai, Tanguy Racine, and Jacek Szczygieł
Guano-derived morphologies and associated minerals found in Cova de sa Guitarreta, Llucmajor, Balearics, Antonio Merino Juncadella, Joan J. Fornós, Antoni Mulet, and Joaquín Ginés
Hydrodynamic model for independent cold and thermo-mineral twin springs in a stratified continental karst aquifer, Camou, Arbailles Massif, Pyrénées, France, Philippe Audra, Jean-Yves Bigot, Dimitri Laurent, Nathalie Vanara, Didier Cailhol, and Gérard Cazenave
Kentucky Cave Database and Map Documents, Kentucky Geological Society
Lechuguilla Cave – Discoveries in a hidden splendor, Victor J. Polyak
Modeling air pressure propagation through Wind Cave and Jewel Cave: How can air pressure signals inside barometric caves be predicted from surface pressure measurements?, Annika K. Gomell and Andreas Pflitsch
Recreational caving impacts of visitors in a high-altitude cave in Bolivian Andes: main effects on microhabitat structure and faunal distribution, Lais Furtado Oliveira, Rodrigo L. Ferreira, Jaime Iván Rodríguez Fernández, and Marconi Souza Silva
Speleothems in sandstone crevice and boulder caves of the Elbe River Canyon, Czech Republic, Jiří Adamovič, Jaroslav Kukla, Michal Filippi, Roman Skála, and Noemi Mészárosová
Sub-recent microfauna within allogenic sediments at the bottom of a deep cave, Njemica (Biokovo Mt., Croatia), Tomislav Kurečić, Valentina Hajek Tadesse, Lara Wacha, Marija Horvat, Nina Trinajstić, and Ivan Mišur
Sulfuric acid speleogenesis and surface landform evolution along the Vienna Basin Transfer Fault: Plavecký Karst, Slovakia, Pavel Bella, Helena Hercman, Šimon Kdýr, Petr Mikysek, Petr Pruner, Juraj Littva, Jozef Minár, Michal Gradzinski, Wojciech Wróblewski, Marek Velšmid, and Pavel Bosak
The age of fossil StW573 ('Little Foot'): An alternative interpretation of 26Al/10Be burial data, Jan D. Kramers and Paul H.G.M. Dirks
The application of actualistic studies to assess the taphonomic origin of Musterian rabbit accumulations from Arbreda Cave (North-East Iberia), Lluís Lloveras, Marta Moreno García, and Narcís Soler i Masferrer
The application of electrical resistivity imaging in collapse doline floors: Divača karst, Slovenia, Uroš Stepišnik
The nitrogen dynamics of Deer Cave, Sarawak, and the role of bat caves as biogeochemical sinks in Tropical Moist Forests., Joyce Lundberg, Donald A. McFarlane, and Guy Van Rentergem
Worldwide distribution of cave-dwelling Chelodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), Rodrigo Salvador Bouzan, Jackson C. Means, Kaloyan Ivanov, Rodrigo L. Ferreira, Antonio Domingos Brescovit, and Luiz Felipe Moretti Iniesta
Submissions from 2021
A 4,300-year History of Dietary Changes in a Bat Roost Determined From a Tropical Guano Deposit, L. R. Gallant, M. B. Fenton, C. Grooms, W. Bogdanowicz, R. S. Stewart, E. L. Clare, J. P. Smol, and J. M. Blais
Activity of bacteria isolated from bats against Pseudogymnoascus destructans in China, Zhongle Li, Aoqiang Li, Joseph R. Hoyt, Wentao Dai, Haixia Leng, Yanfei Li, Wei Li, Sen Liu, Longru Jin, Keping Sun, and Jiang Feng
Air pressure propagation through Wind Cave and Jewel Cave: How do pressure waves travel through barometric caves?, Annika K. Gomell, Daniel C. Austin, Marc J. Ohms, and Andreas Pflitsch
A Middle Pleistocene abrading tool from Tabun Cave, Israel: A search for the roots of abrading technology in human evolution, Ron Shimelmitz, Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, Mina Weinstein-Evron, and Danny Rosenberg
Analysis of Archival Specimens Confirms White-Nose Syndrome in Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) from New York, USA, in Spring 2007, Saskia Keller, Jeffrey M. Lorch, Brenda M. Berlowski-Zier, Anne Ballman, and David S. Blehert
Analysis of stratigraphical sequences at Cocina Cave (Spain) using rare earth elements geochemistry, Gianni Gallello, Mirco Ramacciotti, Oreto García‐Puchol, Simon Chenery, Alfredo Cortell‐Nicolau, MARíA Luisa Cervera, Agustin Diez‐Castillo, Agustín Pastor, and Sarah B. McClure
Application of the global SRTM and AW3D30 digital elevation models to mapping folds at cave sites, Mark J. Abolins and Albert E. Ogden
Bacteria, guano and soot: Source assessment of organic matter preserved in black laminae in stalagmites from caves of the Sierra de Atapuerca (N Spain), Joeri Kaal, Virginia Martínez-Pillado, Antonio Martínez Cortizas, Jorge Sanjurjo Sánchez, Arantza Aranburu, Juan-Luis Arsuaga, and Eneko Iriarte
Bat guano minerals and mineralization processes in Chameau Cave, Eastern Morocco, Philippe Audra, Vasile Heresanu, Lionel Barriquand, Mohamed El Kadiri Boutchich, Stephane Jaillet, Edwige Pons-Branchu, Pavel Bosak, Hai Cheng, R Lawrence Edwards, and Michel Renda
Bats use topography and nocturnal updrafts to fly high and fast, M. Teague O’Mara, Francisco Amorim, Martina Scacco, Gary F. McCracken, Kamran Safi, Vanessa Mata, Ricardo Tomé, Sharon Swartz, Martin Wikelski, Pedro Beja, Hugo Rebelo, and Dina K.N. Dechmann
Bitter taste receptors of the common vampire bat are functional and show conserved responses to metal ions in vitro, Florian Ziegler and Maik Behrens
Cave-dwelling heleomyzid flies (Diptera: Heleomyzidae) from the Polish caves. Historical overview and new data, Joanna Kocot-Zalewska and Andrzej J. Woźnica
Caver Knowledge and Biosecurity Attitudes Towards White-Nose Syndrome and Implications for Global Spread, S. Salleh, K. Cox-Witton, Y. Salleh, and Jasmin Hufschmid
Climatic and environmental conditions in the Western Galilee, during Late Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods, based on speleothems from Manot Cave, Israel, Gal Yasur, Avner Ayalon, Alan Matthews, and Tami Zilberman
Comparative application and optimization of different single-borehole dilution test techniques, Nikolai Fahrmeier, Nadine Goeppert, and Nico Goldscheider
Comprehensive exploration, safety evaluation and grouting of karst collapse columns in the Yangjian coalmine of the Shanxi province, China, Zhimin Xu, Yajun Sun, Shang Gao, and Hongying Chen
Continued preference for suboptimal habitat reduces bat survival with white-nose syndrome, Skylar R. Hopkins, Joseph R. Hoyt, J. Paul White, Heather M. Kaarakka, Jennifer A. Redell, John E. DePue, William H. Scullon, A. Marm Kilpatrick, and Kate E. Langwig
Continuous color model as a tool to improve speleothem age model development, Celia Campa-Bousoño, Ángel García-Pérez, Ana Moreno, Miguel Iglesias, Hai Cheng, R Lawrence Edwards, and Heather Stoll
Dams and reservoirs in karst? Keep away or accept the challenges, Petar Milanović
Determinants of defence strategies of a hibernating European bat species towards the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Marcus Fritze, Sebastien J. Puechmaille, David Costantini, Jörns Fickel, Christian C. Voigt, and Gábor Á. Czirják
Do different relevance attributes indicate the same conservation priorities? A case study in caves of southeastern Brazil, Maysa F.V.R. Souza, Denizar A. Alvarenga, Marconi Souza-Silva, and Rodrigo L. Ferreira
Drimolen cranium DNH 155 documents microevolution in an early hominin species, Jesse M. Martin, A. B. Leece, Simon Neubauer, and Stephanie E. Baker
Ecology and impacts of white-nose syndrome on bats, Joseph R. Hoyt, A. Marm Kilpatrick, and Kate E. Langwig
Ecophysiological responses of two closely related epigean and hypogean Niphargus species to hypoxia and increased temperature: Do they differ?, Tatjana Simčič and Boris Sket
Fifty years of history of the Karst Commission of the International Association of Hydrogeologists, Petar Milanović and Zoran Stevanović
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
Flow pathways in multiple-direction fold hinges: Implications for fractured and karstified carbonate reservoirs, Cayo C.C. Pontes, Francisco H.R. Bezerra, Giovanni Bertotti, Vincenzo La Bruna, Philippe Audra, Jo De Waele, Augusto S. Auler, Fabrizio Balsamo, Stephan De Hoop, and Luca Pisani
Genomic signatures of selection in bats surviving white-nose syndrome, Sarah A. Gignoux‐Wolfsohn, Malin L. Pinsky, Kathleen Kerwin, Carl Herzog, MacKenzie Hall, Alyssa B. Bennett, Nina H. Fefferman, and Brooke Maslo
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
Hibernacula microclimate and declines in overwintering bats during an outbreak of white‐nose syndrome near the northern range limit of infection in North America, Karen J. Vanderwolf and Donald F. McAlpine
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
Innovative Homo sapiens behaviours 105,000 years ago in a wetter Kalahari, Jayne Wilkins, Benjamin J. Schoville, Robyn Pickering, Luke Gliganic, Benjamin Collins, Kyle S. Brown, Jessica von der Meden, Wendy Khumalo, Michael C. Meyer, Sechaba Maape, Alexander F. Blackwood, and Amy Hatton
Karst-aquifer operational turbidity forecasting by neural networks and the role of complexity in designing the model: a case study of the Yport basin in Normandy (France), Michaël Savary, Anne Johannet, Nicolas Massei, Jean-Paul Dupont, and Emmanuel Hauchard
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
Magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic dating of Wonderwerk Cave: New constraints for the chronology of the South African Earlier Stone Age, Ron Shaar, Ari Matmon, Liora K. Horwitz, Yael Ebert, Michael Chazan, M. Arnold, G. Aumaître, D. Bourlès, and K. Keddadouche
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
NABat: A top-down, bottom-up solution to collaborative continental-scale monitoring, Brian E. Reichert, Mylea Bayless, Tina L. Cheng, Jeremy T. H. Coleman, Charles M. Francis, Winifred F. Frick, Benjamin S. Gotthold, Kathryn M. Irvine, Cori Lausen, Han Li, Susan C. Loeb, Jonathan D. Reichard, Thomas J. Rodhouse, Jordi L. Segers, Jeremy L. Siemers, Wayne E. Thogmartin, and Theodore J. Weller
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had similar auditory and speech capacities, Mercedes Conde-Valverde, Ignacio Martínez, Rolf M. Quam, and Manuel Rosa
New hominin teeth from Stajnia Cave, Poland, Wioletta Nowaczewska, Marcin Binkowski, Stefano Benazzi, and Antonino Vazzana
No Sign of Infection in Free-Ranging Myotis austroriparius Hibernating in the Presence of Pseudogymnoascus destructans in Alabama, Joseph S. Johnson, Nicholas W. Sharp, Maria N. Monarchino, Thomas M. Lilley, and Andrew J. Edelman
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
Pseudogymnoascus destructans growth in wood, soil and guano substrates, Jenny Urbina, Tara Chestnut, Jennifer M. Allen, and Taal Levi
Reconstructing rock art chronology with transfer learning: A case study from Arnhem Land, Australia, Jarrad Kowlessar, James Keal, Daryl Wesley, Ian Moffat, Dudley Lawrence, Abraham Weson, and Alfred Nayinggul
Reevaluating the timing of Neanderthal disappearance in Northwest Europe, Thibaut Devièse, Grégory Abrams, Mateja Hajdinjak, Stéphane Pirson, Isabelle De Groote, Kévin Di Modica, Michel Toussaint, Valentin Fischer, Dan Comeskey, Luke Spindler, Matthias Meyer, Patrick Semal, and Tom Higham
Review: Methodological approaches and research techniques for addressing construction and remediation problems in karst reservoirs, Saša Milanović and Ljiljana Vasić
Ritual responses to catastrophic volcanism in Viking Age Iceland: Reconsidering Surtshellir Cave through Bayesian analyses of AMS dates, tephrochronology, and texts, Kevin P. Smith, Guðmundur Ólafsson, and Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir
Skin fungal assemblages of bats vary based on susceptibility to white-nose syndrome, Karen J. Vanderwolf, Lewis J. Campbell, Tony L. Goldberg, David S. Blehert, and Jeffrey M. Lorch
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
Speleology as an analogue to space exploration: The ESA CAVES training programme, Francesco Sauro, Jo De Waele, Samuel J. Payler, Marco Vattano, Francesco Maria Sauro, Leonardo Turchi, and Loredana Bessone
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
Tracer tests to infer the drainage of the multiple porosity aquifer of Luxembourg Sandstone (Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg): implications for drinking water protection, Philippe Meus and Luc Willems
Using Wavelet Coherence to Characterize Surface Water Infiltration into a Low‐Lying Karst Aquifer, Philip Schuler, Èlia Cantoni, Léa Duran, Paul Johnston, and Laurence Gill
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
Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture, João C. Teixeira, Guy S. Jacobs, Chris Stringer, and Jonathan Tuke
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
