This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2024
Monitoring air fluxes in caves using digital flow metres, Claudio Pastore, Amir Sedaghatkish, Eric Weber, Nicolas Schmid, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, and Marc Luetscher
Neandertal burial practices in Western Asia: How different are they from those of the early Homo sapiens?, Ella Been and Omry Barzilai
New ichnofossil discovery in Mallorcan caves: Linking ancient and moden bat-ectoparasites coporolites., Antonio Merino Juncadella, Joan J. Fornós, Antoni Mulet, and Joaquin Gines
Numerical modeling of development of Leandras and Double Bopper Caves, Grand Canyon, USA, Javad Ashjari, Benjamin Tobin, Alan E. Fryar, and Zohreh Ashjari
Nutrient characteristics and adaptability of plant leaves in Tiankeng Complex of Dashiwei, Guangxi, China, ZHENG Li-Li, YU Lin-Lan, DAI Ping, XUE Yue-Gui, and LONG Ping
Paleozoic cave system preserves oldest-known evidence of amniote skin, Ethan D. Mooney, Tea Maho, R. Paul Philp, Joseph J. Bevitt, and Robert R. Reisz
Parallel evolution in an island archipelago revealed by genomic sequencing of Hipposideros leaf-nosed bats, Tyrone H. Lavery, Devon A. DeRaad, Piokera S. Holland, Karen V. Olson, Lucas H. DeCicco, Jennifer M. Seddon, Luke K-P Leung, and Robert G. Moyle
Pathogenic strategies of Pseudogymnoascus destructans during torpor and arousal of hibernating bats, Marcos Isidoro-Ayza and Bruce S. Klein
Pleistocene raptors from cave deposits of South Australia, with a description of a new species of Dynatoaetus (Accipitridae: Aves): morphology, systematics and palaeoecological implications, Ellen K. Mather, Michael S. Y. Lee, Diana A. Fusco, John Hellstrom, and Trevor H. Worthy
Populations of the stygobiotic amphipod Palearcticarellus pusillus (Martynov, 1930) maintain genetic connectivity between the mountain springs and the deep bottom habitats of Lake Teletskoye (Altai Mountains, Russia), Ivan Marin, Liubov Yanygina, Svetlana Ostroukhova, and Dmitry Palatov
Quantitatively Distinguishing the Factors Driving Runoff and Sediment Yield Variations in Karst Watersheds, Si Cheng, Xingxiu Yu, Zhenwei Li, Xianli Xu, and Kelin Wang
Quarries as a Source of Nitrate Pollution in Karst Aquifers: Case Study, the Edwards Aquifer, Texas, James David Doyle
Radar evidence of an accessible cave conduit on the Moon below the Mare Tranquillitatis pit, Leonardo Carrer, Riccardo Pozzobon, Francesco Sauro, Davide Castelletti, Gerald Wesley Patterson, and Lorenzo Bruzzone
Rapid sensorimotor adaptation to auditory midbrain silencing in free-flying bats, Clarice A. Diebold, Jennifer Lawlor, Kathryne Allen, Grace Capshaw, Megan G. Humphrey, Diego Cintron-De Leon, Kishore V. Kuchibhotla, and Cynthia F. Moss
Rates of diagenesis of tropical insectivorous bat guano accumulations: implications for potential paleoenvironmental reconstruction, Donald A. McFarlane and Joyce Lundberg
Real-time karst groundwater monitoring and bacterial analysis as early warning strategies for drinking water supply contamination, Jaime Fernández-Ortega, Juan Antonio Barberá, and Bartolomé Andreo
Recharge Assessment in Greek Karst Systems: Methodological Considerations and Implications, Eleni-Anna Nanou, Konstantinos Perdikaris, Panagiotis Tserolas, and Eleni Zagana
Remote Sensing of Floodwater-Induced Subsurface Halite Dissolution in a Salt Karst System, with Implications for Landscape Evolution: The Western Shores of the Dead Sea, Gidon Baer, Ittai Gavrieli, Iyad Swaed, and Ran N. Nof
Reshaping a woolly rhinoceros: Discovery of a fat hump on its back, Gennady G. Boeskorov, Marina V. Shchelchkova, Albert V. Protopopov, Nadezhda V. Kryukova, and Ruslan I. Belyaev
Revealing the ongoing speleogenetic processes in an underwater cave through the application of natural radionuclides and stable isotopes: case study from the hypogene Buda Thermal Karst, Anita Erőss, Katalin Hegedűs-Csondo, Petra Kovács-Bodor, Dénes Szieberth, Ákos Horváth, György Czuppon, Andrea Mindszenty Dr, Szabolcs Leél-Őssy, and Judit Mádl-Szőnyi
Role of hypogenesis in the evolution of karst in the Taurus Mountains Range, Turkey, Serdar C. Bayari, Naciye Nur Özyurt, Lütfi Nazik, Koray A. Törk, Noyan İ. Güner, Emrah Pekkan, and Pınar Avcı
Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago, Nicholas J. Conard and Veerle Rots
Site formation processes and the taphonomy of vertebrate remains in underwater caves, Meg M. Walker and Julien Louys
Spatial variability of hydrochemistry and environmental controls in karst aquifers of the southern Iberian Peninsula: Implications for climate change impact assessment, José Luis Yanes and Francisco Moral
Spring water system classifications and their methods of study: An overview of the current status and future perspectives, Fahim Un Nisa and Rashid Umar
Subaqueous carbonate speleothems as paleotemperature archives – clumped isotope thermometry and stable isotope compositions of inclusion-hosted water, Attila Demeny, Ágnes Berentés, László Rinyu, Ivett Kovács, Gergely Surányi, and Magdolna Virág
Suitability of containerized toxicant to control Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) threatening cave species in Bexar County, Texas, Mathew M. Kramm, Jacob R. Lampman, Daniel Jackson, Andrea E. Montalvo, and Roel R. Lopez
Taphonomic skeletal disturbances in the Sima de los Huesos postcranial remains, Nohemi Sala, Ignacio Martínez, Carlos Lorenzo, Rebeca García, José Miguel Carretero, Laura Rodríguez, Asier Gómez‐Olivencia, Arantza Aranburu, Nuria García, Rolf Quam, Ana Gracia, Mª Cruz Ortega, and Juan Luis Arsuaga
Terrestrial land use signals on groundwater fauna beyond current protection buffers, Mara Knüsel, Roman Alther, and Florian Altermatt
The application of cave morphological and sedimentary deposit investigations to unravel tectonic history and landscape evolution: Insights from Veternica Cave, Medvednica Mountain, Croatia, Andrej Stroj, Damir Lacković, Ira D. Sasowsky, Petra Bajo, and Bosiljka Glumac
The child who lived: Down syndrome among Neanderthals?, Mercedes Conde-Valverde, Amara Quirós-Sánchez, Julia Diez-Valero, Nieves Mata-Castro, Alfredo García-Fernández, Rolf Quam, José Miguel Carretero, Rebeca García-González, Laura Rodríguez, Ángeles Sánchez-Andrés, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Ignacio Martínez, and Valentín Villaverde
The economic impacts of ecosystem disruptions: Costs from substituting biological pest control, Eyal G. Frank
The peopling of Amazonia: Chrono-stratigraphic evidence from Serranía La Lindosa, Colombian Amazon, Francisco Javier Aceituno, Mark Robinson, Gaspar Morcote-Ríos, Ana María Aguirre, Jo Osborn, and José Iriarte
Time-transgressive microbial diversity in a tropical bat guano accumulation, Deer Cave, Mulu, Borneo, Joyce Lundberg and Donald A. McFarlane
Tracking flowpaths in a complex karst system through tracer test and hydrogeochemical monitoring: Implications for groundwater protection (Gran Sasso, Italy), V. Lorenzi, F. Banzato, M.D. Barberio, N. Goeppert, N. Goldscheider, F. Gori, A. Lacchini, M. Manetta, G. Medici, S. Rusi, and M. Petitta
Ultraviolet-induced photoluminescent bristles on the feet of the Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis), Fernando Gual-Suárez, Daniel Ramos-H., Falco García, L. Ernesto Pérez-Montes, Alonso Narro Delgado, and Rodrigo A. Medellín
Vampire bats rapidly fuel running with essential or non-essential amino acids from a blood meal, Giulia S. Rossi and Kenneth C. Welch Jr
Were Neanderthals the First Collectors? First Evidence Recovered in Level 4 of the Prado Vargas Cave, Cornejo, Burgos and Spain, Marta Navazo Ruiz, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, María Carmen Lozano-Francisco, Rodrigo Alonso Alcalde, Pedro Alonso García, Héctor de la Fuente Juez, Marta Santamaría Diez, and Paula Cristóbal Cubillo
Submissions from 2023
4D flow pattern of the longest cave in the Eastern Alps (Schönberg-Höhlensystem, Totes Gebirge), Lukas Plan, Eva Kaminsky, Pauline Oberender, Clemens Tenreiter, and Maximilian Wimmer
Accumulation, conversion and storage of solute from sinkholes to karst spring under concentrated recharge conditions, Jing Chen, Mingming Luo, Li Wan, Jing Wang, Yiqun Gan, and Hong Zhou
A comprehensive early warning system for karst water sources contamination risk, case study of the Unica springs, SW Slovenia, Nataša Ravbar, Janez Mulec, Cyril Mayaud, Matej Blatnik, Blaž Kogovšek, and Metka Petrič
Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae), Luiz F. M. Iniesta, Rodrigo S. Bouzan, Claudio A. R. Souza, Robson A. Zampaulo, Igor Cizauskas, and Antonio D. Brescovit
Advanced application of time series analysis in complex karst aquifers: A case study of the Unica springs (SW Slovenia), Blaž Kogovšek, Igor Jemcov, and Metka Petrič
A Hansel & Gretel breadcrumb-style dynamically deployed communication network paradigm using mesh topology for planetary subsurface exploration, Wolfgang Fink, Connor Fuhrman, Andres Nuncio Zuniga, and Mark Tarbell
An alternative approach to investigation of sediment transport through a karst aquifer, Damir Jukić and Vesna Denić-Jukić
An attempt to identify source areas of clastic deposits from selected caves of the Prokletije Mountains (Montenegro): a mineralogical and U-series geochemistry approach, Ditta Kicińska, Jacek Pawlak, and Jacek Stienss
A Novel Method for Hidden Natural Caves Characterization and Accessibility Assessment From Spaceborne VHR SAR Images, Leonardo Carrer, Davide Castelletti, Riccardo Pozzobon, Francesco Sauro, and Lorenzo Bruzzone
A paleogenome from a Holocene individual supports genetic continuity in Southeast Alaska, Alber Aqil, Stephanie Gill, Omer Gokcumen, Ripan S. Malhi, Esther Aaltséen Reese, Jane L. Smith, Timothy T. Heaton, and Charlotte Lindqvist
A theoretical model for simulating periodic processes of intermittent karst springs considering changed recharge rates into siphon cavity, Xulei Guo, Jingwen Li, Yuanmeng Zeng, Cong Jiang, Hong Zhou, and Kun Huang
Automated method for routine microplastic detection and quantification, Matteo Giardino, Valentina Balestra, Davide Janner, and Rossana Bellopede
Book Review: Australian caves and karst systems, John Webb, Susan White, Garry K. Smith, Jo De Waele
Book Review: De Waele, J., Gutiérrez, F., 2022. Karst hydrogeology, geomorphology and caves, Augusto S. Auler
Book Review: Habitantes de la obscuridad (Fauna Ibero-Balear de las Cuevas) – Inhabitants of the darkness (Ibero-Baleric fauna of caves), Oana Teodora Moldovan
Cave-dwelling crocodiles of Central Belize, Jut Wynne, Marisa Tellez, Kayla Hartwell, Stevan Reneau, Gilroy Welch, Kyle Voyles, Michael Cal, Reynold Cal, Denoy Castillo, and Jane Champion
Cave Minerals and Speleothems, Julia M. James and John A. Webb
Characteristics, numerical analysis and countermeasures of mud inrush geohazards of Mountain tunnel in karst region, Long-Long Chen, Zhi-Feng Wang, Wu Zhang, and Ya-Qiong Wang
Climate monitoring in the Caumont cave and quarry system (northern France) reveal near oxygen isotopic equilibrium conditions for carbonate deposition, Ingrid Bejarano-Arias, Carole Nehme, Sebastian Breitenbach, Hanno Meyer, Sevasti Modestou, and Damase Mouralis
Climate of a cave laboratory representative for rock art caves in the Vézère area (south-west France), Delphine Lacanette, Léna Bassel, Fabien Salmon, Jean-Christophe Portais, Bruno Bousquet, Rémy Chapoulie, Faten Ammari, Philippe Malaurent, and Catherine Ferrier
Comment on “Hydrodynamics of karst aquifers in metamorphic carbonate rocks: results from spring monitoring in the Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy)”: report published in Hydrogeology Journal (2023) 31:241–255, by Leonardo Piccini, Alessia Nannoni and Emilio Poggetti, Giuseppe Ottria, Alessandro Ellero, and Chiara Frassi
Comment on “Hydrodynamics of karst aquifers in metamorphic carbonate rocks: results from spring monitoring in the Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy)”: report published in Hydrogeology Journal (2023) 31:241–255, by Leonardo Piccini, Alessia Nannoni and Emilio Poggetti, Giuseppe Ottria, Alessandro Ellero, and Chiara Frassi
Compilation simulation of surface water and groundwater resources using the SWAT-MODFLOW model for a karstic basin in Iran, Haniyeh Salmani, Saman Javadi, Mohammad Reza Eini, and Golmar Golmohammadi
Contrasting hydrological responses to climate change in two adjacent catchments dominated by karst and nonkarst, Yong Chang, Yan Liu, and Ling Liu
Cryogenic ridges: a new speleothem type, Bogdan P. Onac, Daniel M. Cleary, Oana A. Dumitru, Victor J. Polyak, Ioan Povara, Jonathan G. Wynn, and Yemane Asmerom
Decadal warming events extended into central North America during the last glacial period, C. J. Batchelor, S. A. Marcott, I. J. Orland, F. He, and R. L. Edwards
Delay-aware karst spring discharge prediction, Shengwen Li, Yi Zhou, Jianmei Cheng, and Hong Yao
Descriptive catalog of Homo naledi dental remains from the 2013 to 2015 excavations of the Dinaledi Chamber, site U.W. 101, within the Rising Star cave system, South Africa, Lucas K. Delezene, Matthew M. Skinner, Shara E. Bailey, Juliet K. Brophy, Marina C. Elliott, Alia Gurtov, Joel D. Irish, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, Darryl J. de Ruiter, John Hawks, and Lee R. Berger
Determining nitrogen fate by hydrological pathways and impact on carbonate weathering in an agricultural karst watershed, Zhuo Hao, Yang Gao, Yang Yang, and Qingwen Zhang
Evaluation of recharge estimation methods applied to fissure and karst aquifers of the Lagoa Santa Karst Environmental Protection Area, Brazil, Gabriela Meira Teixeira, Rodrigo Sérgio de Paula, Leila Nunes Menegasse Velasquez, Isabella Brito Andrade, and Wallace Maciel Pacheco Neto
Evaluation of the predictions skills and uncertainty of a karst model using short calibration data sets at an Apulian cave (Italy), T. Leins, I. S. Liso, M. Parise, and A. Hartmann
Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi, Lee R. Berger, Tebogo Makhubela, Keneiloe Molopyane, Ashley Krüger, Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Marina Elliott, Becca Peixotto, Agustín Fuentes, Paul Tafforeau, Vincent Beyrand, Kathleen Dollman, Zubair Jinnah, Angharad Brewer Gillham, Kenneth Broad, Juliet Brophy, Gideon Chinamatira, Paul H. M. Dirks, Elen Feuerriegel, Alia Gurtov, Nompumelelo Hlophe, Lindsay Hunter, Rick Hunter, Kudakwashe Jakata, Corey Jaskolski, Hannah Morris, Ellie Pryor, Maropeng Mpete, Eric Roberts, Jacqueline S. Smilg, Mathabela Tsikoane, Steven Tucker, Dirk van Rooyen, and Kerryn Warren
Foreword for E&EG Karst Special Edition, Cory BlackEagle, Russell Harmon, and Robert Denton
Genome sequences of 36,000- to 37,000-year-old modern humans at Buran-Kaya III in Crimea, E. Andrew Bennett, Oğuzhan Parasayan, Sandrine Prat, Stéphane Péan, Laurent Crépin, Alexandr Yanevich, Thierry Grange, and Eva-Maria Geigl
Geometric morphometric assessment of the fossil bears of Namur, Belgium: Allometry and ecomorphology, Anneke H. van Heteren and Mietje Germonpré
Hydrochemical Delineation of Spring Recharge in an Urbanized Karst Basin, Central Kentucky, Alan E. Fryar, Benjamin J. Currens, and Cristopher S. Alvarez Villa
Hydrodynamic and hydrodispersive behavior of a highly karstified neoproterozoic hydrosystem indicated by tracer tests and modeling approach, Pedro Assunção, Paulo Galvão, Thiago Lucon, Bruno Doi, Peter Marshall Fleming, Tássia Marques, and Felipe Costa
Hydrogeochemical similarities and groundwater-surface water interactions for the karst hydrological system of northwest Rwanda, Monique Umutoni, Juma Rajabu Selemani, Mwemezi J. Rwiza, and Umaru Garba Wali
Hydrogeological investigation of karst aquifers using an integrated geomorphological, geochemical, GIS, and remote sensing techniques (Southern Mediterranean Basin—Tunisia), Younes Hamed, Riheb Hadji, Riadh Ahmadi, Yosra Ayadi, Khan Shuhab, and Antonio Pulido-Bosch
Hydrological deformation of karst aquifers detected by GPS measurements, Matese massif, Italy, Guido Leone, Nicola D’Agostino, Libera Esposito, and Francesco Fiorillo
Hypogene speleogenesis related to porphyry magmatic intrusions and its influence on subsequent karst evolution in the Peruvian high Andes, Alexander Klimchouk, David Evans, Sasa Milanovic, Cristian Bittencourt, Mauro Sanchez, and F. Carlos Aguirre
Illuminating the complexity of hydrogeological regimes in fault-influenced, anticlinal karst aquifers: Insights into the recharge patterns in tectonically complex karst catchments, Hamid M. Behzad, Derek Ford, Yunpeng Nie, Tao Peng, Mohammadreza Keshavarzi, Jun Zhang, Fa Wang, Hongsong Chen, and Hossein Karimi Vardanjani
Impact of land-use change on karst spring response by integration of surface processes in karst hydrology: The ISPEEKH model, Ibrahim Al Khoury, Laurie Boithias, Ryan T. Bailey, Chloé Ollivier, Vianney Sivelle, and David Labat
Influence of sediments burying the discharge area of a karst aquifer on the groundwater flow field—Numerical testing of conceptual models, Marc Ohmer, Tanja Liesch, and Nico Goldscheider
Intercomparison of marine tracer and catchment-based submarine groundwater discharge estimates for a karst aquifer, Maxime Savatier, Patrick Morrissey, Laurence Gill, and Carlos Rocha
In the land of the blind: Exceptional subterranean speciation of cryptic troglobitic spiders of the genus Tegenaria (Araneae: Agelenidae) in Israel, Shlomi Aharon, Jesús A. Ballesteros, Guilherme Gainett, Dror Hawlena, Prashant P. Sharma, and Efrat Gavish-Regev
Karst Groundwater Vulnerability Determined by Modeled Age and Residence Time Tracers, MaryLynn Musgrove, Bryant C. Jurgens, and Stephen P. Opsahl
Karstic Aquifers—Simple or Hybrid Systems? Thermal Stories from Maaras Cave, Greece, Rannveig Øvrevik Skoglund, Christos Pennos, Aurel Perşoiu, and Yorgos Sotiriadis
Laboratory and temporal moment analysis of tracer-based solute transport in karst conduits, Xin-tong Wang, Yi-chi Zhang, Peng Lin, and Zhen-hao Xu
Lamp for light: How temperature and humidity determine light management in Upper Paleolithic decorated cave environments, Yafit Kedar, Gil Kedar, and Ran Barkai
Landscape evolution and the karst development in the Ojo Guareña multilevel cave system (Merindad de Sotoscueva, Burgos, Spain), Theodoros Karampaglidis, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Ana Isabel Ortega-Martínez, Miguel Ángel Martín-Merino, and Laura Sánchez-Romero
Long-Read Sequencing Reveals Rapid Evolution of Immunity- and Cancer-Related Genes in Bats, Armin Scheben, Olivia Mendivil Ramos, Melissa Kramer, Sara Goodwin, Sara Oppenheim, Daniel J. Becker, Michael C. Schatz, Nancy B. Simmons, Adam Siepel, and W Richard McCombie
Magnesium and groundwater flow relationship in karst aquifers: a tool for exploitation management of springs, Francesco Maria De Filippi and Giuseppe Sappa
Meaning-making behavior in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi , from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications, Agustin Fuentes, Marc Kissel, Penny Spikins, Keneiloe Molopyane, John Hawks, and Lee R. Berger
Mg records of two stalagmites from B7-Cave (northwest Germany) indicating long-term precipitation changes during Early to Mid-Holocene, Dana F. C. Riechelmann, Klaus Peter Jochum, Detlev K. Richter, and Denis Scholz
Microfauna relative abundance since the Late Pleistocene at Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming, U.S.A, Julia A. Schap, Julie A. Meachen, and Jenny L. McGuire
Mise-a-la-masse method, tracer tests and cave detection analysis of underground-river karst-conduit distribution and structure: a case study of the Dafengdong conduits in Guizhou Province, China, Yazhou Chen, Weihong Dong, Hujun Ren, and Xibin Li
Morphological and morphometric analyses of a late Middle Pleistocene hominin mandible from Hualongdong, China, Xiujie Wu, Shuwen Pei, Yanjun Cai, Haowen Tong, Ziliang Zhang, Yi Yan, Song Xing, María Martinón-Torres, José María Bermúdez de Castro, and Wu Liu
Multiple fluorescence approaches to identify rapid changes in microbial indicators at karst springs, Luka Vucinic, David O'Connell, Donata Dubber, Catherine Coxon, and Laurence Gill
New Blombos Cave evidence supports a multistep evolutionary scenario for the culturalization of the human body, Francesco d'Errico, Karen Loise van Niekerk, Lila Geis, and Christopher Stuart Henshilwood
New evidence on prehistoric settlement in Song Toyapakeh, an underwater cave in Nusa Penida, Bali, Gendro Keling, I. Wayan Sumerata, Ati Rati Hidayah, I. Putu Yuda Haribuana, Rochtri Agung Bawono, Danni Gathot Harbowo, Mimi Savitri, I Wayan Ardiana, Nyoman Sugiartha, I Ketut Gina, and I Nyoman Sugata
Nitrate sources and their influence on hydrogeochemistry in karst caves of Southwest China, Zhongfa Zhou, Shengjun Ding, Yong Xiong, Liangxing Shi, Dan Su, Xiaohuan Gong, Hui Dong, and Lihui Yan
