This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2015
On the Way to Speciation: Shedding Light on the Karstic Phylogeography of the Microendemic Cave Beetle Aphaenops cerberusin the Pyrenees, Arnaud Faille, Rene Tanzler, and Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint
Opiliones are no longer the same—on suprafamilial groups in harvestmen (Arthropoda: Arachnida), Adriano B. Kury
Overview of Methods Applied in Karst Hydrogeology, Nico Goldscheider
Paleoindian Settlement Strategies Across Time and Space in the Northwestern Great Basin: Lithic Technological Organization at Last Supper Cave, Nevada, Danielle Felling
Paleokarst: A Systematic and Regional Review, Pavel Bosak, Derek C. Ford, and Jerzy Glazek
Paleokarst crust of Ordovician limestone and its utilization in evaluating water inrushes in coalmines of North China Carbonates and Evaporites, Gongyu Li, Lin Mou, and Wanfang Zhou
Paleontology and paleoecology of guano deposits in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA, Chris Widga and Mona Colburn
Pliocene and Pleistocene Vertebrates of New Mexico, Gary S. Morgan and Arthur H. Harris
Population Demography and Genetic Diversity in the Pleistocene Cave Lion, Erik Ersmark, Ludovic Orlando, Edson Sandoval-Castellanos, and Ian Barnes
Post-White-nose syndrome trends in Virginia’s cave bats, 2008-2013, Karen E. Powers, Richard J. Reynolds, and Wil Orndorff
Preliminary investigation of a ritual cave site in the Puuc Region of Yucatàn, Mexico: ActunXcoch, Eric M. Weaver, Nicholas P. Dunning, Michael Smyth, and Beth Cortright
Procedures and criteria analysis of fluorescent dyes in water and charcoal samplers: fluorescein, eosine, rhodamine WT, and sulforhodamine B Dyes, Thomas Aley and Shiloh L. Beeman
Pseudogymnoascus destructans in Croatia confirmed, Igor Pavlinić, Maja Đaković, and Ivana Lojkić
Quantifying Wildlife Use of Cave Entrances Using Remote Camera Traps, Gretchen M. Baker
Quantitative hermeneutics: Counting forestructures on a path from W.M. Davis to the concept of multiple-permeability karst aquifers, H. L. Vacher and Lee J. Florea
Range-wide genetic analysis of little brown bat (myotis lucifugus) populations: estimating the risk of spread of white-nose syndrome, Maarten J. Vonhof, Amy L. Russell, and Cassandra M. Miller-Butterworth
Reactive-transport modelling of gypsum dissolution in a coastal karst aquifer in Puglia, southern Italy, Claudia Campana and Maria Dolores Fidelibus
Reconstructing water level in Hoyo Negro, Quintana Roo, Mexico, implications for early Paleoamerican and faunal access, S. V. Collins, E. G. Reinhardt, and D. Rissolo
Reconstruction of the Neanderthal and Modern Human landscape and climate from the Fumane cave sequence (Verona, Italy) using small-mammal assemblages, Juan Manuel López-García, Chiara dalla Valle, Mauro Cremaschi, and Marco Peresani
Reconstruction of the Northeast Asian monsoon climate history for the past 400 years based on textural, carbon and oxygen isotope record of a stalagmite from Yongcheon lava tube cave, Jeju Island, Korea, Kyung Sik Woo, Jeong Chan Kim, and Don Won Choi
Redating Fell's Cave, Chile and the Chronological Placement of the Fishtail Projectile Point, Michael R. Waters, Thomas Amorosi, and Thomas W. Stafford
Refining Our Understanding of Howiesons Poort Lithic Technology: The Evidence from Grey Rocky Layer in Sibudu Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), Paloma de la Peña
Refining Our Understanding of Howiesons Poort Lithic Technology: The Evidence from Grey Rocky Layer in Sibudu Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), Paloma de la Peña
Relay ramp structures and their influence on groundwater flow in the Edwards and Trinity Aquifers, Hays and Travis Counties, Central Texas, Brian B. Hunt, Brian A. Smith, and Douglas A. Wierman
Reorganization of sea urchin gene regulatory networks at least 268 million years ago as revealed by oldest fossil cidaroid echinoid, Jeffrey R. Thompson, Elizabeth Petsios, Eric H. Davidson, and Eric M. Erkenbrack
RESEARCH FRONTIERS IN SPELEOGENESIS. DOMINANT PROCESSES, HYDROGEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS AND RESULTING CAVE PATTERNS, Philippe Audra and Arthur N. Palmer
Review of the Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan: Report 1, National Research Council
Review of the millipede genus EutrichodesmusSilvestri, 1910, in China, with descriptions of new cavernicolous species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae), Sergei I. Golovatch, Jean-Jacques Geoffroy, and Jean-Paul Mauries
Rezo ch'ol en la cueva de Jolja, Tumbalá, Chiapas, del tatuch Miguel Arcos Méndez, Alejandro Sheseña
Rock art and rock music: Petroglyphs of the south Indian Neolithic, Nicole Boivin
Sacrifice of the Social Outcasts: Two Cases of Klippel–Feil Syndrome at Midnight Terror Cave, Belize, C. L. Kieffer
Seasonal dynamics and micro-climatic preference of two Alpine endemic hypogean beetles, Stefano Mammola, Elena Piano, Pier Mauro Giachino, and Marco Isaia
Sex and hibernaculum temperature predict survivorship in white-nose syndrome affected little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus), Laura E. Grieneisen, Sarah A. Brownlee-Bouboulis, and Joseph S. Johnson
Shaw T. & Alenka Čuk, 2015. Slovene karst and caves in the past, Arrigo A. Cigna
Speleogenesis of the Hermannshöhle cave system (Austria): Constraints from 230Th/U-dating and palaeomagnetic analysis, Lukas Plan, Andrea Schober, Denis Scholz, Christoph Spötl, Petr Pruner, and Pavel Bosák
Stability Assessment of the Gökgöl Karstic Cave (Zonguldak, Turkey) by Analytical and Numerical Methods, Melih Geniş and Berdan Çolak
Stir It Up, Little Darlin': The Chipped Stone from Mixed Deposits from Caves Branch Rocksheiter, Belize, W. James Stemp, Gabriel D. Wrobel, Jaime J. Awe, and Kelly Prayeur
Subsurface Flux Adjustments and Speleogenesis as Inferred from Sediment Traps in Major Lebanese Cave Systems, Carole Nehme, Stephane Jaillet, and Jean-Jacques Delannoy
Subterranean atmospheres may act as daily methane sinks, Angel Fernandez-Cortes, Soledad Cuezva, and Miriam Alvarez-Gallego
Subtropical mouse-tailed bats use geothermally heated caves for winter hibernation, Eran Levin, Brit Plotnik, and Eran Amichai
Sulfidic spring in the gypsum karst system of Monte Conca (Italy): chemistry and microbiological evidences, Marianna Messina, Tiziana Grech, Fiorenzo Fiorenza, Alessandro Marlettta, Pietro Valenti, and Salvatore Petralia
Sulfidic spring in the gypsum karst system of Monte Conca (Italy): chemistry and microbiological evidences, Marianna Messina, Tiziana Grech, and Florenzo Florenza
Sulphuric acid speleogenesis and landscape evolution: Montecchio cave, Albegna river valley (Southern Tuscany, Italy), Leonardo Piccini, Jo De Waele, and Ermanno Galli
Support vector machine method, a new technique for lithology prediction in an Iranian heterogeneous carbonate reservoir using petrophysical well logs, M. A. Sebtosheikh, R. Motafakkerfard, and M. A. Riahi
Surface water–groundwater interactions along the Blanco River of central Texas, USA, B. A. Smith, B. B. Hunt, and A. G. Andrews
Surface Waters and Groundwater in Karst, Ognjen Bonacci
Surface Waters and Groundwater in Karst, Zoran Stevanović
Temperature-driven seasonal calcite growth and drip water trace element variations in a well-ventilated Texas cave: Implications for speleothem paleoclimate studies, Richard C. Casteel and Jay L. Banner
Terrestrial LiDAR-based automated counting of swiftlet nests in the caves of Gomantong, Sabah, Borneo., Donald A. McFarlane, Warren Roberts, Manfred Buchroithner, Guy Van Rentergem, Joyce Lundberg, and Stefan Hautz
TEXBIB – Bibliography of Texas Speleology Maintained by The Texas Speleological Survey, James Russell Reddell
The biogeochemistry of insectivorous cave guano: a case study from insular Southeast Asia, Christopher M. Wurster, Niels Munksgaard, and Costijn Zwart
The cavernicolous Oniscidea (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Portugal. European Journal of Taxonomy, Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira, Gonçalves Fernando, and Pedro Oromí
The challenge of tunneling through Mediterranean karst aquifers: the case study of Trieste (Italy), Luca Zini, Calligaris Chiara, and Cucchi Franco
The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China, Wu Liu, María Martinón-Torres, and Yan-jun Cai
The effectiveness of protection policies and legislative framework with special regard to karst landscapes: Insights from Slovenia, Nataša Ravbar and Stanka Šebela
The entrance as a complex ecotone in a Neotropical cave, Xavier Prous, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, and Claudia Maria Jacobi
The entrance as a complex ecotone in a Neotropical cave, Xavier Prous, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, and Claudia Maria Jacobi
The genesis of a lava cave in the Deccan Volcanic Province (Maharashtra, India), Nikhil R. Pawar, Amod H. Katikar, Sudha Vaddadi, Sumitra H. Shinde, Sharad N. Rajaguru, Sachin V. Joshi, and Sanjay P. Eksambekar
The identity and worship of humain remains in rockshelter shrines among the Northern Lacandons of Mensabäk, Andrea Cucina, Vera Tiesler, and Joel Palka
The Importance of Late Quaternary Climate Change and Karst on Distributions of Caribbean Mormoopid Bats, J. Angel Soto-Centeno, Margaret O'Brien, and Nancy B. Simmons
The influence of tectonics on flank margin cave formation on a passive continental margin: Naracoorte, Southeastern Australia, Susan White and John A. Webb
The Karst Paradigm: Changes, Trends and Perspectives, Alexander B. Klimchouk
The million dollar question: which geophysical methods locate caves best over the Edwards Aquifer? A potpourri of case studies from San Antonio and Austin, Texas, USA, Mustafa Saribudak
The modern human colonization of western Eurasia: when and where?, Jean-Jacques Hublin
The Neanderthal in the karst: First dating, morphometric, and paleogenetic data on the fossil skeleton from Altamura (Italy), Martina Lari, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Andrea Borsato, and Silvia Ghirotto
The potential of palynology in fossil bat-dung from Arnhem Cave, Namibia, Eugène Marais, Louis Scott, Graciela Gil-Romera, and José S. Carrión
The prickly blade mapped: establishing homologies and a chaetotaxy for macrosetae of penis ventral plate in Gonyleptoidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores), Adriano B. Kury and Osvaldo M. Villarreal
The relationship between carbon dioxide concentration and visitor numbers in the homothermic zone of the Balcarka Cave (Moravian Karst) during a period of limited ventilation, Marek Lang, Jiří Faimon, and Camille Ek
The roles of sexual and asexual reproduction in the origin and dissemination of strains causing fungal infectious disease outbreaks, Eta Ebasi Ashu and Jianping Xu
The Sword and the Olive Jar: Material Evidence of Seventeenth-Century Maya-European Interaction in Central Belize, Jaime J. Awe
The terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea, Oniscidea) of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), with descriptions of two new species, Stefano Taiti and Judson Wynne
The thousand-year history of the Slovak Karst inferred from pollen in bat guano inside the Domica Cave (Slovakia), Helena Svitavská-Svobodová, Michal Andreas, Václav Krištůfek, and Jaromír Beneš
The White-Nose Syndrome Transcriptome: Activation of Anti-fungal Host Responses in Wing Tissue of Hibernating Little Brown Myotis, Kenneth A. Field, Joseph Johnson, and Thomas M. Lilley
Tracking changing X-ray contrast media application to an urban-influenced karst aquifer in the Wadi Shueib, Jordan, Moritz Zemann, Leif Wolf, Felix Grimmeisen, and Andreas Tiehm
Trash to treasure: assessing viability of wing biopsies for use in bat genetic research, Mary Beth Manjerovic, Michelle L. Green, and Andrew N. Miller
Turkish karst aquifers, G. Günay, N. Güner, and K. Törk
Two new cave-dwelling species of the millipede genus Paracortina Wang & Zhang, 1993 from southern China (Diplopoda, Callipodida, Paracortinidae), Weixin Liu and Mingyi Tian
UIS Bulletin, Volume 57, No. 2, December 2015, EfraÍn Mercado
Underground fieldwork – A cultural and social history of cave cartography and surveying instruments in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, Johannes Mattes
Understanding the Impact of Karst on Seismic Wave Propagation - A Multi-method Geophysical Study, C. Schmelzbach, C. Jordi, and D. Sollberger
Underwater Archaeology and Prehistory: The Case of the Cenotes in Mexico, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales
Updated numerical model with uncertainty assessment of 1950-56 drought conditions on brackish-water movement within the Edwards aquifer, San Antonio, Texas, Linzy K. Brakefield, Jeremy T. White, and Natalie A. Houston
Upper Palaeolithic ritualistic cannibalism at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK): The human remains from head to toe, Silvia M. Bello, Palmira Saladie, and Isabel Caceres
Urban Geophysics: Geophysical Signature of Mount Bonnell Fault and Its Karstic Features in Austin, TX, Mustafa Saribudak
Urban Water Challenges in the Americas. A perspective from the Academies of Sciences
USING STABLE ISOTOPES OF CARBON TO INVESTIGATE THE SEASONAL VARIATION OF CARBON TRANSFER IN A NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS CAVE, Katherine J. Knierim, Erik D. Pollock, and Phillip D. Hays
Vocal learning in a social mammal: Demonstrated by isolation and playback experiments in bats, Yosef Prat, Mor Taub, and Yossi Yovel
Vulnerability Mapping and Protection Zoning of Karst Springs. Validation by Multitracer Tests, A. I. Marín, B. Andreo, and M. Mudarra
Vulnerability to Contamination of Karst Aquifers, Ana I. Marin and Bartolome Andreo
Well hydrograph analysis for the characterisation of flow dynamics and conduit network geometry in a karst aquifer, Bükk Mountains, Hungary, Attila Kovács, Pierre Perrochet, Enikő Darabos, and László Lénárt
Well hydrograph analysis for the characterisation of flow dynamics and conduit network geometry in a karst aquifer, Bükk Mountains, Hungary, Attila Kovács, Pierre Perrochet, Enikő Darabos, and László Lénárt
White-Nose Syndrome fungus introduced from Europe to North America, Stefania Leopardi, Damer Blake, and Sebastien J. Puechmaille
Worked Conus shells as Pavlovian fingerprint: Obłazowa Cave, Southern Poland, Paweł Valde-Nowak
