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Submissions from 2014

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Molecular Techniques for the Identification of Commensal Fungal Populations on Cave Roosting Bats, Hazel Barton, James Holda, and Greg Smith

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Morphological study of Red lake in Dinaric karst based on terrestrial laser scaning and sonar system, Ognjen Bonacci and Ivo Andrić

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Mortuary Pathways and Ritual Meanings Related to Maya Human Bone Deposits in Subterranean Contexts, Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler

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National Cave and Karst Research Institute 2013-2014 Annual Report, National Cave and Karst Research Institute

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Neandertal roots: Cranial and chronological evidence from Sima de los Huesos, Arsuaga L. Arsuaga J. Martinez, L. J. Arnold, and A. Aranburu

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New evidence for the Mousterian and Gravettian at Rio Secco Cave, Italy, Marco Peresani, Mateo Romandini, and Rossella Duches

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New fossil teeth of Theropithecus oswaldi (Cercopithecoidea) from the Early Pleistocene at Cueva Victoria (SE Spain), Carles Ferràndez-Cañadell, Francesc Ribot, and Luís Gibert

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New Insights Gained from the Faunal Material Recovered During the Latest Excavations at Vogelherd Cave, Ulf Boger, Britt M. Starkovich, and Nicholas John Conard

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New knapping methods in the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), Paloma de la Peña and Lyn Wadley

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New radiocarbon data from Micoquian layers of the Kůlna Cave (Czech Republic), Petr Neruda and Zdeňka Nerudová

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New views on old hands: the context of stencils in El Castillo and La Garma caves (Cantabria, Spain), Paul Pettitt, Alfredo Maximiano Castillejo, and Pablo Arias

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Niche differentiation in Meta bourneti and M. menardi (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with notes on the life history, Stefano Mammola and Marco Isaia

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Niche differentiation in Meta bourneti and M. menardi (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with notes on the life history, Stefano Mammola and Marco Isaia

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Nociones relacionadas con las cuevas en la lengua y cosmovisión tseltales, Marceal Méndez-Pérez

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Nonecholocating Fruit Bats Produce Biosonar Clicks with Their Wings, Arjan Boonman, Sara Bumrungsri, and Yossi Yovel

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Nonlethal Screening of Bat-wing Skin with the Use of Ultraviolet Fluorescence to Detect Lesions Indicative of White-nose Syndrome, Gregory G. Turner, Carol U. Meteyer, and Hazel Barton

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On some new or poorly-known species of the millipede family Polydesmidae from southern China (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), Sergei I. Golovatch, Youbang Li, and Weixin Liu

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Orthothermographies and 3D modeling as potential tools in ice caves studies: the Peña Castil Ice Cave (Picos de Europa, Northern Spain), Fernando Berenguer-Sempere, Manuel Gómez-Lende, Enrique Seranno, and José Juan de Sanjosé-Blasco

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Oxygen isotope variations in rainfall, drip-water and speleothem calcite from a well-ventilated cave in Texas, USA: Assessing a new speleothem temperature proxy, Weimin Feng, Richard C. Casteel, and Jay L. Banner

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Palaeopopulations of Late Pleistocene Top Predators in Europe: Ice Age Spotted Hyenas and Steppe Lions in Battle and Competition about Prey

Perspectives on the ‘Four-State Model’ of cave genesis in the dimensions of length and depth, and a critique of ‘looping caves’ versus ‘water table caves’: the role of base-level changes and recharge variations in cave development, D. C. Ford

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Pesquisas em Turismo e Paisagens Cársticas, Volume 7, No. 1/2, 2014, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo

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Phylogeny of harvestmen family Gonyleptidae inferred from a multilocus approach (Arachnida: Opiliones), Ricardo Pinto‐da‐Rocha, Cibele Bragagnolo, and Fernando P. L. Marques

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Pitfalls in comparing modern hair and fossil bone collagen C and N isotopic data to reconstruct ancient diets: a case study with cave bears (Ursus spelaeus), Hervé Bocherens, Aurora Grabdal-d'Anglade, and Keith Hobson

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Pleistocene cave art from Sulawesi, Indonesia, M. Aubert, A. Brumm, and M. Ramli

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Possible evidence of mammoth hunting at the Neanderthal site of Spy (Belgium), Mietje Germonpré, Mircea Udrescu, and Evelyne Fiers

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Potential for spread of the white-nose fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) in the Americas: use of Maxent and NicheA to assure strict model transference, Luis E. Escobar, Andrés Lira-Noriega, and Gonzalo Medina-Vogel

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Potentiometric Surface Investigation of the Middle Trinity Aquifer in Western Hays County, Texas, Jeffery A. Watson, Brian B. Hunt, and Marcus O. Gary

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Precipitation–temperature changes and evolution of a small glacier in the southeastern European Alps during the last 90 years, Renato R. Colucci and Mauro Guglielmin

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Primeros registros de Ampycinae Kury, 2003 (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae) en Colombia, Andrés F. García

Progress of karst study in Beijing Shihua cave., J. B. Lu, M. C. Zheng, and D. M. Wang

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Protecting and Managing Karst, Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania

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Quantification of submarine/intertidal groundwater discharge and nutrient loading from a lowland karst catchment, T. McCormack, L. W. Gill, and O. Naughton

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Quantitative reconstruction of early cretaceous paleoclimate using paleosol carbonates in China, Yuanyuan Pan and Chengmin Huang

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Quartz Knapping Strategies in the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), Paloma de la Peña and Lyn Wadley

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Radiaxial-fibrous and fascicular-optic Mg-calcitic cave cements: a characterization using electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD), Detlev K. Richter, Adrian Immenhauser, Rolf Dieter Neuser, and Augusto Mangini

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Rainfall and cave water isotopic relationships in two South-France sites, D. Genty, I. Labuhn, and G. Hoffmann

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Range of horizontal transport and residence time of nitrate in a mature karst vadose zone, Jiri Kamas, Jiri Bruthans, Helena Vysoka, and Miroslav Kovařík

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Recharge to Blue Lake and Strategies for Water Security Planning, Mount Gambier, South Australia

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Recommended International Guidelines for the Development and Management of Show Caves, International Show Caves Association, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and International Union of Speleology

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Reign of the Red Queen: the future of bats hangs in the balance, J. Judson Wynne

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Reproductive seasonality of the Egyptian fruit bat ( Rousettus aegyptiacus ) at the northern limits of its distribution, Radek K. Lučan, Tomáš Bartonička, and Petr Benda

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Review: Carbonate aquifers and future perspectives of karst hydrogeology in India, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Jerome Perrin, and Shakeel Ahmed

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Revision of the cranaid genera Phalangodus, Iquitosa and Aguaytiella (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptoidea), Marcos Ryotaro Hara, Ricardo Pinto-da-rocha, and Osvaldo Villarreal M.

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Ritual Use of Obsidian from Maya Caves in Belize: A Functional and Symbolic Analysis, Marc N. Levine and David M. Carballo

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Rocky desertification in Southwest China: Impacts, causes, and restoration, Zhongcheng Jiang, Yanqing Lian, and Xiaoqun Qin

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Role of temperature in determining relative abundance in cave twilight zones by two species of lungless salamander (family Plethodontidae), Carlos D. Camp, Jessica A. Wooten, and John B. Jensen

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Rooting the Phylogenetic Tree of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus by Characterization of a Conspecific Virus from an African Bat, Victor Max Corman, Ndapewa Laudika Ithete, and Leigh Rosanne Richards

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Salt transport and weathering processes in a sandstone cultural relic, North China, Guanghui Jiang, Fang Guo, and Jason S. Polk

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Scallop measurement in a 10m-high vadose canyon in pool sink, ease gill cave system, yorkshire dales, uk and a hypothetical post-deglacial canyon entrenchment timescale, D. Checkley and Trevor Faulkner

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Seasonal climate signals (1990–2008) in a modern Soreq Cave stalagmite as revealed by high-resolution geochemical analysis, Ian J. Orland, Yuval Burstyn, and Miryam Bar-Matthews

Semi-distributed lumped model of a karst system under active management, Bernard Ladouche, Jean-Christophe Marechal, and Nathalie Dorfliger

Sensitivity studies of a highaccuracy surface modeling method, Y. A. Zhao, M. Zhao, and Z. Du

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Shallow Subterranean Habitats: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation, David C. Culver and Tanja Pipan

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Single event time series analysis in a binary karst catchment evaluated using a groundwater model (Lurbach system, Austria), C. Mayaud, T. Wagner, and R. Benischke

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Speleoclimate dynamics in Santana Cave (PETAR, São Paulo State, Brazil): general characterization and implications for tourist management, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo, Paulo Cesar Boggiani, and José Alexandre de Jesus Perinotto

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Speleomycological research in underground Osówka complex in Sowie Mountains (Lower Silesia, Poland), Wojciech Pusz, Rafał Ogórek, Cecylia Miłowana Uklańska-Pusz, and Paweł Zagożdżon

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Speleothem and biofilm formation in a granite/dolerite cave, Northern Sweden, Therese Sallstedt, Magnus Ivarsson, Johannes Lundberg, Rabbe Sjöberg, and Juan Ramón Vidal Romaní

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Speleothems in Cova des Pas de Vallgornera: their distribution and characteristics within an extensive coastal cave from the eogenetic karst of southern Mallorca (Western Mediterranean), Antoni Merino, Joaquín Ginés, Paola Tuccimei, Michele Soligo, and Joan J. Fornós

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Stratigraphic analysis of the Sterkfontein StW 573 Australopithecus skeleton and implications for its age, Laurent Bruxelles, Ronald J. Clarke, and Richard Maire

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Structural and hydrological controls on the development of a river cave in marble (Tapagem Cave - SE Brazil), William Sallun Filho, Bruna Medeiros Cordeiro, and Ivo Karmann

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Structural and lithological guidance on speleogenesis in quartz– sandstone: Evidence of the arenisation process, Francesco Sauro

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Structural and lithological guidance on speleogenesis in quartz–sandstone: evidence of the arenisation process., Francesco Sauro

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Study of filled dolines by using 3D stereo image processing and electrical resistivity imaging, Mateja Breg Valjavec

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Stupeň skrasovatenia horninového prostredia severného okraja Silickej planiny na základe analýzy výtokových čiar, Peter Malík, Miloš Gregor, and Radovan Černák

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Styles and rates of long-term denudation in carbonate terrains under a Mediterranean to hyper-arid climatic gradient, U. Ryb, A. Matmon, and Y. Erel

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Subsistence economy and social life: A zooarchaeological view from the 300 kya central hearth at Qesem Cave, Israel, Blasco, Jordi Rosell, and Avi Gopher

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Supplementary Materials for Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and Modern Native Americans, James C. Chatters, Douglas J. Kennett, and Yemane Asmerom

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Surface-Water and Karst Groundwater Interactions and Streamflow-Response Simulations of the Karst-Influenced Upper Lost River Watershed, Orange County, Indiana, E. Randall Bayless, Peter J. Cinotto, and Randy L. Ulery

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Survey and explorations of caves in southeastern Ethiopia: Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age archaeology and Holocene rock art, Zelalem Assefa, David Pleurdeau, and Frederique Duquensoy

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Sustainable use of the Predjama Cave (Slovenia) and possible scenarios related to anticipated major increases in tourist numbers, Stanka Šebela and Janez Turk

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Takarkori rock shelter (SW Libya): an archive of Holocene climate and environmental changes in the central Sahara, Mauro Cremaschi, Andrea Zerboni, and Anna Maria Mercuri

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Texas Salamanders, U.S. Department of the Interior

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The cavefish genome reveals candidate genes for eye loss, Suzanne E. McGaugh, Joshua B. Gross, and Bronwen Aken

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The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya), Katerina Douka, Zenobia Jacobs, Christine Lane, and Rainer Grün

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The conservation value of karst dolines for vascular plants in woodland habitats of Hungary: refugia and climate change, Zoltán Bátori, János Csiky, Tünde Farkas, E. Anna Vojtkó, László Erdős, Dániel Kovács, Tamás Wirth, László Körmöczi, and András Vojtkó

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The Cova des Pas de Vallgornera (Llucmajor, Mallorca): a singular deposit bearing an exceptional well preserved Early Pleistocene vertebrate fauna, Pere Bover, Alex Valenzuela, Carmen Guerra, Juan Rofes, Josep A. Alcover, Joaquin Gines, Joan J. Fornos, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, and Antoni Merino

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The Early Hercynian paleo-karstification in the Block 12 of Tahe oilfield, northern Tarim Basin, China, Xuefei Yang, Xinzhi Wang, and Hao Tang

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The first human settlers on the Yucatan Peninsula: Evidence from drowned caves in the State of Quintana Roo (South Mexico), Arturo González González, A. Terrazas, and Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

The First Human Settlers on the Yucatan Peninsula: Evidence from Drowned Caves in the State of Quintana Roo (South Mexico), Kelly E. Graf

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The historical use of water resources in karst, Mario Parise and Mariangela Sammarco

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The impact of hydrogeochemical processes on karst groundwater quality in arid and semiarid area: a case study in the Liulin spring area, north China, Hongfei Zang, Xiuqing Zheng, and Zhenxing Jia

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The last of its kind? Radiocarbon, ancient DNA and stable isotope evidence from a late cave bear (Ursus spelaeus ROSENMÜLLER, 1794) from Rochedane (France), Hervé Bocherens, Anne Bridault, and Dorothée G. Drucker

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The latest Ursus spelaeus in Italy, a new contribution to the extinction chronology of the cave bear, Ivan Martini, Maura Coltorti, and Paul P. Mazza

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The missing crop: investigating the use of grasses at Els Trocs, a Neolithic cave site in the Pyrenees (1564 m asl), Carla Lancelotti, Andrea L. Balbo, and Marco Madella

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The occurrence of coliform bacteria in the cave waters of Slovak Karst, Slovakia, Milan Seman, Barbora Gaálová, and Marianna Cíchová

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The Recession of Spring Hydrographs, Focused on Karst Aquifers, Francesco Fiorillo

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The Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes ) as an Accumulator of Bones in Cave‐like Environments, Magdalena Krajcarz and Maciej Tomasz Krajcarz

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The relationships between land cover, climate and cave copepod spatial distribution and suitability along the Carpathians, Iona N. Meleg, Magdalena Naparus, and Frank Fiers

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The role of the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) as a bone accumulator in cliff rock shelters: an analysis of modern bone nest assemblages from North-eastern Iberia, Lluís Lloveras, Jordi Nadal, and Marta Moreno-García

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The show cave of Diros vs. wild caves of Peloponnese, Greece - distribution patterns of Cyanobacteria, Vasiliki Lamprinou, Daniel B. Danielidis, Adriani Pantazidou, Alexandra Oikonomou, and Athena Economou-Amilli

The Stone House in the Cave: Speleothem Complexes as Sacred Space in Actun Yaxteel Ahau, Melanie Saldana, Jennifer Coats, and James E. Brady

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The ungulate assemblage from layer A9 at Grotta di Fumane, Italy: A zooarchaeological contribution to the reconstruction of Neanderthal ecology, Matteo Romandini, Nicola Nannini, Antonio Tagliacozzo, and Marco Presani

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The Vertical Extent of Groundwater Metazoans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective, Cene Fiser, Tanja Pipan, and David C. Culver

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Three Previously-Unrecorded Cave Features in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, Brent Skoy Kerry Woodfill

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Troglofauna in the vadose zone: comparison of scraping and trapping results and sampling adequacy, S. A. Halse and G. B. Pearson

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Troglomorphic pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) of northern Arizona, with the description of two new short-range endemic species, J. Judson Wynne