This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2017
New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa, John Hawks, Marina Elliott, and Peter Schmid
New genus and species of cavernicolous cockroach (Blattaria, Nocticolidae) from Vietnam, Ľubomír Vidlička, Peter Vršanský, and Tatiana Kúdelová
Newly discovered Neanderthal remains from Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan, and their attribution to Shanidar 5, Emma Pomeroy, Marta L. Mirazón, and Federica Crivellaro
New perspectives for 14C dating of parietal markings using CaCO3 thin layers: An example in Nerja cave (Spain), José Luis Sanchidrián, Hélène Valladas, Ma Ángeles Medina-Alcaide, and Edwige Pons-Branchu
New perspectives for 14C dating of parietal markings using CaCO3 thin layers: An example in Nerja cave (Spain), José L. Sanchidrián, Hélène Valladas, and Ma Ángeles Medina-Alcaide
Noteworthy records for six species of Bats from 13 texas couNties aNd the first Voucher specimeNs from sites with Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Krysta D. Demere, Melissa B. Meierhofer, and Michael L. Morrison
Ocupaciones humanas en Aitzbitarte III (Paı´s vasco), 26.000–13.000 BP (Zona profunda de la cueva) Vitoria: Coleccio´n de patrimonio cultural vasco, Jesús Altuna, Koro Mariezkurrena, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, and A. San Emeterio
Oldest human occupation of Wallacea at Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, shows broad-spectrum foraging responses to late Pleistocene environments, Stuart Hawkins, Sue O'Connor, and Tim Ryan Maloney
Once Plundered by Thieves, Ancient Cave Reopens with 3-D Replicas of Stolen Fossils, Brigit Katz
Organic matter enrichment affects archaea community in limestone cave sediments, E. L.S. Marques, J.C.T. Dias, G.S. Silva, C.P. Pirovani, and R.P. Rezende
Origin of an extensive network of non-tectonic synclines in Eocene limestones of the Western Desert, Egypt, Barbara J. Tewksbury, Elbamy Tarabees, and Charlotte J. Mehrtens
Overview of the geophysical studies in the Dead Sea coastal area related to evaporite karst and recent sinkhole development, Mikhail G. Ezersky, Anatoly Legchenko, Lev Eppelbaum, and Abdalla Al-Zoubi
Palaeoecology of cave bears as evidenced by dental wear analysis: a review of methods and recent findings, Stéphane Peigné and Gildas Merceron
Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of the Middle to Late Pleistocene sequence of Scladina Cave (Namur, Belgium) using the small-mammal assemblages, Juan Manuel López-García, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Jean-Marie Cordy, Stéphane Pirson, Grégory Abrams, Kévin Di Modica, and Dominique Bonjean
Palaeoenvironments during the period of the Neanderthals settlement in Chagyrskaya cave (Altai Mountains, Russia), Natalia Rudaya, Sergei Vasiliev, and Bence Viola
Paleokarst Reservoir Features and Their Influence on Production in the Tahe Oilfield, Tarim Basin, China, Yongqiang Li, Jiagen Hou, and Jianfang Sun
PCO2 variations of cave air and cave water in a subtropical cave, SW China, Junbing Pu, Aoyu Wang, and Jianjun Yin
Petrographical and geochemical changes in Bosnian stalagmites and their palaeo-environmental significance, Veronica Chiarini, Isabelle Couchoud, Russell Drysdale, Petra Bajo, Simone Milanolo, Silvia Frisia, Alan Greig, John Hellstrom, and Jo De Waele
Phosphate speleothems in caves developed in iron ores and laterites of the Carajás Mineral Province (Brazil) and a new occurrence of spheniscidite, Alan R.L. Albuquerque, Rômulo S. Angélica, Daniele F. Gonçalves, and Simone P.A. Paz
Phylogenetic evidence from freshwater crayfishes that cave adaptation is not an evolutionary dead‐end, David B. Stern, Jesse Breinholt, Carlos Pedraza‐Lara, Marilú López‐Mejía, Christopher L. Owen, Heather Bracken‐Grissom, James W. Fetzner Jr., and Keith A. Crandall
Phylogenetic evidence from freshwater crayfishes that cave adaptation is not an evolutionary dead‐end, David B. Stern, Jesse Breinholt, Carlos Pedraza‐Lara, Marilú López‐Mejía, Christopher L. Owen, Heather Bracken‐Grissom, James W. Fetzner Jr., and Keith A. Crandall
Phylogenetic evidence that both ancient vicariance and dispersal have contributed to the biogeographic patterns of anchialine cave shrimps, José A. Jurado-Rivera, Joan Pons, Fernando Alvarez, Alejandro Botello, William F. Humphreys, Timothy J. Page, Thomas M. Iliffe, Endre Willassen, Kenneth Meland, Carlos Juan, and Damià Jaume
Phylogenetics of a Fungal Invasion: Origins and Widespread Dispersal of White-Nose Syndrome, Kevin P. Drees and Jeffrey M. Lorch
Physical and Environmental Characteristics based Classif ication of theCavesof theAndaman Islands, Akshaya Mohan Mane and Manchi Shirish S.
Pleistocene cave hyenas in the Iberian Peninsula: New insights from Los Aprendices cave (Moncayo, Zaragoza, V. Sauqué, R Rabal-Garcés, J Madurell-Malaperia, M Gisbert, S Zamora, T Torres, J Ortíz, and G Cuenca-Bescós
Pleistocene cave hyenas in the Iberian Peninsula: New insights from Los Aprendices cave (Moncayo, Zaragoza, V. Sauqué, R. Rabal-Garcés, J. Madurell-Malaperia, M. Gisbert, S Zamora, T Torres, J Ortíz, and G Cuenca-Bescós
Pliocene–Pleistocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from Ashalim Cave speleothems, Negev Desert, Israel, Anton Vaks, Miryam Bar-Matthews, and Avner Ayalon
Poachers threaten Balkans' underground biodiversity, Vedrana Simičević
Possible evaporite karst in an interior layered deposit in Juventae Chasma, Mars, Davide Baioni and Mario Tramontana
Post-depositional alteration of humid tropical cave sediments: Micromorphological research in the Great Cave of Niah, Sarawak, Borneo, M. Stephens, J. Rose, and D.D. Gilbertson
Precise dating of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Murcia (Spain) supports late Neandertal persistence in Iberia, João Zilhão, Daniela Anesin, and Thierry Aubry
Prediction of flow rate of karstic springs using support vector machines, Manish Kumar Goyal, Ashutosh Sharma, and Konstantinos L. Katsifarakis
Preferential flow, diffuse flow, and perching in an interbedded fractured-rock unsaturated zone, John R. Nimmo, Kaitlyn M. Creasey, and Kim S. Perkins
Prenatal development supports a single origin of laryngeal echolocation in bats, Zhe Wang, Tengteng Zhu, and Huiling Xue
Preserving fossils in the national parks: A history, Vincent L. Santucci
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, William R. Elliot, James R. Reddell, and D. C. Rudolph
Profiling the immunome of little brown myotis provides a yardstick for measuring the genetic response to white-nose syndrome, Michael E. Donaldson, Christina M. Davy, Craig K. R. Willis, Scott McBurney, Allysia Park, and Christopher J. Kyle
Proterozoic 40Ar/39Ar ages from cave deposits of the Malapa, Sterkfontein and Dinaledi fossil sites, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, T. V. Makhubela, J.-L. D. Kramers, G. A. Belyanin, P. Dirks, and E.M. Roberts
Pseudokarst Commission Newsletter
Pseudokarst en Areniscas en la Cuenca Media de Los Rios Carrizal Y Barro (Manabi, Ecuador), Evelio J. Baldo Piedra and Leslie F. Morelio Leon
Quantifying meso-mammal cave use in central Texas, Andrea E. Montalvo, Roel R. Lopez, and Israel D. Parker
Quantifying the burden of vampire bat rabies in Peruvian livestock, Julio A. Benavides, Elizabeth Rojas Paniagua, and Katie Hampson
Quantitative approaches to sensory information encoding by bat noseleaves and pinnae, Rolf Müller
Quantitative groundwater estimation of Izhora Plateau, Russian Federation using thermodynamic and kinetic methods for carbonate rock interaction in identified karst terrain, Sergey V. Zhdanov and Vitaly V. Kurilenko
Quantitative Interpretation of carbonate reservoir rock using wireline logs: a case study from Central Luconia, offshore Sarawak, Malaysia, Tariq Janjuhah, Ahmed Mohammad Ahmed Salim, and Muhammad Shah
Quaternary depositional facies in cave entrances and their relation to landscape evolution: The example of Cuvieri Cave, eastern Brazil, Paulo M. Haddad-Martim, Alex Hubbe, Paulo C.F. Giannini, Augusto S. Auler, Luís B. Piló, Mark Hubbe, Elver Mayer, Xianfeng Wang, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, and Walter A. Neves
Radiocarbon chronology of Manot Cave, Israel and Upper Paleolithic dispersals, Bridget Alex, Omry Barzilai, and Israel Hershkovitz
Radiocarbon chronology of Manot Cave, Israel and Upper Paleolithic dispersals, Bridget Alex, Omry Barzilai, Israel Hershkovitz, Ofer Marder, Francesco Berna, Valentina Caracuta, Talia Abulafia, Lauren Davis, Mae Goder-Goldberger, Ron Lavi, Eugenia Mintz, Lior Regev, Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, José-Miguel Tejero, Reuven Yeshurun, Avner Ayalon, Mira Bar-Matthews, Gal Yasur, Amos Frumkin, Bruce Latimer, Mark G. Hans, and Elisabetta Boaretto
Radiocarbon Dating of the Decorated Cosquer Cave (France), H. Valladas, A. Quiles, M. Delque-Kolic, and E. Kaltnecker
Rapid poleward distributional shifts in the European cave‐dwelling Meta spiders under the influence of competition dynamics, Stefano Mammola and Marco Isaia
Recharge Estimation in Karst Aquifers by Applying Water Level Fluctuation Approach, M. Abusaada and Sauter
Recharge Estimation in Karst Aquifers by Applying Water Level Fluctuation Approach, M. Abusaada and Sauter
Recharge Estimation in Karst Aquifers by Applying Water Level Fluctuation Approach, M. Abusaada and Sauter
Recharge Estimation in Karst Aquifers by Applying Water Level Fluctuation Approach, Sauter M. Abusaada
Re-Conceptualizing the Edwards Aquifer: Authority Recharge Program: Staff Recommendations to Optimize and Protect the Edwards Aquifer, Mark Hamilton and Jim Boenig
Regional-scale analysis of karst underground flow deduced from tracing experiments: examples from carbonate aquifers in Malaga province, southern Spain, J. A. Barberá, M. Mudarra, and B. Andreo
Relationships between fluvial evolution and karstification related to climatic, tectonic and eustatic forcing in temperate regions, Dominique Harmand, Kathryn Adamson, Gilles Rixhon, Stéphane Jaillet, Benoît Losson, Alain Devos, Gabriel Hez, Marc Calvet, and Philippe Audra
Reproductive seasonality, sex ratio and philopatry in Argentina's common vampire bats, H. A. Delpietro, R. G. Russo, G. G. Carter, R. D. Lord, and G. L. Delpietro
Resistance in persisting bat populations after white-nose syndrome invasion, Kate E. Langwing, Joseph R. Hoyt, and Katy L. Parise
Resource capture and competitive ability of non-pathogenic Pseudogymnoascus spp. and P. destructans, the cause of white-nose syndrome in bats, Michael B. Wilson, Benjamin W. Held, and Amanda H. Freiborg
Return to Fort Rock Cave: Assessing the Site's Potential to Contribute to Ongoing Debates about How and When Humans Colonized the Great Basin, Thomas J. Connolly, Judson Byrd Finley, and Geoffrey M. Smith
Reviewing the upper Pleistocene human footprints from the ‘Sala dei Misteri’ in the Grotta della Bàsura (Toirano, northern Italy) cave: An integrated morphometric and morpho-classificatory approach, Paolo Citton, Marco Romano, Isabella Salvador, and Marco Avanzini
Review of the Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan: Report 2, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Review: The distribution, flow, and quality of Grand Canyon Springs, Arizona (USA), Benjamin W. Tobin, Abraham E. Springer, and David K. Kreamer
Ridge-like lava tube systems in southeast Tharsis, Mars, Jiannan Zhao, Jun Huang, and Michael D. Kraft
River sequesters atmospheric carbon and limits the CO2 degassing in karst area, southwest China, Tao Zhang, Jianhong Li, and Junbing Pu
Role of Fracturing in the Organization of the Karst Features of Azrou Plateau (Middle Atlas, Morroco) Studied by Remote Sensing Imagery, Faiza Menjour, Toufik Remmal, Mustapha Hakdaoui, Fouad El Kamel, Kawtar Lakroud, Fouad Amraoui, Iz-Eddine El Amrani El Hassani, Benjamin Van wyk de vries, and Pierre Boivin
Role of karst denudation on the accurate assessment of glacio-eustasy and tectonic uplift on carbonate coasts, John E. Mylroie and Joan R. Mylroie
Schistura larketensis, a new cavernicolous fish (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Meghalaya, Northeast India, Hrishikesh Choudhury, D. Khlur B. Mukhim, and Sudem Basumatary
Screening of antifungal susceptibility in cave-dwelling aspergilli and report of an amphotericin B-resistant Aspergillus flavus, Erika L.S. Taylor, Gabriella F. Ferreira, Gustavo J.C. Freitas, Rodrigo L. Ferreira, Daniel de Assis Santos, and Maria A. de Resende-Stoianoff
Secondary minerals from salt caves in the Atacama Desert (Chile): a hyperarid and hypersaline environment with potential analogies to the Martian subsurface, Jo De Waele, Cristina Carbone, Laura Sanna, Marco Vattano, Ermanno Galli, Francesco Sauro, and Paolo Forti
Sedimentary roles on hyporheic exchange in karst conduits at low Reynolds numbers by laboratory experiments, Yuexia Wu and Daniel Hunkeler
Sediment micromorphology and site formation processes during the Middle to Later Stone Ages at the Haua Fteah Cave, Cyrenaica, Libya, Robyn H. Inglis, Charles French, and Lucy Farr
Seismic Characterization of Hypogenic Karst Systems Associated with Deep Hydrothermal Fluids in the Middle-Lower Ordovician Yingshan Formation of the Shunnan Area, Tarim Basin, NW China, Hongtao Zhu, Xiu Zhu, and Honghan Chen
Sensing in a noisy world: lessons from auditory specialists, echolocating bats, Aaron J. Corcoran and Cynthia F. Moss
Sensitivity of Bunker Cave to climatic forcings highlighted through multi-annual monitoring of rain-, soil-, and dripwaters, Sylvia Riechelmann, Andrea Schröder-Ritzrau, Christoph Spötl, Dana Felicitas Christine Riechelmann, Detlev Konrad Richter, Augusto Mangini, Norbert Frank, Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach, and Adrian Immenhauser
Simulation of an experimental fire in an underground limestone quarry for the study of Paleolithic fires, Delphine Lacanette, Jean-Christophe Mindeguia, Aurélie Brodard, Catherine Ferrier, Pierre Guibert, Jean-Claude Leblanc, Philippe Malaurent, and Colette Sirieix
Sistema Zacatón: Volcanically Controlled Hypogenic Karst, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Marcus Gary
Skin and fur bacterial diversity and community structure on American southwestern bats: effects of habitat, geography and bat traits, Ara S. Winter, Jennifer J.M. Hathaway, Jason C. Kimble, Debbie C. Buecher, Ernest W. Valdez, Andrea Porras-Alfaro, Jesse M. Young, Kaitlyn J.H. Read, and Diana E. Northup
SmartCaveDrone: 3D cave mapping using UAVs as robotic co-archaeologists, Guoxiang Zhang, Bo Shang, and Yangquan Chen
Social identity and geographic origin of Maya burials at Actun Uayazba Kab, Roaring Creek Valley, Belize, Gabriel D. Wrobel, Carolyn Freiwald, Amy R. Michael, and Christophe Helmke
Spatial and temporal hydrochemistry variations of karst water in Gunung Sewu, Java, Indonesia, Tjahyo Nugroho Adji, Eko Haryono, Hendy Fatchurohman, and Roza Oktama
Species identification and decay assessment of Late Pleistocene fragmentary vertebrate remains from Pin Hole Cave (Creswell Crags, UK) using collagen fingerprinting, Michael Buckley, Virginia L. Harvey, and Andrew T. Chamberlain
Speleogenesis, geometry, and topology of caves: A quantitative study of 3D karst conduits, Johan Jouves, Sophie Viseur, Bruno Arfib, Cécile Baudement, Hubert Camus, Pauline Collon, and Yves Guglielmi
Spötl C., Plan L. and Christian E., 2016. Höhlen und Karst in Österreich (Caves and Karst in Austria), Philipp Häuselmann
Spring hydrograph simulation of karstic aquifers: Impacts of variable recharge area, intermediate storage and memory effects, Seiyed Mossa Hosseini, Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani, and Craig T. Simmons
Stable isotope and aquatic geochemistry of a typical subtropical karst subterranean stream in southwest China, Tao Zhang, Junbing Pu, and Jianhong Li
Stable isotope composition of cave guano from eastern Borneo reveals tropical environments over the past 15,000 cal yr BP, Christopher M. Wurster, Hamdi Rifai, and Jordahna Haig
Stable isotope compositions of speleothems from the last interglacial – Spatial patterns of climate fluctuations in Europe, Attila Demény, Zoltán Kern, György Czuppon, Alexandra Németh, Szabolcs Leél-Őssy, Zoltán Siklósy, Ke Lin, Hsun-Ming Hu, Chuan-Chou Shen, Torsten W. Vennemann, and László Haszpra
Stable isotopic composition of submerged plants living in karst water and its eco-environmental importance., Pei Wang, Gang Hu, and Jianhua Cao
Stalagmite carbon isotopes and dead carbon proportion (DCP) in a near-closed-system situation: An interplay between sulphuric and carbonic acid dissolution, Petra Bajo, Andrea Borsato, Russell Drysdale, and Quan Hua
Stalagmites from western Thailand: preliminary investigations and challenges for palaeoenvironmental research, Sakonvan Chawchai, Guangxin Liu, and Raphael Bissen
State of the art of karst vulnerability assessment: overview, evaluation and outlook, Veronika Iván and Judit Mádl-Szonyi
Statistical metrics for the characterization of karst network geometry and topology, Pauline Collon, David Bernasconi, Cécile Vuilleumier, and Philippe Renard
Status Report for Aquifer Storage and Recovery Pilot Project: Ruby Ranch Water Supply Corporation, Hays County, Central Texas, Brian A. Smith, Brian B. Hunt, and Bruce Darling
Stiva Cave: A New Discover Of Prehistoric Hominid Underwater Cave, Danni Gathot Harbowo, Stiva Alouw, Theresia Gerungan Soetamanggala, and Azalia Gerungan
Stone Age Cannibals Engraved Marks on Human Bones, Charles Q. Choi
Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of Stajna Cave (southern Poland) with regard to habitation of the site by Neanderthals, Marcin Żarski, Hanna Winter, Adam Nadachowski, and Mikołaj Urbanowski
