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Submissions from 2016
Spring response to precipitation events using δ18O and δ2H in the Tanour catchment, NW Jordan, Ibraheem Hamdan, Bettina Wiegand, and Mathais Toll
Stability assessment of volcanic lava tubes in the Galápagos using engineering rock mass classifications and an empirical approach, Luis Jordá-Bordehore, Theofilos Toulkeridis, and Paola Leonor Romero-Crespo
Stable isotopes in guano: Potential contributions towards palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in Tabon Cave, Palawan, Philippines, O. Choa, M. Lebon, X. Gallet, and E. Dizon
Step back! Niche dynamics in cave-dwelling predators, Stefano Mammola, Elena Piano, and Marco Isaia
Strontium Isotope Investigation of Ungulate Movement Patterns on the Pleistocene Paleo-Agulhas Plain of the Greater Cape Floristic Region, South Africa, Sandi R. Copeland, Hayley C. Cawthra, and Erich C. Fisher
Strontium isotope investigation of ungulate movement patterns on the Pleistocene Paleo-Agulhas Plain of the Greater Cape Floristic Region, South Africa, Sandi R. Copeland, Hayley C. Cawthra, Erich C. Fisher, and Julia A. Lee-Thorp
Structural pattern of the Saïss basin and Tabular Middle Atlas in northern Morocco: Hydrological implications, O. Dauteuil, F. Moreau, and K. Qarqori
Sulfuric acid speleogenesis (SAS) close to the water table: Examples from southern France, Austria, and Sicily, Jo De Waele, Philippe Audra, and Giuliana Madonia
Surface-Water and Groundwater Interactions along Onion Creek, Central Texas, Brian B. Hunt, Brian A. Smith, and Douglas A. Wierman
Tectonic evolution and paleokarstification of carbonate rocks in the Paleozoic Tarim Basin, Xu, Chen, and Chu
Testing single-grain quartz OSL methods using sediment samples with independent age control from the Bordes-Fitte rockshelter (Roches d'Abilly site, Central France), K. J. Thomsen, A. S. Murray, J. P. Buylaert, and M. Jain
Texas Aquifers Study: Groundwater Quantity, Quality, Flow, and Contributions to Surface Water, Bech Bruun, Kathleen Jackson, and Peter Lake
The Bats of Somalia and Neighbouring Areas, Benedetto Lanza, Ugo Funaioli, and Marco Riccucci
The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Report of the 2015 Field Season, Julie A. Hoggarth and Jaime J. Awe
The caves of Nevada, Robert Hoke
The Classic-period pictographs at Juliq’ Cave, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala: an interdisciplinary approach to cave art as organizing principle, Brent K. S. Woodfill and Lucia R. Henderson
The Classic-period pictographs at Juliq’ Cave, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala: an interdisciplinary approach to cave art as organizing principle, Brent K.S. Woodfill and Lucia R. Henderson
The current status of mapping karst areas and availability of public sinkhole-risk resources in karst terrains of the United States, Eve L. Kuniansky, David J. Weary, and James E. Kaufmann
The discovery and exploration of Hang Son Doong, H. Limbert, D. Limbert, and N. Hieu
The early Upper Paleolithic period at Manot Cave, Western Galilee, Israel., Omry Barzilai, Marder Ofer, and Israel Hershkovitz
The Effects of Cutaneous Fatty Acids on the Growth of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the Etiological Agent of White-Nose Syndrome (WNS), Craig L. Frank, Melissa R. Ingala, Rebecca E. Ravenelle, Kelsey Dougherty-Howard, Samuel O. Wicks, Carl Herzog, and Robert J. Rudd
The end of the Lower Paleolithic in the Levant: The Acheulo-Yabrudian lithic technology at Misliya Cave, Israel, Yossi Zaidner and Mina Weinstein-Evron
The first hominin from the early Pleistocene paleocave of Haasgat, South Africa, A. B. Leece, Anthony Kegley, and Rodrigo Lacruz
The Genus Zelurus Hahn, 1826, in Brazilian Caves: Description of New Species and Comments on the Potential Distribution of the Genus in South America, Marina Ferreira, Rodrigo Ferreira, and Hélcio R. Gil-Santana
The hydrochemical assessment of groundwater resources in the Kadkan basin, Northeast of Iran, Mostafa Esmaeili-Vardanjani, Iraj Rasa, and Mohammad Yazdi
The importance of ants in cave ecology, with new records and behavioral observations of ants in Arizona caves, Robert B. Pape
The International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH): reflecting on 60 years of contributions to groundwater science and water management, Willi Struckmeier, Ken Howard, and John Chilton
The invertebrate ecology of the Chalk aquifer in England (UK), L. Maurice, A. R. Robertson, and D. White
The Kayuko Mound Group: a festival site in southern Belize, Holley Moyes, Mark Robinson, and Keith M. Prufer
The Kayuko Mound Group: a festival site in southern Belize, Holley Moyes, Mark Robinson, and Keith M. Prufer
The Lakes and Seas of Titan, Alexander G. Hayes
The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition and the diversification of Levallois technology in the Southern Levant: Evidence from Tabun Cave, Israel, Ron Shimelmitz, Mina Weinstein-Evron, Avraham Ronen, and Steven L. Kuhn
‘The Mona Chronicle’: the archaeology of early religious encounter in the New World, Jago Cooper, Alice V.M. Samson, and Miguel A. Nieves
The Monti Berici: A Peculiar Type of Karst in the Southern Alps, Ugo Sauro
The morphology and development of Kalahroud Cave, Iran, Shirin Bahadorinia, Sayed Hassan Hejazi, Alireza Nadimi, Derek C. Ford, and Karine Wainer
The Oldowan and Early Acheulean Mammalian Fauna of Wonderwerk Cave (Northern Cape Province, South Africa), James Brink, Sharon Holt, and Liora Kolska Horwitz
The origins and diversity of bat songs, Michael Smotherman, Mirjam Knörnschild, and Grace Smarsh
The Qesem Cave hominin material (part 1): A morphometric analysis of the mandibular premolars and molar, Gerhard W. Weber, Cinzia Fornai, and Avi Gopher
The ribbed drapery of the Puerto Princesa Underground River (Palawan, Philippines): morphology and genesis, Paolo Forti, Giovanni Badino, Jose Maria Calaforra, and Jo De Waele
The Rima Rau Burial Cave, Atiu, Cook Islands, Angela L. Clark, Nancy Tayles, Hallie R. Buckley, and Fieke Neuman
Thermogenic travertine deposits in Thermopylae hot springs (Greece) in association with cyanobacterial microflora, Christos Kanellopoulos, Vasiliki Lamprinou, and Panagiotis Mitropoulos
The role of porous matrix in water flow regulation within a karst unsaturated zone: an integrated hydrogeophysical approach, Simon D. Carrière, Konstantinos Chalikakis, and Charles Danquigny
The technology of the earliest European cave paintings : El Castillo Cave, Spain, Francesco d'Errico, Laure Dayet Bouillot, and Marcos García-Diez
The Troubles with Cupolas, R. Armstrong L. Osborne
The Uluzzian technology of Grotta di Fumane and its implication for reconstructing cultural dynamics in the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition of Western Eurasia, Marco Peresani, Emanuela Cristiani, and Matteo Romandini
Time Lag Analysis of Natural Responses During Unitary Recharge Events to Assess the Functioning of Carbonate Aquifers in Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park (Southern Spain), Damián Sánchez, José Francisco Martín-Rodríguez, Matías Mudarra, and Bartolomé Andreo
Tortoises as a dietary supplement: A view from the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel, Ruth Blasco, Jordi Rosell, Krister T. Smith, Lutz Christian Maul, Pablo Sañudo, Ran Barkai, and Avi Gopher
Tourism and show caves, Arrigo A. Cigna
Tourist carrying capacity of Santana cave (PETAR-SP, Brazil): A new method based on a critical atmospheric parameter, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo
Trade winds drive pronounced seasonality in carbonate chemistry in a tropical Western Pacific island cave—Implications for speleothem paleoclimatology, Alexandra L. Norronha, Benjamin F. Hardt, and Jay L. Banner
Transient deformation of karst aquifers due to seasonal and multiyear groundwater variations observed by GPS in southern Apennines (Italy), Francesca Silverii, Nicola D'Agostino, Marianne Métois, Francesco Fiorillo, and Gerardo Ventafridda
Transport and attenuation of particles of different density and surface charge: a karst aquifer field study., Ferry Schiperski, Johannes Zirlewagen, and Traugott Scheytt
Tratamientos Mortuorios Acuáticos En Los Cenotes Entre Los Maya Prehispánicos, Roberto Romero Sandoval
Trois nouvelles grottes orne´es à Aitzbitarte (Pays Basque), Diego Garate Maidagán, Olivia Rivero, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, and F. U. Elkartea
Tube coalescence in the Jingfudong lava tube and implications for lava flow hazard of Tengchong Volcanism, Zhengquan Chen, Yongshun Liu, Haiquan Wei, Jiandong Xu, and Wenfeng Guo
Types and characteristics of eogenetic karst in the Yingshan Formation in northwestern Tazhong area, Tarim Basin, Zhang Heng, Cai Zhongxian, Qi Lixin, and Yun Lu
UIS Bulletin, Volume 58, No. 1, May 2016, EfraÍn Mercado
Unique Loss of the PYHIN Gene Family in Bats Amongst Mammals: Implications for Inflammasome Sensing, Matae Ahn, Jie Cui, Aaron T. Irving, and Lin-Fa Wang
United States National White-nose Syndrome Decontamination Protocol (April 12, 2016), White-Nose Syndrome Response Team
Unlocking bat immunology: establishment of Pteropus alecto bone marrow-derived dendritic cells and macrophages, Peng Zhou, Yok Teng Chionh, Sergio Erdal Irac, Matae Ahn, Justin Han Jia Ng, Even Fossum, Bjarne Bogen, Florent Ginhoux, Aaron T. Irving, Charles-Antoine Dutertre, and Lin-Fa Wang
U-Pb dating of speleogenetic dolomite: A new sulfuric acid speleogenesis chronometer, Victor J. Polyak, Paula P. Provencio, and Yemane Asmerom
Up high and down low: Molecular systematics and insight into the diversification of the ground beetle genus Rhadine LeConte, R. Antonio Gómez, James Reddell, and Will Kipling
Use of multiple sequencing technologies to produce a high-quality genome of the fungus pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of bat white-nose syndrome, Kevin P. Drees, Jonathan M. Palmer, and Robert Sebra
Using a Novel Partitivirus in Pseudogymnoascus destructan, Vaskar Thapa, Gregory G. Turner, Susan Hafenstein, Barrie E. Overton, Karen J. Vanderwolf, and Marilyn J. Roossinck
Using a novel partitivirus in pseudogymnoascus destructans to understand the epidemiology of white-nose syndrome, Vaskar Thapa, Gregory G. Turner, and Susan Hafenstein
Using isotopic, hydrogeochemical-tracer and temperature data to characterize recharge and flow paths in a complex karst groundwater flow system in northern China, Ziyong Sun, Rui Ma, and Yanxin Wang
U/Th and 14C Crossdating of Parietal Calcite Deposits: Application to Nerja Cave (Andalusia, Spain) and Future Perspectives, Hélène Valladas, Edwige Pons-Branchu, Jean Pascal Dumoulin, and Anita Quiles
Vitamin B2 as a virulence factor in Pseudogymnoascus destructans skin infection, Miroslav Flieger, Hana Bandouchova, and Jan Cerny
Weekly variations of discharge and groundwater quality caused by intermittent water supply in an urbanized karst catchment, Felix Grimmeisen, Moritz Zemann, Nadinwe Goeppert, and Nico Goldscheider
What bats have to say about speech and language, Sonja C. Vernes
What is for Dinner? First Report of Human Blood in the Diet of the Hairy-Legged Vampire Bat Diphylla ecaudata, Fernando Ito, Enrico Bernard, and Rodrigo A. Torres
WHAT IS KARST? AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
White-Nose Syndrome Disease Severity and a Comparison of Diagnostic Methods, Liam P. McGuire, James M. Turner, and Lisa Warnecke
White-nose syndrome survivors do not exhibit frequent arousalsassociated with Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection, Thomas Mikael Lilley, Joseph Samuel Johnson, Lasse Ruokolainen, and Elisabeth Jeannine Rogers
White-nose syndrome without borders: Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection tolerated in Europe and Palearctic Asia but not in North America, Jan Zukal, Hana Bandouchova, and Jiri Brichta
White-nose syndrome without borders: Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection tolerated in Europe and Palearctic Asia but not in North America, Jan Zukal, Hana Bandouchova, Jiri Brichta, Adela Cmokova, Kamil S. Jaron, Miroslav Kolarik, Veronika Kovacova, Alena Kubátová, Alena Nováková, Oleg Orlov, Jiri Pikula, Primož Presetnik, Jurģis Šuba, Alexandra Zahradníková, and Natália Martínková
‘Who do you want to kill?’ Affectual and relational understandings at a sorcery rock art site in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, Liam M. Brady and John J. Bradley
Widespread Bat White-Nose Syndrome Fungus, Northeastern China, Joseph R. Hoyt, Keping Sun, and Katy L. Parise
Winter Activity of Coastal Plain Populations of Bat Species Affected by White-Nose Syndrome and Wind Energy Facilities, John F. Grider, Angela L. Larsen, and Jessica A. Homyack
Xibalba, the Place of Fear: Caves and the Ancient Maya Underworld, Holley Moyes
Yeasts from the microbiota of bats: a focus on the identification and antimicrobial susceptibility of cryptic species of Candida, Raimunda S. N. Brilhante, José E. Maia-Júnior, Jonathas S. Oliveira, Glaucia M. M. Guedes, Aline L. Silva, Francisco B. P. Moura, Jamille A. Sales, Debora S. C. M. Castelo-Branco, José J. C. Sidrim, Rossana A. Cordeiro, Waldemiro A. Pereira-Neto, and Marcos F. G. Rocha
Younger Dryas Archaeology and Human Experience at the Paisley Caves in the Northern Great Basin, Dennis L. Jenkins, Loren G. Davis, and Thomas W. Stafford
YouTube as a crowd-generated water level archive, N. Michelsen, H. Dirks, and S. Schulz
Submissions from 2015
A Black Deer at Black Cave: New Pictograph Radiocarbon Date for the Lower Pecos, Texas, Lennon Bates, Amanda Castañeda, Carolyn Boyd, and Karen Steelman
A Bükk karsztvizei [Karstwaters of the Bükk], E. Szegedi-Darabos, L. Lénárt, M. Tóth, and R. Miklós
A case study of bats and white-nose syndrome demonstrating how to model population viability with evolutionary effects, Brooke Maslo and Nina H. Fefferman
A case study of bats and white-nose syndrome demonstrating how to model population viability with evolutionary effects, Brooke Maslo and Nina H. Fefferman
A checklist of millipede genus Hyleoglomeris Verhoeff, 1910 in mainland China, with descriptions of seven new species (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae), Weixin Liu and Mingyi Tian
A comparative study of two data-driven methods in detection of vuggy zones: a case study from a carbonate reservoir, west of Iran, Amir Mollajan, Yousef Asgarinezhad, and Behzad Tokhmechi
A composite annual-resolution stalagmite record of North Atlantic climate over the last three millennia, Andy Baker, John C. Hellstrom, and Bryce F. J. Kelly
Adaptive Molecular Evolution of PHYE in Primulina, a Karst Cave Plant, Junjie Tao, Qingwen Qi, and Ming Kang
Advancements in the use of speleothems as climate archives, Corinne I. Wong and Daniel O. Breecker
A Five-Year Assessment of Mortality and Geographic Spread of White-Nose Syndrome in North American Bats and a Look to the Future, Gregory G. Turner, DeeAnn M. Reeder, and Jeremy T. H. Coleman
Agency, art, and altered consciousness: a motif in French (Quercy) Upper Palaeolithic parietal art, J. D. Lewis-Williams
A Geophysical Tool for the Conservation of a Decorated Cave – a Case Study for the Lascaux Cave, Shan Xu, Colette Sirieix, Catherine Ferrier, Delphine Lacanette‐Puyo, Joelle Riss, and Philippe Malaurent
A global model for cave ventilation and seasonal bias in speleothem paleoclimate records, Eric W. James, Jay L. Banner, and Benjamin Hadt
A global synthesis of survival estimates for microbats, Pia E. Lentini, Tomas J. Bird, Stephen R. Griffiths, and Lisa N. Godinho
