This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2015
A groundwater conceptual model and karst-related carbon sink for a glacierized alpine karst aquifer, Southwestern China, Cheng Zeng, Zaihua Liu, Jianwen Yang, and Rui Yang
A high-density linksage map for Astyanax mexicanus using genotyping-by-sequencing technology, Brian M. Carlson, Samuel W. Onusko, and Joshua B. Gross
A Hominin Femur with Archaic Affinities from the Late Pleistocene of Southwest China, Darren Curnoe, Xueping Ji, and Wu Liu
A large-scale simulation model to assess karstic groundwater recharge over Europe and the Mediterranean, A. Hartmann, T. Gleeson, and R. Rosolem
A Late Holocene environmental history of a bat guano deposit from Romania: an isotopic, pollen and microcharcoal study, L. Forray Ferenc, Bogdan P. Onac, and Ioan Tanţău
Allophanic and ferric root-associated stalactites: biomineralization induced by microbial activity (Galeria da Queimada lava tube, Terceira, Azores), R. DAZA and M. A. BUSTILLO
A Milk and Ochre Paint Mixture Used 49,000 Years Ago at Sibudu, South Africa, Paola Villa, Luca Pollarolo, and Ilaria Degano
A multi-method approach for speleogenetic research on alpine karst caves. Torca La Texa shaft, Picos de Europa (Spain), Daniel Ballesteros, Montserrat Jiménez-Sánchez, Santiago Giralt, Joaquín García-Sansegundo, and Mónica Meléndez-Asensio
An 80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from Dim Cave, SW Turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the Eastern Mediterranean, Ezgi Ünal-İmer, James Shulmeister, Jian-Xin Zhao, I. Tonguç Uysal, Yue-Xing Feng, Ai Duc Nguyen, and Galip Yüce
An alternative chronology for the art of Chauvet cave, Paul Pettitt and Paul Bahn
Analysis of Site Formation and Assemblage Integrity Does Not Support Attribution of the Uluzzian to Modern Humans at Grotta del Cavallo, J. Zilhão, W. E. Banks, and Francesco d’Errico
‘Anchialine’ Redefined as a Subterranean Estuary in a Crevicular or Cavernous Geological Setting, Renee E. Bishop, William F. Humphreys, and Neven Cukrov
Ancient Maya Ritual Pathways: Performing Power Outside The Cave At Las Cuevas, Belize, Marieka Laurren Arksey and Holley Moyes
Ancient Maya Stone Tools and Ritual Use Of Deep Valley Rockshelter, Belize, James W. Stemp, Gabriel D. Wrobel, and Jessica Haley
An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor, Qiaomei Fu, Mateja Hajdinjak, and Oana Teodora Moldovan
A new family of Gonyleptoidea from South America (Opiliones, Laniatores), Cibele Bragagnolo, Marcos R. Hara, and Ricardo Pinto‐da‐Rocha
A new highly specialized cave harvestman from Brazil and the first blind species of the genus: Iandumoema smeagol sp. n. (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae), Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Rafael Fonseca-Ferreira, and Bichuette Maria Elina
A new microenvironment for the formation of clay minerals: the example of authigenic halloysite-7Å and gibbsite in a stalactite from Agios Georgios Cave, Kilkis, north Greece, Elena Ifandi, Basilios Tsikouras, Dimitrios Papoulis, Konstantin Hatzipanagiotou, and Aspasia Antonelou
An integrative approach to characterize Malagasy bats of the subfamily Vespertilioninae Gray, 1821, with the description of a new species of Hypsugo, Steven M. Goodman, Beza Ramasindrazana, and Claude Fabienne Rakotondramanana
An introduction to the karst geomorphology of the Bisetun–Taqe Bostan historical region (northeast Kermanshah, Iran) with special emphasis on karst development as a serious threat for the UNESCO World Heritage Site, M. H. Ghobadi, M. Torabi-Kaveh, M. Miri, and N. Mahdiabadi
Antibodies to Pseudogymnoascus destructans are not sufficient for protection against white-nose syndrome, Joseph S. Johnson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, and Thomas M. Lilley
Antibodies to Pseudogymnoascus destructans are not sufficient for protection against white-nose syndrome, Joseph S. Johnson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Thomas M. Lilley, Gábor Á. Czirják, Christian C. Voigt, James W. McMichael III, Melissa B. Meierhofer, Christopher W. Seery, Shayne S. Lumadue, Alexander J. Altmann, Michael O. Toro, and Kenneth A. Field
Anticipating and managing engineering problems in the complex karst environment, Mario Parise, Damien Closson, and Francisco Gutiérrez
Apparent glacially induced structural controls on limestone conduit development in Ohio Caverns, United States, Adrienne M. Watts and Ira D. Sasowsky
A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT of CAVE 1 AT THE SITE of CHAWAK BUT’O’OB, James E. Brady
A procedure for evaluating the susceptibility to natural and anthropogenic sinkholes, Mario Parise
Archeozoological study of the macromammal remains stratigraphically associated with the Magdalenian human burial in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain), Ana B. Marín-Arroyo and Jeanne Marie Geiling
A Rebuttal to Comments on ‘Sacrifice of the Social Outsider’, C. L. Kieffer
Artifact densities and assemblage formation: Evidence from Tabun Cave, Steven L. Kuhn and Amy E. Clark
A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence, Vineet D. Menachery, Boyd L. Yount Jr., and Kari Debbink
A second life: Recycling production waste during the Middle Palaeolithic in layer L at Grotta del Cavallo (Lecce, Southeast Italy), Francesca Romagnoli
A sinuous tumulus over an active lava tube at Kīlauea Volcano: evolution, analogs, and hazard forecasts, Tim R. Orr, Jacob E. Bleacher, and Matthew R. Patrick
Assessing karst-hydraulic hazards in tunneling—the Brunnmühle spring system—Bernese Jura, Switzerland, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, Arnauld Malard, and Demian Rickerl
Assessing karst-hydraulic hazards in tunneling—the Brunnmühle spring system—Bernese Jura, Switzerland, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, Arnauld Malard, Demian Rickerl, and Eric Weber
a test using the cave-dwelling olm, Proteus anguinus., Gergely Balázs, Brian Lewarne, and Gábor Herczeg
A threshold artificial neural network model for improving runoff prediction in a karst watershed, Xianmeng Meng, Maosheng Yin, Libo Ning, Dengfeng Liu, and Xianwu Xue
Bacteria Isolated from Bats Inhibit the Growth of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the Causative Agent of White-Nose Syndrome, Joseph R. Hoty, Tina L. Cheng, and Kate E. Langwing
Bacteria Isolated from Bats Inhibit the Growth of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the Causative Agent of White-Nose Syndrome PLOS One, Joseph R. Hoyt, Tina L. Cheng, and Kate E. Langwig
Basin-scale conceptual groundwater flow model for an unconfined and confined thick carbonate region, Judit Mádl-Szőnyi and Ádám Tóth
Basin-scale conceptual groundwater flow model for an unconfined and confined thick carbonate region, Judit Mádl-Szőnyi and Ádám Tóth
Bats Aggregate to Improve Prey Search but Might Be Impaired when Their Density Becomes Too High, Noam Cvikel, Katya Egert Berg, Eran Levin, Edward Hurme, Ivailo Borissov, Arjan Boonman, Eran Amichai, and Yossi Yovel
Bats as reservoirs of severe emerging infectious diseases, Hui-Ju Han, Hong-ling Wen, Chuan-Min Zhou, Fang-Fang Chen, Li-Mei Luo, Jian-wei Liu, and Xue-Jie Yu
Bats as ‘special’ reservoirs for emerging zoonotic pathogens, Cara E. Brook and Andrew P. Dobson
Bats as ‘special’ reservoirs for emerging zoonotic pathogens, Cara E. Brook and Andrew P. Dobson
Bats swarm where they hibernate: compositional similarity between autumn swarming and winter hibernation assemblages at five underground sites, Jaap van Schaik, René Janssen, and Thijs Bosch
Beyond the Ecofact: Toward a Social Paleoethnobotany in Mesoamerica, Christopher T. Morehart and Shanti Morell-Hart
Biotic and abiotic effects on CO2 sequestration during microbially-induced calcium carbonate precipitation, Tugba Onal Okyay and Debora F. Rodrigues
Boletín EspeleoAr, Año 7, Número 12, May 2015, Gabriel Redonte
Bubble-Induced Cave Collapse, Lakshika Girihagama, Doron Nof, and Cathrine Hancock
Bulgarian Speleological Studies in Albania 1991-2013, Alexey Zhalov
Buried hill karst reservoirs and their controls on productivity, Jincai Wang, Lun Zhao, and Xiangzhong Zhang
Carbon flux and landscape evolution in epigenic karst aquifers modeled from geochemical mass balance, Lee J. Florea
Catalog of Engineering Works in Karst and Their Effects, Petar Milanović
Cave And Karst Hydrology: A Field Trip Through Owen, Monroe, And Lawrence Counties, Indiana (2015), Lee Florea and Sam Frushour
Cave bear hunting in Hohle Fels Cave in the Ach Valley of the Swabian Jura., Susanne C. Münzel and Nicholas John Conard
Cave Conservation Priority Index to Adopt a Rapid Protection Strategy: A Case Study in Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest, Marconi Souza Silva, Rogerio Parentoni Martins, and Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira
Cave Cyanobacteria showing antibacterial activity, Vasiliki Lamprinou, Kyriaki Tryfinopoulou, Emmanuel N. Velonakis, Alkiviadis Vatopoulos, Smaragdi Antonopoulou, Elizabeth Fragopoulou, Adriani Pantazidou, and Athena Economou-Amilli
Cave development by frost weathering, Pauline Oberender and Lukas Plan
Cave development in an uplifting fold-and-thrust belt of the Tatra Mountains, Poland, Jacek Szczygieł
Cave Diplopoda of southern China with reference to millipede diversity in Southeast Asia, Sergei I. Golovatch
Cave-dwelling “slime curtains” cycle nitrogen and iron, Cody Sullivan
Cavefish eye loss in response to an early block in retinal differentiation progression, Manuel Stemmer, Laura-Nadine Schuhmacher, and Nicholas S. Foulkes
Cave microbial community composition in oceanic islands: disentangling the effect of different colored mats in diversity patterns of Azorean lava caves, Cristina Riquelme, François Rigal, and Jennifer M. Hathaway
Cave micro-climate and tourism: towards 200 years (1819 – 2015) at Postojnska jama (Slovenia), Stanka Šebela and Tanja Pipan
Cave monitoring and the potential for palaeoclimate reconstruction from Cueva de Asiul, Cantabria (N. Spain), Andrew C. Smith, Peter M. Wynn, Philip A. Barker, Melanie J. Leng, Steve R. Noble, and Andrew Stott
Cave ventilation and rainfall signals in dripwater in a monsoonal setting – a monitoring study from NE India, Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach, Franziska A. Lechleitner, and Hanno Meyer
Changes in Population Size and Clustering Behavior of Hibernating Bats in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan After Arrival of White-Nose Syndrome, Allen Kurta and Steven M. Smith
Changes in the storage and sink of carbon dioxide in subsurface atmospheres controlled by climate-driven processes: the case of the Ojo Guareña karst system, Angel Fernandez-Cortes, Soledad Cuezva, Elena Garcia-Anton, Miriam Alvarez-Gallego, Concepcion Pla, David Benavente, Juan Carlos Cañaveras, Jose Maria Calaforra, David Paterson Mattey, and Sergio Sanchez-Moral
Characteristics and Formation Mechanism of Karst Reservoir in Ordovician Carbonate Rock Covered Area in Halahatang Area, Liang Bin, Zhang Qingyu, Cao Jianwen, and Li Jingrui
Characteristics of channel networks in unconfined carbonate aquifers., Stephen R.H. Worthington
Characterization and fluorescence of yellow biofilms in karst caves, southwest Slovenia, Janez Mulec, Andreea Oarga-Mulec, Rok Tomazin, and Tadeja Matos
Characterization of black deposits in karst caves, examples from Slovenia, Stanka Šebela, Miloš Miler, Simona Skobe, Sonja Torkar, and Nina Zupančič
Characterization of Karst Aquifer, Zoran Stevanovic
Chlorophyll f-driven photosynthesis in a cavernous cyanobacterium, Lars Behrendt, Asker Brejnrod, and Martin Schliep
Cleaning the dead: Neolithic ritual processing of human bone at Scaloria Cave, Italy, John Robb, Ernestine S. Elster, Eugenia Isetti, Christopher J. Knüsel, Mary Anne Tafuri, and Antonella Traverso
Collembola of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with descriptions of five endemic cave-restricted species, Ernest C. Bernard, Felipe N. Soto-Adames, and J. Judson Wynne
Comparing flow-through and static ice cave models for Shoshone Ice Cave, Kaj E. Williams and Christopher McKay
Comparing two different Early Pleistocene microfaunal sequences from the caves of Atapuerca, Sima del Elefante and Gran Dolina (Spain): Biochronological implications and significance of the Jaramillo subchron, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Juan Rofes, Iván Lozano-Fernández, Juan Manuel López-García, Mathieu Duval, Julia Galán, and Carmen Núñez-Lahuerta
Comparison of morphometric aspects of dolines between two zones in Berici hills (Vicenza, Italy), Benedetta Castiglioni
Conservation implications of ameliorating survival of little brown bats with white‐nose syndrome, Brooke Maslo, Mick Valent, John F. Gumbs, and Winifred F. Frick
Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Conservation and Restoration, Gregory P. Dietl, Susan M. Kidwell, Mark Brenner, and David A. Burney
Conservation Physiology and Conservation Pathogens: White-Nose Syndrome and Integrative Biology for Host–Pathogen Systems, Craig K.R. Willis
Conspecific disturbance contributes to altered hibernation patterns in bats with white-nose syndrome, James M. Turner, Lisa Warnecke, and Alana Wilcox
Context-dependent conservation responses to emerging wildlife diseases, Kate E. Langwig
Controls on cave drip water temperature and implications for speleothem-based paleoclimate reconstructions, Gabriel C. Rau, Mark O. Cuthbert, Martin S. Andersen, Andy Baker, Helen Rutlidge, Monika Markowska, Hamid Roshan, Christopher E. Marjo, Peter W. Graham, and R. Ian Acworth
Counting the Children: The Role of Children in the Production of Finger Flutings in Four Upper Palaeolithic Caves, Leslie Van Gelder
Crevice Interments Deconstructed, Stephen L. Black, M. Katherine Spradley, and Michelle D. Hamilton
Cuevas heladas en Picos de Europa: clima, morfologías y dinámicas, Manuel Gómez Lende
Cyanobacteria, algae and microfungi present in biofilm from Božana Cave (Serbia), Slađana Popović, Gordana Subakov Simić, Miloš Stupar, Nikola Unković, Dragana Predojević, Jelena Jovanović, and Milica Ljaljević Grbić
Cyanobacteria, algae and microfungi present in biofilm from Božana Cave (Serbia), Slađana Popović, Gordana Subakov Simić, Miloš Stupar, Nikola Unković, Dragana Predojević, Jelena Jovanović, and Milica Ljaljević Grbić
Defining tafoni: Re-examining terminological ambiguity for cavernous rock decay phenomena, Kaelin M. Groom, Casey D. Allen, Lisa Mol, Thomas R. Paradise, and Kevin Hall
Del Chicomostoc al sepulcro sagrado: Cambio y transformación en los cultos subterráneos en el Altiplano Central, Natália Moragas Segura
Delineating vulnerability of karst aquifers using hydrochemical tracers in Southwestern China., Guanghui Jiang, Fang Guo, Jason S. Polk, Zhiqiang Kang, and Jichun Wu
Description of a new species of the Miniopterus aelleni group (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from upland areas of central and northern Madagascar, Steven M. Goodman and Beza Ramasindrazana
Destructin-1 is a collagen-degrading endopeptidase secreted by Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of white-nose syndrome, Anthony J. O’Donoghue, Giselle M. Knudsen, and Chapman Beekman
Detection of new genetic variants of Betacoronaviruses in Endemic Frugivorous Bats of Madagascar, Norosoa H. Razanajatovo, Lalaina A. Nomenjanahary, and David A. Wilkinson
Determining Status in Looted and Sacrificial Contexts at Midnight Terror Cave, C. L. Kieffer
Development Of A Finite-element Method Groundwater Flow Model For The Edwards Aquifer, S B. Fratesi, R T. Green, F P. Bertetti, and R N. McGinnis
Diagnostic tests for conceptualizing transport in bedrock aquifers., Stephen R.H. Worthington
Direct Detection of Fungal Siderophores on Bats with White-Nose Syndrome via Fluorescence Microscopy-Guided Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Samantha J. Mascuch, Wilna J. Moree, and Cheng-Chih Hsu
