This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2012
Notes on the systematics of the Triaenonychinae from Madagascar with description of a new species of Acumontia Loman (Opiliones: Laniatores), Amanda C. Mendes and Adriano B. Kury
One new and two little-known species of the millipede family Polydesmidae from southern China (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), Sergei I. Golovatch, Youbang Li, and Weixin Liu
On the Sound Related to Painted Caves and Rocks, Iégor Reznikoff
Organic matter of fossil origin in the amberine speleothems from El Soplao Cave (Cantabria, Northern Spain), F. Gázquez, J. M. Calaforra, and F. Rull
Organic matter of fossil origin in the amberine speleothems from El Soplao Cave (Cantabria, Northern Spain), Fernando Gázquez, Jose Maria Calaforra, Fernando Rull, Paolo Forti, and Antonio García-Casco
Origin and Characteristics of Discharge at San Marcos Springs Based on Hydrologic and Geochemical Data (2008–10), Bexar, Comal, and Hays Counties, Texas, MaryLynn Musgrove and Cassi Crow
Palaeoenvironmental information from the palynology of an 800 year old bat guano deposit from Măgurici Cave, NW Transylvania (Romania), Anca Geantă, Ioan Tanţău, Tudor Tămaş, and Vanessa E. Johnston
Partial pressures of CO2 in epikarstic zone deduced from hydrogeochemistry of permanent drips, the Moravian Karst, Czech Republic, Jiří Faimon, Monika Ličbinská, Petr Zajíček, and Ondra Sracek
Pathological Changes of the Cranium of a Young Female Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus R.)—A Case Study (the Sudety Mts, Poland), D. Nowakowski and K. Stefaniak
Pathology in euthermic bats with white nose syndrome suggests a natural manifestation of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, Carol U. Meteyer, Daniel Barber, and Judith N. Mandl
Petrographic and isotopic evidence for late-stage processes in sulfuric acid caves of the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA, Margaret V. Palmer and Arthur N. Palmer
Phylogeography of sardinian cave salamanders (genus Hydromantes) is mainly determined by geomorphology, Ylenia Chiari, Arie van der Meijden, and Mauro Mucedda
Predator Generalization Decreases the Effect of Introduced Predators in the San Marcos Salamander, Eurycea nana, R. Drew, Kristen J. Epp, and Caitlin R. Gabor
Preliminary Observations on the Investigation of Midnight Terror Cave, Belize, James E. Brady and C. L. Kieffer
Present and Potential Future Distribution of Common Vampire Bats in the Americas and the Associated Risk to Cattle, Dana N. Lee, Monica Papeş, and Ronald A. Van den Bessche
Primulina guangxiensis sp. nov. (Gesneriaceae) from a karst cave in Guangxi, China, Yan Liu, Wei‐Bin Xu, and Yu‐Song Huang
Provenance and geological significance of red mud and other clastic sediments of the Mugnano cave (Montagnola Senese, Italy), Francesco Iacoviello and Ivan Martini
Quantification of climate and vegetation from southern African Middle Stone Age sites – an application using Late Pleistocene plant material from Sibudu, South Africa, Angela A. Bruch, Christine Sievers, and Lyn Wadley
Radiocarbon dates from the Grotte du Renne and Saint-Césaire support a Neandertal origin for the Châtelperronian, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Sahra Talamo, and Michèle Julien
Radiocarbon dating & Bayesian modelling from the Grotte du Renne & a Neanderthal origin for the Châtelperronian, T. Higham, C. Ramsey, and L. Basell
Radiocarbon Dating of Rock Paintings: Incorporating Pictographs into the Archaeological Record, Jo McDonald and Peter Veth
Recent Transmission of a Novel Alphacoronavirus, Bat Coronavirus HKU10, from Leschenault's Rousettes to Pomona Leaf-Nosed Bats: First Evidence of Interspecies Transmission of Coronavirus between Bats of Different Suborders, Susanna K.P. Lau, Kenneth S.M. Li, and Alan K. L. Tsang
Regionalization Based on Water Chemistry and Physicochemical Traits in the Ring of Cenotes, Yucatan, Mexico, R. Pérez-Ceballos, J. Pacheco-Avila, and J. I. Eáun-Avila
Relationship between carbon dioxide in Balcarka Cave and adjacent soils in the Moravian Karst region of the Czech Republic, Jiří Faimon, Monika Ličbinská, and Petr Zajíček
Resistivity Imaging and Natural Potential Applications to the Antioch Fault Zone in the Onion Creek / Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer, Buda, Texas, Mustafa Saribudak, Brian Hunt, and Brian Smith
Response of the Karst Phreatic Zone to Flood Events in a Major River (Bohemian Karst, Czech Republic) and Its Implication for Cave Genesis, H. Vysoka´, J. Bruthans, and Karen Žak
Review: Groundwater flow and transport modeling of karst aquifers, with particular reference to the North Coast Limestone aquifer system of Puerto Rico, Reza Ghasemizadeh, Ferdinand Hellweger, and Christoph Butscher
Revision of Cestocampa Condé (Diplura, Campodeidae), with description of a new species from caves in the eastern Iberian Peninsula, Alberto Sendra, Miquel A. Arnedo, and Charles Ribera
Revisiting the Hydrologic Divide Between the San Antonio and Barton Springs Segments of the Edwards Aquifer: Insights from Recent Studies, Brian A. Smith, Brian B. Hunt, and Steve B. Johnson
REVISITING THE HYDROLOGIC DIVIDE BETWEEN THE SAN ANTONIO AND BARTON SPRINGS SEGMENTS of THE EDWARDS AQUIFER: INSIGHTS FROM RECENT STUDIES, Brian A. Smith, Brian B. Hunt, and Steve B. Johnson
Revisiting the Hydrologic Divide Between the San Antonio and Barton Springs Segments of the Edwards Aquifer: Insights From Recent Studies, Brian A. Smith, Brian B. Hunt, and Steve B. Johnson
RITUAL LANDSCAPES of THE CAVES BRANCH RIVER VALLEY, Christophe Helmke and Kip Andres
Sacred Geography in the Nochixtlan Valley, Byron Ellsworth Hamann
Scientific diving techniques for the study of flooded sinkholes in Italy, G. Caramanna and R. Malatesta
Scientific drilling of speleothems – a technical note, Christoph Spötl and David Mattey
Seasonal resolution of Eastern Mediterranean climate change since 34 ka from a Soreq Cave speleothem, Ian J. Orland, Miryam Bar-Matthews, and Avner Ayalon
Secrets of Condoy: Discovering Oaxaca’s Ancient Mud Sculptures, Tamara Ballensky
Sex at Sterkfontein: ‘Mrs. Ples’ is still an adult female, Frederick E. Grine, Gerhard W. Weber, and J. Michael Plavcan
Sinkhole Risk Assessment along Highway I-70 near Frederick, Maryland, Wanfang Zhou, Barry F. Beck, and Angela L. Adams
Small Caves and Sacred Geography: A Case Study from the Prehispanic Maya Site of Maax Na, Belize, C. L. Kieffer, Eleanor M. King, and James E. Brady
Sociality, density‐dependence and microclimates determine the persistence of populations suffering from a novel fungal disease, white‐nose syndrome, Kate E. Langwig, Winifred F. Frick, Jason T. Bried, and Alan C. Hicks
Spatially dense drip hydrological monitoring and infiltration behaviour at the Wellington Caves, South East Australia, Catherine N. Jex, Gregoire Mariethoz, Andy Baker, Peter Graham, Martin S. Andersen, Ian Acworth, Nerilee Edwards, and Cecilia Azcurra
Speleogenesis Along Deep Regional Faults by Ascending Waters: Case Studies from Slovakia and Czech Republic, Pavel Bella and Pavel Bosák
Speleogenetic effects of interaction between deeply derived fracture-conduit flow and intrastratal matrix flow in hypogene karst settings, Alexander Klimchouk, Elizaveta Tymokhina, and Gennadiy Amelichev
Speleogenetic effects of interaction between deeply derived fracture-conduit flow and intrastratal matrix flow in hypogene karst settings, A. Klimchouk, E. Tymokhina, and G. Amelichev
Speleothem microstructure/speleothem ontogeny: a review of Western contributions, William B. White
Speleothem Science: From Process to Past Environments, Ian J. Fairchild and Andy Baker
Spread of white-nose syndrome on a network regulated by geography and climate, Sean P. Maher, Andrew M. Kramer, Tomlin J. Pulliam, and Marcus A. Zokan
Stable isotopic analyses of cave bear bones from the Conturines cave (2,800m, South Tyrol, Italy), Micha Horaceek, Christinee Frischauf, and M. Pacher
STAND STRUCTURE, WOODY SPECIES RICHNESS AND COMPOSITION of SUBTROPICAL KARST FORESTS IN MAOLAN, SOUTH-WEST CHINA, Z. H. Zhang, G Hu, and J. D. Zhu
Swimming performance of epigeal and hypogeal species of Characidae, with an emphasis on the troglobiotic Stygichthys typhlops Brittan & Böhlke, 1965, Francisco Alexandre Costa Sampaio, Paolo Santos Pompeu, Hersília de Andrade e Santos, and Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira
Taxonomy and palaeoecology of Quaternary faunas from caves in eastern tropical Queensland : a record of broad-scale environmental change, Jonathan Andrew Cramb
Technological, elemental and colorimetric analysis of an engraved ochre fragment from the Middle Stone Age levels of Klasies River Cave 1, South Africa, Francesco d'Errico, Renata García Moreno, and Riaan F. Rifkin
Technological, elemental and colorimetric analysis of an engraved ochre fragment from the Middle Stone Age levels of Klasies River Cave 1, South Africa, Francesco d’Errico, Renata García Moreno, and Riaan F. Rifkin
Temperature-Dependent Growth of Geomyces destructans, the Fungus That Causes Bat White-Nose Syndrome, Michelle L. Verant, Justin G. Boyles, and William Waldrep Jr.
Temporal Trends in Precipitation and hydrologic Responses Affecting the Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer, Central Texas, Brian B. Hunt, Brian A. Smith, and Raymond Slade Jr.
Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World, D. M. Olson, E. Dinerstein, and E. D. Wikramanayake
The Archaeological and Epigraphic Significance of Cuychen, Macal Valley, Belize, Christophe G.B. Helmke, Jaime J. Awe, Shawn G. Morton, and Gyles Iannone
The complex origin of Astyanax cavefish, Joshua B. Gross
The Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in the Palaearctic: Geographical variation and taxonomic status, Petr Benda, Peter Vallo, and Pavel Hulva
The El Gigante Rockshelter: Preliminary Observations on an Early to Late Holocene Occupation in Southern Honduras, Timothy E. Scheffler, Kenneth G. Hirth, and George Hasemann
The excavation of buried articulated Neanderthal skeletons at Sima de las Palomas (Murcia, SE Spain), Michael J. Walker, Mariano V. López-Martínez, and Jon Ortega-Rodrigáñez
The First Interior? Reconsidering the Cave, D. J. Huppatz
The First Interior? Reconsidering the Cave, D. J. Huppatz
The Historical Context of the Founding of Maya Cave Archaeology., James Stemp
The nature and distribution of flowing features in a weakly karstified porous limestone aquifer, L. D. Maurice, T. C. Atkinson, and J. A. Barker
The promoting effect of soil carbonic anhydrase on the limestone dissolution rate in SW China, Qiang Li, Yuanyuan He, and Zhongyi Li
The role of microorganisms in the formation of calcitic moonmilk deposits and speleothems in Altamira Cave, S. M.C. Sanchez-Moral, I. Portillo, and S. Janices
The role of near-surface cavities in the carbon dioxide cycle of karst areas: evidence from the Carburangeli Cave Natural Reserve (Italy), Paolo Madonia, Adriana Bellanca, and Rosario Di Pietro
The study of hydrodynamic behaviour of a complex karst system under low-flow conditions using natural and artificial tracers (the catchment of the Unica River, SW Slovenia), Nataša Ravbar, Juan Antonio Barberá, and Metka Petrič
The Use of Caves as Water Sources., Dave Johnstone
The use of speleothems to better constrain long return period seismic hazard in Lebanon period seismic hazard in Lebanon, Corinne Lacave, Benjamin Sadier, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, and Carole Nehme
The voltage-gated potassium channel subfamily KQT member 4 (KCNQ4) displays parallel evolution in echolo- cating bats, Yang Liu, Naijian Han, and Lucía F. Franchini
The world’s deepest subterranean community - Krubera-Voronja Cave (Western Caucasus), Alberto Sendra and Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira
Three new cavernicolous species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, from southern China, with notes on a formal congener from the Philippines (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), Sergei I. Golovatch, Youbang Li, and Weixin Liu
Three new species of Pilea (Urticaceae) from limestone karst in China, Alex K. Monro, Y. G. Wei, and C. J. Chen
TIKAL'S EARLY CLASSIC DOMINATION of THE GREAT WESTERN TRADE ROUTE: CERAMIC, LITHIC, AND ICONOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE, Brent Skoy Kerry Woodfill and Chloé Andrieu
Tiny spider is a big roadblock, Vianna Davila
Tourism and Karst Areas, Volume 5, No. 1, 2012, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo
Tracing Groundwater Flowpaths in the Vicinity of San Marcos Springs, Texas, Steve Johnson, Geary Schindel, and George Veni
Trophic structure and natural history of bat guano invertebrate communities, with special reference to Brazilian caves, R. L. Ferreira and R. P. Martins
Una cueva mayor del arte gravetiense, María del Pilar Utrilla Miranda, Vicente Baldellou Martínez, and Manuel Martínez Bea
Under Ground in Ancient Mesoamerica, H. B. Nicholson
Underwater Archaeology at a Chichen Itza Cenote, Jason Richards
Uranium loss and aragonite–calcite age discordance in a calcitized aragonite stalagmite, Matthew S. Lachniet, Juan Pablo Bernal, and Yemane Asmerom
Use of recession-curve analysis for estimation of karstification degree and its application in assessing overflow/underflow conditions in closely spaced karstic springs, Peter Malik and Silvia Vojtková
U-Series Dating of Paleolithic Art in 11 Caves in Spain, A. W.G. Pike, D. L. Hoffmann, and M. García-Diez
Venezuelan Tepuis their caves and biota
Vietnam report 2012 a joint British and Vietnamese expedition
Volcanic caves, Wiliam White and David C. Culver
Volcanic Caves: Priorities for Conserving the Azorean Endemic Troglobiont Species, Paulo A.V. Borges Prof., Pedro Cardoso, Isabel R. Amorim, Fernando Pereira, João P. Constância, João C. Nunes, Paulo Barcelos, Paulino Costa, Rosalina Gabriel, and Maria L. Dapkevicius
Was the European cave bear an occasional scavenger?, Raquel Rabal-Garcés, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, and José I. Canudo
Wet season hydrochemistry of Bribin Cave in Gunung Sewu Karst, Indonesia, Tjahyo Nugroho Adji
WHAT IS IN A NAME? CHARACTERISING THE 'POST-HOWIESON'S POORT' AT SIBUDU, Nicholas J. Conard, Guillaume Porraz, and Lyn Wadley
