This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2011
National Cave and Karst Research Institute 2010-2011 Annual Report, National Cave and Karst Research Institute
New knowledge on the Monte Conca gypsum karst system (Central-western Sicily, Italy), Guiliana Madonia and Marco Vattano
New radiocarbon dating of the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic in Kebara Cave, Israel, N. R. Rebollo, S. Weiner, and F. Brock
New species of scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) recorded from caves in Nevada, USA, R. Henry Disney, Steven Taylor, and Michael E. Slay
New species of the millipede genus Glyphiulus Gervais, 1847 from the javanicus-group (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalopsidae), Sergei I. Golovatch, Jean-Jacques Geoffroy, and Jean-Paul Mauries
Niche partitioning between two sympatric genetically distinct cave bears (Ursus spelaeus and Ursus ingressus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) from Austria: Isotopic evidence from fossil bones, Hervé Bocherens, Mathias Stiller, and Keith A. Hobson
Notice of Retraction: Nitrate Fate and Origin in a Typical Karst Subterranean River System, Southwest China, Xuan Liang, Zhijun Wang, and Junbing Pu
Ocupaciones humanas en la cueva de Aitzbitarte III (Renteria, País Vasco) sector Entrada: 33.000-18.000 BP, Jesús Altuna, Koro Mariezkurrena, and Joseba Rios-Garaizar
On the formation of collapse dolines: A modelling perspective, Franci Gabrovšek and Uroš Stepišnik
Osteological and paleodietary investigation of burials from Cova de la Pastora, Alicante, Spain, Sarah B. McClure, Oreto García, and Consuelo Roca de Togores
O uso ritual de uma caverna ao norte do Planalto Vaca, Belize, América Central, Pierre Robert Colas, Philip Reeder, and James Webster
Palaeomagnetic analysis of the Sterkfontein palaeocave deposits: Implications for the age of the hominin fossils and stone tool industries, Andy I.R. Herries and John Shaw
Paleokarst system development in the San Andres Formation, Permian Basin, revealed by seismic characterization, Qifeng Dou, Yuefeng Sun, Charlotte Sullivan, and Hao Guo
Paleolithic Art in Peril: Policy and Science Collide at Altamira Cave, Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez, Soledad Cuezva, and Valme Jurado
Pan-European Distribution of White-Nose Syndrome Fungus (Geomyces destructans) Not Associated with Mass Mortality, Sebastien J. Puechmaille, Gudrun Wibbelt, and Vanessa Korn
PaPRIKa: a Method for Estimating Karst Resource and Source Vulnerability—application to the Ouysse Karst System (southwest France), Konstantina Kavouri, Valérie Plagnes, and Joël Tremoulet
PCB accumulation and tissue distribution in cave salamander (Proteus anguinus anguinus, Amphibia, Urodela) in the polluted karstic hinterland of the Krupa River, Slovenia, Marko Pezdirc, Ester Heath, and Lilijana Bizjak
Phylogenetic Relationships and Relictualism of Rock-Crawlers (Grylloblattodea: Grylloblattidae) in Cave and Mountain Habitats of Korea, Sean D. Schoville and Byung-Woo Kim
Pleistocene bears in the Swabian Jura (Germany): Genetic replacement, ecological displacement, extinctions and survival, Susanne C. Münzeel, Mahias Stiller, and Michael Hofreiter
Polystichum fengshanense, sp. nov. (sect. Haplopolystichum, Dryopteridaceae) from Karst Caves in Guangxi, China based on Morphological, Palynological, and Molecular Evidence, Li-Bing Zhang and Hai He
Precision dating of the Palaeolithic: A new radiocarbon chronology for the Abri Pataud (France), a key Aurignacian sequence, Thomas Higham, Roger Jacobi, and Laura Basell
Pressures and Protection of the Underground Karst – Cases from Slovenia and Croatia, Mitja Prelovsek, Slavko Polak, and Metka Petrič
Procedencia de los sı´lex de la cueva de Aitzbitarte III (Renterı´a, Gipuzkoa), A. Tarriño
Proceedings of the 2011 Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst, Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst
Quantitative indexes based on geomorphologic features: A tool for evaluating human impact on natural and cultural heritage in caves, Monserrat Jiménez-Sánchez, María José Domínguez-Cuesta, and Arantza Aranburu
Quartz-tipped arrows older than 60 ka: further use-trace evidence from Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Marlize Lombard
Recent (2008–10) Water Quality in the Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer and Its Contributing Zone, Central Texas, with Emphasis on Factors Affecting Nutrients and Bacteria, Barbara Mahler, MaryLynn Musgrove, and Thomas L. Sample
Receptor usage and cell entry of bat coronavirus HKU4 provide insight into bat-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus, Yang Yang, Lanying Du, and Chang Liu
Recognizing growth patterns and maternal strategies in extinct species using stable isotopes: The case of the cave bear Ursus spelaeusROSENMÜLLER, M. Pérez-Rama and D. Fernández-Mosquera
Reconnaissance Karst Potential Mapping, Tim Salkeld
Recovery of Little Brown Bats (Myotis Lucifugus) From Natural Infection With Geomyces Destructans, White-nose Syndrome, Carol Uphoff Meteyer, Mick Valent, and Jackie Kashmer
Relative importance of the saturated and the unsaturated zones in the hydrogeological functioning of karst aquifers: The case of Alta Cadena (Southern Spain), M. Mudarra and B. Andreo
Review: The Yucatán Peninsula karst aquifer, Mexico, Peter Bauer-Gottwein, Bibi R. N. Gondwe, and Guillaume Charvet
Revisión crítica y contextualización espacio-temporal del arte parietal Paleolítico de la cueva de El niño (Ayna, Albacete), Diego Garate Maidagán and Alejandro García Moreno
Revisiting three minerals from Cioclovina Cave (Romania), Bogdan P. Onac, Herta S. Effenberger, Nathan C. Collins, Joe B. Kearns, and Radu C. Breban
Risk factors associated with mortality from white-nose syndrome among hibernating bat colonies, Aryn P. Wilder, Winifred F. Frick, Kate E. Langwig, and Thomas H. Kunz
Sandstone caves on Venezuelan tepuis: return to pseudokarst?, R. Aubrecht, T. Lánczos, and M. Gregor
Seasonal dripwater Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca variations driven by cave ventilation: Implications for and modeling of speleothem paleoclimate records, Corinne I. Wong, Jay L. Banner, and MaryLynn Musgrove
Seasonal reversal at Miryang Eoreumgol (Ice Valley), Korea: observation and monitoring, Hi-Ryong Byun, Hiroshi L. Tanaka, and Pom-Yong Choi
Seasonal reversal at Miryang Eoreumgol (Ice Valley), Korea: observation and monitoring, Hi-Ryong Byun, Hiroshi L. Tanaka, and Pom-Yong Choi
Secondary halite deposits in the Iranian salt karst: general description and origin, Michal Filippi, Jiří Bruthans, Lukáš Palatinus, Mohammad Zare, and Naser Asadi
Seismotectonic and Paleoseismic Studies from Speleothems: The State of the Art, Paolo Forti
Speleothem calcite farmed in situ: Modern calibration of δ18O and δ13C paleoclimate proxies in a continuously-monitored natural cave system, Darrel M. Tremaine, Philip N. Froelich, and Yang Wangi
Speleothem-derived Asian summer monsoon variations in Central China during 54–46 ka., Houyun Zhou, Jianxin Zhao, and Wang Qing
Speleothems in the dry Cave Parts of the Gamslöcher-Kolowrat Cave, Untersberg near Salzburg (Austria), Anna Bieniok, Georg Zagler, Uwe Brendel, and Franz Neubauer
Spreading of tracer plumes through confined telogenetic karst aquifers: A model, Franci Gabrovšek and Wolfgang Dreybrodt
StalAge – An algorithm designed for construction of speleothem age models, Denis Scholz and Dirk L. Hoffmann
Stratigraphic evidence for a “pluvial phase” between ca 8200–7100 ka from Renella cave (Central Italy), L. V. Zhornyak, Giovanni Zanchetta, Russell N. Drysdale, and J. C. Hellstrom
Studies on the Cave- Spider Family Leptonetidae in North America, Joel M. Ledford
Subcrustal CO2 flux measurement in the Hranice hydrothermal Karst, methodology and first results, Milan Geršl, Eva Geršlová, and Barbora Šimečková
Sulfate and Phosphate Speleothems at Jenolan CAves, New South Wales, Australia, Ross E. Pogson, R. Armstrong L. Osborne, and David M. Colchester
Surface to subsurface Trinity lithostratigraphy : implications for groundwater availability in the Hill Country, Eastern Blanco and Northern Hays Counties, Texas, Brian B. Hunt, Alex S. Broun, and Douglas A. Wierman
Taxonomic revision of the genus Asellia (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) with a description of a new species from southern Arabia, Petr Benda, Peter Vallo, and Antonìn Reiter
The biodiversity of subaerophytic phototrophic biofilms from Maltese hypogea, Gabrielle Zammit, Daniela Billi, and Elliot Shubert
THE CENTRAL ROLE OF CAVE ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CLASSIC MAYA CULTURE HISTORY AND HIGHLAND-LOWLAND INTERACTION, Brent Skoy Kerry Woodfill
The Chicxulub impact crater and its influence on the regional hydrology in Northwestern Yucatan, Mexico, Mario Rebolledo-Vieyra, Luis E. Marin, and Alberto Trejo-García
The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe, Tom Higham, Tim Compton, and Chris Stringer
The Endocast of MH1, Australopithecus sediba, Kristian J. Carlson, Dietrich Stout, and Tea Jashasvili
The evolutionary and biogeographic history of the armoured harvestmen – Laniatores phylogeny based on ten molecular markers, with the description of two new families of Opiliones (Arachnida), Prashant P. Sharma and Gonzalo Giribet
The evolution of sensory divergence in the context of limited gene flow in the bumblebee bat, Sebastian J. Puechmaille and Meriadeg Ar Gouilh
The first cave occurrence of orpiment (As₂S₃) from the sulfuric acid caves of Aghia Paraskevi (Kassandra Peninsula, N. Greece), Georgios Lazaridis, Vasilios Melfos, and Lambrini Papadopoulou
The genus Camptochaeta in Nearctic caves, with the description of C. prolixa sp. n. (Diptera, Sciaridae), Pekka Vilkamaa, Heikki Hippa, and Steven J. Taylor
The growth mechanism of the aragonitic stalagmite laminae from Yunnan Xianren Cave, SW China revealed by cave monitoring, Wuhui Duan, Binggui Cai, Ming Tan, and Hong Liu
The initial stages of cave formation: beyond the one-dimensional paradigm., Piotr Szymczaka and Anthony J. C. Ladd
The largest European lion Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss 1810) population from the Zoolithen Cave, Germany : specialised cave bear predators of Europe, Cajus G. Diedrich
The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and Chronology, Katerina Harvati, Chris Stringer, and Rainer Grün
The Later Upper Palaeolithic Recolonisation of Britain: New Results from AMS Radiocarbon Dating, Roger Jacobi and Tom Higam
The mass and energy balance of ice within the Eisriesenwelt cave, Austria, F. Obleitner and C. Spötl
The Maya’s Sacred Caves, James E. Brady
The Missing Part of Seed Dispersal Networks: Structure and Robustness of Bat-Fruit Interactions, Marco Aurelio Ribeiro Mello, Flávia Maria Darcie Marquitti, and Paulo Roberto Guimarães Jr.
The Missing Part of Seed Dispersal Networks: Structure and Robustness of Bat-Fruit Interactions, Marco Aurelio Ribeiro Mello, Flávia Maria Darcie Marquitti, and Paulo Roberto Guimarães Jr.
The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia, Jeffery I. Rose, Vitaly I. Usik, and Anthony E. Marks
The present day genesis and evolution of cave minerals inside the Ojo de la Reina Cave (Naica Mine, Mexico), Giovanni Badino, José Maria Calaforra, Paolo Forti, Paolo Garofalo, and Laura Sanna
The reality of Neandertal symbolic behavior at the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France, François Caron, Francesco d'Errico, and Pierre Del Moral
The Role of Caves at Pacbitun: Peripheral to the Site Center or Central to the Periphery?, Jennifer U. Weber and Terry G. Powis
The role of climate in the spread of modern humans into Europe, Ulrich C. Müller, Jörg Pross, and Polychronis C. Tzedakis
The subterranean fauna of a biodiversity hotspot region - Portugal: an overview and its conservation, Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira, Paulo A.V. Borges, and Fernando Gonçalves
The subterranean fauna of a biodiversity hotspot region - Portugal: an overview and its conservation, Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira, Paulo A.V. Borges, Fernando Gonçalves, Artur R.M. Serrano, and Pedro Oromí
Three-dimensional seismic geomorphology and analysis of the Ordovician paleokarst drainage system in the central Tabei Uplift, northern Tarim Basin, western China, Hongliu Zeng, Robert Loucks, Xavier Janson, and Guizhong Wang
Time variant cross correlation to assess residence time of water and implication for hydraulics of a sink‐rise karst system, V. Bailly-Comte, Jonathan B. Martin, and E. J. Screaton
Tourism and Karst Areas, Volume 4, No. 1, 2011, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo
Tourism and Karst Areas, Volume 4, No. 2, 2011, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo
Trace element and stable isotope data from a flowstone in a natural cave of the mining district of SW Sardinia (Italy): evidence for Zn²⁺-induced aragonite precipitation in comparatively wet climatic conditions, Guglielmo Angelo Caddeo, Jo De Waele, Franco Frau, and Loren Bruce Railsback
Tracer Technique, H. Haba, S. Motomura, and S. Kamino
Tracing the sources of cave sulfates: a unique case from Cerna Valley, Romania, Bogdan P. Onac, Jonathan G. Wynn, and Jonathan B. Sumrall
Transportation characteristics of δ 13C in the plants-soil-bedrock-cave system in Chongqing karst area, TingYong Li, HongChun Li, and XiaoJing Xiang
Trophic Dynamics in a Neotropical Limestone Cave, Marconi Silva, Rogério Parentoni Martins, and Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira
Two new species of the millipede genus Hypocambala Silvestri, 1895 from China and Vietnam (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalopsidae), Sergei I. Golovatch, Jean-Jacques Geoffroy, and Jean-Paul Mauries
UIS Mapping Grades, Ph. Häuselmann
Use of hydrologic time-series data for identification of hydrodynamic function and behavior in a karstic water system in China, Lihong Liu, Xunhong Chen, and Guangquan Xu
UV–C irradiation as a tool to eradicate algae in caves, Fabien Borderie, Alaoui-Sehmer Laurence, and Raouf Naoufal
Variation in the Cave Environment and its Biological Implications
Vers une redéfinition des occupations gravettiennes de la grotte d’Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) : révision critique des collections “ anciennes ” par l’approche intégrée des données lithiques, fauniques et d’industrie osseuse, Jessica Lacarrière, Nejma Goutas, Christian Normand, and Aurélien Simonet
Viaje a las cuevas de La Garrafa, 1991, Victor Manuel Esponda Jimeno
Virtual Assessment of the Endocranial Morphology of the Early Modern European Fossil Calvaria From Cioclovina, Romania, Elena F. Kranioti, Ralph Holloway, and Sascha Senck
White-nose syndrome: is this emerging disease a threat to European bats?, Sébastien J. Puechmaille, Winifred F. Frick, and Thomas H. Kunz
