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In The Realm of the Witz': Animate Rivers and Rulership among the Classic Maya, Jeremy Coltman

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Introducción. Cueva Victoria, un yacimiento de vertebrados del Pleistoceno inferior, Carles Ferràndez Cañadell

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Invasion Dynamics of White-Nose Syndrome Fungus, Midwestern United States, 2012–2014, Kate E. Langwig, Jiang Feng, and Katy L. Parise

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Investigation into rock moisture and salinity regimes: implications of sandstone weathering in Yungang Grottoes, China, Fang Guo and Guanghui Jiang

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Is global warming affecting cave temperatures? Experimental and model data from a paradigmatic case study, David Domíngueez-Villar, Sonja Lojen, and Kristina Krklec

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Isolation and Identification of an Extracellular Subtilisin-Like Serine Protease Secreted by the Bat Pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Evan L. Pannkuk, Thomas S. Risch, and Brett J. Savary

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Is Radon Emission in Caves Causing Deletions in Satellite DNA Sequences of Cave-Dwelling Crickets?, Giuliana Allegrucci, Valerio Sbordoni, and Donatella Cesaroni

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Karst and karst groundwater resources in the Mediterranean, Michel Bakalowicz

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Karst Aquifers—Characterization and Engineering, Zoran Stevanović

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Karst Geo-hazards: Causal Factors and Management Issues, Mario Parise

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Karst hydrogeology of the Untersberg massif and its interaction with the porous aquifer in the adjacent Salzburg Basin__, Markus Reischer, Benjamin Bichler, Christoph Spötl, Giorgio Höfer-Öllinger, and Stefan Wyhlidal

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Karstification depth and storativity as main factors of karst aquifer regimes: some examples from southern Alpine branches (SE Europe and Middle East), Zoran Stevanović, Vesna Ristić-Vakanjac, Saša Milanović, Ljiljana Vasić, Branislav Petrović, and Marina Čokorilo-Ilić

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Karst porosity estimations from archive cave surveys - studies in the Buda Thermal Karst System (Hungary), Gáspár Albert, Magdolna Virág, and Anita Erőss

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Karst spring catchment: an example from Dinaric karst, Ognjen Bonacci and Ivo Andrić

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KARSYS hydrogeological 3D modeling of alpine karst aquifers developed in geologically complex areas: Picos de Europa National Park (Spain), Daniel Ballesteros, Arnauld Malard, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, Montserrat Jiménez-Sánchez, Joaquín García-Sansegundo, Mónica Meléndez-Asensio, and Gemma Sendra

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La Balouta exhumed karst: a Roman gold-mine-derived landscape within the Las Médulas UNESCO World Heritage Site (Spain), José M. Redondo-Vega, Eduardo Alonso-Herrero, Javier Santos-González, Rosa B. González-Gutiérrez, and Amelia Gómez-Villar

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Lack of evolutionary adjustment to ambient temperature in highly specialized cave beetles, Valeria Rizzo, David Sanchez-Fernandez, and Javier Fresneda

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Lacustrine algal limestone reservoir in western Qaidam Basin, China, Fan Zhao

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Large-scale and high-resolution 3-D cave mapping by terrestrial laser scanning: a case study of the Domica Cave, Slovakia, Michal Gallay, Ján Kaňuk, Zdenko Hochmuth, John D. Meneely, Jaroslav Hofierka, and Vladimír Sedlák

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Late Holocene mangrove development and onset of sedimentation in the Yax Chen cave system (Ox Bel Ha) Yucatan, Mexico: Implications for using cave sediments as a sea-level indicator, S.V. Collins, E.G. Reinhardt, C. L. Werner, C. Le Maillot, F. Devos, and D. Rissolo

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Late Pleistocene mammalian assemblages of Southeast Asia: New dating, mortality profiles and evolution of the predator–prey relationships in an environmental context, Anne-Marie Bacon, Kira Westaway, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Philippe Duringer, Amandine Blin, Fabrice Demeter, Jean-Luc Ponche, Jian-Xin Zhao, Lani Minnie Barnes, Thongsa Sayavonkhamdy, Nguyen Thi Kim Thuy, Vu The Long, Elise Patole-Edoumba, and Laura Shackelford

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Late Quaternary speleogenesis and landscape evolution in a tropical carbonate island: Pango la Kuumbi (Kuumbi Cave), Zanzibar, Nikos Kourampas, Ceri Shipton, William Mills, Ruth Tibesasa, Henrietta Horton, Mark Horton, Mary Prendergast, Alison Crowther, Katerina Douka, Patrick Faulkner, Llorenç Picornell, and Nicole Boivin

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Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans, Israel Hershkovitz, Ofer Marder, and Avner Ayalon

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Lighting conditions and optical filters effects on visual performance of speleologists exposed to cave environments, Carla Costa Lança, Nádia Fernandes, Ana Monteiro, and Ana Almeida

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Lighting the dark: Wood charcoal analysis from Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, Spain) as a tool to explore the context of Palaeolithic rock art, Mª Ángeles Medina-Alcaide, José Luis Sanchidrián, and Lydia Zapata Peña

Little Finds Big Results: The Utility of Small Artifacts in the Spatial Analyses of Looted Sites., Holley Moyes, Shayna Hernandez, H. Lauren Phillips, and Shane Montgomery

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Longitudinal profile and sediment mobility as geomorphic tools to interpret the history of a fluviokarst stream system, John Woodside, Eric Wade Peterson, and Toby Dogwiler

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Luminescence dating of fluvial deposits in the rock shelter of Cueva Antón, Spain, Burow Christoph, Martin Kehl, and Alexandra Hilgers

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Managing Karst Aquifers—Conceptualizations, Solutions, Impacts, Zoran Stevanović

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Mars Global Cave Candidate Catalog (MGC^3) v1 Cushing, G. E. Cushing

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Maximizing mating opportunities: higher autumn swarming activity in male versus female Myotis bats, Lynne E. Burns and Hugh G. Broders

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Melanocortin 4 receptor mutations contribute to the adaptation of cavefish to nutrient-poor conditions, Ariel C. Aspiras, Nicolas Rohner, and Brian Martineau

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Mesohabitat associations of the threatened San Marcos salamander (Eurycea nana) across its geographic range, Peter H. Diaz, Joe N. Fries, and Timothy H. Bonner

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Microbial mixing zone dolomitization and karst development within Isla de Mona Dolomite, Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico, Jonathan Sumrall, John Mylroie, and Patricia Kambesis

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Microclimate and microbial characterization in the Zinzulusa show cave (South Italy) after switching to LED lighting, Delia D’Agostino, Leonardo Beccarisi, Michele Camassa, and Peter Febbroriello

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Middle Permian fish microremains from the Early Capitanian of the Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas, USA, Alexander O. Ivanov, Merlynd K. Nestell, and Galina P. Nestell

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Mid-Holocene drying of the U.S. Great Basin recorded in Nevada speleothems, Elena Steponaitis, Alexandra Andrews, and David McGee

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Modeling suspended sediment transport and assessing the impacts of climate change in a karstic Mediterranean watershed, S.D. Nerantzaki, G.V. Giannakis, D. Efstathiou, N.P. Nikolaidis, I.Α. Sibetheros, G.P. Karatzas, and I. Zacharias

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Modeling the environmental growth of Pseudogymnoascus Destructans and its impact on the white-nose syndrome epidemic, Hannah T. Reynolds, Tom Ingersoll, and Hazel A. Barton

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Molecular Detection of the Causative Agent of White-nose Syndrome on Rafinesque's Big-eared Bats (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) and Two Species of Migratory Bats in the Southeastern USA, Riley F. Bernard, Jeffrey T. Foster, Emma V. Willcox, Katy L. Parise, and Gary F. McCracken

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Molecular phylogeny and morphological revision of Myotis bats (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Taiwan and adjacent China, Manuel Ruedi, Gabor Csorba, Liang-Kong Lin, and Cheng-Han Chou

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Monografías Bioespeleológicas nº 9 (2015)

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Moth tails divert bat attack: Evolution of acoustic deflection, Jesse R. Barber, Brian C. Leavell, and Adam L. Keener

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Multi-scale Assessment of Hydrodynamic Properties in a Karst Aquifer (Lez, France), A. Dausse, H. Jourde, and V. Léonardi

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National Cave and Karst Research Institute 2014-2015 Annual Report, National Cave and Karst Research Institute

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‘Neanderthal bone flutes’ : simply products of Ice Age spotted hyena scavenging activities on cave bear cubs in European cave bear dens, Cajus G. Diedrich

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‘Neanderthal bone flutes’: simply products of Ice Age spotted hyena scavenging activities on cave bear cubs in European cave bear dens, Cajus G. Diedrich

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Nemkarsztos Barlangok Képzōményei Speleothems of the non-karstic caves

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Neural networks for karst groundwater management: case of the Lez spring (Southern France), Line Kong-A-Siou, Anne Johannet, Valérie Borrell Estupina, and Séverin Pistre

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New advance and enlightenment of eogenetic karstification, Xiucheng Tan, D. Xiao, and J. Chen

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New cosmogenic burial ages for Sterkfontein Member 2 Australopithecus and Member 5 Oldowan, Darryl E. Granger, Ryan J. Gibbon, and Kathleen Kuman

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New investigations at Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan, Tim Reynolds, William Boismier, and Lucy Farr

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New Recharge Studies for Central Texas

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New records of anchialine fauna from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Fernando Alvarez

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North Atlantic storm track changes during the Last Glacial Maximum recorded by Alpine speleothems, Marc Luetscher, R. Boch, H. Sodemann, and C. Spötl

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Northeast Indian stalagmite records Pacific decadal climate change: Implications for moisture transport and drought in India, Christopher G. Myers, Jessica L. Oster, and Warren D. Sharp

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Nothrotheriops shastensis (Sinclair) from Actun Lak: First Record of Nothrotheriidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pilosa) from Belize, Gerardo De Iuliis, H. Gregory Mcdonald, Norbert Stanchly, and Jon Spenard

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Not Only the Home of the Earth Lord: Cochuah Caves as Holy Places, Holey Spaces, and Emergent Wholes, Justine M. Shaw

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Novel application of 3D documentation techniques at a submerged Late Pleistocene cave site in Quintana Roo, Mexico, Dominique Rissolo, Alberto Nava Blank, and Vid Petrovic

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Nuevas excavaciones en Cueva del Medio. Procesos de formación de la cueva y avances en los estudios de interacción entre cazadores-recolectores y fauna extinta (Pleistoceno Final, Patagonia Meridional), Fabiana M. Martin, Dominique Todisco, and Joël Rodet

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Numerical simulation of formation and preservation of Ningwu ice cave, Shanxi, China, S. Yang and Y. Shi

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Nupela troglophila sp. nov., an aerophilous diatom (Bacillariophyta) from the Bossea cave (NW Italy), with notes on its ecology, Elisa Falasco, Francesca Bona, Marco Isaia, Elena Piano, Carlos E. Wetzel, Lucien Hoffmann, and Luc Ector

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Observation of the Catfish Chaetostoma microps Climbing in a Cave in Tena, Ecuador, Geoffrey Hoese, Aaron Addison, and Theofilos Toulkeridis

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Occurrence of the millipede genus Piccola Attems, 1953 in China (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), Weixin Liu and Mingyi Tian

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On the applicability of geomechanical models for carbonate rock masses interested by karst processes, Gioacchino Francesco Andriani and Mario Parise

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On the formation of multiple local peaks in breakthrough curves, Erica R. Siirila‐Woodburn, Xavier Sanchez‐Vila, and Daniel Fernàndez‐Garcia

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On the Way to Speciation: Shedding Light on the Karstic Phylogeography of the Microendemic Cave Beetle Aphaenops cerberusin the Pyrenees, Arnaud Faille, Rene Tanzler, and Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint

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Opiliones are no longer the same—on suprafamilial groups in harvestmen (Arthropoda: Arachnida), Adriano B. Kury

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Overview of Methods Applied in Karst Hydrogeology, Nico Goldscheider

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Overview of Methods Applied in Karst Hydrogeology, Nico Goldscheider

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Paleoindian Settlement Strategies Across Time and Space in the Northwestern Great Basin: Lithic Technological Organization at Last Supper Cave, Nevada, Danielle Felling

Paleokarst: A Systematic and Regional Review, Pavel Bosak, Derek C. Ford, and Jerzy Glazek

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Paleokarst crust of Ordovician limestone and its utilization in evaluating water inrushes in coalmines of North China Carbonates and Evaporites, Gongyu Li, Lin Mou, and Wanfang Zhou

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Paleolithic recycling: The example of Aurignacian artifacts from Kebara and Hayonim caves, A. Belfer-Cohen and O. Bar-Yosef

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Paleontology and paleoecology of guano deposits in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA, Chris Widga and Mona Colburn

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Penile histomorphology of the neotropical bat Eptesicus furinalis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), Manuela T. Comelis, Larissa M. Bueno, Rejane M. Góes, and Eliana Morielle-Versute

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Phytoliths (Plant-Derived Mineral Bodies) as Geobiological and Climatic Indicators in Arid Environments New Mexico Geology, February 2015, Volume 37, Number 1

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Pliocene and Pleistocene Vertebrates of New Mexico, Gary S. Morgan and Arthur H. Harris

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Population Demography and Genetic Diversity in the Pleistocene Cave Lion, Erik Ersmark, Ludovic Orlando, Edson Sandoval-Castellanos, and Ian Barnes

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Population genetic structure of a common host predicts the spread of white-nose syndrome, an emerging infectious disease in bats, Aryn P. Wilder, Thomas H. Kunz, and Michael D. Sorenson

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Postcranial morphology of the middle Pleistocene humans from Sima de los Huesos, Spain, Juan Luis Arsuaga, José-Miguel Carretero, Carlos Lorenzo, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Adrián Pablos, Laura Rodríguez, Rebeca García-González, Alejandro Bonmatí, Rolf M. Quam, Ana Pantoja-Pérez, Ignacio Martínez, Arantza Aranburu, Ana Gracia-Téllez, Eva Poza-Rey, Nohemi Sala, Nuria García, Almudena Alcázar de Velasco, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, José María Bermúdez de Castro, and Eudald Carbonell

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Post-White-nose syndrome trends in Virginia’s cave bats, 2008-2013, Karen E. Powers, Richard J. Reynolds, and Wil Orndorff

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Post-White-nose syndrome trends in Virginias cave bats, 2008-2013, E Powers Karen, J Reynolds Richard, Orndorff Wil, Mark Ford W, and S Hobson Christopher

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Prediction and assessment of the disturbances of the coal mining in Kailuan to karst groundwater system, Wenjie Sun, Qiang Wu, Honglei Liu, and Jian Jiao

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Preliminary investigation of a ritual cave site in the Puuc Region of Yucatàn, Mexico: ActunXcoch, Eric M. Weaver, Nicholas P. Dunning, Michael Smyth, and Beth Cortright

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Preliminary results on the dynamics of particles and their size dis- tribution at a karst spring during snow melt., Ferry Schiperski, Johannes Zirlewagen, Olav Hillebrand, Tobias Licha, and Traugott Scheytt

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Procedures and criteria analysis of fluorescent dyes in water and charcoal samplers: fluorescein, eosine, rhodamine WT, and sulforhodamine B Dyes, Thomas Aley and Shiloh L. Beeman

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Pseudogymnoascus destructans in Croatia confirmed, Igor Pavlinić, Maja Đaković, and Ivana Lojkić

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Pseudogymnoascus destructans in Croatia confirmed, Igor Pavlinić, Maja Đaković, and Ivana Lojkić

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Quantifying Wildlife Use of Cave Entrances Using Remote Camera Traps, Gretchen M. Baker

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Quantitative hermeneutics: Counting forestructures on a path from W.M. Davis to the concept of multiple-permeability karst aquifers, H. L. Vacher and Lee J. Florea

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Radiocarbon evidence for decomposition of aged organic matter in the vadose zone as the main source of speleothem carbon, Alexandra L. Noronha, Kathleen R. Johnson, John R. Southon, and Chaoyong Hu

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Range-wide genetic analysis of little brown bat (myotis lucifugus) populations: estimating the risk of spread of white-nose syndrome, Maarten J. Vonhof, Amy L. Russell, and Cassandra M. Miller-Butterworth

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Rapidcreekite in the sulfuric acid weathering environment of Diana Cave, Romania, B. P. Onac, H. S. Effenberger, J. G. Wynn, and I. Povara

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Reactive-transport modelling of gypsum dissolution in a coastal karst aquifer in Puglia, southern Italy, Claudia Campana and Maria Dolores Fidelibus

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Recharge processes of Matese karst massif (southern Italy), Francesco Fiorillo and Mauro Pagnozzi

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Reconstructing water level in Hoyo Negro, Quintana Roo, Mexico, implications for early Paleoamerican and faunal access, S. V. Collins, E. G. Reinhardt, and D. Rissolo

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Reconstruction of the Neanderthal and Modern Human landscape and climate from the Fumane cave sequence (Verona, Italy) using small-mammal assemblages, Juan Manuel López-García, Chiara dalla Valle, Mauro Cremaschi, and Marco Peresani

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Reconstruction of the Northeast Asian monsoon climate history for the past 400 years based on textural, carbon and oxygen isotope record of a stalagmite from Yongcheon lava tube cave, Jeju Island, Korea, Kyung Sik Woo, Jeong Chan Kim, and Don Won Choi

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Redating Fell's Cave, Chile and the Chronological Placement of the Fishtail Projectile Point, Michael R. Waters, Thomas Amorosi, and Thomas W. Stafford