This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2013
National Park Service Cave Ecology Inventory And Monitoring Framework, National Cave and Karst Research Institute
Natural and anthropogenic factors which influence aerosol distribution in Ingleborough Show Cave, UK, Andrew C. Smith B.S.C, Peter M. Wynn, and Philip A. Barker Professor
Neue Erkenntnisse zur Struktur der Karstentwässerung im aktiven Höhlensystem des Blautopfs, Ute Lauber, Wolfgang Ufrecht, and Nico Goldscheider
New data on human behavior from a 160,000 year old Acheulean occupation level at Lazaret cave, south-east France: An archaeozoological approach, Patricia Valensi, Véronique Michel, Khalid El Guennouni, and Marie Liouville
New datings of Amudian layers at Qesem Cave (Israel): results of TL applied to burnt flints and ESR/U-series to teeth, Norbert Mercier, Hélène Valladas, Christophe Falguères, and Qingfeng Shao
New Neanderthal remains from Mani peninsula, Southern Greece: The Kalamakia Middle Paleolithic cave site, Katerina Harvati, Andreas Darlas, and Shara E. Bailey
New records of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) and karyotypes from Guinean Mount Nimba (West Africa), C. Denys, B. Kadjo, A. D. Missoup, and A. Monadjem
News Release: Service Approves Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program’s Incidental Take Permit. Department of Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service, Adam Zerrenner, Tom Buckley, and Lesli Gray
New U-series results for the speleogenesis and the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Almonda karstic system (Torres Novas, Portugal), Dirk L. Hoffmann, Alistair W. G. Pike, and Karine Wainer
Not only Chauvet: Dating Aurignacian rock art in Altxerri B Cave (northern Spain), C. González-Sainz, A. Ruiz-Redondo, and D. Garate-Maidagan
Novel Bat Coronaviruses, Brazil and Mexico, Luiz Gustavo Bentim Góes, Sicilene Gonzalez Ruvalcaba, Angélica Almeida Campos, and Luzia Helena Queiroz
Novel SARS-like betacoronaviruses in bats, China, 2011, Li Yang, Zhiqiang Wu, and Xianwen Ren
Numerical modelling of impact crater formation associated with isolated lunar skylight candidates on lava tubes, E. Martellato, B. H. Foing, and J. Benkhoff
Nutritional Capability of and Substrate Suitability for Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the Causal Agent of Bat White-Nose Syndrome, Daniel B. Raudabaugh and Andrew N. Miller
Ochre Use in the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa: Grinding, Rubbing, Scoring and Engraving, Tammy Hodgskiss
Of Shells, Soda Straws, Caves, and Kings: Crafting, Body Practices, and Identity Making Among The Ancient Maya of Pacbitun, Belize, Jon Spenard, Teresa Wagner, and Terry G. Powis
Organic Carbon in Shallow Subterranean Habitats, Tanja Pipan and David C. Culver
Organic Matter Flux in the Epikarst of the Dorvan Karst, France, Kevin S. Simon
Origin of groundwater salinity (current seawater vs. saline deep water) in a coastal karst aquifer based on Sr and Cl isotopes. Case study of the La Clape massif (southern France), Mahmoud Khaska, Corinne Le Gal La Salle, Joël Lancelot, ASTER team, Amad Mohamad, Patrick Verdoux, Aurélie Noret, and Roland Simler
Origin of groundwater salinity (current seawater vs. saline deep water) in a coastal karst aquifer based on Sr and Cl isotopes. Case study of the La Clape massif (southern France), Mahmoud Khaska, Corinne Le Gal La Salle, Joël Lancelot, ASTER team, Amad Mohamad, Patrick Verdoux, Aurélie Noret, and Roland Simler
OSL and TL dating of the Middle Stone Age sequence at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (South Africa): a clarification, C. Tribolo, N. Mercier, and E. Douville
Ostracod Assemblages in the Frasassi Caves and Adjacent Sulfidic Spring and Sentino River in the Northeastern Apennines of Italy, Dawn E. Peterson, Kenneth L. Finger, and Sanda Iepure
Paleohydrology and the origin of Jewel Cave, National Cave and Karst Research Institute
Paleokarst shafts in the western desert of Egypt: A unique landscape, Ashraf Mostafa
Partnerships In Cave Management On Lincoln National Forest, National Cave and Karst Research Institute
Pathophysiology of white-nose syndrome in bats: a mechanistic model linking wing damage to mortality, Lisa Warnecke, James M. Turner, and Trent K. Bollinger
Patterns of Cave Biodiversity and Endemism in the Appalachians and Interior Plateau of Tennessee, USA, Matthew L. Niemiller and Kirk S. Zigler
Photographic And Sediment Monitoring Procedures And Initial Results For A Brazilian Iron Ore Cave, National Cave and Karst Research Institute
Phototactic behaviour of subterranean Copionodontinae Pinna, 1992 catfishes (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) from Chapada Diamantina, central Bahia, northeastern Brazil, Bianca Rantin and Maria Elina Bichuette
Phylogenetic evaluation of Geomyces and allies reveals no close relatives of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, comb. nov., in bat hibernacula of eastern North America, Andrew M. Minnis and Daniel L. Linder
Phylogenetic placement of North American subterranean diving beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)., Kelly Miller, April Jean, and Yves Alarie
Phylogenomic Analyses Elucidate the Evolutionary Relationships of Bats, Georgia Tsagkogeorga, Joe Parker, and Elia Stupka
Physical Structure of the Epikarst, William K. Jones
Pleasant Valley Spring: A Newly Documented Karst Spring of the Texas Hill Country Trinity Aquifer, Brian B. Hunt, Brian A. Smith, and Chad Norris
Pleasant Valley Spring: A Newly Documented Karst Spring of the Texas Hill Country Trinity Aquifer, Chad Norris, Marcus Gary, and Douglas A. Wierman
Pliocene–Pleistocene climate of the northern margin of Saharan–Arabian Desert recorded in speleothems from the Negev Desert, Israel, A. Vaks, J. Woodhead, and M. Bar-Matthews
Poljes, Ponors and Their Catchments, O. Bonacci
Postglacial Faunal Records From Cave Deposits In Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, National Cave and Karst Research Institute
Preliminary Assessment of Jeita Cave Stability, Armin Margane
Preliminary Summary of Water Resource Investigations during 2012 at Timpanogos Cave National Monument, Utah, National Cave and Karst Research Institute
Prioritizing Caves For Karst Invertebrate Recovery In Central Texas, National Cave and Karst Research Institute
Progress in the Hydrologic Simulation of Time Variant Recharge Areas of Karst Systems – Exemplified at a Karst Spring in Southern Spain, Andreas Hartmann, Juan Antonio Barberá, and Jens Lange
Projection of tourist scenarios onto fragility maps: Framework for determination of provisional tourist carrying capacity in a Brazilian show cave, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo, Eleonora Trajano, and Maurício de Alcântara Marinho
Psychrophilic and Psychrotolerant Fungi on Bats and the Presence of Geomyces spp. on Bat Wings Prior to the Arrival of White Nose Syndrome, Lynnaun J. A. N. Johnson, Andrew N. Miller, Robert A. McCleery, Rod McClanahan, Joseph A. Kath, Shiloh Lueschow, and Andrea Porras-Alfaro
Quantification of long-term wastewater impacts on karst groundwater resources in a semi-arid environment by chloride mass balance methods, Sebastian Schmidt, Tobias Geyer, Amer Marei, and Joseph Guttman
Quantifying time lag of epikarst-spring hydrograph response to rainfall using correlation and spectral analyses, Zhicai Zhang, Xi Chen, and Xunhong Chen
QUARTZ BIFACIAL POINTS IN THE HOWIESONS POORT of SIBUDU, Paloma de la Peña, Lyn Wadley, and Marlize Lombard
Quaternary Glacial Cycles: Karst Processes and the Global CO2 Budget, Erik B. Larson and John E. Mylroie
Questions, ideas and tools: lessons from bat echolocation, M. B. Fenton
Reconstructing past climates using carbon isotopes from fulvic acids in cave sediments, Jason S. Polk, Philip van Beynen, and Yemane Asmeron
Reconstruction of cave air temperature based on surface atmosphere temperature and vegetation changes: Implications for speleothem palaeoclimate records, David Domínguez-Villar, Ian J. Fairchild, Andy Baker, Rosa M. Carrasco, and Javier Pedraza
Recoverable Storage for Aquifers in Groundwater Management Area, Ian C. Jones, Jerry Shi, and Robert Bradley
Regional climate variability and ecosystem responses to the last deglaciation in the northern hemisphere from stable isotope data and calcite fabrics in two northern Adriatic stalagmites, R. Belli, S. Frisia, A. Borsato, R. Drysdale, J. Hellstrom, J.-x. Zhao, and C. Spötl
Resolving the roles of immunity, pathogenesis, and immigration for rabies persistence in vampire bats, Julie C. Blackwood, Daniel G. Streicker, and Sonia Altizer
Restoring Land and Managing Karst to Protect Water Quality and Quantity at Barton Springs, Austin, Texas, Kevin Thuesen
San Bernardino Cave (Italy) and the Appearance of Levallois Technology in Europe: Results of a Radiometric and Technological Reassessment, Andrea Picin, Marco Peresani, Christophe Falguères, and Giulia Gruppioni
Seasonal reliance on nectar by an insectivorous bat revealed by stable isotopes, Winifred F. Frick, J. Ryan Shipley, Jeffrey F. Kelly, Paul A. Heady, and Kathleen M. Kay
Sensory Adaptations of Fishes to Subterranean Environments, Daphne Soares and Matthew L. Niemiller
Shallow geophysical mapping of buried karst surface near Hranice using electrical resistivity tomography (In Czech: Mělké geofyzikální mapování povrchu pohřbeného hranického krasu metodou elektrické odporové tomografie), Petr Dleštík and Ondrej Bábek
Simulating flow in karst aquifers at laboratory and sub-regional scales using MODFLOW-CFP, Josue Jacob Gallegos, Bill X. Hu, and Hal Davis
Skin Lesions in European Hibernating Bats Associated with Geomyces destructans, the Etiologic Agent of White-Nose Syndrome, Gudrun Wibbelt, Sébastien J. Puechmaille, Bernd Ohlendorf, Kristin Mühldorfer, Thijs Bosch, Tamás Görföl, Karsten Passior, Andreas Kurth, Daniel Lacremans, and Frédéric Forget
Social influences on territorial signaling in male greater sac-winged bats, Maria Eckenweber and Mirjam Knörnschild
Source assessment of deposited particles in a Slovenian show cave (Postojnska jama): evidence of long-lasting anthropogenic impact, Gregor Muri, Aleksandra Jovičić, and Andrej Mihevc
Spatial and temporal changes in invertebrate assemblage structure from the entrance to deep-cave zone of a temperate marble cave, Benjamin W. Tobin, Benjamin T. Hutchins, and Benjamin F. Schwartz
Speleological Expeditions To The Shan Plateau In Myanmar (Burma), Joerg Dreybrodt, Fleur Loveridge, and Imogen Furlong
Speleothem records over the last interglacial, Dominique Genty, S Verheyden, and K Wainer
Speleothem trace element signatures: A hydrologic geochemical study of modern cave dripwaters and farmed calcite, Darrel M. Tremaine and Philip N. Froelich
Spring Discharge Records - A Case Study, Carol M. Wicks
Stable isotopes and dietary patterns of the faunal species from Peştera cu Oase, Michael P. Richards
Stable isotopes. Spy cave. 125 years of multidisciplinary research at the Betche aux Rotches (Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Province of Namur, Belgium),, Hélène Rougier and Patrick Semal
Status of the Endangered Pecos Gambusia (Gambusia nobilis) and Comanche Springs Pupfish (Cyprinodon elegans) in Phantom Lake Spring, Texas, Richard H. Lewis, Nathan L. Allan, Stacy B. Stoops, Gary P. Garrett, Christopher W. Kroll, Janalyn West, and Raelynn Deaton
Structural controls on the occurrence and morphology of karstified assemblages in northeastern Vietnam: a regional perspective, Hai Thanh Tran, Bat Van Dang, Chi Kim Ngo, Que Dinh Hoang, and Quyen Minh Nguyen
Study on Karst Development Mechanism of Zhangfang Area in Fangshan, Y. W. Ju, X. P. Rui, and Y. X. Zhang
Sustained Anthropogenic Impact in Carter Saltpeter Cave, Carter County, Tennessee and the Potential Effects on Manganese Cycling, Sarah K. Carmichael, Mary J. Carmichael, and Amanda Strom
Taphonomic and paleoecological change in the large mammal sequence from Boomplaas Cave, western Cape, South Africa, J. Tyler Faith
Taphonomic and paleoecological change in the large mammal sequence from Boomplaas Cave, western Cape, South Africa, J. Tyler Faith
TEMPORAL VARIABILITY of CAVE-AIR CO2 IN CENTRAL TEXAS, Brian D. Cowan, Michael D. Osborne, and Jay L. Banner
Ten Years in Rouffignac Cave: a Collective Report on Findings from a Decade of Finger Flutings Research, Leslie Van Gelder
Testing the annual nature of speleothem banding, Chuan-Chou Shen, Ke Lin, and Wuhui Duan
Testing the realism of model structures to identify karst system processes using water quality and quantity signatures, A. Hartmann, T. Wagener, and A. Rimmer
The cave environment influencing the lipid profile and hepatic lipogenesis of the fish Ancistrus cryptophthalmus Reis, 1987 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), Valquíria Aparecida Alves Bastos, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Daniel Cardoso Carvalho, Marina Lages Pugedo, and Luciana de Matos Alves Pinto
The Cave of Isturitz (West Pyrenees, France): One Century of Research in Paleolithic Parietal Art, Diego Garate, Aude Labarge, Olivia Rivero, Christian Normand, and Joëlle Darricau
The challenges of identifying, evaluating, and managing British Columbia’s Karst lands, Tim Stokes
The context, form and significance of the MSA engraved ostrich eggshell collection from Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa, Pierre-Jean Texier, Guillaume Porraz, and John Parkington
The effects of UV light on the antimicrobial activities of cave actinomycetes, Devon Rule and Naowarat Cheeptham
The first troglobitic Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) from South America and the description of a non-troglobitic species from Brazil, Ludson Neves De Ázara and Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira
The first troglobitic Pseudonannolene from Brazilian iron ore caves (Spirostreptida: Pseudonannolenidae), LUIZ FELIPE MORETTI INIESTA and RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA
The first Upper Paleolithic human remains from Belgium: Aurignacian, Gravettian and Magdalenian fossils at the “troisième caverne” of Goyet, H. Rougier, I. Crevecoeur, and C. Beauval
The Fort Stanton Cave Study Project: A Model For Agency – Caver Partnership In Cave Management, National Cave and Karst Research Institute
"The Geopolitics of Emerging Maya Rulers A Case Study of Kayuko Naj Tunich, a Foundational Shrine at Uxbenká, Southern Belize", Holley Moyes and Keith M. Prufer
The longest limestone caves of Israel, Boaz Langford and Frumkin Amos
The NPS Cave Visitor Impact Vital Signs Monitoring Protocol, National Cave and Karst Research Institute
The possible negative consequences of underground dam and reservoir construction and operation in coastal karst areas: an example of the hydro-electric power plant (HEPP) Ombla near Dubrovnik (Croatia), T. Roje-Bonacci and O. Bonacci
The possible negative consequences of underground dam and reservoir construction and operation in coastal karst areas: an example of the hydro-electric power plant (HEPP) Ombla near Dubrovnik (Croatia), T. Roje-Bonacci and O. Bonacci
The Santa Marta Rock Shelter Ocozocoautla, Chiapas, Mexico, Frederick A. Peterson and Richard S. MacNeish
