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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

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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

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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

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Phylogeography of sardinian cave salamanders (genus Hydromantes) is mainly determined by geomorphology, Ylenia Chiari, Arie van der Meijden, and Mauro Mucedda

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Population genetics study of common (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) and soprano (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) pipistrelle bats from central Europe suggests interspecific hybridization, A. Sztencel-Jabłonka and W. Bogdanowicz

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Population-level impact of white-nose syndrome on the endangered Indiana bat, Wayne E. Thogmartin, R. Andrew King, Patrick C. McKann, Jennifer A. Szymanski, and Lori Pruitt

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Predator Generalization Decreases the Effect of Introduced Predators in the San Marcos Salamander, Eurycea nana, R. Drew, Kristen J. Epp, and Caitlin R. Gabor

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Preliminary Observations on the Investigation of Midnight Terror Cave, Belize, James E. Brady and C. L. Kieffer

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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

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Primulina guangxiensis sp. nov. (Gesneriaceae) from a karst cave in Guangxi, China, Yan Liu, Wei‐Bin Xu, and Yu‐Song Huang

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Process length scales and longitudinal damping in karst conduits, M. D. Covington, A. J. Luhmann, C. M. Wicks, and M. O. Saar

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Provenance and geological significance of red mud and other clastic sediments of the Mugnano cave (Montagnola Senese, Italy), Francesco Iacoviello and Ivan Martini

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Punctual and continuous estimation of transit time from dissolved organic matter fluorescence properties in karst aquifers, application to groundwaters of ‘Fontaine de Vaucluse’ experimental basin (SE France), T. Blondel, C. Emblanch, C. Batiot-Guilhe, and Y. Dudal

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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

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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

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Radiocarbon dating & Bayesian modelling from the Grotte du Renne & a Neanderthal origin for the Châtelperronian, T. Higham, C. Ramsey, and L. Basell

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Radiocarbon Dating of Rock Paintings: Incorporating Pictographs into the Archaeological Record, Jo McDonald and Peter Veth

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Radionuclides as natural tracers for the characterization of fluids in regional discharge areas, Buda Thermal Karst, Hungary, Anita Erőss, Judit Mádl-Szőnyi, Heinz Surbeck, Ákos Horváth, Nico Goldscheider, and Anita É. Csoma

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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

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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

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Regional-scale airborne electromagnetic surveying of the Yucatan karst aquifer (Mexico): geological and hydrogeological interpretation, Bibi R. N. Gondwe, David Ottowitz, Robert Supper, and Klaus Motschka

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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RITUAL LANDSCAPES of THE CAVES BRANCH RIVER VALLEY, Christophe Helmke and Kip Andres

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Sacred Geography in the Nochixtlan Valley, Byron Ellsworth Hamann

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Scientific diving techniques for the study of flooded sinkholes in Italy, G. Caramanna and R. Malatesta

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Scientific drilling of speleothems – a technical note, Christoph Spötl and David Mattey

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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

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Sensitivity analysis of conceptual model calibration to initialisation bias. Application to karst spring discharge models, N. Mazzilli, V. Guinot, and H. Jourde

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Sex at Sterkfontein: ‘Mrs. Ples’ is still an adult female, Frederick E. Grine, Gerhard W. Weber, and J. Michael Plavcan

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Simulation of saturated and unsaturated flow in karst systems at catchment scale using a double continuum approach, J. Kordilla, M. Sauter, T. Reimann, and T. Geyer

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SINKHOLE EVOLUTION IN THE APULIAN KARST OF SOUTHERN ITALY: A CASE STUDY, WITH SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON SINKHOLE HAZARDS, Vincenzo Festa, Antonio Fiore, Mario Parise, and Agata Siniscalchi

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Sinkhole Risk Assessment along Highway I-70 near Frederick, Maryland, Wanfang Zhou, Barry F. Beck, and Angela L. Adams

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Small and large game: Human use of diverse faunal resources at Level IV of Bolomor Cave (Valencia, Spain), Ruth Blasco and Josep Fernández Peris

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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

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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

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Solute transport in solution conduits exhibiting multi-peaked breakthrough curves, Malcolm S. Field and Feike J. Leij

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Spatially dense drip hydrological monitoring and infiltration behaviour at the Wellington Caves, South East Australia, Catherine Jex, Ian Acworth, Cecilia Azcurra, Gregoire Mariethoz, Andy Baker, Peter Graham, Martin Andersen, and Nerilee Edwards

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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

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Spectral Deconvolution and Quantification of Natural Organic Material and Fluorescent Tracer Dyes, Scott C. Alexander

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Speleogenesis Along Deep Regional Faults by Ascending Waters: Case Studies from Slovakia and Czech Republic, Pavel Bella and Pavel Bosák

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Speleogenesis, Hypogenic, Alexander Klimchouk

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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

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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

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Speleothem isotopic evidence of winter rainfall variability in northeast Turkey between 77 and 6 ka, P. J. Rowe, J. E. Mason, J. E. Andrews, A. D. Marca, L. Thomas, P. van Calsteren, C. N. Jex, H. B. Vonhof, and S. Al-Omari

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Speleothem microstructure/speleothem ontogeny: a review of Western contributions, William B. White

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Speleothem Science: From Process to Past Environments, Ian J. Fairchild and Andy Baker

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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

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Stable isotopic analyses of cave bear bones from the Conturines cave (2,800m, South Tyrol, Italy), Micha Horaceek, Christinee Frischauf, and M. Pacher

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StalAge – an algorithm especially designed for construction of speleothem age models, Denis Scholz

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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

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Stochastic simulation of karst conduit networks, Eulogio Pardo-Igúzquiza, Peter A. Dowd, Chaoshui Xu, and Juan José Durán-Valsero

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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

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Systematics, conservation and morphology of the spider genus Tayshaneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) in Central Texas Caves, Joel Ledford, Pierre Paquin, James Cokendolpher, Josh Campbell, and Charles Griswold

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Tacaribe virus causes fatal infection of an ostensible reservoir host, the Jamaican fruit bat, Ann Cogswell-Hawkinson, Richard Bowen, Stephanie James, David Gardiner, Charles H. Calisher, Rick Adams, and Tony Schountz

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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

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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

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Temperature-Dependent Growth of Geomyces destructans, the Fungus That Causes Bat White-Nose Syndrome, Michelle L. Verant, Justin G. Boyles, and William Waldrep Jr.

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Temperature-Dependent Growth of Geomyces destructans, the Fungus That Causes Bat White-Nose Syndrome, Michelle L. Verant, Justin G. Boyles, William Waldrep, and Gudrun Wibbelt

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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.

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Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World, D. M. Olson, E. Dinerstein, and E. D. Wikramanayake

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Tethysbaena ophelicola n. sp. (Thermosbaenacea), a new prime consumer in the Ophel biome of the Ayyalon Cave, Israel, H. P. Wagner

The Archaeological and Epigraphic Significance of Cuychen, Macal Valley, Belize, Christophe G.B. Helmke, Jaime J. Awe, Shawn G. Morton, and Gyles Iannone

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The biogeochemical role of Actinobacteria in Altamira Cave, Spain, Soledad Cuezva, Angel Fernandez-Cortes, Estefania Porca, Lejla Pašić, Valme Jurado, Mariona Hernandez-Marine, Penelope Serrano-Ortiz, Bernardo Hermosin, Juan Carlos Cañaveras, Sergio Sanchez-Moral, and Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez

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The complex origin of Astyanax cavefish, Joshua B. Gross

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The effect of climate on acoustic signals: Does atmospheric sound absorption matter for bird song and bat echolocation?, Emilie C. Snell-Rood

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The Effect of Tourist Visits on the Behavior of Rousettus madagascariensis (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in the Caves of Ankarana, Northern Madagascar, Scott G. Cardiff, Fanja H. Ratrimomanarivo, and Steven M. Goodman

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The effect of visitors in a touristic cave and the resulting constraints on natural thermal conditions for palaeoclimate studies (Eagle Cave, central Spain), David Dominguez-Villar, Ian J. Fairchild, Rosa M. Carraasco, Javier Pedraza, and Andy Baker

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The Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in the Palaearctic: Geographical variation and taxonomic status, Petr Benda, Peter Vallo, and Pavel Hulva

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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

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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

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The first in situ micro‐Raman spectroscopic analysis of prehistoric cave art of Rouffignac St‐Cernin, France, Sophia Lahlil, Matthieu Lebon, Lucile Beck, Hélène Rousselière, Colette Vignaud, Ina Reiche, Michel Menu, Patrick Paillet, and Frédéric Plassard

The First Interior? Reconsidering the Cave, D. J. Huppatz

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The First Interior? Reconsidering the Cave, D. J. Huppatz

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The Geomyces Fungi: Ecology and Distribution, Mark A. Hayes

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The Historical Context of the Founding of Maya Cave Archaeology., James Stemp

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The impact and implications of climate change for bats, Hayley A. Sherwin, W. Ian Montgomery, and Mathieu G. Lundy

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The Magdalenian settlement of the Cantabrian region (Northern Spain): The view from El Miron Cave, Lawrence Guy Straus and Manuel R. González Morales

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The Movement Ecology of the Straw-Colored Fruit Bat, Eidolon helvum, in Sub-Saharan Africa Assessed by Stable Isotope Ratios, Gonzalo Ossa, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, Alison J. Peel, Anne K. Scharf, and Christian C. Voigt

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The nature and distribution of flowing features in a weakly karstified porous limestone aquifer, L. D. Maurice, T. C. Atkinson, and J. A. Barker

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The promoting effect of soil carbonic anhydrase on the limestone dissolution rate in SW China, Qiang Li, Yuanyuan He, and Zhongyi Li

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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

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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

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The role of rock surface hardness and internal moisture in tafoni development in sandstone, Lisa Mol and Heather A. Viles

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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

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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

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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

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The world’s deepest subterranean community - Krubera-Voronja Cave (Western Caucasus), Alberto Sendra and Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira

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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