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Honduras: Caving in Conglomerate, Ric Finch and Nancy Pistole

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Human Disturbance of Karst Environments, Vladimir Tolmachev and Mikhail Leonenko

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Hydrologic Connectivity in the Edwards Aquifer between San Marcos Springs and Barton Springs during 2009 Drought Conditions, Larry F. Land, Brian B. Hunt, and Brian A. Smith

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Identification of a karst system’s intrinsic hydrodynamic parameters: upscaling from single springs to the whole aquifer, Andreas Hartmann, Martin Kralik, Franko Humer, Jens Lange, and Markus Weiler

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Imaging the structure of cave ice by ground-penetrating radar, H. Hausmann and M. Behm

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Imprints of hydrocarbon-bearing basinal fluids on a karst system: mineralogical and fluid inclusion studies from the Buda Hills, Hungary, Zsófia Poros, Andrea Mindszenty, Ferenc Molnár, Jacques Pironon, Orsolya Győri, Paola Ronchi, and Zoltán Szekeres

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Influence of the observation scale on permeability estimation at local and regional scales through well tests in a fractured and karstic aquifer (Lez aquifer, Southern France), M. R. Jazayeri Noushabadi, H. Jourde, and G. Massonnat

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In situ acetylene reduction activity of Scytonema julianum in Vapor cave (Spain), Antonia Dolores Asencio and Marina Aboal

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Integrated cave drip monitoring for epikarst recharge estimation in a dry Mediterranean area, Sif Cave, Israel, Nathan A. Sheffer, Moty Cohen, Efrat Morin, Tamir Grodek, Alex Gimburg, Einat Magal, Haim Gvirtzman, Manuela Nied, Daniel Isele, and Amos Frumkin

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Invertebrate fossils from cave sediments: a new proxy for pre-Quaternary paleoenvironments, O. T. Moldovan, A. Mihevc, and L. Miko

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Investigating and Managing the Rapid Emergence of White-Nose Syndrome, a Novel, Fatal, Infectious Disease of Hibernating Bats, JANET FOLEY, DEANA CLIFFORD, KEVIN CASTLE, PAUL CRYAN, and RICHARD S. OSTFELD

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Iron Oxide and Calcite Associated with Leptothrix sp. Biofilms within an Estavelle in the Upper Floridan Aquifer, Lee J. Florea, Chasity L. Stinson, Josh Brewer, Rick Fowler, B Joe Kearns, and Anthony M. Greco

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Isotopic evidence for dietary ecology of cave lion (Panthera spelaea) in North-Western Europe: Prey choice, competition and implications for extinction, Hervé Bocherens, Dorothée G. Drucker, and Dominique Bonjean

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Isotopic evidence for dietary ecology of cave lion (Panthera spelaea) in North-Western Europe: Prey choice, competition and implications for extinction, Hervé Bocherens, Dorothée G. Drucker, Dominique Bonjean, and Anne Bridault

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Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, Volume 73, No. 1, April 2011, Table of Contents, National Speleological Society

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Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, Volume 73, No. 2, August 2011, Table of Contents, National Speleological Society

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Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, Volume 73, No. 3, December 2011, Table of Contents, National Speleological Society

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Karst and artificial recharge: Theoretical and practical problems: A preliminary approach to artificial recharge assessment, Walid Daher, Séverin Pistre, Angeline Kneppers, Michel Bakalowicz, and Wajdi Najem

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Karst development, breccias history, and mammalian assemblages in Southeast Asia: A brief review, Philippe Duringer, Anne-Marie Bacon, Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy, and Thi Kim Thuy Nguyen

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Karst geomorphology of carbonatic conglomerates in the Folded Molasse zone of the Northern Alps (Austria/Germany), Nadine Goeppert, Nico Goldscheider, and Herbert Scholz

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Karst in UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Paul W. Williams

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Karst Landforms in an Interior Layered Deposit within the Coprates Chasma, Mars, Davide Baioni, Nadja Zupan Hajna, and Forese Carlo Wezel

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Karst Management, Daniel W. Fong

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Karst Managment, Philip E. van Beynen

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Karst springs as “natural” pluviometers: Constraints on the isotopic composition of rainfall in the Apennines of central Italy, A. Minissale and O. Vaselli

Las Cuevas de Yucatán: No. 1 La Región de Valladolid, Christian Thomas

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Late Mousterian Persistence near the Arctic Circle, Ludovic Slimak, John Inge Svendsen, and Jan Mangerud

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Late Neandertals and the intentional removal of feathers as evidenced from bird bone taphonomy at Fumane Cave 44 ky B.P., Italy, Marco Persani, Ivana Fiore, and Monica Gala

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Lava Cave Microbial Communities Within Mats and Secondary Mineral Deposits: Implications for Life Detection on Other Planets, D.E. Northup, L.A. Melim, M.N. Spilde, J.J.M. Hathaway, M.G. Garcia, M. Moya, F.D. Stone, P.J. Boston, M.L.N.E. Dapkevicius, and C. Riquelme

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Les Chauves-Souris de Madagascar, Steven M. Goodman

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Little Brown Myotis Persist Despite Exposure to White-Nose Syndrome, C. A. Dobony, A. C. Hicks, and K. E. Langwig

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Local characteristics of Postojna Cave climate, air temperature, and pressure monitoring, Stanka Šebela and Janez Turk

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Low regional diversity of late cave bears mitochondrial DNA at the time of Chauvet Aurignacian paintings, Céline Bon, Véronique Berthonaud, and Phillippe Fosse

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Mammal remains at Rantis Cave, Israel, and Middle–Late Pleistocene human subsistence and ecology in the Southern Levant, Ofer Marder, Reuven Yeshurun, Ronit Lupu, Guy Bar‐Oz, Miriam Belmaker, Naomi Porat, Hagai RON, and Amos Frumkin

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Management of Caves, David Gillieson

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Mass extinctions, biodiversity and mitochondrial function: are bats ‘special’ as reservoirs for emerging viruses?, Lin-Fa Wang, Peter J. Walker, and Leo Poon

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Mechanisms of heat exchange between water and rock in karst conduits, M. D. Covington, A. J. Luhmann, F. Gabrovšek, M. O. Saar, and C. M. Wicks

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Megafauna from the Late Pleistocene-Holocene deposits of the Upper Ribeira karst area, southeast Brazil, Aline Marcele Ghilardi, Marcelo Adorna Fernandes, and Maria Elina Bichuette

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Merging the social and the material: Life histories of ancient mementos from Central Mexico, Lisa Overholtzer and Wesley D. Stoner

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Microclimate and bat occupation trends at Gorman Cave, Colorado Bend State Park, San Saba county, Texas during 2010-2011.

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Middle Stone Age Bedding Construction and Settlement Patterns at Sibudu, South Africa, Lyn Wadley, Christine Sievers, and Marion Bamford

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Middle Stone Age shellfish exploitation: Potential indications for mass collecting and resource intensification at Blombos Cave and Klasies River, South Africa, Geeske H.J. Langejans, Karen L. van Niekerk, and Gerrit L. Dusseldorp

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Mid-Holocene climate variations revealed by high-resolution speleothem records from Soreq Cave, Israel and their correlation with cultural changes, Miryam Bar-Matthews and Avner Ayalon

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Mineralogy of Iza Cave (Rodnei Mountains, N. Romania), Tudor Tămaş, Ferenc Kristály, and Lucian Barbu-Tudoran

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Minerals and Speleothems of the József-hegy Cave (Budapest, Hungary), Szabolcs Leél-Őssy, Gyöngyvér Szanyi, and Gergely Surányi

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Minerogenetic Mechanisms Occurring in the Cave environment: an overview, Bogdan P. Onac and Paolo Forti

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Minerogenetic mechanisms occurring in the cave environment: an overview, Bogdan P. Onac and Paolo Forti

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Modelling carbon isotopes of carbonates in cave drip water, Jens Fohlmeister, Denis Scholz, Bernd Kromer, and Augusto mangini

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Modelling hydrological processes influenced by soil, rock and vegetation in a small karst basin of southwest China, Zhicai Zhang, Xi Chen, Anas Ghadouani, and Peng Shi

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Modelling hydrological processes influenced by soil, rock and vegetation in a small karst basin of southwest China, Zhicai Zhang, Xi Chen, Anas Ghadouani, and Peng Shi

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Modelling the behaviour of a karst system catchment using non-linear hysteretic conceptual model, Sébastien Tritz, Vincent Guinot, and Hervé Jourde

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Molecular characterization of airborne fungi in caves of the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China, Wanfu Wang, Xu Ma, and Yantian Ma

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Moonmilk Deposits Originate from Specific Bacterial Communities in Altamira Cave (Spain), Maria C. Portillo and Juan M. Gonzalez

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Morphological innovation, diversification and invasion of a new adaptive zone, Elizabeth R. Dumont, Liliana M. Dávalos, and Aaron Goldbeerg

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National Cave and Karst Research Institute 2009-2010 annual report NCKRI annual report, 2009-2010, National Cave and Karst Research Institute

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National Cave and Karst Research Institute 2010-2011 Annual Report, National Cave and Karst Research Institute

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Nature and significance of the Howiesons Poort to post-Howiesons Poort transition at Klein Kliphuis rockshelter, South Africa, Alex Mackay

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New knowledge on the Monte Conca gypsum karst system (Central-western Sicily, Italy), Guiliana Madonia and Marco Vattano

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New radiocarbon dates for the Zagros Aurignacian from Yafteh cave, Iran, Marcel Otte, Sonia Shidrang, Nicolas Zwyns, and Damien Flas

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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

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New species of scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) recorded from caves in Nevada, USA, R. Henry Disney, Steven Taylor, and Michael E. Slay

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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

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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

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Notice of Retraction: Nitrate Fate and Origin in a Typical Karst Subterranean River System, Southwest China, Xuan Liang, Zhijun Wang, and Junbing Pu

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Observations on the biology of the endangered stygobiotic shrimp Palaemonias alabamae, with notes on P. ganteri (Decapoda: Atyidae), Martha Cooper and John Cooper

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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

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On the evolution of diet and landscape during the Upper Paleolithic through Mesolithic at Franchthi Cave (Peloponnese, Greece), Mary C. Stiner and Natalie D. Munro

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On the formation of collapse dolines: A modelling perspective, Franci Gabrovšek and Uroš Stepišnik

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Origin and palaeoenvironmental significance of lamination in stalagmites from Katerloch Cave, Austria, Ronny Boch, Christoph Spotl, and Silvia Frisia

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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

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Oxygen isotopes in calcite grown under cave-analogue conditions, C. C. Day and G.M. Henderson

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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

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Paleokarst system development in the San Andres Formation, Permian Basin, revealed by seismic characterization, Qifeng Dou, Yuefeng Sun, Charlotte Sullivan, and Hao Guo

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Paleolithic Art in Peril: Policy and Science Collide at Altamira Cave, Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez, Soledad Cuezva, and Valme Jurado

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Pan-European Distribution of White-Nose Syndrome Fungus (Geomyces destructans) Not Associated with Mass Mortality, Sebastien J. Puechmaille, Gudrun Wibbelt, and Vanessa Korn

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Pan-European Distribution of White-Nose Syndrome Fungus (Geomyces destructans) Not Associated with Mass Mortality, Sébastien J. Puechmaille, Gudrun Wibbelt, Vanessa Korn, and Hubert Fuller

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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

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Patterns of Acoustical Activity of Bats Prior to and Following White-Nose Syndrome Occurrence, W. Mark Ford, Eric R. Britzke, Christopher A. Dobony, Jane L. Rodrigue, and Joshua B. Johnson

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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

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Phylogenetic Relationships and Relictualism of Rock-Crawlers (Grylloblattodea: Grylloblattidae) in Cave and Mountain Habitats of Korea, Sean D. Schoville and Byung-Woo Kim

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Pleistocene bears in the Swabian Jura (Germany): Genetic replacement, ecological displacement, extinctions and survival, Susanne C. Münzeel, Mahias Stiller, and Michael Hofreiter

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Pleistocene felidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Kudaro Paleolithic sites in the Caucasus, G. F. Baryshnikov

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Pleistocene Panthera leo spelaea (goldfuss 1810) remains from the Balve cave (NW Germany) – a cave bear, hyena den and middle palaeolithic human cave - and review of the Sauerland Karst lion cave sites, Cajus G. Diedrich

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Quartz-tipped arrows older than 60 ka: further use-trace evidence from Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Marlize Lombard

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Radon and CO2 as natural tracers to investigate the recharge dynamics of karst aquifers, Ludovic Savoy, Heinz Surbeck, and Daniel Hunkeler

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Radon exchange dynamics in a karst system investigated by radon continuous measurements in water: first results, G. Peano, B. Vigna, E. Villavecchia, and G. Agnesod

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Radon Survey and Exposure Assessment in Karaca and Çal Caves, Turkey, Ugur Cevik, Ayhan Kara, Necati Celik, Mustafa Karabidak, and Ahmet Celik

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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

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Recent developments on morphometric analysis of karst caves, Leonardo Piccini

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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

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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

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Reconnaissance Karst Potential Mapping, Tim Salkeld

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Recovery of Little Brown Bats (Myotis Lucifugus) From Natural Infection With Geomyces Destructans, White-nose Syndrome, Carol Uphoff Meteyer, Mick Valent, and Jackie Kashmer