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Submissions from 2021
Reconstructing rock art chronology with transfer learning: A case study from Arnhem Land, Australia, Jarrad Kowlessar, James Keal, Daryl Wesley, Ian Moffat, Dudley Lawrence, Abraham Weson, and Alfred Nayinggul
Record summer rains in 2019 led to massive loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe, Aurel Perşoiu, Nenad Buzjak, Alexandru Onaca, Christos Pennos, Yorgos Sotiriadis, Monica Ionita, Stavros Zachariadis, Michael Styllas, Jure Kosutnik, Alexandru Hegyi, and Valerija Butorac
Redefining the study of sexual dimorphism in bats: following the odour trail, Mariana Muñoz‐Romo, Rachel A. Page, and Thomas H. Kunz
Reevaluating the timing of Neanderthal disappearance in Northwest Europe, Thibaut Devièse, Grégory Abrams, Mateja Hajdinjak, Stéphane Pirson, Isabelle De Groote, Kévin Di Modica, Michel Toussaint, Valentin Fischer, Dan Comeskey, Luke Spindler, Matthias Meyer, Patrick Semal, and Tom Higham
Refining sampling protocols for cavefishes and cave crayfishes to account for environmental variation, Joshua B. Mouser, Shannon K. Brewer, Matthew L. Niemiller, Robert Mollenhauer, and Ronald A. Van Den Bussche
Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy, Robin Skeates, Jessica Beckett, Daniela Mancini, Claudio Cavazzuti, Letizia Silvestri, W. Derek Hamilton, Kerry L. Sayle, Kayla D. Crowder, Mario Rolfo, and Micaela Angle
Review: Advances in the methodology and application of tracing in karst aquifers, Ralf Benischke
Review: Advances in the methodology and application of tracing in karst aquifers, Ralf Benischke
Review: Methodological approaches and research techniques for addressing construction and remediation problems in karst reservoirs, Saša Milanović and Ljiljana Vasić
Review of Modeling Approaches to Groundwater Flow in Deformed Carbonate Aquifers, Giacomo Medici, Luca Smeraglia, Anita Torabi, and Chartlotte Botter
Risk of groundwater contamination widely underestimated because of fast flow into aquifers, Andreas Hartmann, Scott Jasechko, Tom Gleeson, Yoshihide Wada, Bartolomé Andreo, Juan Antonio Barberá, Heike Brielmann, Lhoussaine Bouchaou, Jean-Baptiste Charlier, W. George Darling, Maria Filippini, Jakob Garvelmann, Nico Goldscheider, Martin Kralik, Harald Kunstmann, Bernard Ladouche, Jens Lange, Giorgia Lucianetti, José Francisco Martín, Matías Mudarra, Damián Sánchez, Christine Stumpp, Eleni Zagana, and Thorsten Wagener
Risks posed by SARS-CoV-2 to North American bats during winter fieldwork, Jonathan D. Cook, Evan H. C. Grant, Jeremy T. H. Coleman, Jonathan M. Sleeman, and Michael C. Runge
Ritual responses to catastrophic volcanism in Viking Age Iceland: Reconsidering Surtshellir Cave through Bayesian analyses of AMS dates, tephrochronology, and texts, Kevin P. Smith, Guðmundur Ólafsson, and Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir
Sinkhole development in the Sivas gypsum karst, Turkey, Ergin Gökkaya, Francisco Gutiérrez, Mateja Ferk, and Tolga Görüm
Site formation processes at Manot Cave, Israel: Interplay between strata accumulation in the occupation area and the talus, Francesco Berna, Elisabetta Boaretto, Matthea C. Wiebe, Mae Goder-Goldberger, Talia Abulafia, Ron Lavi, Omry Barzilai, Ofer Marder, and Stephen Weiner
Site formation processes at Manot Cave, Israel: Interplay between strata accumulation in the occupation area and the talus, Francesco Berna, Elisabetta Boaretto, Matthea C. Wiebe, Mae Goder-Goldberger, Talia Abulafia, Ron Lavi, Omry Barzilai, Ofer Marder, and Stephen Weiner
Skin fungal assemblages of bats vary based on susceptibility to white-nose syndrome, Karen J. Vanderwolf, Lewis J. Campbell, Tony L. Goldberg, David S. Blehert, and Jeffrey M. Lorch
Social convergence of gut microbiomes in vampire bats, Karthik Yarlagadda, Imran Razik, Ripan S. Malhi, and Gerald G. Carter
Social dominance and cooperation in female vampire bats, Rachel J. Crisp, Lauren J. N. Brent, and Gerald G. Carter
Social foraging in vampire bats is predicted by long-term cooperative relationships, Simon P. Ripperger and Gerald G. Carter
Spatial and temporal changes in ecosystem service values in karst areas in southwestern China based on land use changes, Wei Chen, Xuepeng Zhang, and Yingshuang Huang
Speleogenesis in a lens of metamorphosed limestone and ankerite: Ochtiná Aragonite Cave, Slovakia, Pavel Bella, Pavel Bosák, Petr Pruner, Helena Hercman, Katarína Pukanská, Karol Bartoš, Ľudovít Gaál, Dagmar Haviarová, Peter Tomčík, and Šimon Kdýr
Speleology as an analogue to space exploration: The ESA CAVES training programme, Francesco Sauro, Jo De Waele, Samuel J. Payler, Marco Vattano, Francesco Maria Sauro, Leonardo Turchi, and Loredana Bessone
Stable Carbon Isotope Depletions in Lipid Biomarkers Suggest Subsurface Carbon Fixation in Lava Caves, Matthew J. Selensky, Andrew L. Masterson, Jennifer G. Blank, Sohyun C. Lee, and Magdalena R. Osburn
Structural, geomorphic, and hydrochemical influences on the karst hydrogeology of the Haney Limestone in south-central Structural, geomorphic, and hydrochemical influences on the karst hydrogeology of the Haney Limestone in south-central Kentucky, USA, Sarah M. Arpin and Chris Groves
Subsistence behavior during the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Europe: Site use, dietary practice, and carnivore exploitation at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria), Geoff M. Smith, Rosen Spasov, Naomi L. Martisius, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Vera Aldeias, Zeljko Rezek, Karen Ruebens, Sarah Pederzani, Shannon P. McPherron, Svoboda Sirakova, Nikolay Sirakov, Tsenka Tsanova, and Jean-Jacques Hublin
Taphonomic Study of a Modern Baboon Sleeping Site at Misgrot, South Africa: Implications for Large-Bodied Primate Taphonomy in Karstic Deposits, Charné Nel, Justin Bradfield, Marlize Lombard, and Aurore Val
Taphonomy of an excavated striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) den in Arabia: implications for paleoecology and prehistory, Mathew Stewart, Eric Andrieux, Richard Clark-Wilson, Nils Vanwezer, James Blinkhorn, Simon J. Armitage, Abdulaziz al Omari, Badr Zahrani, Mesfer Alqahtani, Mahmoud Al-Shanti, Iyad Zalmout, Yahya S. A. Al-Mufarreh, Abdullah M. Alsharekh, Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Petraglia, and Huw S. Groucutt
Temperature alone is insufficient to understand hibernation energetics, Liam P. McGuire, Emily M. Johnson, Winifred F. Frick, and Justin G. Boyles
The acid test: An experimental microarchaeological study of guano-driven diagenesis in tropical cave sediments, Conor McAdams, Mike W. Morley, and Richard G. Roberts
The common noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula): population trends from artificial roosts and the effect of biotic and abiotic parameters on the probability of occupation, Lisa Printz, Marco Tschapka, and Anna Vogeler
The conquest of the dark spaces: An experimental approach to lighting systems in Paleolithic caves, Mª Ángeles Medina-Alcaide, Diego Garate, Iñaki Intxaurbe, José L. Sanchidrián, Olivia Rivero, Catherine Ferrier, Mª Dolores Mesa, Jaime Pereña, and Iñaki Líbano
The controlling factors of the karst water hydrochemistry in a karst basin of southwestern China, Xian Li, Yixian Wang, Longcang Shu, Yanqiao Wang, Fang Tong, Junling Han, Wenyu Shu, Delong Li, and Jinmei Wen
The earliest Asian bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) address major gaps in bat evolution, Matthew F. Jones, Qiang Li, Xijun Ni, and K. Christopher Beard
The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation, Samantha Brown, Diyendo Massilani, Maxim B. Kozlikin, Michael V. Shunkov, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Alexander Stoessel, Blair Jope-Street, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Thomas Higham, and Katerina Douka
The effects of climate change on the Pleistocene rock art of Sulawesi, J. Huntley, M. Aubert, A. A. Oktaviana, R. Lebe, B. Hakim, B. Burhan, L. Muhammad Aksa, I. Made Geria, M. Ramli, L. Siagian, H. E. A. Brand, and A. Brumm
The Effects of Exchange Flow on the Karst Spring Hydrograph under the Different Flow Regimes: A Synthetic Modeling Approach, Malihe Shirafkan, Zargham Mohammadi, Vianney Sivelle, and David Labat
The girl with finches: a unique post-medieval burial in Tunel Wielki Cave, southern Poland, Michał Wojenka, Elżbieta Jaskulska, Danijela Popović, Mateusz Baca, Frog, Rafał Fetner, Krzysztof Wertz, Karolina Rataj, Natalia Gryczewska, Tymoteusz Kosiński, and Małgorzata Kot
The history and evolution of the Denisovan-EPAS1 haplotype in Tibetans, Xinjun Zhang, Kelsey E. Witt, Mayra M. Bañuelos, Amy Ko, Kai Yuan, Shuhua Xu, Rasmus Nielsen, and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez
The impact of burning on the structure and mineral composition of bat guano, Joyce Lundberg and Donald A. McFarlane
The Karst of the Northern Middle Atlas (Morocco): An Invaluable Heritage to Inventory, Khaoula Baadi, Bernard Lebreton, Abdellah Sabaoui, and François Atrops
The Middle Pleistocene small mammals from the lower layers of Tunel Wielki Cave (Kraków-Częstochowa Upland): An Early Toringian assemblage in Poland, Claudio Berto, Adam Nadachowski, Andrea Pereswiet-Soltan, Anna Lemanik, and Małgorzata Kot
The Milieu Souterrain Superficiel as hibernation habitat for bats: implications for white-nose syndrome, Karen M. Blejwas, Grey W. Pendleton, Michael L. Kohan, and Laura O. Beard
The morphology of the Late Pleistocene hominin remains from the site of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey (Channel Islands), Tim Compton, Matthew M. Skinner, Louise Humphrey, Matthew Pope, Martin Bates, Thomas W. Davies, Simon A. Parfitt, William P. Plummer, Beccy Scott, Andrew Shaw, and Chris Stringer
The presence of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, a fungal pathogen of bats, correlates with changes in microbial metacommunity structure, Matthew Grisnik, Joshua B. Grinath, and Donald M. Walker
The Properties of Annually Laminated Stalagmites‐A Global Synthesis, Andy Baker, Gregoire Mariethoz, Laia Comas‐Bru, Andreas Hartmann, Silvia Frisia, Andrea Borsato, Pauline C. Treble, and Asfawossen Asrat
The relative importance of wind-driven and chimney effect cave ventilation: Observations in Postojna Cave (Slovenia), Lovel Kukuljan, Franci Gabrovsek, and Matthew Covington
The rise of the cosmetic industry in ancient China: Insights from a 2700‐year‐old face cream, B. Han, J. Chong, Z. Sun, X. Jiang, Q. Xiao, J. Zech, P. Roberts, H. Rao, and Y. Yang
Thermal anomaly and water origin in Weebubbie Cave, Nullarbor Karst Plain, Australia, Peter Buzzacott and Grzegorz Skrzypek
The Smile of the Lion Man. Recent Excavations in Stadel Cave (Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany) and the Restoration of the Famous Upper Palaeolithic Figurine, Claus-Joachim Kind, Nicole Ebinger-Rist, Sibylle Wolf, and Thomas Beutelspacher
The Subterranean Fauna of Križna Jama, Slovenia, Slavko Polak and Tanja Pipan
The subthermal potential of karstic groundwater of Kučaj–Beljanica region in Serbia estimated by the multivariate analysis, Ljiljana Vasić, Dragana Ž. Živojinovic, Vladana Rajaković-Ognjanović, Huang Fen, and Cao Jianhua
The symbolic role of the underground world among Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals, Africa Pitarch Martí, João Zilhão, Francesco d’Errico, Pedro Cantalejo-Duarte, Salvador Domínguez-Bella, Josep M. Fullola, Gerd C. Weniger, and José Ramos-Muñoz
Tracer tests to infer the drainage of the multiple porosity aquifer of Luxembourg Sandstone (Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg): implications for drinking water protection, Philippe Meus and Luc Willems
Tracing recharge and groundwater evolution in a glaciated, regional-scale carbonate bedrock aquifer system, southern Ontario, Canada, Elizabeth H. Priebe, Shaun K. Frape, Richard E. Jackson, David L. Rudolph, and Frank R. Brunton
Transition from unclassified Ktedonobacterales to Actinobacteria during amorphous silica precipitation in a quartzite cave environment., D. Ghezzi, F. Sauro, A. Columbu, C. Carbone, P. Y. Hong, F. Vergara, J. De Waele, and M. Cappelletti
Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments, Benjamin Vernot, Elena I. Zavala, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Zenobia Jacobs, Viviane Slon, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Frédéric Romagné, Alice Pearson, Martin Petr, Nohemi Sala, Adrián Pablos, Arantza Aranburu, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Eudald Carbonell, Bo Li, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Andrey I. Krivoshapkin, Kseniya A. Kolobova, Maxim B. Kozlikin, Michael V. Shunkov, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Bence Viola, Steffi Grote, Elena Essel, David López Herráez, Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Julia Richter, Anna Schmidt, Benjamin Peter, Janet Kelso, Richard G. Roberts, and Juan-Luis Arsuaga
Unusual catchment runoff in a high alpine karst environment influenced by a complex geological setting (Northern Calcareous Alps, Tyrol, Austria), Karl Krainer, Gerfried Winkler, Sabine Pernreiter, and Thomas Wagner
Upper Paleolithic Figurines Showing Women with Obesity may Represent Survival Symbols of Climatic Change, Richard J. Johnson, Miguel A. Lanaspa, and John W. Fox
USC Dominated Community Composition and Cooccurrence Network of Methanotrophs and Bacteria in Subterranean Karst Caves, Xiao-Yu Cheng, Xiao-Yan Liu, Hong-Mei Wang, Chun-Tian Su, Rui Zhao, Paul L. E. Bodelier, Wei-Qi Wang, Li-Yuan Ma, and Xiao-Lu Lu
Using Wavelet Coherence to Characterize Surface Water Infiltration into a Low‐Lying Karst Aquifer, Philip Schuler, Èlia Cantoni, Léa Duran, Paul Johnston, and Laurence Gill
Using Wavelet Coherence to Characterize Surface Water Infiltration into a Low‐Lying Karst Aquifer, Philip Schuler, Èlia Cantoni, Léa Duran, Paul Johnston, and Laurence Gill
U.S. National Park visitor perceptions of bats and white-nose syndrome, Hannah G. Shapiro, Adam S. Willcox, Emma V. Willcox, and Michelle L. Verant
Vermiculations in painted caves: New inputs from laboratory experiments and field observations, Perrine Freydier, Eric Weber, Jérôme Martin, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, Béatrice Guerrier, and Frédéric Doumenc
Where Does Sustainability Stand in Underground Tourism? A Literature Review, Piera Buonincontri, Roberto Micera, María Murillo-Romero, and Tommasina Pianese
White-Nose Syndrome Confirmed in Italy: A Preliminary Assessment of Its Occurrence in Bat Species, Laura Garzoli, Elena Bozzetta, Katia Varello, Andrea Cappelleri, Elena Patriarca, Paolo Debernardi, Marco Riccucci, Angela Boggero, Carolina Girometta, and Anna Maria Picco
White-nose syndrome-related changes to Mid-Atlantic bat communities across an urban-to-rural gradient, Sabrina Deeley, Joshua B. Johnson, W. Mark Ford, and J. Edward Gates
Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture, João C. Teixeira, Guy S. Jacobs, Chris Stringer, and Jonathan Tuke
Wildfires, heatwaves and human disturbance threaten insular endemic bats, L. Ancillotto, G. Fichera, E. Pidinchedda, M. Veith, A. Kiefer, M. Mucedda, and D. Russo
Winter roosting ecology of tricolored bats (Perimyotis subflavus) in trees and bridges., Blaise A. Newman, Susan C. Loeb, and David S. Jachowski
World Subterranean Heritage diversity and problems of its preservation, Elena V. Trofimova and Alexei A. Trofimov
Zooarchaeology through the lens of collagen fingerprinting at Denisova Cave, Samantha Brown, Naihui Wang, Annette Oertle, Maxim B. Kozlikin, Michael V. Shunkov, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Daniel Comeskey, Blair Jope-Street, Virginia L. Harvey, Manasij Pal Chowdhury, Michael Buckley, Thomas Higham, and Katerina Douka
Submissions from 2020
12,000-Year-old Aboriginal rock art from the Kimberley region, Western Australia, Damien Finch, Andrew Gleadow, and Janet Hergt
300,000 yr history of water-table fluctuations at Wind Cave, South Dakota, USA—Scale, timing, and groundwater mixing in the Madison Aquifer, James B. Paces, Margaret V. Palmer, Arthur N. Palmer, Andrew J. Long, and Matthew P. Emmons
3D Digital Geological Models: From Terrestrial Outcrops to Planetary Surfaces, R. Pozzobon, C. Mazzoli, and S. Salvini
A 14C chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, Helen Fewlass, Sahra Talamo, and Lukas Wacker
A bat guano deposit in Jamaica recorded agricultural changes and metal exposure over the last >4300 years, Lauren R. Gallant, Christopher Grooms, Linda E. Kimpe, John P. Smol, Wieslaw Bogdanowicz, R. Stefan Stewart, Elizabeth L. Clare, M. Brock Fenton, and Jules M. Blais
Accelerated viral dynamics in bat cell lines, with implications for zoonotic emergence, Cara E. Brook, Mike Boots, Kartik Chandran, Andrew P. Dobson, Christian Drosten, Andrea L. Graham, Bryan T. Grenfell, Marcel A. Müller, Melinda Ng, Lin-Fa Wang, and Anieke van Leeuwen
Acheulo-Yabrudian and Early Middle Paleolithic at Hayonim Cave (Western Galilee, Israel): Continuity or break?, Liliane Meignen and Ofer Bar-Yosef
A common partitivirus infection in United States and Czech Republic isolates of bat white-nose syndrome fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Ping Ren, Sunanda S. Rajkumar, Tao Zhang, Haixin Sui, Paul S. Masters, Natalia Martinkova, Alena Kubátová, Jiri Pikula, Sudha Chaturvedi, and Vishnu Chaturvedi
A comprehensive approach to karst identification and groutability evaluation – A case study of the Dehou reservoir, SW China, Feng Shangxin, Zhao Yufei, Wang Yujie, Wang Shanyong, and Cao Ruilang
Active growth of non-hydrothermal subaqueous and subaerial barite (BaSO4) speleothems in Lechuguilla Cave (New Mexico, USA), Max Wisshak, Hazel A. Barton, Katey E. Bender, and Harvey R. DuChene
Addressing the spatial disconnect between national‐scale total maximum daily loads and localized land management decisions, M. G. Mostofa Amin, Tamie L. Veith, James S. Shortle, Heather D. Karsten, and Peter J. A. Kleinman
A Funerary Cave at Moxviquil, Chiapas, Mexico, Elizabeth H. Paris, Roberto López Bravo, and Stanley Serafin
A GIS-based model for simulating the hydrological effects of land use changes on karst systems – The integration of the LuKARS model into FREEWAT, Daniel Bittner, Ayla Rychlik, Tobias Klöffel, Anna Leuteritz, Markus Disse, and Gabriele Chiogna
A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote, and Cesare de Filippo
A hydraulic–hydrochemical approach to impact assessment of a grout curtain on karst aquifer behavior, Igor Jemcov and Marina Ćuk Đurović
A karst hydrology model for the geomorphic evolution of Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA, Carol A. Hill and J. Polyak
A late Neanderthal tooth from northeastern Italy, Matteo Romandini, Gregorio Oxilia, Eugenio Bortolini, and Stéphane Peyrégne
A massacre of early Neolithic farmers in the high Pyrenees at Els Trocs, Spain, Kurt W. Alt, Cristina Tejedor Rodríguez, and Manuel A. Rojo Guerra
A multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands, Hanying Li, Ashish Sinha, Aurèle Anquetil André, and Christoph Spötl
Analyzing multi-scale hydrodynamic processes in karst with a coupled conceptual modeling and signal decomposition approach, Lea Duran, Nicolas Massei, Nicolas Lecoq, Matthieu Fournier, and David Labat
Ancestors of domestic cats in Neolithic Central Europe: Isotopic evidence of a synanthropic diet, Magdalena Krajcarz, Maciej Tomasz Krajcarz, Mateusz Baca, and Chris Baumann
Anchialine biodiversity in the Turks and Caicos Islands: New discoveries and current faunal composition, Brett C. Gonzalez, Alejandro Martínez, Jørgen Olesen, Sarit B. Truskey, Lauren Ballou, Marc Allentoft-Larsen, Joost Daniels, Paul Heinerth, Mark Parrish, Naqqi Manco, Jon Ward, Thomas M. Iliffe, Karen J. Osborn, and Katrine Worsaae
Anchorite Sacred Caves in Serbia: Balancing Between Pilgrimage and Religious Tourism Development, Aleksandar Antić
Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history, Mark Lipson, Isabelle Ribot, and Swapan Mallick
An Epigravettian hypogeal site in the Grotta del Fiume Cave at Frasassi (northeastern Apennines, Italy): Environmental and geochronologic assessments, Alessandro Montanari, Artur Adamek, Angelo Curatolo, Marco P. Ferretti, Maurizio Mainiero, Sandro Mariani, David McGee, Gaia Pignocchi, and Stefano Recanatini
A new and remarkable troglobitic Lepidocampa Oudemans, 1890 species from La Réunion Island, with a discussion on troglobiomorphic adaptations in campodeids (Diplura), Alberto Sendra, Alberto Jiménez-Valverde, and Jacques Rochat
A new species of Cavernocypris(Ostracoda) from Texas(U.S.A.) with a taxonomic key, Okan Kulkoyluoglu
