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Submissions from 2019

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Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia, Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li, and Michael V. Shunkov

Towards Organic Carbon Isotope Records from Stalagmites: Coupled δ13C and 14C Analysis Using Wet Chemical Oxidation, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Susan Q. Lang, Negar Haghipour, and Cameron McIntyre

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Transition or Replacement? Radiocarbon Dates from Hohle Fels Cave (Alb-Donau-Kreis / D) and the Passage from Aurignacian to Gravettian, Andreas Taller and Nicholas J. Conard

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Trou de la Mère Clochette, Jonathan Ozcelebi

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UIS Commission on Volcanic Caves Newsletter, No. 74, May 2019, Ed Waters

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UIS Commission on Volcanic Caves Newsletter, No. 75, December 2019, Ed Waters

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Understanding flooding in poljes: A modelling perspective, Cyril Mayaud, Franci Grabovšek, Matej Blatnik, and Blaž Kogovšek

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Understanding Ritual Cave Use in Later Prehistory, Lindsey Büster, Eugène Warmenbol, and Dimitrij Mlekuž

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Understanding the Banff Hot Springs through Karst Hydrogeology, Charles Yonge

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Use of remote sensing and long-term in-situ time-series data in an integrated hydrological model of the Central Kalahari Basin, Southern Africa, Moiteela Lekula and Maciek W. Lubczynski

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USGS 08170990 Jacobs Well Spg nr Wimberley, TX, U.S. Geological Survey

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USGS 08171000 Blanco Rv at Wimberley, TX, U.S. Geological Survey

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U-Th dated speleothem recorded geomagnetic excursions in the Lower Brunches, Jean-Pierre Pozzi, Louis Rousseau, Christophe Falguères, and Geoffroy Mahieux

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Vampire Bats that Cooperate in the Lab Maintain Their Social Networks in the Wild, Simon P. Ripperger, Gerald G. Carter, and Niklas Duda

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Vampire Venom: Vasodilatory Mechanisms of Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) Blood Feeding, Rahini Kakumanu, Wayne C. Hodgson, and Ravi Ravina

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Variability in Middle Stone Age symbolic traditions: The marine shell beads from Sibudu Cave, South Africa, Marian Vanhaeren, Lyn Wadley, and Francesco d'Errico

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Variable responses of karst springs to recharge in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco, Brett A. Howell, Alan E. Fryar, and Lahcen Benaabidate

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Variation in the Number of Hibernating Cave Myotis (Myotis Velifer) in Western Oklahoma and Northwest Texas Caves Prior to the Arrival of White-nose Syndrome, William Caire, Loucks Lynda Samanie, and Jason B. Shaw

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Virally-vectored vaccine candidates against white-nose syndrome induce anti-fungal immune response in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus), Tonie E. Rocke, Brock Kingstad-Bakke, and Marcel Wüthrich

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Water quality and the bad-water (saline-water) zone of the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer, John M. Sharp and Brian A. Smith

Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records, Alexander Budsky, Jasper Wassenburg, and Regina Mertz-Kraus

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White-nose Syndrome And Immune Responses In A Resistant Bat Species (Eptesicus Fuscus), Keslie Skye Naffa

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White-nose syndrome dramatically altered the summer bat assemblage in a temperate Southern Appalachian forest, Joy M. O’Keefe, Joseph L. Pettit, and Susan C. Loeb

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Winter habitats of bats in Texas, Melissa B. Meierhofer, Joseph S. Johnson, and Samantha J. Leivers

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World Subterranean Heritage, E. Trofimova and A. Trofimov

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Yucatán carnivorans shed light on the Great American Biotic Interchange, Blaine W. Schubert, James C. Chatters, and Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales

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Zooarchaeology of Cuychen: Natural and Cultural Cave Taphonomy, Gavin B. Wisner, Katie K. Tappan, and Chrissina C. Burke

Submissions from 2018

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A Bibliometric Study of Research Output on White-Nose Syndrome, Sonia Bansal

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A biological switching valve evolved in the female of a sex-role reversed cave insect to receive multiple seminal packages, Kazunori Yoshizawa

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A DTM-based volume extraction approach: from micro-scale weathering forms to planetary lava tubes, Riccardo Pozzobon, Silvia Salvini, and Claudio Mazzoli

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A genetic classification of caves and its application in eastern Austria, P. Oberender and P. Plan

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A highly resolved record of relative sea level in the western Mediterranean Sea during the last interglacial period, Victor J. Polyak, Bogdan P. Onac, and Joan J. Fornós

A Late Classic Hilltop Cache from Northern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, Brent Skoy Kerry Woodfill

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A MIS 9/MIS 8 speleothem record of hydrological variability from Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.), Eleonora Regattieri, Giovanni Zanchetta, Ilaria Isola, and Petra Bajo

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A multi-frequency radar sounder for lava tubes detection on the Moon: Design, performance assessment and simulations, Leonardo Carrer, Christopher Gerekos, and Lorenzo Bruzzone

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A multi-method approach for groundwater resource assessment in coastal carbonate (karst) aquifers: the case study of Sierra Almijara (southern Spain), B. Andreo, J. A. Barberá, M. Mudarra, and A. I. Marín

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An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa, Christopher S. Henshilwood, Francesco d’Errico, and Karen L. van Niekerk

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Analysis of Water Control in an Underground Mine Under Strong Karst Media Influence (Vazante Mine, Brazil), Hugo Ninanya, Nilson Guiguer, and Eurípedes A. Vargas Jr.

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Ancient DNA of the extinct Jamaican monkey Xenothrix reveals extreme insular change within a morphologically conservative radiation, Roseina Woods, Samuel T. Turvey, and Selina Brace

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A new model for simulating spring discharge recession and estimating effective porosity of karst aquifers, Bin Xu, Ming Ye, and Shuning Dong

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Antimicrobial activities of culturable microorganisms (actinomycetes and fungi) isolated from Chaabe Cave, Algeria, Larbi Belyagoubi, Nabila Belyagoubi-Benhammou, Valme Jurado, Joëlle Dupont, Sandrine Lacoste, Fatima Djebbah, Fatima Z. Ounadjela, Souad Benaissa, Salim Habi, Djamel E. Abdelouahid, and Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez

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A parsimonious distributed model for simulating transient water flow in a high-relief karst aquifer, Eulogio Pardo-Igúzquiza, Peter Dowd, and Antonio Pulido Bosch

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A post-Jaramillo age for the artefact-bearing layer TD4 (Gran Dolina, Atapuerca): New paleomagnetic evidence, Claudia Álvarez-Posada, Josep María Parés, and Gloria Cuenca-Bescós

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Applications of Electronic-Nose Technologies for Noninvasive Early Detection of Plant, Animal and Human Diseases, Alphus Dan Wilson

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Applying Dye Tracing to Characterize Surface-water and Groundwater Interactions in the Trinity Aquifers, Central Texas, Brian A. Smith, Brian B. Hunt, and Marcus O. Gary

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A Reconsideration of Sacred Landscape: Excavations in a Small Depression at Dos Hombres, Belize, James Brady and F. Valdez Jr.

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A Review and Statistical Assessment of the Criteria for Determining Cave Significance, Augusto S. Auler, Tatiana A.R. Souza, and Daniela C. Sé

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A review of bat hibernacula across the western United States: Implications for white-nose syndrome surveillance and management, Theodore J. Weller, Thomas J. Rodhouse, and Daniel J. Neubaum

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A review of fractals in karst, Eulogio Pardo-Igúzquiza, Peter A. Dowd, Juan J. Durán, and Pedro Robledo-Ardila

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A revision of dragon millipedes I: genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, with the description of eight new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), Ruttapon Srisonchai, Henrik Enghoff, and Natdanai Likhitrakarn

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Arid hypogene karst in a multi-aquifer system: hydrogeology and speleogenesis of Ashalim Cave, Negev Desert, Israel, Amos Frumkin and Boaz Langford

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Assessing preservation priorities of caves and karst areas using the frequency of endemic cave-dwelling species, Eugen Nitzu, Vlaicu Marius, and Giurginca Andrei

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Assessing submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) and nitrate fluxes in highly heterogeneous coastal karst aquifers: Challenges and solutions, Daniel Montiela, Natasha Dimova, and Bartolomé Andreo

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Assessing submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) and nitrate fluxes in highly heterogeneous coastal karst aquifers: Challenges and solutions, Daniel Montiel, Natasha Dimova, Bartolomé Andreo, and Jorge Prieto

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Assessment of groundwater recharge processes through karst vadose zone by cave percolation monitoring, Amaël Poulain, Arnaud Watlet, and Olivier Kaufmann

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Assessment of Key Transport Parameters in a Karst System Under Different Dynamic Conditions Based on Tracer Experiments: the Jeita Karst System, Lebanon, Joanna Doummar, Armin Margane, and Tobias Geyer

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A stalagmite test of North Atlantic SST and Iberian hydroclimate linkages over the last two glacial cycles, Rhawn F. Denniston, Amanda N. Houts, Yemane Asmerom, and Alan D. Wanamaker Jr.

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A Tool to Assess How the Blanco River Interacts with Its Aquifers, Meadows Center for Water and the Environment-Texas State University

At the confluence of vicariance and dispersal: Phylogeography of cavernicolous springtails (Collembola: Arrhopalitidae, Tomoceridae) codistributed across a geologically complex karst landscape in Illinois and Missouri, Aron D. Katz, Steven J. Taylor, and Mark A. Davis

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Auditory opportunity and visual constraint enabled the evolution of echolocation in bats, Jeneni Thiagavel, Clément Cechetto, and Sharlene E. Santana

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A unique small-scale microclimatic gradient in a temperate karst harbours exceptionally high diversity of soil Collembola, Natália Raschmanová, Dana Miklisová, and Ľubomír Kováč

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Australobius tracheoperspicuus sp. n., the first subterranean species of centipede from southern China (Lithobiomorpha, Lithobiidae), Qing Li, Su-jian Pei, and Xuan Guo

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Aux origines de l’art dans le Jura. Il y a 32 000 ans la grotte des Gorges à Amange., Serge David

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Bacterial diversity associated with mineral substrates and hot springs from caves and tunnels of the Naica Underground System (Chihuahua, Mexico), Adriana Espino del Castillo, Hugo Beraldi-Campesi, Patricia Amador-Lemus, Hiram Isaac Beltrán, and Sylvie Le Borgne

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Balcones Canyonlands Preserve Karst Monitoring and Management Annual Report, Travis County Department of Transportation and Natural ResourcesNatural Resources and Environmental Quality Division and City of Austin Balcones Canyonlands Preserve

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Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District Habitat Conservation Plan to Conserve Salamanders and Address Water Withdrawals from the Edwards Aquifer Approved by Service, Adam Zerrenner and Lesli Gray

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Bat Biology, Genomes, and the Bat1K Project: To Generate Chromosome-Level Genomes for All Living Bat Species, Emma C. Teeling, Sonja C. Vernes, and Liliana M. Davalos

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Bat cave vulnerability index (BCVI): A holistic rapid assessment tool to identify priorities for effective cave conservation in the tropics, Krizler Cujuela Tanalgo, John Aries G. Tabora, and Alice Catherine Hughes

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Bats recovering from White-nose Syndrome elevate metabolic rate during wing healing in spring, Melissa B. Meierhofer, Joseph S. Johnson, Kenneth A. Field, and Shayne S. Lumadue

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Bat Use of an Island off the Coast of Massachusetts, Zara R. Dowling and Danielle I. O'Dell

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Beneath the Forest, Volume 11, No. 1, Spring 2018, Johanna L. Kovarik

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Beneath the Forest, Volume 11, No. 2, Fall 2018, Johanna L. Kovank

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Beyond art: The internal archaeological context in Paleolithic decorated caves, Ángeles Medina-Alcaide, Diego Garate-Maidagan, and Aitor Ruiz-Redondo

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Biomimicry of volatile‐based microbial control for managing emerging fungal pathogens, K. T. Gabriel, D. Joseph Sexton, and C. T. Cornelison

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Boletín EspeleoAr, Año 10, Número 18, September 2018, Gabriel Redonte

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Boletín EspeleoAr, Año 10, Numero 19, December 2018, Gabriel Redonte

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Capturing arthropod diversity in complex cave systems, J. Judson Wynne, Stefan Sommer, and Francis G. Howarth

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Cave and Karst Systems of Romania, Gheorghe M.L. Ponta

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Caves as observatories for atmospheric thermal tides: an example from Ascunsă Cave, Romania, Virgil Drăgușin, Laura Tîrlă, Nicoleta Cadicheanu, Vasile Ersek, and Ionuț Mirea

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CavesLIVE!, Amtchat Edwards

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Characteristics of paleogeomorphology and paleokarstification and the impact on natural gas accumulation: a case study of upper assemblage of Majiagou formation in central Sulige gas field, Ordos Basin, China, Liwen Zhu, Zhenliang Wang, and Bo Zhang

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Characterization of Karst Conduit Network Using Long-Distance Tracer Test in Lijiang, Southwestern China, Jihong Qi, Mo Xu, and Xinyu Cen

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Characterization of PdCP1, a serine carboxypeptidase from Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causal agent of White-nose Syndrome, Chapman Beekman, Zhenze Jiang, and Brian M. Suzuki

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Circulation of Alphacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus and Paramyxovirus in Hipposideros bat species in Zimbabwe, Mathieu Bourgarel, Davies M. Pfukenyi, and Vanina Boué

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Clandestine Pulque Production During the Sixteenth Century in the Tlacolula Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico, Antonio Martínez Tuñón, Nelly M. Robles García, Dylan Clark, and Christina Warinner

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Climate variability on the Adriatic seaboard during the last glacial inception and MIS 5c from Frasassi Cave stalagmite record, V. Vanghi, A. Borsato, S. Frisia, and R. Drysdale

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Co-authorship analysis of the speleothem proxy-climate community: working together to tackle the big problems, Micheline L. Campbell, John N. Callow, Gavan S. McGrath, and Hamish A. McGowan

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Comment on “U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art”, Ludovic Slimak, Jan Fietzke, and Jean-Michel Geneste

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Common condition indices are no more effective than body mass for estimating fat stores in insectivorous bats, Liam P. McGuire, Lewis A. Kelly, and Dylan E. Baloun

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Cranial vault thickness variation and inner structural organization in the StW 578 hominin cranium from Jacovec Cavern, South Africa, Amélie Beaudet, Kristian J. Carlson, and Ronald J. Clarke

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Cronoestratigrafía relativa de eventos paleosísmicos en el tercio inferior del río Jaruco, Cuba Occidental, Leslie F. Molerio-León, Evelio J. Balado Piedra, and Lisbeth Nunez Haugh

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Cross-Modality Information Transfer: A Hypothesis about the Relationship among Prehistoric Cave Paintings, Symbolic Thinking, and the Emergence of Language, Shigeru Miyagawa, Cora Lesure, and Vitor A. Nóbrega

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Cryogenic Minerals in Hawaiian Lava Tubes: A Geochemical and Microbiological Exploration, Kimberly B. Teehera, Sean P. Jungbluth, and Bogdan P. Onac

Datations d’os fiche´s dans les parois des grottes de Gargas (Aventignan, Hautes-Pyre´ne´es, France), Y. Le Guillou, M. Peyroux, and H. Valladas

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Determinants of Pseudogymnoascus destructans within bat hibernacula: Implications for surveillance and management of white‐nose syndrome, Michelle L. Verant, Elizabeth A. Bohuski, and Katherine L. D. Richgels

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Development of a Protocol for the Karst Water Source Protection Zoning: Application to the Classical Karst Region (NE Italy and SW Slovenia), Philippe Turpaud, Luca Zini, and Nataša Ravbar

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Differences in VOC-Metabolite Profiles of Pseudogymnoascus destructans and Related Fungi by Electronic-nose / GC Analyses of Headspace Volatiles Derived from Axenic Cultures, Alphus Dan Wilson and Lisa Beth Forse

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Differences in VOC-Metabolite Profiles of Pseudogymnoascus destructans and Related Fungi by Electronic-nose/GC Analyses of Headspace Volatiles Derived from Axenic Cultures, Alphus D. Wilson and Lisa B. Forse

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Directionality of nose-emitted echolocation calls from bats without a nose leaf (Plecotus auritus), Lasse Jakobsen, John Hallam, and Cynthia F. Moss

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Discharge hydraulic behavior comparison of two karstic springs in Kuhe-Safid anticline, Khuzestan, Iran, N. Kalantari and H. Rouhi