This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2018
Newsletter. Number 28 Pseudokarst Commission newsletter. Number 28
Nontuberculous mycobacteria in the environment of Hranice Abyss, the world’s deepest flooded cave (Hranice karst, Czech Republic), Ivo Pavlik, Milan Gersl, and Milan Bartos
Observed Resiliency of Little Brown Myotis to Long-Term White-Nose Syndrome Exposure, Christopher A. Dobony and Joshua B. Johnson
Ochre and Human Evolution, Ian Watts
Old and recent processes in a warm and humid desert hypogene cave: ‘A’rak Na‘asane, Israel, Amos Frumkin, Shlomi Aharon, Uri Davidovich, Boaz Langford, Yoav Negev, Micka Ullman, Anton Vaks, Shemesh Ya‘aran, and Boaz Zissu
On biospeleothems from a Venezuelan tepui cave: U-Th dating, growth rates, and morphology, Joyce Lundberg, Charles Brewer-Carías, and Donald A. McFarlane
Optical dating of sediment samples from Chagyrskaya Cave, R. G. Roberts, Z. Jacobs, and B. Li
Optimal 3D Reconstruction of Caves Using Small Unmanned Aerial Systems and RGB-D Cameras, Guoxiang Zhang, Yangquan Chen, and Holley Moyes
Orfelia-type luciferin and its associated storage protein in the non-luminescent cave worm Neoditomyia sp. (Diptera: Keroplatidae) from the Atlantic rainforest: biological and evolutionary implications, Vadim R. Viviani, Danilo T. Amarol, and Vanessa R. Bevilaqua
Painted in red: In search of alternative explanations for European Palaeolithic cave art, M. Angeles Medina-Alcaide, Diego Garate Maidagan, and José Luis Sanchidrián Torti
Palaeoenvironmental changes recorded by speleothems of the southern Alps (Piani Eterni, Belluno, Italy) during four interglacial to glacial climate transitions, Andrea Columbu, Francesco Sauro, Joyce Lundberg, and Russell Drysdale
Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo, M. Aubert, P. Setiawan, and A. A. Oktaviana
Paleolithic Man of Denisova Cave and Zoogeography of Pleistocene Mammals of Northwestern Altai, A. K. Agadjanian and M. V. Shunkov
Partial genomic survival of cave bears in living brown bears, Axel Barlow, James A. Cahill, and Stefanie Hartmann
Particularidades hidrogeológicas del epikarst en la Loma de El Encanto, Puerto Escondido, Mayabeque, Cuba, Argentina Subterránea
Permafrost conditions in the Mediterranean region since the Last Glaciation, M. Oliva, M. Žebre, and M. Guuglielmin
Persistent producer-scrounger relationships in bats, Lee Harten, Yasmin Matalon, and Naama Galli
Preliminary analysis of the decrease in water level of Vrana Lake on the small carbonate island of Cres (Dinaric karst, Croatia), Ognjen Bonacci
Presence of Feces in the Abandoned Nokado Mine, Tochigi Prefecture of Central Japan, Provides Further Evidence of Cave Use by Japanese Macaques, Kenji Kashiwagi, Yamato Tsuji, and Tetsuo Yamamura
Presence of Feces in the Abandoned Nokado Mine, Tochigi Prefecture of Central Japan, Provides Further Evidence of Cave Use by Japanese Macaques, Kenji Kashiwagi, Yamato Tsuji, Tetsuo Yamamura, and Masanaru Takai
Priority caves for biodiversity conservation in a key karst area of Brazil: comparing the applicability of cave conservation indices, Lucas Mendes Rabelo, Marconi Souza-Silva, and Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira
Radiocarbon constraints on the age of the world’s highest-elevation cave-bear population, Conturines Cave (Dolomites, Northern Italy), Christoph Spötl, Paula Reimer, and Gernot Rabeder
Raised Rims around Titan's Sharp‐Edged Depressions, S. Birch, A. G. Hayes, and V. Poggiali
Raman spectroscopy of lipid micro-residues on Middle Palaeolithic stone tools from Denisova Cave, Siberia, Luc Bordes, Richard Fullagar, and Linda C. Prinsloo
Recalibration and Predictive Simulations of the Analytic Element Tool to Evaluate the Trinity Aquifer in Hays County, Texas, Wade Oliver and James Pinkard
Recent advances in karst research: from theory to fieldwork and applications
Receptor Usage of a Novel Bat Lineage C Betacoronavirus Reveals Evolution of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Related Coronavirus Spike Proteins for Human Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 Binding, Susanna K.P. Lau, Libiao Zhang, and Hayes K. H. Luk
Reconstructing the sedimentary history of Lezetxiki II cave (Basque Country, northern Iberian Peninsula) using micromorphological analysis, Martin Arriolabengoa, Eneko Iriarte, and Arantza Aranburu
Regional Geologic Geodatabase Project, Central Texas, Lane Cockrell, Brian B. Hunt, and Robin Gary
Relations between surface and underground karst forms inferred from terrestrial laser scanning, Aleksandar S. Petrović, Jelena Ćalić, and Aleksandra Spalević
Replication and reinsertion of stalagmites sampled for paleoclimatic purposes, Eleuterio Baeza, Rafael P. Lozano, and Carlos Rossi
Reply to “Comment on “Ecological niche of Neanderthals from Spy Cave revealed by nitrogen isotopes of individual amino acids in collagen.” [J. Hum. Evol. 93 (2016) 82–90]” [J. Hum. Evol. 117 (2018) 53–55], Yuichi I. Naito, Yoshito Chikaraishi, and Dorothée G. Drucker
Resistance to DNA damage and enhanced DNA repair capacity in the hypoxia-tolerant blind mole rat Spalax carmeli, Vered Domankevich, Hossam Eddini, and Amani Odeh
Response to Comment on “U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art”, D. L. Hoffmann, C. Standish, and M. García-Diez
Restriction-site associated DNA sequences of Eurycea salamanders
Rethinking Emireh Cave: The lithic technology perspectives, Omry Barzilai and Natalia Gubenko
Review: karst springs in Shanxi, China, Zhixiang Zhang, Yongxin Xu, and Yongbo Zhang
Review of the Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Robert A.L. Wray (1966-2017), Robert W. Young
Sequential Incisions on a Cave Bear Bone from the Middle Paleolithic of Pešturina Cave, Serbia, Ana Majkić, Francesco d'Errico, and Stefan Milosević
Serological Evidence of Bat SARS-Related Coronavirus Infection in Humans, China, Ning Wang, Shi-Yue Li, and Xing-Lou Yang
Seven new species of the spider genus Ochyrocerafrom caves in Floresta Nacional de Carajás, PA, Brazil (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae), Antonio D. Brescovit, Igor Cizauskas, and Leandro P. Mota
Short-tailed mice with a long fossil record: the genus Leggadina (Rodentia: Muridae) from the Quaternary of Queensland, Australia, Jonathan Cramb, Gilbert J. Price, and Scott A. Hocknull
Spar caves as fossil hydrothermal systems: Timing and origin of ore deposits in the Delaware Basin and Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas, USA, David D. Decker, Victor J. Polyak, and Yemane Asmerom
Stratigraphic Evaluation Of Trinity Aquifers In Hays And Western Travis County And Implications For Groundwater Availability, Brian A. Smith, Brian B. Hunt, and Nick Soto-kerans
Subglacial Conduit Roughness: Insights From Computational Fluid Dynamics Models, Yunxiang Chen, Xiaofeng Liu, and Jason D. Gulley
Submarine and intertidal groundwater discharge through a complex multi-level karst conduit aquifer, Philip Schuler, L. Duran, and T. McCormack
Subterranean Biodiversity Patterns from Global to Regional Scales, Maja Zagmajster, Florian Malard, and David Eme
Subterranean Fishes of the World: An account of the subterranean (hypogean) fishes with a bibliography from 1436., Graham Proudlove and William R. Elliott
Sulfur Cave (Romania), an extreme environment with microbial mats in a CO2-H2S/O2 gas chemocline dominated by mycobacteria, Serban M. Sarbu, Joost W. Aerts, Jean-François Flot, Rob J.M. Van Spanning, Calin Baciu, Artur Ionescu, Boglárka M. Kis, Reka Incze, Sándor Sikó-Barabási, Zoltan Para, Botond Hegyeli, Nicu-Viorel Atudorei, Casey Barr, Kenneth Nealson, Ferenc L. Forray, Cristian Lascu, Emily J. Fleming, Wilbert Bitter, and Radu Popa
Sulfur (34S/32S) isotope composition of gypsum and implications for deep cave formation on the Nullarbor Plain, Australia, Matej Lipar, Mateja Ferk, Sonja Lojen, and Milo Barham
Summary of Findings: Upper Onion Creek Dye Trace, Hays County, Texas, Winter 2017, Jeffery A. Watson, Brian B. Hunt, and Alex S. Broun
Surface landforms and speleological investigation for a better understanding of karst hydrogeological processes: a history of research in southeastern Italy, M. Parise and L. Benedetto
Tafoni and honeycomb structures as indicators of ascending fluid flow and hypogene karstification, Alexander B. Klimchouk
Tephrostratigraphy of Grotta del Cavallo, Southern Italy: Insights on the chronology of Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Mediterranean, Giovanni Zanchetta, Biagio Giaccio, Monica Bini, and Lucia Sarti
Testing the climatic variability hypothesis in edaphic and subterranean Collembola (Hexapoda), Natália Raschmanová, Vladimír Šustr, and Ľubomír Kováč
The activity of saccharolytic enzymes in Collembola is associated with species affinity for caves, Andrea Parimuchová, Vladimír Šustr, Miloslav Devetter, Ondřej Vošta, Ionuţ Popa, and Ľubomír Kováč
The Blacones Fault Zone Segment of the Edwards Aquifer of South-Central Texas, Kevin W. Stafford, Stephen F. Austin, and George Veni
The cave bear’s hibernation: reconstructing the physiology and behaviour of an extinct animal, Aurora Grandal-d’Anglade, Pérez-Rama, and Ana García-Vázquez
The Chan Hol cave near Tulum (Quintana Roo, Mexico): evidence for long‐lasting human presence during the early to middle Holocene, Fabio Hering, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, and Jens Folmeister
The Chan Hol cave near Tulum (Quintana Roo, Mexico): evidence for long‐lasting human presence during the early to middle Holocene, Fabio Hering, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Jens Folmeister, and Eberhard Frey
The conservation status of Texas groundwater invertebrates, Benjamin T. Hutchins
The Cyrilka Cave—the longest crevice-type cave in Czechia: structural controls, genesis, and age, Jan Lenart, Martin Kašing, Petr Tábořík, Natalia Piotrowska, and Jacek Pawlyta
The earliest modern humans outside Africa, Gerhard W. Weber
The easternmost MiddlePaleolithic (Mousterian) from Jinsitai Cave,North China, Feng Li, Steven L. Kuhn, and Fuyou Chen
The evolution of a series of behavioral traits is associated with autism-risk genes in cavefish, Masato Yoshizawa, Alexander Settle, and Meredith C. Hermosura
The first vertebrate fossil from Socotra Island (Yemen) is an early Holocene Egyptian fruit bat, Kay Van Damme, Petr Benda, and Dirk Van Damme
The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father, Viviane Slon, Fabrizio Mafessoni, and Benjamin Vernot
The Hydromorphic Evolution of the Owl Mountain and Nolan Creek Provinces, Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas, Melinda Faulkner, Matthew McBroom, and Kenneth Farrish
The impact of fire on the geochemistry of speleothem-forming drip water in a sub-alpine cave, Katie Coleborn, Andy Baker, Pauline C. Treble, and Martin S. Andersen
The Muknal cave near Tulum, Mexico: An early-Holocene funeral site on the Yucatán peninsula, Sarah R. Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, and Alejandro Terrazas
The Oldowan industry from Swartkrans cave, South Africa, and its relevance for the African Oldowan, Kathleen Kuman, Morris B. Sutton, Travis Rayne Pickering, and Jason L. Heaton
The Origins of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia and the evolution of the genus Homo
The Paleontology Synthesis Project and Establishing a Framework for Managing National Park Service Paleontological Resource Archives and Data, Vincent L. Santucci, Justin Tweet, and Tim Connors
The Phosphates of Pleistocene–Holocene Sediments of the Eastern Gallery of Denisova Cave, M. V. Shunkov, N. A. Kulik, and M. B. Kozlikin
The role of mites in the construction and weathering of siliceous biospeleothems, María José López-Galindo
The use of Harris Matrices in rock art research
Tooth fractures in the Krapina Neandertals, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Valentina Mariotti, Alessandro Riga, and Benedetta Bonfiglioli
Trichoderma polysporum selectively inhibits white-nose syndrome fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans amidst soil microbes, Amanpreet Singh, Erica Lasek-Nesselquist, and Vishnu Chatervedi
Trouble on the dating scene, David G. Pearce and Adelphine Bonneau
Two new species of cave-adapted pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisiidae, Chthoniidae) from Guangxi, China, Zhizhong Gao, J. Judson Wynne, and Feng Zhang
Two subspecies of bent-winged bats (Miniopterus orianae bassanii and oceanensis) in southern Australia have diverse fungal skin flora but not Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Peter H. Holz, Linda F. Lumsden, and Mark S. Marenda
UIS Bulletin, Volume 60, No. 2, December 2018, Efraín Mercado
Unconfined hypogene evaporite karst: West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, USA, Kevin W. Stafford, Jon T. Ehrhart, Adam F. Majzoub, Jessica M. Shields, and Wesley A. Brown
Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS) Commission on Volcanic Caves, John Bush and Ed Waters
United States Bat Species of Concern: A Synthesis, Thomas J. O’Shea, Michael A. Bogan, and Paul Cryan
United States bat species of concern: A synthesis, Thomas J. O'Shea, Paul M. Cryan, and Michael A. Bogan
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Observations of Water Surface Elevation and Bathymetry in the Cenotes and Lagoons of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Filippo Bandini, Alejandro Lopez-Tamayo, and Gonzalo Merediz-Alonso
Unsuspected retreats: autumn transitional roosts and presumed winter hibernacula of little brown myotis in Colorado, Daniel J. Neubaum
Unusual internal structure of cm-sized coldwater calcite: Weichselian spars in former pools of the Zinnbergschacht Cave (Franconian Alb/SE Germany), Detlev K. Richter, Rolf D. Neuser, Martin Harder, Hardy Schabdach, and Denis Scholz
U–Pb-dated flowstones restrict South African early hominin record to dry climate phases, Robyn Pickering, Andy I.R. Herries, and Jon D. Woodhead
Update from the 2017 and 2018 Excavations by the University of Oregon Archaeology Field School at Connley Caves 2 and 5 (35LK50), Fort Rock Basin, Oregon, Katelyn N. McDonough, Ritchie Rosencrance, and Justin A. Holcomb
U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art, D. L. Hoffmann, C. D. Standish, and M. García-Diez
