This collection includes articles associated with the Karst Information Portal
Submissions from 2023
4D flow pattern of the longest cave in the Eastern Alps (Schönberg-Höhlensystem, Totes Gebirge), Lukas Plan, Eva Kaminsky, Pauline Oberender, Clemens Tenreiter, and Maximilian Wimmer
An attempt to identify source areas of clastic deposits from selected caves of the Prokletije Mountains (Montenegro): a mineralogical and U-series geochemistry approach, Ditta Kicińska, Jacek Pawlak, and Jacek Stienss
Book Review: Australian caves and karst systems, John Webb, Susan White, Garry K. Smith, Jo De Waele
Book Review: De Waele, J., Gutiérrez, F., 2022. Karst hydrogeology, geomorphology and caves, Augusto S. Auler
Book Review: Habitantes de la obscuridad (Fauna Ibero-Balear de las Cuevas) – Inhabitants of the darkness (Ibero-Baleric fauna of caves), Oana Teodora Moldovan
Cave-dwelling crocodiles of Central Belize, Jut Wynne, Marisa Tellez, Kayla Hartwell, Stevan Reneau, Gilroy Welch, Kyle Voyles, Michael Cal, Reynold Cal, Denoy Castillo, and Jane Champion
Climate of a cave laboratory representative for rock art caves in the Vézère area (south-west France), Delphine Lacanette, Léna Bassel, Fabien Salmon, Jean-Christophe Portais, Bruno Bousquet, Rémy Chapoulie, Faten Ammari, Philippe Malaurent, and Catherine Ferrier
Cryogenic ridges: a new speleothem type, Bogdan P. Onac, Daniel M. Cleary, Oana A. Dumitru, Victor J. Polyak, Ioan Povara, Jonathan G. Wynn, and Yemane Asmerom
Mg records of two stalagmites from B7-Cave (northwest Germany) indicating long-term precipitation changes during Early to Mid-Holocene, Dana F. C. Riechelmann, Klaus Peter Jochum, Detlev K. Richter, and Denis Scholz
Paleokarst coastal caves at Torricelle Hills (Lessini Mountains, Venetian Prealps, Italy), Guido Gonzato, Enrico Borghi, Roberto Chignola, Nereo Preto, and Guido Rossi
Predictive modeling of cave entrance locations: relationships between surface and subsurface morphology, William Blitch, Adia R. Sovie, and Benjamin W. Tobin
Preliminary data of potentially hazardous radon concentrations in Modrič Cave (Croatia), Robert Lončarić, Vanja Radolić, Maša Surić, Igor Miklavčić, Matea Šatalić, Dalibor Paar, and Lukrecija Obšivač
Seasonal dynamics of karst surface dissolution based on a limestone tables experiment (Slovak karst), Alena Gessert and Zdenko Hochmuth
The Mineral Waters of Indiana, W. S. Blatchley
The physical activity of Spanish speleologists: accomplishment of recommendations and differences by sociodemographic variables, Miquel Pans, Laura Antón-González, and Maite Pellicer-Chenoll
Why the delay in recognizing terrestrial obligate cave species in the tropics?, Francis G. Howarth
World Karst Aquifer Map (WoKAM), International Groundwater Resrources Assessment Centre
Submissions from 2022
2004: Eleventh International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology Pico Island, Azores, May 12-18, 2004, International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology
2006: Twelfth International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico, July 2-7, 2006, International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology
2007: Cave-dwelling invertebrates of Grand Canyon National Park, J. Judson Wynne, Charles A. Drost, and Neil S. Cobb
2010: Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology Undara Volcanic National Park, Queensland, Australia August 2010, International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology
2017 Groundwater Tracing in the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer: Onion Creek and Little Bear Creek, S. J. Zappitello and David A. Johns
23rd International Conference on Subterranean Biology, David C. Culver
A 23-Year-Old Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus) Record From Southwest Saskatchewan, Canada, Katie R.N. Florko, Shelby J. Bohn, and Matina C. Kalcounis-Rueppell
A 2500-Yr late Holocene multi-proxy record of vegetation and hydrologic changes from a cave guano-clay sequence in Sw Romania, Bogdan P. Onac, Simon M. Hutchinson, and Anca Geantă
Absence of visitors during lockdown reveals natural variation in carbon dioxide level in the Glowworm Cave, Waitomo, New Zealand, David J. Merritt, Chris Hendy Dr, and Shannon Corkill Ms
Addenda and corrigenda to the "Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones)", Adriano B. Kury and Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga
Adits, caves, karizi-qanats, and tunnels in Afghanistan: an annotated bibliography, R. Lee Hadden
Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave, Katerina Douka, Viviane Slon, and Zenobia Jacobs
Airflow dynamics in Wind Cave and Jewel Cave: How do barometric caves breathe?, Annika K. Gomell and Andreas Pflitsch
Algae and cyanobacteria in the aphotic habitats of Veternica Cave (Medvednica Mt., Croatia) and selected caves of the Dinaric karst (South-Eastern Europe), Najla Baković, Tanja Pipan, Robert Baković, Roman Ozimec, Josip Rubinić, and Renata Matoničkin Kepčija
Alpine permafrost thawing during the Medieval Warm Period identified from cryogenic cave carbonates, M. Luetscher, M. Borreguero, and G. E. Moseley
Amplification of emerging Viruses in a bat colony, Jan Felix Drexler, Victor Max Corman, and Tom Wegner
Analysis of cave atmospheres by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) with flame ionization detection (FID), Ryan C. Blase, Edward L. Patrick, and Joseph N. Mitchell
Analysis of Haplotypic Variation and Deletion Polymorphisms Point to Multiple Archaic Introgression Events, Including from Altai Neanderthal Lineage, Ozgur Taskent, Yen Lin, and Ioannis Patramanis
Analysis of the Comal Springs and San Marcos Springs long-term monitoring dataset., Joshuah S. Perkin, Ely Kosnicki, and Jacob Jackson
An annotated dataset of Egyptian fruit bat vocalizations across varying contexts and during vocal ontogeny, Yosef Prat, Mor Taub, and Yossi TaubYovel Pratt
Ancient DNA Analyses Reveal High Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Diversity and Parallel Morphological Evolution of Late Pleistocene Cave Bears, Michael Hofreiter, Cristian Capelli, and Matthias Krings
Ancient DNA and the Population Genetics of Cave Bears (Ursus spelaeus) Through Space and Time, Ludovic Orlando, Dominique Bonjean, and Herve Boncherens
Ancient DNA reveals differences in behaviour and sociality between brown bears and extinct cave bears, Gloria G. Fortes, Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade, and Ben Kolbe
Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present day Europeans, Iosif Lazaridis, Nick Patterson, and Alissa Mittnik
Ancient Matting from Spirit Cave, Nevada: Technical Implications, Penelope Drooker
Ancient Proteins Tell Their Tales, Matthew Warren
An early bone tool industry from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa : implications for the origins of modern human behaviour, symbolism and language, Christopher S. Henshilwood, Francesco D'Errico, and Curtis W. Marean
An Examination of Stormwater Quality and Quantity in Austin Area Creeks, Weizhen Zhu and Roger Glick
Animals from the Maya Underworld: Reconstructing Elite Maya Ritual at the Cueva de los Quetzales, Guatemala, James E. Brady
An integrated approach for catchment delineation and conduit-network modeling in karst aquifers: application to a site in the Swiss tabular, Arnauld Malard, Pierre-Yves Jeannin, and Jonathan Vouillamoz
An Introduction and Virtual Geologic Field Trip to the Permian Reef Complex, Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains, New Mexico-West Texas, Peter Scholle
An Introduction to Some Cave Fauna of Malaysia and Thailand, Liz Price
An inventory of paleontological resources associated with national park service caves, Vincent L. Santucci, Jason Kenworthy, and Ron Kerbo
An Inventory of Trilobites from National Park Service Areas, Megan R. Norr, Vincent L. Santucci, and Justin S. Tweet
Anomalous behaviour of specific electrical conductivity at a karst spring induced by variable catchment boundaries: the case of the Podstenjšek spring, Slovenia, Nataša Ravbar, Irina Engelhardt, and Nico Goldscheider
An Ordovician carbonate reservoir in strike-slip structures producing from fault-associated fracture systems, 3D seismic region of Northern Shun 8 block (Tarim Basin), Li Bing, Zhao Rui, and Kong Qiangfu
An Overview of the Karst Areas in British Columbia, Canada, Tim R. Stokes and Paul A. Griffiths
Anthropogenic impacts on the Glowworm Cave, Waitomo, New Zealand: a microclimate management approach, Chris Hendy, David J. Merritt, and Shannon Corkill
Anthropogenic use, modification, and preservation of coastal cave resources in Puerto Rico, Michael J. Lace
Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia, Katerina Harvatie, Carolin Röding, and Abel M. Bosman
Application of a cave inventory system to stimulate development of management strategies: The case of west-central Florida, USA, Grant L. Harley, Jason S. Polk, and Leslie A. North
Application of EPIK and KDI methods for identification and evaluation of karst vulnerability at Intervales State Park and surrounding region (Southeastern Brazil), Bruno D. Lenhare and William S. Filho
Application of Integrated Geophysical Techniques to Characterize the Edwards Aquifer, Texas, Charles B. Connor and Stewart K. Sandberg
Application of the flow dimension concept for numerical drawdown data analyses in mixed-flow karst systems, M. Giese, T. Reimann, and R. Liedl
Applying species distribution models to caves and other subterranean habitats, Stefano Mammola and Boris Leroy
Aquifers and hyporheic zones: Towards an ecological understanding of groundwater, Peter J. Hancock, Andew J. Boulton, and William F. Humphreys
Aquifers of the Edwards Plateau, Robert E. Mace and Edward S. Angle
Dye trace and springs, MWSD Stormwater
Empirical roughness coefficients for moderate floods in an open conduit cave: Fullers stream canyon, Culverson Creek Cave System, West Virginia, Lydia T. Albright and Gregory S. Springer
Flow regime evolution of a major cave system in the Eastern Alps (Hirlatzhöhle, Dachstein), Lukas Plan, Gottfried Buchegger, Eva Kaminsky, Gabriella Koltai, Tanguy Racine, and Jacek Szczygieł
Guano-derived morphologies and associated minerals found in Cova de sa Guitarreta, Llucmajor, Balearics, Antonio Merino Juncadella, Joan J. Fornós, Antoni Mulet, and Joaquín Ginés
Hydrodynamic model for independent cold and thermo-mineral twin springs in a stratified continental karst aquifer, Camou, Arbailles Massif, Pyrénées, France, Philippe Audra, Jean-Yves Bigot, Dimitri Laurent, Nathalie Vanara, Didier Cailhol, and Gérard Cazenave
Kentucky Cave Database and Map Documents, Kentucky Geological Society
Lechuguilla Cave – Discoveries in a hidden splendor, Victor J. Polyak
Modeling air pressure propagation through Wind Cave and Jewel Cave: How can air pressure signals inside barometric caves be predicted from surface pressure measurements?, Annika K. Gomell and Andreas Pflitsch
Recreational caving impacts of visitors in a high-altitude cave in Bolivian Andes: main effects on microhabitat structure and faunal distribution, Lais Furtado Oliveira, Rodrigo L. Ferreira, Jaime Iván Rodríguez Fernández, and Marconi Souza Silva
Speleothems in sandstone crevice and boulder caves of the Elbe River Canyon, Czech Republic, Jiří Adamovič, Jaroslav Kukla, Michal Filippi, Roman Skála, and Noemi Mészárosová
Sub-recent microfauna within allogenic sediments at the bottom of a deep cave, Njemica (Biokovo Mt., Croatia), Tomislav Kurečić, Valentina Hajek Tadesse, Lara Wacha, Marija Horvat, Nina Trinajstić, and Ivan Mišur
Sulfuric acid speleogenesis and surface landform evolution along the Vienna Basin Transfer Fault: Plavecký Karst, Slovakia, Pavel Bella, Helena Hercman, Šimon Kdýr, Petr Mikysek, Petr Pruner, Juraj Littva, Jozef Minár, Michal Gradzinski, Wojciech Wróblewski, Marek Velšmid, and Pavel Bosak
The age of fossil StW573 ('Little Foot'): An alternative interpretation of 26Al/10Be burial data, Jan D. Kramers and Paul H.G.M. Dirks
The application of actualistic studies to assess the taphonomic origin of Musterian rabbit accumulations from Arbreda Cave (North-East Iberia), Lluís Lloveras, Marta Moreno García, and Narcís Soler i Masferrer
The application of electrical resistivity imaging in collapse doline floors: Divača karst, Slovenia, Uroš Stepišnik
The nitrogen dynamics of Deer Cave, Sarawak, and the role of bat caves as biogeochemical sinks in Tropical Moist Forests., Joyce Lundberg, Donald A. McFarlane, and Guy Van Rentergem
Worldwide distribution of cave-dwelling Chelodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), Rodrigo Salvador Bouzan, Jackson C. Means, Kaloyan Ivanov, Rodrigo L. Ferreira, Antonio Domingos Brescovit, and Luiz Felipe Moretti Iniesta
Submissions from 2021
Air pressure propagation through Wind Cave and Jewel Cave: How do pressure waves travel through barometric caves?, Annika K. Gomell, Daniel C. Austin, Marc J. Ohms, and Andreas Pflitsch
Application of the global SRTM and AW3D30 digital elevation models to mapping folds at cave sites, Mark J. Abolins and Albert E. Ogden
Bacteria, guano and soot: Source assessment of organic matter preserved in black laminae in stalagmites from caves of the Sierra de Atapuerca (N Spain), Joeri Kaal, Virginia Martínez-Pillado, Antonio Martínez Cortizas, Jorge Sanjurjo Sánchez, Arantza Aranburu, Juan-Luis Arsuaga, and Eneko Iriarte
Bat guano minerals and mineralization processes in Chameau Cave, Eastern Morocco, Philippe Audra, Vasile Heresanu, Lionel Barriquand, Mohamed El Kadiri Boutchich, Stephane Jaillet, Edwige Pons-Branchu, Pavel Bosak, Hai Cheng, R Lawrence Edwards, and Michel Renda
Cave-dwelling heleomyzid flies (Diptera: Heleomyzidae) from the Polish caves. Historical overview and new data, Joanna Kocot-Zalewska and Andrzej J. Woźnica
Climatic and environmental conditions in the Western Galilee, during Late Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods, based on speleothems from Manot Cave, Israel, Gal Yasur, Avner Ayalon, Alan Matthews, and Tami Zilberman
Continuous color model as a tool to improve speleothem age model development, Celia Campa-Bousoño, Ángel García-Pérez, Ana Moreno, Miguel Iglesias, Hai Cheng, R Lawrence Edwards, and Heather Stoll
Determination of inundation areas within karst poljes and intermittent lakes for the purposes of ephemeral flood mapping, Nataša Ravbar, Cyril Mayaud, Matej Blatnik, and Metka Petrič
Do different relevance attributes indicate the same conservation priorities? A case study in caves of southeastern Brazil, Maysa F.V.R. Souza, Denizar A. Alvarenga, Marconi Souza-Silva, and Rodrigo L. Ferreira
Drimolen cranium DNH 155 documents microevolution in an early hominin species, Jesse M. Martin, A. B. Leece, Simon Neubauer, and Stephanie E. Baker
Ecophysiological responses of two closely related epigean and hypogean Niphargus species to hypoxia and increased temperature: Do they differ?, Tatjana Simčič and Boris Sket
Flow dynamics in a vadose shaft – a case study from the Hochschwab karst massif (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria), Eva Kaminsky, Lukas Plan, Thomas Wagner, Barbara Funk, and Pauline Oberender
Geochemistry of phosphatic nodules as a tool for understanding depositional and taphonomical settings in a Palaeolithic cave site (San Teodoro, Sicily), Gerlando Vita, Vittorio Garilli, Mirko Andrea Vizzini, Renato Giarrusso, Angelo Mulone, Massimiliana Pinto Vraca, Valeria La Parola, Pierluigi Rosina, Laura Bonfiglio, and Luca Sineo
Geochronological implications of 210Pb and 137Cs mobility in cave guano deposits, Donald A. McFarlane and Joyce Lundberg
Groundwater vulnerability to pollution in karst aquifers, considering key challenges and considerations: application to the Ubriquesprings in southern Spain, Ana I. Maria, Jose Francisco Martin Rodriguez, and Juan Antonio Barbera
Increased cave use by butterflies and moths: a response to climate warming?, Otto Moog, Erhard Christian, and Rudolf Eis