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New Species Of Stygobiotic Belgrandiella From North Bulgaria (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) Dec 2012

New Species Of Stygobiotic Belgrandiella From North Bulgaria (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae)

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Final Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program Habitat Conservation Plan, U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service Dec 2012

Final Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program Habitat Conservation Plan, U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service

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Radiocarbon Dates From The Grotte Du Renne And Saint-Césaire Support A Neandertal Origin For The Châtelperronian, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Sahra Talamo, Michèle Julien Nov 2012

Radiocarbon Dates From The Grotte Du Renne And Saint-Césaire Support A Neandertal Origin For The Châtelperronian, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Sahra Talamo, Michèle Julien

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The transition from the Middle Paleolithic (MP) to Upper Paleolithic (UP) is marked by the replacement of late Neandertals by modern humans in Europe between 50,000 and 40,000 y ago. Châtelperronian (CP) artifact assemblages found in central France and northern Spain date to this time period. So far, it is the only such assemblage type that has yielded Neandertal remains directly associated with UP style artifacts. CP assemblages also include body ornaments, otherwise virtually unknown in the Neandertal world. However, it has been argued that instead of the CP being manufactured by Neandertals, site formation processes and layer admixture resulted …


Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 74, No. 3, December 2012, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society Nov 2012

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 74, No. 3, December 2012, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

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The Egyptian Fruit Bat Rousettus Aegyptiacus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) In The Palaearctic: Geographical Variation And Taxonomic Status, Petr Benda, Peter Vallo, Pavel Hulva Oct 2012

The Egyptian Fruit Bat Rousettus Aegyptiacus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) In The Palaearctic: Geographical Variation And Taxonomic Status, Petr Benda, Peter Vallo, Pavel Hulva

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Two metrically defined subspecies have traditionally been recognised within the Palaearctic distribution range of the Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus; the larger R. a. aegyptiacus in Egypt and the northern part of the Middle East and the smaller R. a. arabicus in the southern Middle East. An extensive material of R. aegyptiacus from all parts of this area, i.e. the Levant (incl. Turkey and Cyprus), Egypt (incl. Sinai), northern Sudan, Yemen, Oman, Iran, and Pakistan, as well as comparative samples from its sub-Saharan range, were tested using both morphological and genetic approaches in order to revise the species’ taxonomic status. …


Electrical Resistivity Survey Of Injection Well Site, Eddy County, New Mexico National Cave And Karst Research Institute Report Of Investigation 3, National Cave And Karst Research Institute Oct 2012

Electrical Resistivity Survey Of Injection Well Site, Eddy County, New Mexico National Cave And Karst Research Institute Report Of Investigation 3, National Cave And Karst Research Institute

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Temperature-Dependent Growth Of Geomyces Destructans, The Fungus That Causes Bat White-Nose Syndrome, Michelle L. Verant, Justin G. Boyles, William Waldrep Jr. Sep 2012

Temperature-Dependent Growth Of Geomyces Destructans, The Fungus That Causes Bat White-Nose Syndrome, Michelle L. Verant, Justin G. Boyles, William Waldrep Jr.

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White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emergent disease estimated to have killed over five million North American bats. Caused by the psychrophilic fungus Geomyces destructans, WNS specifically affects bats during hibernation. We describe temperature-dependent growth performance and morphology for six independent isolates of G. destructans from North America and Europe. Thermal performance curves for all isolates displayed an intermediate peak with rapid decline in performance above the peak. Optimal temperatures for growth were between 12.5 and 15.8°C, and the upper critical temperature for growth was between 19.0 and 19.8°C. Growth rates varied across isolates, irrespective of geographic origin, and above 12°C …


Speleogenesis Along Deep Regional Faults By Ascending Waters: Case Studies From Slovakia And Czech Republic, Pavel Bella, Pavel Bosák Sep 2012

Speleogenesis Along Deep Regional Faults By Ascending Waters: Case Studies From Slovakia And Czech Republic, Pavel Bella, Pavel Bosák

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The most conspicuous six examples illustrating ascending (per ascensum) speleogenesis linked with deep faults/fault systems were selected from Slovakia and Czech Republic. In the past, the caves have been described as product of phreatic, epiphreatic and vadose speleogenesis related to the evolution of local water courses and valley incision, and linked mostly with Pleistocene geomorphic evolution. Our analysis illustrates several common characteristics of caves: (1) they developed along or in close vicinity of deep faults/fault zones, commonly of regional importance; (2) the groundwater ascended due to deep faults/ fault systems mostly as results of deep regional circulation of meteoric waters …


Conexão Subterrânea, No. 100, August 26, 2012, Karen Perez, Leda Zogbi, Marcos Silverio Aug 2012

Conexão Subterrânea, No. 100, August 26, 2012, Karen Perez, Leda Zogbi, Marcos Silverio

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Nesta edição você saberá mais sobre os seguintes assuntos: - 100a edição do Conexão Subterrânea - Instituto do Carste disponibiliza o "Documento síntese do Workshop de Espeleometria" - Reunião sobre o PAN Cavernas do São Francisco é realizada em Belo Horizonte - Palestras sobre Bioespeleologia foram realizadas no Petar - Últimos dias para inscrição no Curso de Espeleo Resgate - 6º Encontro Mineiro de Espeleologia reuniu diversos especialistas em Belo Horizonte - Arqueólogos fazem escavações na Lapa do Santo, em Lagoa Santa - Pesquisadores da UFS encontram novas espécies de morcegos na Mata do Junco - Cavernas em Cunani ameaçadas …


Early Evidence Of San Material Culture Represented By Organic Artifacts From Border Cave, South Africa, Francesco D’Errico, Lucinda Backwell, Paola Villa Aug 2012

Early Evidence Of San Material Culture Represented By Organic Artifacts From Border Cave, South Africa, Francesco D’Errico, Lucinda Backwell, Paola Villa

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Recent archaeological discoveries have revealed that pigment use, beads, engravings, and sophisticated stone and bone tools were already present in southern Africa 75,000 y ago. Many of these artifacts disappeared by 60,000 y ago, suggesting that modern behavior appeared in the past and was subsequently lost before becoming firmly established. Most archaeologists think that San hunter–gatherer cultural adaptation emerged 20,000 y ago. However, reanalysis of organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa, shows that the Early Later Stone Age inhabitants of this cave used notched bones for notational purposes, wooden digging sticks, bone awls, and bone points similar to those …


Present And Potential Future Distribution Of Common Vampire Bats In The Americas And The Associated Risk To Cattle, Dana N. Lee, Monica Papeş, Ronald A. Van Den Bessche Aug 2012

Present And Potential Future Distribution Of Common Vampire Bats In The Americas And The Associated Risk To Cattle, Dana N. Lee, Monica Papeş, Ronald A. Van Den Bessche

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Success of the cattle industry in Latin America is impeded by the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, through decreases in milk production and mass gain and increased risk of secondary infection and rabies. We used ecological niche modeling to predict the current potential distribution of D. rotundus and the future distribution of the species for the years 2030, 2050, and 2080 based on the A2, A1B, and B1 climate scenarios from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We then combined the present day potential distribution with cattle density estimates to identify areas where cattle are at higher risk for the …


Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 74, No. 2, August 2012, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society Aug 2012

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 74, No. 2, August 2012, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

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No abstract provided.


Cave Research Foundation Quarterly, Volume 40, No. 3, Laura Lexander Aug 2012

Cave Research Foundation Quarterly, Volume 40, No. 3, Laura Lexander

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Contents: McCormick Cave Gating Project -- President's Column / Charles Fox -- Robert Louis Taylor 1944-2012, Composite of articles written by / Jonathan Beard and Kathy Taylor -- Ozark Region Gating Projects, May 2012 / Jim Cooley -- Regional Expedition Reports -- 2012 Expedition Calendar


A New Approach To Model The Spatial And Temporal Variability Of Recharge To Karst Aquifers, A. Hartmann, J. Lange, M. Weiler Jul 2012

A New Approach To Model The Spatial And Temporal Variability Of Recharge To Karst Aquifers, A. Hartmann, J. Lange, M. Weiler

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In karst systems, near-surface dissolution of carbonate rock results in a high spatial and temporal variability of groundwater recharge. To adequately represent the dominating recharge processes in hydrological models is still a challenge, especially in data scarce regions. In this study, we developed a recharge model that is based on a conceptual model of the epikarst. It represents epikarst heterogeneity as a set of system property distributions to produce not only a single recharge time series, but a variety of time series representing the spatial recharge variability. We tested the new model with a unique set of spatially distributed flow …


Conexão Subterrânea, No. 99, July 17, 2013, Karen Perez, Leda Zogbi, Marcos Silvério Jul 2012

Conexão Subterrânea, No. 99, July 17, 2013, Karen Perez, Leda Zogbi, Marcos Silvério

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Nesta edição você saberá mais sobre os seguintes assuntos: - 100a edição do Conexão Subterrânea - Instituto do Carste disponibiliza o "Documento síntese do Workshop de Espeleometria" - Reunião sobre o PAN Cavernas do São Francisco é realizada em Belo Horizonte - Palestras sobre Bioespeleologia foram realizadas no Petar - Últimos dias para inscrição no Curso de Espeleo Resgate - 6º Encontro Mineiro de Espeleologia reuniu diversos especialistas em Belo Horizonte - Arqueólogos fazem escavações na Lapa do Santo, em Lagoa Santa - Pesquisadores da UFS encontram novas espécies de morcegos na Mata do Junco - Cavernas em Cunani ameaçadas …


Conexão Subterrânea, No. 98, June 22, 2012, Karen Perez, Leda Zogbi, Marcos Silvério Jun 2012

Conexão Subterrânea, No. 98, June 22, 2012, Karen Perez, Leda Zogbi, Marcos Silvério

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Nesta edição você saberá mais sobre os seguintes assuntos: - Atividade de campo no Vale do Ribeira - Curso Espeleoresgate SSF 2012 - Cecav lança Informativo e livro sobre o "Plano de Ação Para a Conservação do Patrimônio Espeleológico nas Áreas Cársticas da Bacia do Rio São Francisco" - Palestra sobre bio-espeleologia será realizada no PETAR no dia 14 de Julho - Realizado Workshop de Espeleometria em Belo Horizonte - Lançamento do livro "Peter Wilhelm Lund - O naturalista que revelou ao mundo a pré-história brasileira" - Atuação conjunta do MPMG e MPF impede danos a cavernas - Workshop: Fundamentos …


Frequent Arousal From Hibernation Linked To Severity Of Infection And Mortality In Bats With White-Nose Syndrome, Deeann M. Reeder, Craig L. Frank, Gregory G. Turner Jun 2012

Frequent Arousal From Hibernation Linked To Severity Of Infection And Mortality In Bats With White-Nose Syndrome, Deeann M. Reeder, Craig L. Frank, Gregory G. Turner

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White-nose syndrome (WNS), an emerging infectious disease that has killed over 5.5 million hibernating bats, is named for the causative agent, a white fungus (Geomyces destructans (Gd)) that invades the skin of torpid bats. During hibernation, arousals to warm (euthermic) body temperatures are normal but deplete fat stores. Temperature-sensitive dataloggers were attached to the backs of 504 free-ranging little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) in hibernacula located throughout the northeastern USA. Dataloggers were retrieved at the end of the hibernation season and complete profiles of skin temperature data were available from 83 bats, which were categorized as: (1) unaffected, (2) WNS-affected …


Espeleorevista Puerto Rico, No. 6, January-June 2012, Marianela Mercado Burgos Jun 2012

Espeleorevista Puerto Rico, No. 6, January-June 2012, Marianela Mercado Burgos

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Contents: Comentarios acerca de las cuevas de Isla de Mona y el Islote Monito -- Cañón Las Bocas: un carso aún mas antiguo -- Espeleo, Playa, Fiesta 2012 -- Importancia de las cuevas para los Muriciélagos Antillanos -- Admiración, Conservación, Pasión -- Poema -- Conexión Sistema Bocaza del Infiernillo o Boca del Infierno -- Cueva Mapancha -- Escuela Latinoamericana de Espéleosocorro -- Certificado de Resolución #2011-01 -- Anuncios


The Complex Origin Of Astyanax Cavefish, Joshua B. Gross Jun 2012

The Complex Origin Of Astyanax Cavefish, Joshua B. Gross

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Background The loss of phenotypic characters is a common feature of evolution. Cave organisms provide excellent models for investigating the underlying patterns and processes governing the evolutionary loss of phenotypic traits. The blind Mexican cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus, represents a particularly strong model for both developmental and genetic analyses as these fish can be raised in the laboratory and hybridized with conspecific surface form counterparts to produce large F2 pedigrees. As studies have begun to illuminate the genetic bases for trait evolution in these cavefish, it has become increasingly important to understand these phenotypic changes within the context of cavefish origins. …


Conexão Subterrânea, No. 97, May 16, 2012, Karen Perez, Leda Zogbi, Roberto Cassimiro May 2012

Conexão Subterrânea, No. 97, May 16, 2012, Karen Perez, Leda Zogbi, Roberto Cassimiro

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Nesta edição você saberá mais sobre os seguintes assuntos: - Gruta da Velha Duda é mapeada em Morro do Chapéu, Bahia - Audiências Públicas para criação do Parque Nacional Serra do Gandarela - Resgate da Memória: Walter Neves, Jô Soares e um petroglifo - Workshop sobre Espeleometria será realizado em Belo Horizonte - Mapeada Gruta da Pedra Pintada, em Roraima - Rocha despenca de Gruta na Cidade de Lapão - Proprioque?! - Lançamento dos livros 100 Árvores do Cerrado + Plantas e Morcegos - Comissão rejeita proposta que torna Caverna Área de Proteção Ambiental - Casal brasileiro morre durante mergulho …


Inoculation Of Bats With European Geomyces Destructans Supports The Novel Pathogen Hypothesis For The Origin Of White-Nose Syndrome, Lisa L. Warnecke, James M. Turner, Trent K. Bollinger May 2012

Inoculation Of Bats With European Geomyces Destructans Supports The Novel Pathogen Hypothesis For The Origin Of White-Nose Syndrome, Lisa L. Warnecke, James M. Turner, Trent K. Bollinger

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Cave Research Foundation Quarterly, Volume 40, No. 2, May 2012, Laura Lexander May 2012

Cave Research Foundation Quarterly, Volume 40, No. 2, May 2012, Laura Lexander

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Contents: Buffalo National River Caving -- From the President: Charles Fox -- Regional Expedition Reports -- 2012 Expedition Calendar


On The Sound Related To Painted Caves And Rocks, Iégor Reznikoff Apr 2012

On The Sound Related To Painted Caves And Rocks, Iégor Reznikoff

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Caves have natural properties of resonance: some areas sound very good acoustically, the sound lasts for several seconds or produces multiple echoes, whereas other areas have a dull resonance or no resonance at all. In a painted cave, it is extremely interesting to compare the map of the most resonant locations with the map of the locations of the paintings: are there correlations between resonance and paintings? Many Palaeolithic caves in France and in the Ural mountains have been studied, and for most of them the answer was remarkably positive: in short, the more resonant the location, the more paintings …


Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 74, No. 1, April 2012, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society Apr 2012

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 74, No. 1, April 2012, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

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Speleogenetic Effects Of Interaction Between Deeply Derived Fracture-Conduit Flow And Intrastratal Matrix Flow In Hypogene Karst Settings, A. Klimchouk, E. Tymokhina, G. Amelichev Mar 2012

Speleogenetic Effects Of Interaction Between Deeply Derived Fracture-Conduit Flow And Intrastratal Matrix Flow In Hypogene Karst Settings, A. Klimchouk, E. Tymokhina, G. Amelichev

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In carbonate rocks, especially in those with high primary porosity such as most Cenozoic carbonates, the interaction between deeply derived rising flow through sub-vertical fracture-controlled conduits and intrastratal matrix flow of shallower systems can invoke mixing corrosion and result in prominent speleogenetic effects. This paper outlines a conceptual model of such interaction and provides instructive field examples of relevant morphological effects from two different regions within the Prichernomorsky (north Black Sea) basin, where karst features are developed in lower Pliocene, Eocene and Paleocene limestones. In the Crimean fore-mountain region, extensive steep to vertical limestone scarps formed through recent exposure of …


Human Remains From The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition Of Southwest China Suggest A Complex Evolutionary History For East Asians, Darren Curnoe, Ji Xueping, Andy I. R. Herries Mar 2012

Human Remains From The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition Of Southwest China Suggest A Complex Evolutionary History For East Asians, Darren Curnoe, Ji Xueping, Andy I. R. Herries

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Background: Later Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a scarcity of well described, reliably classified and accurately dated fossils. Southwest China has been identified from genetic research as a hotspot of human diversity, containing ancient mtDNA and Y-DNA lineages, and has yielded a number of human remains thought to derive from Pleistocene deposits. We have prepared, reconstructed, described and dated a new partial skull from a consolidated sediment block collected in 1979 from the site of Longlin Cave (Guangxi Province). We also undertook new excavations at Maludong (Yunnan Province) to clarify the stratigraphy and dating …


Organic Matter Of Fossil Origin In The Amberine Speleothems From El Soplao Cave (Cantabria, Northern Spain), F. Gázquez, J. M. Calaforra, F. Rull Jan 2012

Organic Matter Of Fossil Origin In The Amberine Speleothems From El Soplao Cave (Cantabria, Northern Spain), F. Gázquez, J. M. Calaforra, F. Rull

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Unusual amberine-coloured speleothems were recently found in El Soplao Cave (Cantabria, Spain). Chromophore elements such as Fe, Mn, Cd, Co or Ti were not present in significant quantities. Rather, our data show that their colour comes from leachates of fossilized organic material hosted in the carbonaceous Urgonian facies of the host rock. These leachates are related to the Cretaceous amber deposit that has been recently discovered in the vicinity of El Soplao Cave. The presence of humic and fulvic acids of fossil origin were confirmed by IR and Raman spectroscopic analysis of the carbonaceous strata and the speleothems. In addition, …


Effects Of Brush Management On The Hydrologic Budget And Water Quality In And Adjacent To Honey Creek State Natural Area, Comal County, Texas, 2001–10, J. Ryan Banta, Richard N. Slattery Jan 2012

Effects Of Brush Management On The Hydrologic Budget And Water Quality In And Adjacent To Honey Creek State Natural Area, Comal County, Texas, 2001–10, J. Ryan Banta, Richard N. Slattery

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Woody vegetation, including ashe juniper (Juniperus ashei), has encroached on some areas in central Texas that were historically oak grassland savannah. Encroachment of woody vegetation is generally attributed to overgrazing and fire suppression. Removing the ashe juniper and allowing native grasses to reestablish in the area as a brush management conservation practice (hereinafter referred to as "brush management") might change the hydrology in the watershed. These hydrologic changes might include changes to surface-water runoff, evapotranspiration, or groundwater recharge. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with Federal, State, and local partners, examined the hydrologic effects of brush management in two …


Histopathology Confirms White-Nose Syndrome In Bats In Europe, Jiri Pikula, Hana Bandouchova, Landislov Novotny Jan 2012

Histopathology Confirms White-Nose Syndrome In Bats In Europe, Jiri Pikula, Hana Bandouchova, Landislov Novotny

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National Cave And Karst Research Institute 2011-2012 Annual Report, National Cave And Karst Research Institute Jan 2012

National Cave And Karst Research Institute 2011-2012 Annual Report, National Cave And Karst Research Institute

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