Journal of Cave and Karst Studies Articles

Using High-Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography to Test the Preparation of Stalagmites for Paleo-Climate Reconstruction

Natasha Sekhon, Jay L. Banner, Dan O. Breecker, and Darrel M. Tremaine

Stalagmites being prepared for paleoclimate analysis should typically be slabbed along the central growth axis. This is an important first step because it allows for the highest resolution of sampling...

Stimulation of aquatic bacteria from Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, by sublethal concentrations of antibiotics

Thomas D. Byl, Petra K. Byl, Jacob Byl, and Rickard Toomey III

Many microorganisms secrete secondary metabolites with antibiotic properties; however, there is debate whether the secretions evolved as a means to gain a competitive edge or as a chemical signal to c...

Consequences of the global climate crisis on the cave beetle Darlingto-nea Kentuckensis Valentine based on thermal tolerance and dehydra-tion resistance

A.S. Apostolopoulos and T. Keith Philips

Saint Anthony Cave: Morphology, genesis, and age of one of the oldest religious shrines, Southern Galala Plateau, Eastern Desert, Egypt

Wafaa Khalaf Fahim

Seasonal context of Bristly Cave Crayfish Cambarus setosus habitat use and life history

Joshua B. Mouser, David C. Ashley, Douglas L. Zentner, and Shannon K. Brewer

16s rRNA diversity of Mirror Lake in Gilindire Cave (Turkey) shows abundant Nitrospira

Selin Deliceirmak and Arzu Karahan

Ongoing genesis of a novel glaciovolcanic cave system in the crater of Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA

Linda Sobolewski, Christian Stenner, Charlotte Hüser, Tobias Berghaus, Eduardo Cartaya, and Andreas Pflitsch

Mount St. Helens, one of the highest-risk volcanoes in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, hosts a novel system of glaciovolcanic caves that has formed around the 2004?2008 lava dome. From 2014 to 2021 a multid...

Radon in dead-end caves in Europe

Miloš Briestenský, Fabrizio Ambrosino, Iveta Smetanová, Lenka Thinová, Stanka Šebela, Josef Stemberk, Lucia Pristašová, Concepción Pla, and David Benavente

We report the results of 3-years of Radon-222 monitoring in six show caves across Europe, selected with the feature of having only one, or no natural entrance, defined as dead-end caves. The caves are...

Development and persistence of hazardous atmospheres in a glaciovolcanic cave system—Mount Rainier, Washington, USA

Christian Stenner, Andreas Pflitsch, Lee J. Florea, Kathleen Graham, and Eduardo Cartaya

Glaciovolcanic cave systems, including fumarolic ice caves, can present variable atmospheric hazards. The twin summit craters of Mount Rainier, Washington, USA, host the largest fumarolic ice cave sys...

3D resistivity survey over mapped caves in eogenetic karst terrane, west-central Florida, USA

Charles W. McCrackin, Henok G. Kiflu, Sarah E. Kruse, Philip E. van Beynen, Jason S. Polk and Ben. Miller

This study assesses the capability and practical applications of quasi-3 Dimensional (3D) Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) for mapping air-filled conduits in eogenetic karst. A high-resolution ...

Geology and palaeoenvironment of Karin Tak Cave (lesser caucasus)

Avagyan Ara, Sahakyan Lilit H., Igityan Hayk, Gevorgyan Mikayel, Sahakyan Kristina, Antonosyan Maria, Tepanosyan Gevorg, Sahakyan Lilit V., Atalyan Tatul, Grigoryan Taron, Aspaturyan Narek, Avagyan Seda, and Yepiskoposyan Levon

Karin Tak cave is located in the south-eastern end of the Lesser Caucasus (NE of the Armenian Highland). Development of the cave was related to the dissolution of Middle-Upper Jurassic limestone by me...

Land-use impacts on the hydrology of the Hidden River groundwater subbasin, Horse Cave, Hart County, Kentucky

Cesalea N. Osborne, David J. Keeling, Jason S. Polk, Patricia N. Kambesis, and Kevin B. Cary

Hidden River Cave, located in the city of Horse Cave, Ky., forms one of the main tributaries of the Hidden River groundwater subbasin that spans multiple counties in south-central Kentucky. Hidden Riv...

Methods and analysis of bat guano cores from caves for paleoecology

Alexandra Tsalickis, Matthew N. Waters, and Joshua W. Campbell

Bacterial diversity in vadose cave pools: evidence for isolated ecosystems

Kaitlin J.H. Read, Leslie A. Melim, Ara S. Winter, and Diana E. Northup

A debris flow deposit in Mammoth Cave: field characterization

Rachel Bosch, Dylan Ward, Aaron Bird, Dan Sturmer, and Rick Olson

Genetic and functional diversity of soil bacteria and fungi from different microhabitats in a karst region in Southern China

Xinru Li, Min Zhou, Yidong Mi, Haiyan Chen, Hailei Su, Yuan Wei, Fuhan Guo, Fanfan Wang

Solute transport and solutional denudation rate of carbonate karst in the semi-arid Zagros region (southwestern Iran)

Alireza Sepahvand, Mitja Prelovšek, Ali Akbar Nazari Samani, Robert James

Physical and analytical modeling of rhythmic karst springs

Xianxuan Xiaoc and Qiang Zhang

An interpretation of Cueva de la Huachizca, Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, México

Cinthia Marlene Campos, José Luis Punzo-Díaz, Veronica Lopez Delgado, Avto Goguitchaichvili, and Juan Morales

Glacier caves: a globally threatened subterranean biome

Francis G. Howarth

Identification of fungi from soil and sediment in Jefriz Cave; the first survey in a cave from Iran

Azadeh Habibi and Banafsheh Safaiefarahani

Caecidotea burkensis, new species, a unique subterranean isopod from Burke’s Garden, with a synthesis of the biogeo-graphy and evolution of southwestern Virginia asellids

Salisa L. Lewis, Julian J. Lewis and William Orndorff.

An underworld tailored to tourists: A dragon, a photo-model, and a bio-indicator

Ivo Lučić

Cave radon exposure, dose, dynamics and mitigation

Chris L. Waring, Stuart I. Hankin, Stephen B. Solomon, Stephen Long, Andrew Yule, Robert Blackley, Sylvester Werczynski, and Andrew C. Baker

Dating and interpretation of recent clastic sediments in an urban cave

Evan A. Hart

Microbiome of Grand Canyon Caverns, a dry sulfuric karst cave in Arizona, supports diverse extremophilic bacterial and archaeal communities

Raymond Keeler and Bradley Lusk

Diversity of siderophore-producing bacterial cultures from Carlsbad Caverns National Park caves, Carlsbad, New Mexico

Tammi R. Duncan, Margaret Werner-Washburne, and Diana E. Northup

Fungi from dead arthropods and bats of Gomantong Cave, northern Borneo, Sabah (Malaysia)

Ibrahem G. Wasti, Foo She Fui, Tan Qin Zhi, Cheh Wai Mun, Mohammad Hafiz Syukri Kassim, Mahadimenakbar Mohd Dawood, Noor Haliza Hasan, Vijay Kumar Subbiah, Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, and Jaya Seelan Sathiya Seelan

The fauna of caves and other subterranean habitats of North Carolina, USA

Cato Holler Jr., Jonathan D. Mays, and Matthew L. Niemiller

Karst sinkholes as foci of biodiversity in the Hoosier National Forest

Julian J. Lewis, Marc A. Milne, Charles D. R. Stephen, and Daniel C. Dourson

Lateral ferruginous groundwater transfer as the origin of the iron crusts in caves: A case study

Cristina Fonollá, Eugenio Sanz, and Ignacio Menéndez-Pidal

Genesis and evolution of the square soda straws of Dry Cave, West Virginia, USA

Paolo Forti and Gregory S. Springer

Variation in cephalic neuromasts surface and cave-dwelling fishes of the family amblyopsidae (teleostei: percopsiformes)

Daphne Soares and Matthew L. Niemiller

Sundathelphusa prosperidad, sp. n. (decapoda: brachyura: gecarcinucidae), a new cave-obligate freshwater crab from Mindanao Island, the Philippines, with notes on the conservation status of Philippine cave species

Daniel Edison M. Husana

Domitius Culsu sp. nov. (Araneae, Nestici-dae), a new troglobiont spider from Italy with notes on Italian nesticids of the genus Domitius Ribera, 2018

Francesco Ballarin

Lampenflora and the entrance biofilm in two show caves: comparison of microbial community, environmental, and biofilm parameters

Nataša Nikolić, Nikola Zarubica, Bojan Gavrilović, Dragana Predojević, Ivana Trbojević, Gordana Subakov Simić and Slađana Popović

Biogeochemical investigations of the speleothem moonmilk in the karst Proschalnaya Cave (Far East, Russia)

L. M. Kondratyeva, O. S. Shadrina, Z. N. Litvinenko, and E. M. Golubeva

Enzyme profiles and antimicrobial activities of bacteria isolated from the Kadiini Cave, Alanya, Turkey

Nihal Doğruöz-Güngör, Begüm Çandıroğlu, and Gülşen Altuğ

Biodiversity from caves and other sub-terranean habitats of Georgia, USA

Kirk S. Zigler, Matthew L. Niemiller, Charles D.R. Stephen, Breanne N. Ayala, Marc A. Milne, Nicholas S. Gladstone, Annette S. Engel, John B., Jensen, Carlos D. Camp, James C. Ozier, and Alan Cressle

Anthropogenic impacts on the bacterial profile of Yarik Sinkhole in Antalya, Turkey

Nihal Doğruöz-Güngör, Elif Özlem Arslan-Aydoğdu, Emrah Dirmit, and Ender Usuloğlu

A reactivated cave system induces rapidly developing cover-collapse sinkholes in Tasmania, Australia

Bianca Burke, Adrian Slee, Peter D. McIntosh, Harald Hofmann, and James Shulmeister

Sinkhole susceptibility assessment based on morphological, imagery, and contextual attributes derived from gis and imagery data

Xiaomin Qiu, Shuo-Sheng Wu, and Yan Chen

Dynamics of Coll;……./,kembola (Hexapoda) in a forested limestone scree slope, Western Carpathians, Slovakia

Michal Rendoš, Dana Miklisová, Ľubomír Kováč, and Andrej Mock

Micromorphology, mineralogy, and geo-chemistry of sediments at the Tham Lod rock shelter archaeological site in Mae Hong Son, Thailand: suggestions of a late Pleistocene climate

Seriwat Saminpanya and Nopporn Denkitkul

Description of a new genus and species as the first gastropod species from caves in Iran

Yaser Fatemi, Mohammad Javad Malek-Hosseini, Andrzej Falniowski, Sebastian Hofman, Matjaž Kuntner, and Jozef Grego

Natural and human-induced subsidence due to gypsum dissolution: a case study from Inandik, Central Anatolia, Turkey

Ergin Gökkaya and Esra Tunçel

Epilythic cyanobacteria and algae in two geologically distinct caves in South Africa

Sanet Janse van Vuuren, Gerhard du Preez, Anatoliy Levanets, and Louis Maree

Metabarcoding comparison of prokaryotic microbiomes from Appalachian karst caves to surface soils in southwest Virginia, USA

Brandon Thompson, Dylan Richardson, Robert D. Vangundy, and A. Bruce Cahoon

A minimal model for predicting ventilation rates of subterranean caves

Karina Khazmutdinova, Doron Nof, Darrel M. Tremaine, Ming Ye, M.N.J. Moore

Temperature and reverse-flow patterns of the River Styx, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

Shannon R. Trimboli and Rick S. Toomey

Combined use of hydrogeological, hydrogeochemical and isotopic techni-ques to identify the impact of a salt diapir on surrounding aquifers, Southern Iran

Zohreh Alemansour and Mehdi Zarei

The karst and its neighbors: Digital map Multi-year cave dripwater frequency and hydrochemical monitoring of three caves in Eastern North America

Jessica B. Kelley, Harry Rowe, Gregory S. Springer, Yongli Gao

The concept of regulated use of natural heritage sites included in the tourist cluster: a Russian caves case study

A. N. Polukhina, Yu. S. Lyakhnitsky, and V. V. Lezhnin

Halotolerant and chaotolerant microfungi from littoral anchialine caves Golubinka and Medova Buža (Croatia)

Andrzej Chlebicki and Natalia Jakus

Variations of the stable isotopic composition of precipitation and cave drip water at zhenzhu cave, north China: a two-year monitoring study

Yunxia Li, Shengrui Zhang, Xiaokang Liu, Yongli Gao, and Zhiguo Rao

Processes leading to the re-activation of a sinkhole in buried karst and the subsequent drying of waterfalls in a small catchment located in northern Indiana, USA

M. D. Frisbee, et al

Comparison of surface and interior karst development in Zagros Karst Aquifers, Southwest Iran

Majid Dashti Barmaki, Mohsen Rezaei, Ezzat Raeisi, and Javad Ashjari

Description of a new tribe Cabralcandonini (Candonidae, Ostracoda) from karst aquifers in central Texas, U.S.A

Okan Külköylüoğlu, Mehmet Yavuzatmaca, Derya Akdemir, Benjamin F. Schwartz, Benjamin T. Hutchins

The karst and its neighbors: Digital map of geomorphic environments in Quintana Roo, Mexico

Patricia Fragoso-Servón, Alberto Pereira-Corona, and Francisco Bautista

Ventilation and cave air PCO2 in the Bunker-Emst Cave System (NW Germany): implications for speleothem proxy data

S. Riechelmann, S. F. M. Breitenbach, A. Schröder-Ritzrau, A. Mangini, and A. Immenhauser

Formation mechanisms for the largest sandstone sinkhole in Ohio

Joshua A. Novello and Ira D. Sasowsky

Brown bear and diversity of airbone algae and cyanobacteria in the Głowoniowa Nyża Cave

Joanna Czerwik-Marcinkowska, Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica, Wojciech Pusz, and Anna Wojciechowska

Geological and hydrogeological effective factors in the high permeability zones of several dam sites of the Zagros region, Iran

Behnaz Shabab Boroujeni, Javad Ashjari and Haji Karimi

Observations on the population ecology of the cave salamander, eurycea lucifuga (rafinesque, 1822)

J. Gavin Bradley and Perri K. Eason

Caves in space

John Mylroie

Relict drainage effects on distribution and morphometry of karst depressions: a case study from central Taurus (Turkey)

Mehmet Furkan Şener and Muhammed Zeynel Öztürk

Three-dimensional electrical resistivity for detection of subsurface karst associated with Friesenhahn Cave

Keith Muhlestein, Laurence Meissner, Richard Klar, and Ronald T. Green

Characterization of a karst aquifer in a complex tectonic region, Southwestern Iran

Rouhollah Adinehvand and Ezzat Raeisi

Hypothesized mechanism for the initiation of soil cavities and subsequent cover-collapse in karst terrain

James C. Currens

Airborne bacteria cultivated from underground hibernation sites in the Nietoperek bat reserve (Poland)

Rafał Ogórek, C, Katarzyna Guz-Regner, Tomasz Kokurewicz, Elżbieta Baraniok, and Bartosz Kozak

Diatoms from the Valporquero Cave (León, NW Spain), with the description of germainiella legionensis sp. nov.

María Borrego-Ramos, Saúl Blanco, and Adriana Olenici

Variation of δ13C in plant-soil-cave systems in karst regions with different degrees of rocky desertification in southwest China

Ting-Yong Li, Chun-Xia Huang, Lijun Tian, Marina B. Suarez, and Yongli Gao

The first directly dated cave bear from the Covoli di Velo Cave (Verona Province, Veneto, northern Italy) with some discussion of Italian Alps cave bears

M. Rossi, G. Santi, R. Zorzin, D. Döppes, R. Friedrich, S. Lindauer, and W. Rosendahl

Geophysical surveys of a potentially extensive cave system, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA

L. Land and A. Rinehart

Microbial diversity of speleothems in two southeast Australian limestone cave arches

D. Vardeh, J. Woodhouse, B. Neilan

Speleomycology of air in Demänovská Cave of Liberty (Slovakia) and new air-borne species for fungal sites

R. Ogórek

Diatom species diversity and their ecological patterns on different substrates in two karstic streams in the Slovak karst

J. Czerwik-Marcinkowska, W. Wróblew-ski, M. Gradziński, and B. Uher

Late Pleistocene vertebrates from Three-Forks Cave, Adair County, Oklahoma Ozark Highland

N. Czaplewski, K. Rogers, and C. Russell

Hyalella maya, a new hyalellidae species (crustacea: amphipoda) from a cenote in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

A. Marrón-Becerra, M. Hermoso-Salazar and V. Solis-Weiss

Speleogenesis of caves in a cretaceous shale: Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

D. Medville

Mineralogical and organic study of bat and chough guano: implications for guano identification in ancient context

DA. Queffelec, P.l Bertran, T. Bos, and L. Lemée

Environmental parameters controlling stalagmite growth in tropical areas: New insights from cave monitoring at Petruk Cave, central Java, Indonesia

W. Hasegawa, Y. Watanabe, H. Matsuoka, S. Ohsawa, B. Brahmantyo, K.A. Maryunani, and T. Tagami

Oedichirus spelaeus n. sp., the first cave dwelling beetle from Madagascar (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)

A. Faille and J.C. Lecoq

Eco-friendly Remediation of Lampenflora on Speleothems in Tropical Karst Caves

D.A. Trinh, Q.H. Trinh, N. Tran, J.G. Guinea, and D. Mattey

Sinkhole clusters after heavy rainstorms

M. Parise, L. Pisano, and C. Vennari

William B. Muchmore (1920-2017): His taxonomic contributions and complete bibliography

C.D.R. Stephen and M.S. Harvey

A study on thermal dynamics inside Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico, USA

A. Pflitsch, A. Adam, M. Schwabe, W. Furian, and S. Allison

The importance of air temperature as a key parameter to identify climatic processes inside Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico, USA

M. Killing-Heinze, A. Pflitsch, W. Furian, and S. Allison

Ice cave research of the United States

D. Holmgren, A. Pflitsch, J. Ringeis, and C. Meyer

Talus-and-gorge ice caves in the northeastern United States past to present—A microclimato-logical study

D. Holmgren, A. Pflitsch, K. Rancourt, and J. Ringeis

Climatologic studkes inside Sandy Glacier at Mount Hood Volcano in Oregon, USA

A. Pflitsch, E. Cartaya, B. McGregor, D. Holmgren, and B. Steinhöfel

Reports on ice caves in literature from the Twelfth to the middle of the Twentieth Century

C. Meyer, A. Pflitsch, J. Ringeis, and V. Maggi

Cyanobacteria and algae in an old mine adit (Marcinków, Sudety Mountains, southwestern Poland)

J. Czerwik-Marcinkowska, W. Pusz, and P. Zagożdżon

Organic matter enrichment affects archaea commu-nity in limestone cave sediments

E.L.S. Marques, J.C.I. Dias, G.S. Silva, C.P.Pirovani, and R.P. Rezende

Comparison of bacterial and archaeal communities from different habitats of the hypogenic Molnár János Cave of the Buda Thermal Karst System (Hungary)

D. Anda, G. Krett, J. Makk, K. Márialigeti, J. Mádl-Szőnyi, and A. K. Borsodi

First survey of the fungi from the Bakwena Cave in South Africa suggests low human disturbance

A. Jacobs, D. Msimang, and E. Venter

Seasonal cave air ventilation controlling variation in cave air PCO2 and drip water geochemistry at Inazumi Cave, Oita, northeastern Kyushu, Japan

T. Shindoh, T. Mishima, Y. Watanabe, S. Ohsawa, and T. Tagam

Testing the effectiveness of beryllium-7 as a tracer of the movement of sediment over short periods along a cave stream in Hidden River Cave, Kentucky U.S.A

Caroline A. Broderick, Carol M. Wicks, and Randall L. Paylor

Interactions between surface conditions, the Mediter-ranean Sea, and cave climate within two littoral caves in Mallorca: implications for the formation of phreatic overgrowths on speleothems

L.M. Boop, J.G. Wynn, G. Thompson, J.J. Forn´os, and B.P. Onac

Biodegradation of polyethylene by bacterial strains isolated from Kashmir Cave, Buner, Pakistan

S.U.u. Jamil, S. Zada, I. Khan, W. Sajjad, M. Rafiq, A.A. Shah, and F. Hasan