Una miniera di risorse nella libreria digitale di karst Information Portal

Il Karst Information Portal è una libreria digitale ad accesso libero creata nel 2006, con link ad articoli scientifici, esplorazioni, relazioni tecniche e valutazioni che riguardano gli ambienti carsici, nata per informare e promuovere la collaborazione tra studiosi.

La libreria raccoglie decine di articoli scientifici, relazioni, studi, esplorazioni che comprendono geologia, biodiversità, chimica, fisica del clima sotterraneo, la pressione antropica, i problemi legati ai sinkholes, i pipistrelli e il loro habitat, la White Nose Syndrome, l’archeologia e la paleontologia.
Le conoscenze nel campo scientifico sono di supporto anche per la valorizzazione economica e culturale degli ambienti carsici.

Il progetto è ad accesso libero, e tra i partner principali annovera:

National Cave & Karst Research Institute
University of South Florida Libraries
University Libraries, University of New Mexico
Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS)

Sotto la guida di Todd Chavez, curatore della Libreria dell’Università della Florida USF Libraries, l’archivio si sta trasformando in un database georiferito, che da vita ad una mappa funzionale consultabile.
A titolo di esempio, questo è l’elenco degli articoli pubblicati negli ultimi quindici giorni:

50,000 years of archaeological site stratigraphy and micromorphology in Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, Western Australia

A Disturbance Index for Karst Environments

A Framework for Karst Ecohydrology

A GIS-based modeling approach to predicting cave disturbance in karst landscapes: a case study from west-central Florida

A new view on karst genesis

A prototype mass spectrometer for in situ analysis of cave atmospheres

A Review and Statistical Assessment of the Criteria for Determining Cave Significance

An Emerging Disease Causes Regional Population Collapse of a Common North American Bat Species

Artifact densities and assemblage formation: Evidence from Tabun Cave

Auditory opportunity and visual constraint enabled the evolution of echolocation in bats

Buried hill karst reservoirs and their controls on productivity

Carbon and oxygen isotope study of the active water-carbonate system in a karstic Mediterranean cave: Implications for paleoclimate research in semiarid regions

Carbon dioxide, ground air and carbon cycling in Gibraltar karst

Carbon mass-balance modelling and carbon isotope exchange processes in dynamic caves

Cave air control on dripwater geochemistry, Obir Caves (Austria): Implications for speleothem deposition in dynamically ventilated caves

Cave air ventilation and CO2 outgassing by radon-222 modeling: How fast do caves breathe?

Caves and Mining in Brazil: The Dilemma of Cave Preservation Within a Mining Context

Development of a Protocol for the Karst Water Source Protection Zoning: Application to the Classical Karst Region (NE Italy and SW Slovenia)

Diagnostic hydrogeologic characteristics of a karst aquifer (Kentucky, USA)

Discovery of a diverse cave flora in China

Echolocation: Discrimination of targets by the bat, Eptesicus fuscus

Engineering Issues on Karst

Evaporative Water Loss by Hibernating Little Brown Bats, Myotis lucifugus

Experimental infection of bats with Geomyces destructans causes white-nose syndrome

Home Is Where the Hearth Is: Anthracological and Microstratigraphic Analyses of Pleistocene and Holocene Combustion Features, Riwi Cave (Kimberley, Western Australia)

How the bat got its buzz

Hydrogeologic Framework and Geochemistry of the Edwards Aquifer Saline-Water Zone, South-Central Texas

Information in sonar echoes of fluttering insects available for echolocating bats

Karst flash floods: an example from the Dinaric karst (Croatia)

Karst groundwater: a challenge for new resources

Karst hydrology: recent developments and open questions

La zone d’infiltration des aquifères karstiques. Méthodes d’étude. Structure et fonctionnement

Large kinetic isotope effects in modern speleothems

Modeling spatially and temporally varied hydraulic behavior of a folded karst system with dominant conduit drainage at catchment scale, Hochifen–Gottesacker, Alps

Models of Temperature, Entropy Production and Convective Airflow in Caves

Molecular Characterization of a Heterothallic Mating System in Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the Fungus Causing White-Nose Syndrome of Bats

NCKRI Symposium 8 : Proceedings of the 16th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmedntal Impacts of Karst

Oil in ancient caves poses new challenges

Origin of caves and other solution openings in the unsaturated (vadose) zone of carbonate rocks: A model for CO2 generation

Orogeny and the collapse of the Devonian Prairie Evaporite karst in Western Canada: impact on the overlying Cretaceous Athabasca Oil Sands

Pan-European Distribution of White-Nose Syndrome Fungus (Geomyces destructans) Not Associated with Mass Mortality

Pliocene–Pleistocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from Ashalim Cave speleothems, Negev Desert, Israel

Proposed method for groundwater vulnerability mapping in carbonate (karstic) aquifers: the COP method

Pseudogymnoascus destructans transcriptome changes during white-nose syndrome infections

Puntutjarpa rockshelter revisited: a chronological and stratigraphic reappraisal of a key archaeological sequence for the Western Desert, Australia

Radiocarbon Dating of Rock Paintings: Incorporating Pictographs into the Archaeological Record

Recent advances in karst research: from theory to fieldwork and applications

Research
Frontiers In Speleogenesis. Dominant Processes, Hydrogeological Conditions And Resulting Cave Patterns

Rock Art In Arid Landscapes: Pilbara And Western Desert Petroglyphs

Seasonal Variations in Modern Speleothem Calcite Growth in Central Texas, U.S.A.

Seasonal variations of CO2 and 222Rn in a mediterranean sinkhole

Sinkhole “swarms” along the Dead Sea coast: Reflection of disturbance of lake and adjacent groundwater systems

Sinkholes and Subsidence

Speleothem calcite farmed in situ: Modern calibration of δ18O and δ13C paleoclimate proxies in a continuously-monitored natural cave system

Stable
isotope variations in modern tropical speleothems: Evaluating equilibrium vs. kinetic isotope effects

Stalagmites from western Thailand: preliminary investigations and challenges for palaeoenvironmental research

Target Structure and Echo Spectral Discrimination by Echolocating Bats

The Effect of Chemical Treatments on Lampenflora and a Collembola Indicator Species at a Popular Tour Cave in California, USA

The Identification of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Aggregation Sites: The Case of Altamira [and Comments and Reply]

The Karst Paradigm: Changes, Trends And Perspectives

Transmission of 13C signals and its paleoclimatic implications in Liangfeng Cave system of Guizhou Province, SW China

Using
Stable Isotopes Of Carbon To Investigate The Seasonal Variation Of Carbon Transfer In A Northwestern Arkansas Cave

Vision complements echolocation in an aerial-hawking bat

Waste management and problems of groundwater pollution in karst environments in the context of a post-conflict scenario: The case of Mostar (Bosnia Herzegovina)

White-nose syndrome: is this emerging disease a threat to European bats?

Wormhole formation in dissolving fractures