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Bat urea-derived minerals in arid environment. First identification of allantoin, C4H6N4O3, in Kahf Kharrat Najem Cave, United Arab Emirates [PDF]
, 2017 Kahf Kharrat Najem Cave is a small cave in United Arab Emirates (UAE) that hosts a bat colony which is the source of guano deposits and peculiar centimeter-long yellowish stalactites.
Al-Farraj, Asma +11 more
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Cryomorphological topographies in the study of ice caves [PDF]
, 2018 Producción CientíficaThe current interest in ice caves requires that their varied manifestations be known as accurately as possible in view of their responses to a global change and also to their great potential as paleoenvironmental witnesses.
Gómez Lende, Manuel +1 more
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Diet composition of the long-legged buzzard (Buteo rufinus) in southeastern Bulgaria
Raptor Journal, 2022 During 2018–2022, the local breeding population of the long-legged buzzard (Buteo rufinus) in southeastern Bulgaria was monitored in the territory of three districts of Sliven, Yambol and Burgas. Diet data were collected in 15 breeding pairs. Overall, we
Dravecký Miroslav +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The study of local extinction times, together with the associated environmental and human population changes in the last glacial termination, provides insights into the causes of mega- and microfauna extinctions.
Enikő Katalin Magyari +9 more
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Life and Environment, 2020 The Institute of Speleology** founded by EG Racovitza in Romania, arrived in 2020 at its centennial anniversary. We recount the way in which the idea of an institution dealing with diverse research aspects of the subterranean domain, at the time accessible mainly through the exploration of the caves, became a reality.
I. G. Tabacaru, D. L. Danielopol
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An extraordinary colonial spider community in Sulfur Cave (Albania/Greece) sustained by chemoautotrophy [PDF]
Subterranean BiologyWe report the discovery and detailed analysis of an extraordinary colonial spider assemblage in Sulfur Cave, a chemoautotrophic sulfidic ecosystem located on the Albania-Greece border.
István Urák +11 more
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Guano mining in Kenyan lava tunnel caves [PDF]
International Journal of Speleology, 1998 Commercial mining of bat guano for agricultural fertilizer only became possible in Kenya through discovery of major deposits in the lava tunnel caves of Mt. Suswa and the North Chyulu Hills in the early 1960’s.
Jim W. Simons
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Getting the ‘most out of the hotspot’ for practical conservation of groundwater biodiversity
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Conservation planning aimed at halting biodiversity loss has seldom focused on groundwater environments due to the lack of suitable management tools and data.
Mattia Iannella +6 more
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In-situ cosmogenic 36Cl denudation rates of carbonates in Guizhou karst area [PDF]
, 2013 This study quantifies surface denudation of carbonate rocks by the first application of in-situ cosmogenic <sup>36</sup>Cl in China. Concentrations of natural Cl and in-situ cosmogenic <sup>36</sup>Cl in bare carbonates from ...
Freeman, Stewart +7 more
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Age constraints for the Trachilos footprints from Crete
Scientific Reports, 2021 We present an updated time frame for the 30 m thick late Miocene sedimentary Trachilos section from the island of Crete that contains the potentially oldest hominin footprints. The section is characterized by normal magnetic polarity.
Uwe Kirscher +12 more
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