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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The Role Of The Brooke Rajahs: Promoting The Natural History Of Sarawak
Sarawak Museum Journal, 2022 From 1842 until 1946, three members of the English family Brooke governed the State of Sarawak in succession: Rajah Sir James Brooke (from 1842 until his death in 1868), his nephew Rajah Sir Charles Brooke (1868 – 1917), and his son His Highness Rajah ...
Gathorne, Earl of Cranbrook
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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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Ventilation and cave air PCO2 in the Bunker-Emst Cave System (NW Germany): implications for speleothem proxy data [PDF]
, 2019 Cave air pCO2 (carbon dioxide partial pressure) is, along with drip rate, one of the most important factors controlling speleothem carbonate precipitation.
Breitenbach, Sebastian +4 more
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Book Review: Los invertebrados de hábitats subterráneos de Jaén
ZooKeys, 2015 This book concerns the review of both the history of speleology in southern Spain and the invertebrate fauna of Jaen province within two parts: (1) ‘Historia de la Espeleologia en Andalucia’; and (2) ‘Medio subterraneo y organismos hipogeos’.
Francisco Javier Peris-Felipo
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Teaching resources in speleology and karst: a valuable educational tool [PDF]
International Journal of Speleology, 2010 There is a growing need in the speleological community of tools that make teaching of speleology and karst much easier. Despite the existence of a wide range of major academic textbooks, often the caver community has a difficult access to such material ...
De Waele Jo
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Discussions on the disciplinary system of modern karstology
Carsologica Sinica, 2022 As an important part of modern earth science, karstology (karst science) has always been considered as a cross and marginal discipline between geology, geography, environmental science and ecology, but has not established its own independent discipline ...
Junbing PU
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A Biological Inventory of Meacham Cave (Independence County, Arkansas) [PDF]
, 2011 During September 2008 through June 2011, we compiled a biological inventory of Meacham Cave in Independence County, AR. Compared to other caves in the region, Meacham Cave houses few vertebrates, but non-aquatic invertebrates were relatively common.
Boyd, M. +15 more
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Mixtacandona thessalica, a new species of ostracod (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from a sulfidic cave in central Greece [PDF]
Subterranean BiologyThe genus Mixtacandona Klie, 1938 (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Candonidae) includes 21 living non-marine species, all subterranean, with Palearctic distribution. Here we report on Mixtacandona thessalica sp. nov., collected in a sulfidic cave in central Greece.
Giampaolo Rossetti +4 more
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