Impacts of invasive rats on Hawaiian cave resources by Francis G. Howarth, Fred D. Stone

“…Although there are no published studies and limited data documenting damage by rodents in Hawaiian caves, our incidental observations during more than 40 years of surveying caves indicate that introduced rodents, especially the roof rat, Rattus rattus, pose significant threats to vulnerable cave resources. …”
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Lava caves of the Republic of Mauritius, Indian Ocean by Gregory J. Middleton

“…Recent investigations indicate this judgement is inaccurate; there are over 50 significant caves, including lava tube caves up to 687 m long (one 665 m long was surveyed as early as 1769) and 35 m wide. …”
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Medical Survey of the Staff Working in Škocjan Caves by Vanja Debevec Gerjevič

“…The accurate evidence of time spent in the cave is kept for every member of the staff. This enables us to combine the data with radon concentration and determine the maximum dose of radiation that one has received during one year working period. …”
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Discovery of a diverse cave flora in China. by Alexandre K Monro, Nadia Bystriakova, Longfei Fu, Fang Wen, Yigang Wei

“…Few studies document plants in caves. Our field observations of a widespread and seemingly angiosperm-rich cave flora in SW China lead us to test the following hypotheses, 1) SW China caves contain a diverse vascular plant flora, 2) that this is a relic of a largely absent forest type lacking endemic species, and 3) that the light environment plants occupy in caves is not distinct from non-cave habitats. …”
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Longwall top coal caving automation concept by Nikitenko Sergey, Kiessling Ulf, Kizilov Sergey, Nikitenko Mikhail

“…This paper describes history of the longwall top coal caving technology. The devices capable to promote wider application of LTCC are discussed. …”
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RESISTANCE OF KARST CAVES MICROORGANISMS TO p-NITROCHLOROBENZENE by Suslova O. S., Rokitko P. V., Bondar K. M., Golubenko O. O., Tashyrev A. B.

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Eogenetic caves in Pleistocene carbonate conglomerate in Slovenia by Mateja Ferk, Matej Lipar

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Special Input Devices Integration to LIRKIS CAVE by Hudák Marián, Korečko Štefan, Sobota Branislav

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Food sources of selected terrestrial cave arthropods by Jaroslav Smrž, Ľubomír Kováč, Jaromír Mikeš, Vladimír Šustr, Alena Lukešová, Karel Tajovsky, Alena Nováková, Petra Režňáková

“…As caves represent an extreme biotope with limited food sources, one might expect cave animal communities to exhibit low feeding specialization and to consume generally whatever organic matter is available. …”
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Guano mining in Kenyan lava tunnel caves by Jim W. Simons

“…A brief outline of attempts to conserve the areas and caves is also included.…”
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Recent developments on morphometric analysis of karst caves by Leonardo Piccini

“…Nowadays, the use of computers and the digital techniques for survey processing easily allows to carry out morphometric analysis of caves and karst systems. Morphometric indices have been proposed by many authors in order to describe the genetic features of some particular types of caves, suchas coastal ones, maze caves or isolated voids. …”
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Biodiversity of the Huautla Cave System, Oaxaca, Mexico by Oscar F. Francke, Rodrigo Monjaraz-Ruedas, Jesús A. Cruz-López

“…Sistema Huautla is the deepest cave system in the Americas at 1560 m and the fifth longest in Mexico at 89,000 m, and it is a mostly vertical network of interconnected passages. …”
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Numeric Simulation of Acoustic-Logging of Cave Formations by Fanghui Xu, Zhuwen Wang

Subjects: “…cave formation…”
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Palaeomagnetic Research of Cave Sediments in SW Slovenia by Pavel Bosák, Petr Pruner, Nadja Zupan Hajna

“…Podatki nakazujejo možnost, da je jama nastala v mesinski stopnji, za katero je značilen padec morske gladine in razvoj globokega krasa v Mediteranu. Three profiles of caves sediments (Divača fossil cave, Divaška Jama and Trhlovca Cave) were studied in the Kras near Divača village. …”
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The Addaura Cave: Dance and Rite in Mesolithic Sicily by Budano Paola

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Trophic Dynamics in a Neotropical Limestone Cave by Marconi Silva, Rogério Parentoni Martins, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira

“…So, the food that is truly used by the cave communities is that transported at the end of the rainy season (and during all the dry season) that becomes available for the cave fauna. …”
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Research of Caving Methods Based on Discrete Element by WANG Ye, ZHANG Chun-li, WANG Fu-long, FAN Wen-sheng

Subjects: “…caving top coal…”
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Dating Petroglyphs from Fugoppe Cave, Japan by Masaru Ogawa

“…For over 20 years, I have tried to establish a relative date for petroglyphs in Fugoppe Cave, Japan. Unsuspected amidst debris accumulating from about 1300 years ago, the petroglyphs were rediscovered accidentally in 1950. …”
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Modelling of cave-in occurrence using AHP and GIS by A. A. Malinowska, K. Dziarek

“…Accordingly, the most important qualitative and quantitative risk factors were finally selected on the basis of whether the risk of cave-ins occurrence on the surface could be calculated. …”
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Kaltbach Cave (Siebenhengste, Switzerland): Phantom of the Sandstone? by Philipp Haüselmann, Paola Tognini

“…The cave’s morphology does not fitwiththe“normal”speleogenesis:itisaso-calledphantom cave. …”
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