Presedintele

“EMIL RACOVIŢĂ”

PRESEDINTELE

In anul 2015, în Institutul de Speologie au activat un număr de 28 cercetători atestați (5 CS I, 6 CS II, 14 CS III și 3 CS), 4 ACS dintre care 25 doctori și 4 doctoranzi în faze diferite de realizare a tezei.

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   Băncilă, R.I., Ozgul, A, Hartel, T, Sos, T, Schmidt, B.R., 2015 – Direct negative density-dependence regulating the population dynamics of a pond-breeding frog. Ecography, DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01584 (F.I.=4.77)
   
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   Brad T., Fišer C., Flot J.-F. and Sarbu S. M., 2015. – Niphargus dancaui sp. nov. (Amphipoda, Niphargidae) – a new species thriving in sulfidic groundwaters in southeastern Romania. European Journal of Taxonomy (F.I. = 1.312)
   
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   Buşmachiu, G., Popa, I. and Weiner, W. M., 2015 – Collembola (Hexapoda) from South-Eastern Carpathians protected areas, with description of Hymenaphorura ioni sp. nov. Annales Zoologici, 64 (4): 549-556 (F.I = 1.161)
   
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   Ciocănău, M.A., Bărăităreanu, S., Gurău, M.R., Vlaicu, M., Vladimirescu, A.F., Daneş, D., 2015 – Correlations between local bat populations (Ord.Chiroptera) and Borrelia sppinfections inhumans throughout Romania. Journal of Biotechnology 208 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2015.06.273 (F.I.=2.871)
   
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   Epure, L., Muntean, V., Constantin, S., & Moldovan, O.T., 2015 – Ecophysiological groups of bacteria from cave sediments as potential indicators of paleoclimate. Quaternary International, online first (doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.04.016) (F.I. = 2,062)
   
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   Feurdean A., Marinova E., Nielsen A., Liakka J., Veres D., Hutchinson S., Braun M., Timar-Gabor A., Astalos C., Mosbrugger V., Hickler T., 2015. Origin of the forest steppe and exceptional grassland diversity in Transylvania (central-eastern Europe). Journal of Biogeography 42:951-963. (F.I.=4.969)
   
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   Forray, F. L., Onac, B. P., Tanţău, I., Wynn, J. G., Tămaş, T., Coroiu, I., & Giurgiu, A. M., 2015– A Late Holocene environmental history of a bat guano deposit from Romania: an isotopic, pollen and microcharcoal study. Quaternary Science Reviews, 127:141-154 (F.I.=4.572)
   
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   Fu, Q., Hajdanjak, M., Moldovan, O.T., Constantin, S. Mallik, S., Skoglud, P., Patterson, N., Rohland, N., Lazaridis, I., Nickel, B. Viola, B., Prufer, K., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Reich, D. & Paabo, S., 2015 – An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor. Nature, 524: 216-219 ( F.I. = 41,456).
   
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   Giurginca, A., Sustr, V., Tajovsky, K., Giurginca, M., Matei, I., 2015 - Spectroscopic parameters of the cuticle and ethanol extracts of the fluorescent cave isopod Mesoniscus graniger (Isopoda, Oniscidea). Zookeys, 515: 111-125 (F.I.= 0.933).
   
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    Govin, A., Capron, E., Tzedakis, P.C., Verheyden, S., Ghaleb, B., Hillaire-Marcel, C., St-Onge, G., Stoner, J.S., Bassinot, F., Bazin, L., Blunier, T., Combourieu-Nebout, N., El Ouahabi, A., Genty, D., Gersonde, R., Jimenez-Amat, P., Landais, A., Martrat,B., Masson-Delmotte, V., Parrenin, F., Seidenkrantz, M.-S., Veres, D., Waelbroeck, C., Zahn, R., 2015 – Sequence of events from the onset to the demise of the Last Interglacial: Evaluating strengths and limitations of chronologies used in climatic archives. Quaternary Science Reviews, 129:1-36. (F.I.=4.572)
    
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    Lisé-Pronovost, A., St-Onge, G., Gogorza, C., Haberzettl, T., Jouve, G., Francus, P., Ohlendorf, C., Gebhardt, C., Zolitschka, B., Vereș, D. and PASADO Science Team, 2015 – Rock-magnetic proxies of wind intensity and dust since 51,200 cal BP from lacustrine sediments of Laguna Potrok Aike, southeastern Patagonia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 411:72-86. (F.I.= 4.734)
    
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    Lowe, J.J., RESET Associates, Housley, R.A., Lane, C.S., Tomlinson, E.L., Stringer, C., Davies, W., Barton, N., Pollard, M., Gamble, C., Veres, D., Wastegard, S., Ortiz, J.E., Torres, T., Diaz-Bautista, A., Moreno, A., Valero-Garces, B., Lowick, S., Ottolini, L. et al., 2015 – The RESET project: Constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews 118: 1-17. (F.I.=4.572)
    
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    Magyari E.K., Vereș, D., Wennrich V., Wagner B., Braun M., Karátson D., Pál Z., Ferenczy Gy., St-Onge G., Rethemeyer J., Francois J.-P., von Reumont F., Schäbitz F., 2015– Vegetation and environmental responses to climate forcing during the last glacial maximum and deglaciation in the East Carpathians: attenuated response to maximum cooling and increased biomass burning. Quaternary Science Review, 106:278–298 (F.I. = 4.572)
    
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    Manu, M, Iordache, V, Băncilă, R.I., Bodescu, F., Onete, M., 2015– The influence of environmental variables on soil mite communities (Acari: Mesostigmata) from overgrazed grassland ecosystems-Romania. Italian Journal of Zoology, DOI: 10.1080/11250003.2015.1091897 (F.I.=0.79)
    
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    Marković, S.B., Stevens, T., Kukla, G.J., Hambach, U., Fitzsimmons, K.E., Gibbard, P., Buggle, B., Zech, M., Guo, Z., Hao, Q., Wu, H., O'Hara Dhand, K., Smalley, I.J., Újvári, G., Sümegi, P., Timar-Gabor, A., Veres, D., Sirocko, F., Vasiljević, D., Jary, Z., Svensson, A., Jović, V., Lehmkuhl, F., Kovács, J., Svirčev, Z., 2015–Danube loess stratigraphy - Towards a pan-European loess stratigraphic model. Earth-Science Reviews, 148:228-258. (F.I.=7.135)
    
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    Meleg, I.N., Battes, K.P., Fiers, F., Moldovan, O.T., 2015 – Contrasting copepod community dynamics related to sampling strategies in the unsaturated zone of a karst aquifer. Aquatic Ecology, 49: 549-560 (F.I.= 1.422)
    
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    Mitrofan, H. , Marin, C., Povară, I., 2015 – Possible conduit-matrix water exchange signatures outlined at a karst spring. Groundwater, 53 (S1):113–122, Doi: 10.1111/gwat.12292, (F.I.=2,307)
    
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    Moldovan O.T., Constantin S., Panaiotu C., Roban R.D., Frenzel P., Miko L., 2015 – Fossil invertebrates records in cave sediments and paleoenvironmental assessments: a study of four cave sites from Romanian Carpathians. Biogeosciences doi:10.5194/bgd-12-1-2015 (F.I. =3.978)
    
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    Moldovan O.T., Levei E., 2015 – Temporal variability of fauna and the importance of sampling frequency in the hyporheic zone. Hydrobiologia, 755: 27-38 (F.I.= 2.275)
    
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    Moreno, A., Svensson, A., Brooks, S.J., Connor, S., Engels, S., Fletcher, W., Genty, D., Heiri, O., Labuhn, I., Persoiu, A., Peyron, O., Sadori, L., Valero-Garces, B., Wulf, S., Zanchetta, G., Allen, J.R.M., Ampel, L., Blamart, D., Birks, H., Blockley, S., Borsato, A., Bos, H., Brauer, A., Combourieu-Nebout, N., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Drescher-Schneider, R., Drysdale, R., Elias, S., Frisia, S., Hellstrom, J., Ilyashuk, B., Joannin, S., Kohl, N., Larocque-Tobler, I., Lotter, A., Magny, M., Matthews, I., McDermott, F., Millet, L., Morellon, M., Neugebauer, I., Munoz-Sobrino, C., Naughton, F., Ohlwein, C., Roucoux, K., Samartin, S., Sanchez-Goni, M.-F., Sirocko, F., van Asch, N., van Geel, B., van Grafenstein, U., Vanniere, B., Vegas, J., Veres, D., Walker, M., Wohlfarth, B., 2015 – A compilation of Western European terrestrial records 60-8 ka BP: Towards an understanding of latitudinal climatic gradients. Quaternary Science Reviews 106:167-185 (F.I.= 4.572).
    
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    Mulec, J., Oarga, A., Schiller, E., Perşoiu, A., Holko, L., Šebela, S., 2015 – Assessment of the physical environment of epigean invertebrates in a unique habitat according to water temperature, chemistry and isotopic composition: the case of a karst sulphidic spring, Slovenia. Ecohydrology, 8 (7): 1326-1334 (F.I. = 2.426)
    
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    Murariu, D., 2015 – Archibald, J.D., 2011. Extinction and radiation: How the Fall of Dinosaurs led to the Rise of Mammals. Journal of Mammalogy, 96(5): 1106 – 1107. (F.I.= 1,840).
    
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    Nitzu, E., 2015 - Scree habitat as ecological refuge: A study of case on the Carpathian endemic species Platynus glacialis and Pterostichus pilosus wellensii (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in their first case of co-occurrence in the rock debris. North-Western Journal of Zoology (online first): art.151102. (F.I. = 0.869)
    
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    Pacioglu O., Moldovan O.T., 2015 – Response of invertebrates from the hyporheic zone of chalk rivers to eutrophication and land use. Environmental Science and Pollution Research DOI 10.1007/s11356-015-5703-0 (F.I. = 2.828)
    
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    Perşoiu, A., Feurdean, A., Wim, H.Z., 2015 – Closing and exposing the gaps in knowledge: INTIMATE workshop on terrestrial records from Central and Eastern Europe for the Last Glacial–Interglacial transition, Quaternary International, 388: 1-3 (F.I. =2.062)
    
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    Povară, I., Conovici, M., Munteanu, C.-M., Marin, C., Ioniță, E. D. , 2015 – Karst systems within the Southern Carpathians (Romania). Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 10 (2):5–17. (F.I. = 0,630)
    
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    Recasens, C., Ariztegui, D., Maidana, N. I., Zolitschka, B., Vereș, D. and PASADO Science Team, 2015 – Diatoms as indicators of hydrological and climatic changes in Laguna Potrok Aike (Patagonia) since the Late Pleistocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 417: 309-319. (F.I.= 2.942)
    
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    Robu, M., 2015 – Fossil population structure and mortality analysis of the cave bears from Urşilor Cave, north-western Romania. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00201.2015 (F.I = 1.86).
    

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    Danielopol, D.L., Baltanas, A., Carbonel, P., Colin, J.P., Crasquin, S., Decrouy, L., De Deckker, P., Gliozzi, E., Groos-Uffenorde, H., Horne, DJ., Iepure, S., Keyser, D., Kornicker, LS., Lord, A., Martens, K., Matzke-Karasz, R., Miller, CG., Oertli, HJ., Pugliese, N., Russo, A., Sames, B., Schon, I., Siveter, DJ., Smith, A., Viehberg, FA., Wouters, K., Yassini, I, 2015 - From Naples 1963 to Rome 2013 – A brief review of how the International Research Group on Ostracoda (IRGO) developed as a social communication system. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology , 419: 3-22. (F.I.=2.942)
    
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    Feurdean, A, Galka, M., Kuske, E., Tanțău, I., Lamentowicz, M., Florescu, G., Liakka, J., Hutchinson, S.M., Mulch, A., Hickler, T., 2015 – Last Millennium hydro-climate variability in Central–Eastern Europe (Northern Carpathians, Romania). The Holocene, I-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683615580197. (F.I. = 2.283)
    
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    Grindean R., Feurdean A., Hurdu B., Farcas S., Tantau I., 2015 – Lateglacial/Holocene transition to mid-Holocene: Vegetation responses to climate changes in the Apuseni Mountains (NW Romania). Quaternary International DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.056. (F.I.= 2.06)
    
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    Haliuc A., Hutchinson S.M., Florescu G., Feurdean A., 2015 - The role of fire in landscape dynamics: An example of two sediment records from the Rodna Mountains, northern Romanian Carpathians. Catena doi:10.1016/j.catena.2015.10.021. (F.I.= 2.820)
    
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    Hutchinson, S.M., Akinyemi, F.O., Mindrescu, M., Begy, R., Feurdean, A., 2015 – Recent sediment accumulation rates in contrasting lakes in the Carpathians (Romania): impacts of shifts in socio-economic regime. Regional Environmental Change DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0764-7. (F.I.=2.63)
    
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    Iepure S., Feurdean A., Bădăluţă C., Nagavciuc C., Perşoiu A., 2015 – Pattern of richness and distribution of groundwater Copepoda (Cyclopoida: Harpacticoida) and Ostracoda in Romania: an evolutionary perspective. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 10 DOI: 10.1111/bij.12686. (F.I.=2.26)
    

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   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPELEOLOGY
   
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   Data from the 2013 edition of Journal Citation Reports®
   
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   Publisher SOCIETA SPELEOLOGICA ITALIANA, VIA ZAMBONI 67, BOLOGNA, 40126, ITALY
   
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    ISSN: 0392-6672
    eISSN: 1827-806X
    
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    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPELEOLOGY
    

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   Constantin, S., 2015–Speleothems as archives of the past – a beginner’s guide, p.74-87. In: 3er Simposio Internacional de Espeleología en el Ecuador - Boletín Científico Tena 13 - 15 marzo 2015 (Toulkeridis, T., Constantin, S., Addison, A. Eds). Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas, ESPE.
   
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   Cosac, M., Murătoreanu, G., Radu, A., Veres, D., Buzea, D., Niţă, L., Mărgărit, M., Dumitraşcu, V., Ghiţă, H., Stroe, D.-B., Negoi, V., Niţă, B., Rus, D., Hotinceanu, I., 2015. Peştera Ursului – Cheile Vârghişului, jud. Harghita – campania 2014, p. 215. Cronica cercetărilor arheologice din România. Campania 2014 .
   
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   Cosac, M., Murătoreanu, G., Radu, A., Veres, D., Buzea, D., Niţă, L., Mărgărit, M., Dumitraşcu, V., Ghiţă, H., Stroe, D.-B., Negoi, V., Niţă, B., Rus, D., Hotinceanu, I., 2015. Abri 122/1200 – Cheile Vârghişului, jud. Harghita – campania 2014, p. 162 – 163. Cronica cercetărilor arheologice din România. Campania 2014.
   
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   Epure,L., Borda, D.R., 2015 – Groundwater contamination and the relationship between water chemistry and biotic components in a karst system (Bihor Mountains, Romania), Travaux de L'Institut de Speologie "Emile Racovitza", 53: 69-84.
   

5. Fiers F., Lagnika M., 2015 – Four new representatives of the genus Allocyclops Kiefer, 1932 from semi-consolidated subsoil aquifers in Benin (Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Cyclopidae). Subterranean Biology, 16(3): 1-36.

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   Giurginca, A., Munteanu, C.M., Vlaicu, M – An inventory of the caves of Romania inhabited by Oniscidea. Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie, 53: 7-40.
   
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   Murariu, D.T., 2015 - Filosofia ştiinţelor biologice în opera Academicianului Nicolae Botnariuc. Academica, XXV/293 (3): 70 – 72.
   
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   Murătoreanu, G., Cuculici, R., Veres, D., Cosac, M., Radu, A., Buzea, D.L., 2015 – Potențialul arheologic al carstului din Cheile Vârghișului (Munții Perșani). Etape preliminare în realizarea unui sistem informațional geografic. Arheovest 3.
   
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   Tabacaru, I., Giurginca, A. – Identification key to the cavernicolous Oniscidea of Romania. Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie, 53: 41-69.
   
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    Toulkeridis, T., Addison, A., Constantin, S., Winkler, E., Toomey III, R., Osburn, R., Haley, R., Hoese, G., Arce, O., Grefa, J.R., Zurita, L.T., Carabajo, Navarrete.E., Simon Braile, D., 2015 – Espeleología en Tena, Napo. Un breve inventario geologico y cartográfico. In: 3er Symposio Internacional de Espeleología en el Ecuador. Boletin Cientifico, Tena 13-15 Marzo 2015 (T. Toulkeridis, Constantin, S., Addison, A., Ed.), Universidad de Las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE), pp. 20-67.
    

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   Botnaru, V., Petculescu, A., Gheorghiu, V., Nazareanu, G. – Moldova, 11 p., In: Encyclopædia Biospeologica Vol. I, Europe, Ed. by C. Juberthie and V. Decu. Second Edition, Ed. Museum of Natural History in Paris (In press)
   
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   Constantin, S., Toulkeridis, T., Moldovan, O.T., Villacís, M., Addison, A. – Caves and karst of Ecuador – state-of-the-art and research perspectives. Environmental Earth Sciences – submitted, in review.
   
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   Decu, V., Gheorghiu, V. – European Turkey, 1-12 pp, In: Encyclopædia Biospeologica Vol. I, Europe, Ed. by C. Juberthie and V. Decu. Second Edition, Ed. Museum of Natural History in Paris (In press)
   
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   Decu, V., Juberthie, C., Gheorghiu, V – Georgia. 1-21pp., In: Encyclopædia Biospeologica Vol. I, Europe, Ed. by C. Juberthie and V. Decu. Second Edition, Ed. Museum of Natural History in Paris (In press)
   
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   Decu, V., Juberthie, C., Gheorghiu, V. – Hungary. 1- 16 pp., In: Encyclopædia Biospeologica Vol. I, Europe, Ed. by C. Juberthie and V. Decu. Second Edition, Ed. Museum of Natural History in Paris (In press)
   
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   Decu, V., Juberthie, C., Gheorghiu, V. – Ucraina. 1- 19 pp., In: Encyclopædia Biospeologica Vol. I, Europe, Ed. by C. Juberthie and V. Decu. Second Edition, Ed. Museum of Natural History in Paris (In press)
   
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   Decu, V., Juberthie, C., Iepure, S., Gheorghiu, V., Nazareanu, G. – Survey of the subterranean species from Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Subterranean Biology (In press)
   
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   Decu, V., Juberthie, C., Moldovan, O.T., Gheorghiu, V. – Roumanie, pp. 1-72 pp., In: Encyclopædia Biospeologica Vol. I, Europe, Ed. by C. Juberthie and V. Decu. Second Edition, Ed. Museum of Natural History in Paris (In press)
   
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   Karátson, D., Wulf, S., Veres, D., Magyari, E.K., Gertisser, R., Timar-Gabor, A., Novothny, Á., Telbisz, T., Szalai, Z., Anechitei-Deacu, V., Appelt, O., Bormann, M., Jánosi, Cs., Hubay, K., Schäbitz, F. – The latest explosive eruptions of Ciomadul (Csomád) volcano, East Carpathians - a tephrostratigraphic approach for the 52–29 ka BP time interval. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (in review).
   
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    Moldovan, OT., Constantin, S., Panaiotu, C., Roban, RD., Frenzel, P. and Miko, L. – Fossil invertebrates records in cave sediments and paleoenvironmental assessments: a study of four cave sites from Romanian Carpathians. Biogeosciences – submitted, in review.
    
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    Moldovan, OT., Kenesz, M., Constantin, S., Cheval, S. – Dripping heterogeneity in the vadose zone and its ecological significance. Ecohydrology – submitted, in review.
    
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    Murariu, D.T. – Adaptări ale biodiversităţii la schimbările climatice. Academica, XXV/ Nr. (sub tipar).
    
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    Murariu, D.T. – Comments on the species concept. Muzeul Olteniei, Craiova. Oltenia. Studii şi Comunicări Ştiinţele Naturii, vol. XXX1/1 (sub tipar).
    
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    Murariu, D.T. – Mammal fauna (MAMMALIA) of the Buzău and Telajen Valleys (Eastern Carpathians – Romania). Travaux de l,Institut de Spéologie „Ėmile Racovitza”, LIV (sub tipar)
    
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    Murariu, D.T. – Revised and commented checklist of mammals species from Romania. Travaux de l,Institut de Spéologie „Ėmile Racovitza”, LIV (sub tipar)
    
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    Nae I., Ivan O. – First record of three Oribatid Mites species (Acari: Oribatida) from Piatra Craiului Mountains, Romania. Trav. Inst. Spéol. «Émile Racovitza», t. LIV, Bucarest (in press).
    
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    Nae, A., Synaphris Lehtineni, Marusik, Gnelista & Kovliuk – (Synaphridae, Araneae) – New Record For The Romanian Fauna. Trav. Inst. Spéol. «Émile Racovitza», t. LIV, Bucarest (in press).
    
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    Nitzu, E., Dobrin, I., Dumbravă, M., Gutue, M. – The range expansion of Ovalisia festiva (Linnaeus, 1767) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Eastern Europe and its damaging potential for cupressaceae. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 57(2).
    
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    Popa, I., Dorobăţ, L. – New records and rare species of Collembola for the Romanian fauna (Leaota Massif, Southern Carpathians). Trav. Inst. Spéol. “E. Racovitza”, t. 54, in press
    
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    Sirocko F., Knapp H., Klee M., Dreher F., Förster M., Albert J., Brunck H., Veres D., Dietrich S., Zech M., Hambach U., Röhner M., Rudert S., Rothacker L., Schwibus K., Adams C. – Landscape evolution and volcanic activity in the Eifel; multiproxy reconstruction from maar sediments of the last 60 000 years. Global and Planetary Change (acceptat) (F.I.= 2.766)
    
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    Timar-Gabor, A., Panaiotu, C., Veres, D., Necula, C., Constantin, D., The lower Danube loess, new age constraints from luminescence dating, magnetic proxies and isochronous tephra markers. Capitol carte in Landform Dynamics and Evolution in Romania, Eds. Radoane M., Vespremeanu‐Stroe, A., Springer Geography.
    
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    Trandafir O., Timar-Gabor A., Schmidt C., Veres D., Anghelinu M., Hambach U., Simon S. – OSL dating of fine and coarse quartz from a Palaeolithic sequence on the Bistrița Valley (northeastern Romania). Quaternary Geochronology (acceptat). (F.I. = 2.476)
    
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    Wulf, S., Fedorowicz, S., Veres, D., Karátson, D., Gertisser, R., Bormann, M., Magyari, E., Appelt, O., Łanczont, M., Gozhyk, P.F. – The ‘Roxolany Tephra’ (Ukraine) – new evidence for an origin from Ciomadul volcano, East Carpathians. Journal of Quaternary Science (in review).
    

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   Giurginca, A., Munteanu, C.M., Vlaicu, M. & Tabacaru, I.G., 2015 – Cavernicolous Oniscidea of Romania. “Semne” Publishing House, Romania, 166 pp., ISBN: 606-15-0673-2
   
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   Pop, O., Murariu, D., Ionescu, D.T., Indreica, A.V. et al., 2015 – Parcul Național Piatra Craiului - Ghidul speciilor și habitatelor de interes comunitar și național. Ed. ARS Docendi, București, 288 pp, ISBN 978-973-558-833-5
   
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   Toulkeridis, T., Constantin, S., and Addison, A. Eds., 2015 –3er Simposio Internacional de Espeleología en el Ecuador - Boletín Científico Tena 13 - 15 marzo 2015. Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas, ESPE, Quito, 180 p, ISBN: 978-9942-21-328-0
   
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   Vlaicu, M., Csaba, J., Dragu, A., Borda, D., Goran, C., Szodoray-Paradi, F., Bucur-Nastase, R., Niţu E., Murariu, D., 2014 – Ghid pentru monitorizarea stării de conservare a peşterilor şi speciilor de lilieci de interes comunitar din România. Ed. Andverising, 134 pp. (nu a fost trecuta in raportul pe 2014).
   

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  Vattahil, S. & Akey, JM. (2015) Small Amounts of Archaic Admixture Provide Big Insights into Human History. Cell, 163 (2): 281-284.
  
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  Ruebens, K., McPheron, SJP, Hubli, JJ. (2015) On the local Mousterian origin of the Chatelperronian: Integrating typo-technological, chronostratigraphic and contextual data. J. of Human Evolution, 86: 55-91.
  
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  Paabo, S (2015) The contribution of ancient hominin genomes from Siberia to our understanding of human evolution. Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 85, 5: 392-396
  

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  Bocherens, H. (2015) Isotopic tracking of large carnivore palaeoecology in the mammoth steppe. Quat. Sci. Rev., 117: 42-71.
  
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  Sitlivy, V., Chabai, V., Anghelinu, M., Uthmeier, T., Kels, H., Nita, L., Baltean, I., Veselsky, A., Tutu, C. (2014) Preliminary reassessment of the Aurignacian in Banat (South-western Romania). Quat. Intl., 351: 193-212.
  

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