Bibliographies on Caves, Karst & Cave Life

James R. Reddell:

Bibliographic Guide to New World Cave Biology (NWBB)  [see TexBib link below]

A bibliographic database with a custom search engine for Windows, NWBB is a preliminary version of the Bibliographic Guide to New World Cave Biology. It represents over 40 years of work by Reddell, cave biologist at the Texas Memorial Museum, University of Texas at Austin. It contains approximately 20,000 citations with extensive author, taxonomic and geographic keywords. The search engine produces html text, which can be pasted into documents, edited and printed.

Bibliography of Texas Speleology (TexBib)

TexBib is a searchable, bibliographic, Windows database about Texas caves. It was primarily produced by James Reddell with contributions from other Texas Speleological Survey directors. Jerry Atkinson currently manages the TexBib project. David McKenzie wrote Reselect, the search engine program for TexBib and NWBB, which is downloadable.  The bibliography can be searched by author, keywords or combinations. TexBib entries are from all available Texas caving newsletters, plus national and international newsletters, books, science journals, newspapers, magazines, theses, dissertations, and any other published sources TSS can find. TexBib currently contains over 12,200 bibliographic entries dating from 1866 to the present, and it is regularly updated.

Also see AMCS and Texas Memorial Museum bulletins below.

William R. Elliott:

 Bibliography of Cave Notes/Caves & Karst (1959-1973) [cnotesbib5.xls]

An annotated, MS Excel bibliography of Cave Notes, the journal later titled Caves and Karst. This important journal was published by Cave Research Associates in California from 1959-1973. The bibliography covers all 736 published pages and a variety of scientific subjects, offered here to renew interest in the journal. Many scientists and serious cavers would benefit from the 367 articles, reviews, abstracts, bibliographies and notes. The editorials contain valuable historical comments on cave conservation and management. The journal is now available in three bound volumes (see photo). To purchase a set, please contact Ozark Underground Laboratory (Tom Aley)..

Bibliography of the National Cave & Karst Management Symposium, Proceedings (1975-2005) [nckmsbib5.xls]

I created this annotated, MS Excel bibliography to renew interest in the published proceedings of these symposia, which were important in the development of scientific management of caves and karst. Represented are all 18 NCKMS conferences since 1975 plus six similar meetings, covering 886 papers and 3,803 pages. Scientists and serious cavers will benefit from studying this large body of work. The next NCKMS will be in St. Louis, Missouri, October 8-12, 2007.

Bibliography on the Guacharo (oil bird) [guacharo.htm]  Created in 2001 for biologists interested in this subject, but it has not been updated.

Other Sources:

Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, NSS Bulletin

The journals of the National Speleological Society are presented as html pages with abstracts by year, title and author. No bibliography is available yet. Many of the JCKS articles are available as pdf files. The National Speleological Society Bulletin, or NSS Bulletin, began in 1939 and changed to JCKS in 1996. Thanks to Jim Pisarowicz, the editors and the NSS for providing these online.

Speleological Abstracts (SA/BBS)

Speleological Abstracts (SA/BBS) is an annual review of the world's speleological literature by the UIS (Union Internationale de Spéléologie). It is also known as the Bulletin Bibliographique Spéléologique. About 4,000 titles are included every year, most of them with a short abstract. Available on CD since1995.
 

A Guide to Speleological Literature
of the English Language, 1794-1996. Compiled and Edited by: Diana E Northup, Emily Davis Mobley, Kenneth L Ingham III, and William W Mixon. 538pp, 1998. Paperback/Harcover.

Over 3,800 annotated citations with introductions by many authors. Periodicals and journals generally are not included, but a universe of cave "books" [more than 10 pages] are covered: history, caving adventure, archeology, geology, biology, paleontology, conservation, exploration, show caves, children's books and much more. Individual chapters cover the history of the literature of major sub-disciplines, while indexes provide geographical, subject, and author access. This work contains details on a large number of books that are not accessible through any other known index.

About $12.95-24.95 from Speleobooks, NSS Bookstore and other vendors. This book is being converted into a bibliographic database as part of the Karst Information Portal that may become available through the National Cave & Karst Research Institute (NCKRI), Carlsbad, New Mexico.

 

The Association for Mexican Cave Studies (AMCS) has prepared facsimile scans of old AMCS biology Bulletins 3 through 6 as PDF files

on one CD. These have been effectively unavailable for many years. They total 920 pages and contain many important papers on taxonomy and

distribution. The price of the CD is $5. These bulletins contain many of the important papers on Mexican cave biology, which still are not well known

to American biospeleologists. Titles are:

Bulletin 3. A Preliminary Bibliography of Mexican Cave Biology. 1971. 184 pp. James R. Reddell.

Bulletin 4. Studies on the Cavernicole Fauna of Mexico. 1971. 239 pp. Edited by James R. Reddell and Robert W. Mitchell.

Bulletin 5. Studies on the Cavernicole Fauna of Mexico and Adjacent Regions. 1973. 201 pp. Edited by Robert W. Mitchell and James R. Reddell.

Bulletin 6. Studies on the Caves and Cave Fauna of the Yucatan Peninsula. 1977. 296 pp. Edited by James R. Reddell.

Includes A prelminary survey of the caves of the Yucatán Peninsula, pp. 215-296, by Reddell.

A new cave biology publication is now available:

Bulletin 15. Adaptations to Cave Life in Decapods from Oaxaca. 2005. 169 pp. By Luis M. Mejia-Ortíz. $12

This is a reformatted complete PhD dissertation done at the University of Liverpool in 2003.

AMCS also sells the following important publications:

Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs:
         No. 1: Studies on the Cave and Endogean Fauna of North America. 1986. 167 pp. Edited by James R. Reddell. $18.50.
         No. 3: Studies on the Cave and Endogean Fauna of North America II. 1992. 257 pp. Edited by James R. Reddell. $18.50.
         No. 5: Studies on the Cave and Endogean Fauna of North America III. 2001.192 pp. Edited by James R. Reddell and James C. Cokendolpher. $18.50.
         No. 6: Studies on the Cave and Endogean Fauna of North America IV. 2004.  200 pp. Edited by James C. Cokendolpher and James R. Reddell.. $18.50.

Texas Memorial Museum Bulletins:
         No. 27: A Review of the Cavernicole Fauna of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. 1981. 327 pp. By James R. Reddell. $18.50. A major work, long overlooked.
         No. 28 (AMCS Bull. 8): Further Studies on the Cave Fauna of Mexico and Adjacent Regions. 1982. 288 pp. Edited by James R. Reddell.
 

Further details on these bulletins, including tables of contents, can be found on the AMCS website www.amcs-pubs.org. Order by check or money order from AMCS, PO Box 7672, Austin, Texas 78713, or use the PayPal button on the web site (at bottom of the "how to order" page) to pay. Add $3 for surface mail for first book or CD, $1 for each additional, to U.S. addresses. Double the shipping charge for foreign orders.

Bibliography of Canadian Biospeleology

Acta Carsologica, Annotated Bibliography of Karst Publications, No. 11

Other Bibliographies (Speleobooks)

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