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Contents

Part I New Development of IGCP448 in 2001 ...........................................................................Yuan Daoxian(1) pdf

Part II Meeting Reports................................................................................................................(15)

1. Karst Studies and Problems: 2000 and Beyond. Cluj, Romania- 14-22 July 2000..............By Bogdan P. Onac, Gheorghe Racovita(15) pdf 2. Report on the International Meeting of the IGCP 448, Besancon, Sept.20-23, 2001...........By Bartolome Andreo-Navarro(16) pdf 3. 21st SPELEOLOGICAL SCHOOL Cieszyn-Morawski Kras, 7-13.02. 2002 (Poland-Slovania)..........By Andrej Tyc(18) pdf 4. Geology and Geohydrology of Karst and its Relevance to Society...........By Yuan Daoxian(22) pdf

Part III Contributions.......................................................................(27)

Part Ⅲ-1 Comparison of Karst Ecosystem.....................................(27)

KARST ECOSYSTEMS IN ALBANIA...............By Halil Hallaci; Martin Cukalla; Irakli Premti et al. (27) pdf Karst Aquifers as Atmospheric Carbon Sinks: An Evolving Global Network of Research Sites pdf ....................By Chris Groves, Joe Meiman, Joel Despain et al.(29) Calcium carbonate in deposits of the last Scandinavian glaciation and contemporary chemical denudation in western Pomerania -NW Poland, in the light of modern processes in Spitsbergen pdf ....................By Elzbieta Bukowska-Jania and Marian Pulina(39)

Part III-2 Geology and Karst Ecosystem..........................(54)

Water Resource Development in the Quaternary Ryukyu Limestone Regions of Japan: Application of the GIS to the Site Selection of Underground Dams............................By Kaijun JIANG, Hiroyasu FURUKAWA, Yuji ONOYAMA(54) pdf Distribution of CO2 in Soil Air Affected by Vegetation in the Shilin National Park pdf .....................................By SONG Linhua and LIANG Fuyuan(55) Evaluation of Karst Hazards for Civil and Industrial Buildings...........................By V.V. TOLMACHEV and O.B. NESHCHETKIN(63) pdf High-resolution records of soil humification and paleoclimate change from variations in speleothem luminescence excitation and emission wavelengths ....................................By Andy Baker, Dominique Genty and Peter U Smart(65) pdf Hydrological characterisation of stalagmite dripwaters at Grotte de Villars, Dordogne, by the analysis of inorganic species and luminescent organic matter..........................By Andy Baker, Dominique Genty and Ian J. Fairchild(67) pdf Fluorescence of Dissolved Organic Matter as a Natural Tracer of Ground Water................By Andy Baker and John Lamont-Black(69) pdf Environmental Geology of Limestone in Malaysia ...................By TAN Boon-Kong(69) pdf

Part III-3 Subterranean Ecological Systems.......................(83)

Microbially-Enhanced Weathering in Subsurface Habitats: Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria and The Cave Environment pdf .................................By Annette SUMMERS ENGEL(83) Changes in the Behaviour of Cave Living Vertebrates................By Jakob PARZEFALL(88) pdf Paleoecology of Vistulian (Last Glacial Cycle) Micromammals from Karst Deposits of Central Dobrogea (Romania) pdf ...............................By Alexandru PETCULESCU, Petre-Mihai SAMSON(89) The Presence of Cuticular Hydrocarbons at the Underground Beetles and their Importance pdf ..............................By Oana Teodora MOLDOVAN(92)

Part III-4 Mutual Effects of Karst Ecological Systems and Human Activities.................(93)

INFLUENCE OF KARST ON THE LOCATION AND QUALITY OF LIMESTONE DEPOSITS IN LITHUANIA .............................By Vyda Elena Gasiūniene(93) pdf Engineering-Geological Problems in the Moravian Karst, Czech Republic ............................By Milena SAMALIKOVA(107) pdf

Part IV 2003 meetings of IGCP448...................................(113)

Part IV-1 International Conference on Karst Hydrogeology and Ecosystems. Bowling Green, USA, June 3-8, 2003................(113) pdf Part IV-2 International Symposium-HUMAN IMPACT AND KARST ECOSYSTEMS OF EAST SIBERIA. July 2003 Irkutsk, Russia.....................(114) pdf

Part V New book-The final report of IGCP379 "Karst Processes and the Carbon Cycle" (1995-1999) .....(117) pdf

Part VI Publications reached at the IGCP448 Secretariat before August, 2002.....................(120) pdf

Part VII Email Addresses of IGCP448 Participants................................................(122) pdf