Contents
Part I Progress of IGCP 448 in 2000
Part II Report from National Working Groups of IGCP448
1. Spain, by Bartolome Andreo Navarro
2. Poland-Russia-France-China, by M Pulina and A Tyc
Part III Contributions
1. Pot Culture: A Typical Farm Managementsystem on the Degraded Karstland Area in the Special Province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, by Sambudhi Sudibyo
2. Ecological Problems in the Subtropical Karst of South China, Yuan Daoxian
3. Deforestation and Afforestation in Poland, A Historical Review, Andrzej Czylok
4. Reform of Carbonate Rock Surface by Crustose Lichens and It’s Environmental Significance, Cao Jianhua and Wang Fuxing
5. Atmospheric CO2 Dynamics in the Guilin Karst Depression Ecosystem and Envirenmental Significance, Cao Jianhua, Pan Genxing, Yuan Daoxian, He shiyi and Lin Yushi
6. Anthropogenic Karst in East Siberia, Russia, Yuri B Trzhtsinsky
7. An Initial Study on Microorganism Diversity in Southwestern Karst Woods of China, Yu Longjiang
8. A Preliminary Discussion on the Sustainable Development of Agriculture in Fragile Karst Environmental of Southwest of China---taking Guizhou Province as an example, Su Weichi and Zhou Qingzhen
9. Characteristics of Karstic Ecosystem of Vietnam and Thier Vulnerability to Human Impact, Do Tuyet
10. Tectonic Control on the Waters of Vratza Karst System (Western Balkon, Bulgaria), Shanov S and Benderev A
11. Karst Analysis Through the Chemical Analyses of Water in Ghir Dam Site, Iran, R. Ajalloeian and M.Salehi
12. Dynamics Features of the Epikarst Zone and Their Significance in Environments and Resources, Jiang Zhongcheng and Yuan Daoxian
13. Discussion of Shanxi Karst Water, Guo Zhengzhong
14. Hydrogeological Characteristics of a Karst Mountainous Catchment in the Northwest of Vietnam, V.T.Tam, Vu T.M.N and O.Batelaan
15. Sudan, Strengthening Community Water Management and Striving for Improved Sanitation, Abdeen Mustafa Omer
16. Karstification below Dam sites: A Model of Increasing Leakage from Reservoirs, W. Dreybrodt and D . Romanov
17. The Relation Between Karstification and Morphotectonic Characteristics of Gachsaran Evaporitic Formation, Jarreh Dam, SW Iran, Arash Barjasteh
18. Special Speleothems in Cement–grouting Tunnels and Their Implications of the Atmospheric CO2 Sink, Zaihua Liu and Dianbin He
19. The Role of Tectonic Environment on the Karstification of two Dam Sites, West and South of Iran, Arash Barjasteh
20. Evaluation of Solubility Behavior of Carbonaceous Rocks at Kavar Damsite (Fars Province –Iran), Ajalloeian R, Ghobdi M H and Karami R
21. Engineering Geology of Karst Areas in South Africa and Legislation, Nicole Trollip
22. Review of Karst Collapses in China During 1999-2000, Mingtang Lei, Jiang Xiaozhen and Liyu
23. Engineering Geology of Limestone in Malaysia (Title), TAN Boon Kong
PALEO-ECOSYSTEM IN KARST AND RECORDS
24. Past Vegetation Changes in Karst Areas as Revealed by a Comparative Istopic Study of two Holocene Speleothems from Romania, Silviu Constrantin, Bogdan P. Onac , Dominik Fleitmon and Tudor Tamas
25. Comparison of Tufa from Three Locations in Croatia in terms of Mineralogy, Major and Trace Elements and Specific Activity, by S. Frankciskovic-Bilinski, D. Barisic, A Vertacnik , H. Bilinski
26. Research of Selected Tufa from Guangxi Povince (China) in terms of Mineralogy, Major and Trace Elements, Specific Activity and Age, Stanislav Franciskovic-Bilinski, Halka Bilinski, Delko Barisic, Nada Horvatincic and Yuan Daoxian
27. Influence of the 14C and 3H Global Atmospheric Contamination on the Karst Region of Croatia, Nada Horvatincic, Ines Krajcar Bronic and Bogomil Obelic
28. A 4000-Year Paleoclimate Record from Scarisoara Glacier Cave (Romania), Gheorghe Racovita and Bogdan P. Onac
29. Rare Metal in the Karst Bauxites from the Apuseni Mountains, Romania, Murariu Titus and Alexandrina Murariu
30. Geological Setting, Nature of Ore Fluids and Sulphur Isotope Geochemistry of the Fu Ning Carlin-type Gold Deposits, Yunnan Province, China, P. W. Cromie and Khin Zaw
31. Influence of Karst on the Location and Quality of Limestone Deposits of Lithuania, Vyda Elena Gasiūniene
PartIV International Events of Relevances to IGCP448
1. Asia-Pacific Forum on Karst Ecosystem and World Heritage, Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia, 26-30 May, 2001
2. Newsletter of International Biospeological Society, from President Giuseppe Messana
3. Encyclopedia of Cave and Karst Sciences, to be published in Dec. 2002
Part V Publications Reached at IGCP448 Secretariat before July, 2001
Part VI Registration Forms Received before July, 2001
Part VII Email Addresses of IGCP448 Participants