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Publications with Information about the Cave

Blay, C. and Siemers, R., 2004, Kauai's Geologic History: A Simplified Guide; Updated Edition: TEOK Investigations, Poipu, HI, 98 p.
Blay, C.T. and Longman, M.W., 2001, Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Pleistocene and Holocene carbonate eolianites, Kauai, Hawaii, USA; in Abegg, F.E., Loope, D.B. And Harris, P.M., eds., Modern and Ancient Carbonate Eolianites: Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy and Diagenesis: SEPM Spec. Pub. 71. Soc. Sedimentary Geology, Tulsa, p. 93-115.
Burney, D.A., 2002. Late Quaternary chronology and stratigraphy of twelve sites on Kaua`i. Radiocarbon 44(1):13-44.
Burney, D.A., 2002. Understanding biological invasions in Hawaii. Environmental Review 9(4):1-8. Interview conducted by D. Taylor
Burney, D.A., 2005. Digging into the past to find the future. Plant Talk 39:46-47.
Burney, D.A., 2009. Are we naïve to think we can save rare plants from extinction? Sibbaldia 7: 61-76.
Burney, D.A., 2009. Erythrina's second chance. Bulletin of the National Tropical Botanical Garden XXVI (1): 4-7.
Burney, D.A., 2010. Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua`i: A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark. New Haven, Yale University Press.
Burney, D.A., 2010. Discovering an insect Armageddon (and "one strange duck"). Bulletin of the National Tropical Botanical Garden XXVII (3): 22-26.
Burney, D.A., J.O. Juvik, L.P. Burney, and T. Diagne, 2012. Can unwanted suburban tortoises rescue native Hawaiian plants? The Tortoise 1: 104-115.
Burney, D.A., 2011. Rodrigues Island: Hope thrives at the Francois Leguat Giant Tortoise and Cave Reserve. Madagascar Conservation and Development 6(1):3-4.
Burney, D.A. and L.P. Burney, 2007. Paleoecology and 'inter-situ' restoration on Kaua`i, Hawai`i. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5(9): 483-490.
Burney, D.A. and L.P. Burney, 2007. Learning from the past to save plants for the future. Public Garden 3: 30-33.
Burney, D.A. and L.P. Burney, 2007. Ecological restoration through community outreach (and community outreach through ecological restoration). The Bulletin of the National Tropical Botanical Garden 25: 8-13.
Burney, D.A. and L.P. Burney 2008. Inter situ conservation: Opening a 'third front' in the battle to save rare Hawaiian plants. BGjournal 6(1):16-19.
Burney, D.A. and L.P. Burney, 2008. Time portal. Natural History October, p. 74.
Burney, D.A., and E. Dubey, 2006. Growing people: Community-based career development opportunities working with plants. Plant Talk 43: 46-47.
Burney, D.A., and W.K.P. Kikuchi, 2006. A millennium of human activity at Makauwahi Cave, Maha`ulepu, Kaua`i. Human Ecology 34:219-247. DOI:10:1007/s10745-006-9015-3.
Burney, D.A., and G.S. Robinson, 2008. Excavating and interpreting flooded megafaunal sites. Palaeontographica Americana 61:43-48.
Burney, D.A., H.F. James, L.P. Burney, S.L. Olson, W. Kikuchi, W.L. Wagner, M. Burney, D. McCloskey, D. Kikuchi, F.V. Grady, R. Gage, and R. Nishek, 2001. Fossil evidence for a diverse biota from Kaua`i and its transformation since human arrival. Ecological Monographs 71(4):615-641.
Burney, D.A., D. Bender, S. Perlman, C. Salvador, and C. Wichman, 2005. The National Tropical Botanical Garden: Creating a Genetic Safety Net for Hawaii's vanishing flora. BG Journal 2:17-19.
Burney, D.A., D.W. Steadman, and P.S. Martin, 2002. Evolution's second chance: forward- thinking paleoecologists advocate jump-starting diminishing biodiversity. Wild Earth 12(2):12-15.
Burney, D.A., 2015. Forbidden Island. The Private Journey.
Burney, L.P., and D.A. Burney, 2003. Charcoal stratigraphies for Kaua`i and the timing of human arrival. Pacific Science. 57(2):211-226.
Butler, Rhett, Burney, D.A., and Walsh, D. 2017. The orphan Sanriku tsunami of 1586: new evidence from coral dating on Kaua'i. Natural Hazards. 88(2):797-819.
Butler, Rhett, Burney, D.A., and Walsh, D. 2014. Paleotsunami evidence on Kaua'i and numerical modeling of a great Aleutian tsunami. Geophysical Research Letters. 41.
Dietl, Gregory P., et. al. Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Consercation and Restoration. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 43:3.1-3.25.
Haapoja, M. 2006. Digging Up the Past - Hawaii, September/October, 47-51.
Hearty, Paul J., Kaufman, Darrell S., Olson, Storrs L. and James, Helen F. 2000. Stratigraphy and whole-rock amino acid geochronology of key Holocene and last interglacial carbonate deposits in the Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science, 54(4): 423-442.
Iwaniuk, Andrew N., Olson, Storrs L. and James, Helen F. 2009. Extraordinary cranial specialization in a new genus of extinct duck (Aves: Anseriformes) from Kauai, Hawaiian Islands. Zootaxa, 2296: 47-67.
James, Helen F. and Olson, Storrs L. 2006. A new species of Hawaiian finch (Drepanidini: Loxioides) from Makauwahi Cave, island of Kaua`i. The Auk, 123(2): 335-344, with cover art.
James, Helen F. and Olson, Storrs L. 2005. The Diversity and Biogeography of Koa-Finches (Drepanidini: Rhodacanthis), With Descriptions of Two New Species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 144: 527-541.
Kikuchi, W.K., D.L. Kikuchi, and D. Burney, 2003. 'The archaeological excavations of the Makauwahi Sinkhole Site.' Report to Historic Preservation Division, State of Hawaii. Puhi: Kauai Community College.
Liebherr, James L. and Porch, N 2015. Reassembling a lost lowland carabid beetle assemblage (Coleoptera) from Kauai, Hawaiian Islands. Invertebrate Systematics 29:191-213.
Levy, S., 2008. Lessons of a Limestone Cave. Wildlife Conservation, Jan.-Feb., 44-51.
Olson, Storrs L. and James, Helen F. 1997. Prehistoric status and distribution of the Hawaiian hawk (Buteo solitarius), with the first fossil record from Kauai. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, 49: 65-69.