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  1. The mirabilite microbiocosm in a Carpathian contact cave

    Article • Biogeosciences, June 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Oana Moldovan

  2. Correction: Sitar et al. A New Hotspot of Cave Leptodirini (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) from the Romanian Carpathians. Insects 2025, 16, 806

    Article • Insects, December 2025, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  3. Assessment of Potentially Toxic Elements Pollution Pattern and Environmental Risk in Soils from Carpathian Areas Using a GIS-Based Approach and Pollution Indices

    Article • Land, November 2025, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  4. A New Hotspot of Cave Leptodirini (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) from the Romanian Carpathians

    Article • Insects, August 2025, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  5. Supplementary material to "The mirabilite microbiocosm in a Carpathian contact cave"

    Article • August 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Oana Moldovan

  6. The mirabilite microbiocosm in a Carpathian contact cave

    Article • August 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Oana Moldovan

  7. Community-level physiological profiling of carbon substrate metabolization by microbial communities associated to sediments and water in karstic caves from Romania

    Article • Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Biologia, June 2025, Babes-Bolyai University

    Oana Moldovan

  8. Linking rock outcrop size and distance to soil multifunctionality in mountain ecosystems

    Article • Functional Ecology, March 2025, Wiley

    Oana Moldovan

  9. Exploring the Bacteriome Diversity and Use as a Proxy for Climate Change and Human Impacts on Groundwater in Temperate and Tropical Countries

    Article • Microbial Ecology, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan

  10. Bacteria as paleoenvironmental proxies: the study of a cave Pleistocene profile

    Article • Biogeosciences, March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Oana Moldovan

  11. Community-level physiological profiling of carbon substrate metabolization by microbial communities associated to sediments and water in karstic caves from Romania

    Article • February 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Oana Moldovan

  12. Exploring the bacteriome use as a proxy for climate change and pollution impacts on groundwater in temperate and tropical countries

    Article • December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan

  13. An Exploration of K-Mer Ranges for Megahit in the Context of Microbial Community-Wide Identification of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes and Biosynthetic Gene Clusters

    Article • November 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Oana Moldovan

  14. Spatial variability and hydro/geochemical profiling of the elemental composition of mineral deposits and drip water from caves using unsupervised chemometric modelling

    Article • Chemical Geology, February 2024, Elsevier

    Oana Moldovan

  15. The gut microbiome mediates adaptation to scarce food in Coleoptera

    Article • Environmental Microbiome, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan

  16. A collaborative backbone resource for comparative studies of subterranean evolution: The World Asellidae database

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, October 2023, Wiley

    Oana Moldovan, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  17. Karst spring microbiome: Diversity, core taxa, and community response to pathogens and antibiotic resistance gene contamination

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, October 2023, Elsevier

    Oana Moldovan

  18. Environmental Drivers of the Moonmilk Microbiome Diversity in Some Temperate and Tropical Caves

    Article • Microbial Ecology, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan

  19. Potential Environmental Drivers of Fossil Bones Degradation—A Metabarcoding Approach in Two Carpathian Caves

    Article • Geomicrobiology Journal, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Oana Moldovan

  20. The gut microbiome mediates adaptation to scarce food in Coleoptera

    Article • May 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Oana Moldovan

  21. Sr Isotope, Major, and Trace Element Signatures in Karst Groundwaters

    Article • Water, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  22. Diversity, distribution and organic substrates preferences of microbial communities of a low anthropic activity cave in North-Western Romania

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, February 2023, Frontiers

    Oana Moldovan

  23. Bat dynamics modelling as a tool for conservation management in subterranean environments

    Article • PLOS One, October 2022, PLOS

    Iulian Gherghel, Dragoş Ştefan Măntoiu, Oana Moldovan

  24. Microbial water quality and health risk assessment in karst springs from Apuseni Mountains, Romania

    Article • Frontiers in Environmental Science, September 2022, Frontiers

    Oana Moldovan

  25. Competition-cooperation in the chemoautotrophic ecosystem of Movile Cave: first metagenomic approach on sediments

    Article • Environmental Microbiome, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan

  26. Groundwater contamination and human health risk assessment in the main karst areas of Romania

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  27. Is the gut microbiome involved in adaptation of beetles to caves?

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  28. Occurrence of Li in groundwaters and plants from Dobrogea karst area, Romania

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  29. Quantitative microbial risk assessment as a tool for groundwater monitoring. A case study in the rural communities of Romania

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  30. The genus Protopholeuon (Coleoptera, Leptodirini): distribution, morphological, ultratructural and genetic details

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  31. The ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the René Jeannel collection of the Babeș-Bolyai University Zoological Museum, Romania

    Article • ARPHA Conference Abstracts, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  32. Competition-cooperation in the chemoautotrophic ecosystem of Movile Cave – first metagenomic approach on sediments

    Article • May 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Oana Moldovan

  33. A 16S rRNA Gene-Based Metabarcoding of Phosphate-Rich Deposits in Muierilor Cave, South-Western Carpathians

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, May 2022, Frontiers

    Oana Moldovan

  34. Potential for Natural Attenuation of Domestic and Agricultural Pollution in Karst Groundwater Environments

    Article • Water, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  35. Small Human Population Drastic Impact, as Inferred From Multi-Proxies of a Temporary Carpathian Lake

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, April 2022, Frontiers

    Oana Moldovan

  36. Towards evidence‐based conservation of subterranean ecosystems

    Article • Biological Reviews, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Marco ISAIA, Oana Moldovan, Dr Stefano Mammola, Elena Piano

  37. Brazilian cave heritage under siege

    Article • Science, March 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    alice hughes, prof. Ľubomír Kováč, Oana Moldovan, Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira

  38. The Gram-Negative Bacilli Isolated from Caves—Sphingomonas paucimobilis and Hafnia alvei and a Review of Their Involvement in Human Infections

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  39. Comparative phylogeography of two troglobitic Coleoptera (Leiodidae, Leptodirini) species from Romania based on mitochondrial DNA

    Article • Subterranean Biology, February 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  40. Health Risk Assessment in Southern Carpathians Small Rural Communities Using Karst Springs as a Drinking Water Source

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  41. An annotated checklist of groundwater Cyclopoida and Harpacticoida (Crustacea, Copepoda) from Romania with notes on their distribution and ecology

    Article • Subterranean Biology, December 2021, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  42. Application of Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometric Techniques and Multivariate Statistical Analysis in the Hydrogeochemical Profiling of Caves—Case Study Cloșani, Romania

    Article • Molecules, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  43. Radiological Risk Assessment for Karstic Springs Used as Drinking Water in Rural Romania

    Article • Atmosphere, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  44. A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome

    Article • Conservation Letters, August 2021, Wiley

    Raoul Manenti, prof. Ľubomír Kováč, Oana Moldovan, Dr Stefano Mammola

  45. Assessment of Lithium, Macro- and Microelements in Water, Soil and Plant Samples from Karst Areas in Romania

    Article • Materials, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  46. Morphological and Micromorphological Description of the Larvae of Two Endemic Species of Duvalius (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechini)

    Article • Biology, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  47. Simultaneous Determination of As, Bi, Sb, Se, Te, Hg, Pb and Sn by Small-Sized Electrothermal Vaporization Capacitively Coupled Plasma Microtorch Optical Emission Spectrometry Using Direct Liquid Microsampling

    Article • Molecules, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  48. Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry

    Article • Nature, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan

  49. Water Quality and Hydrogeochemical Characteristics of Some Karst Water Sources in Apuseni Mountains, Romania

    Article • Water, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  50. Monitoring Human Impact in Show Caves. A Study of Four Romanian Caves

    Article • Sustainability, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  51. Quality and Health Risk Assessment Associated with Water Consumption—A Case Study on Karstic Springs

    Article • Water, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  52. Testing Different Membrane Filters for 16S rRNA Gene-Based Metabarcoding in Karstic Springs

    Article • Water, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  53. The dilemma of self-citation in taxonomy

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    prof. Ľubomír Kováč, Oana Moldovan

  54. Testing Different Membrane Filters for 16S rRNA Gene-Based Metabarcoding in Karstic Springs

    Article • October 2020, MDPI AG

    Oana Moldovan

  55. Database of Romanian cave invertebrates with a Red List of cave species and a list of hotspot/coldspot caves

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, June 2020, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  56. Management of water bodies in show caves – A microbial approach

    Article • Tourism Management, June 2020, Elsevier

    Oana Moldovan

  57. Wildlife and infrastructure: impact of wind turbines on bats in the Black Sea coast region

    Article • European Journal of Wildlife Research, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan

  58. Monitoring and risk assessment for groundwater sources in rural communities of Romania (GROUNDWATERISK)

    Article • Research Ideas and Outcomes, December 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  59. Local- versus broad-scale environmental drivers of continental β -diversity patterns in subterranean spider communities across Europe

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Stefano Mammola, prof. Ľubomír Kováč, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Oana Moldovan

  60. Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida: Araneae)

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, October 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Stefano Mammola, prof. Ľubomír Kováč, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Oana Moldovan

  61. Yearly microbial cycle of human exposed surfaces in show caves

    Article • Subterranean Biology, July 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  62. Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems

    Article • BioScience, June 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stefano Mammola, Ana Sofia Reboleira, Dr. Marco ISAIA, Oana Moldovan

  63. Comment on “Assessing preservation priorities of caves and karst areas using the frequency of endemic cave-dwelling species” by Nitzu et al. (2018), Int. J. Speleol., 47 (1): 43-52

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, January 2019, University of South Florida Libraries

    Oana Moldovan

  64. Drip heterogeneity and the impact of decreased flow rates on the vadose zone fauna in Ciur-Izbuc Cave, NW Romania

    Article • Ecohydrology, August 2018, Wiley

    Oana Moldovan

  65. Novel approach to microbiological air monitoring in show caves

    Article • Aerobiologia, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan

  66. Caves and karst of Ecuador – state-of-the-art and research perspectives

    Article • Physical Geography, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Oana Moldovan

  67. Ecophysiological groups of bacteria from cave sediments as potential indicators of paleoclimate

    Article • Quaternary International, March 2017, Elsevier

    Oana Moldovan

  68. A tribute to Gheorge Racoviţă (1940–2015)

    Article • Subterranean Biology, September 2016, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  69. The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

    Article • Nature, May 2016, Nature

    Prof Ron Pinhasi, Oana Moldovan

  70. Fossil invertebrates records in cave sediments and paleoenvironmental assessments – a study of four cave sites from Romanian Carpathians

    Article • Biogeosciences, January 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Oana Moldovan

  71. Erratum to: Response of invertebrates from the hyporheic zone of chalk rivers to eutrophication and land use

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan

  72. Response of invertebrates from the hyporheic zone of chalk rivers to eutrophication and land use

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan

  73. Contrasting copepod community dynamics related to sampling strategies in the unsaturated zone of a karst aquifer

    Article • Aquatic Ecology, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan

  74. An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor

    Article • Nature, June 2015, Nature

    Oana Moldovan

  75. Temporal variability of fauna and the importance of sampling frequency in the hyporheic zone

    Article • Hydrobiologia, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan

  76. ASSESSMENT OF POLLUTANTS INPUT OF ACID MINE DRAINAGE AND DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES IN ARIES RIVER WATER, ROMANIA - A CHEMOMETRIC APPROACH

    Article • Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, January 2015, OAIMDD - EcoZone Publishing House

    Oana Moldovan

  77. Ancient human footprints in Ciur-Izbuc Cave, Romania

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, July 2014, Wiley

    Oana Moldovan

  78. Bacterial and Fungal Diversity of Quaternary Cave Sediment Deposits

    Article • Geomicrobiology Journal, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Oana Moldovan

  79. The relationships between land cover, climate and cave copepod spatial distribution and suitability along the Carpathians

    Article • Environmental Conservation, November 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Oana Moldovan

  80. Can Environment Predict Cryptic Diversity? The Case of Niphargus Inhabiting Western Carpathian Groundwater

    Article • PLOS One, October 2013, PLOS

    Oana Moldovan

  81. Population size and dispersal patterns for a Drimeotus (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Leptodirini) cave population

    Article • Subterranean Biology, July 2013, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  82. Oribatid mite fossils from pre-Quaternary sediments in Slovenian caves II. Amiracarus pliocennatus n.gen., n.sp. (Microzetidae) from Pliocene, with comments on the other species of the genus

    Article • Zootaxa, June 2013, Magnolia Press

    Oana Moldovan

  83. One step forward for subterranean biology

    Article • Subterranean Biology, April 2013, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  84. A simple method for assessing biotic indicators and predicting biodiversity in the hyporheic zone of a river polluted with metals

    Article • Ecological Indicators, January 2013, Elsevier

    Oana Moldovan

  85. Invertebrate fossils found in cave sediments as proxies for Pliocene/Pleistocene paleoenvironment

    Article • Quaternary International, November 2012, Elsevier

    Oana Moldovan

  86. Distribution patterns of subsurface copepods and the impact of environmental parameters

    Article • Limnologica, May 2012, Elsevier

    Oana Moldovan

  87. Beetles

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Oana Moldovan

  88. Assessing copepod (Crustacea: Copepoda) species richness at different spatial scales in northwestern Romanian caves

    Article • Subterranean Biology, December 2011, Pensoft Publishers

    Oana Moldovan

  89. Invertebrate fossils from cave sediments: a new proxy for pre-Quaternary paleoenvironments

    Article • Biogeosciences, July 2011, Copernicus GmbH

    Oana Moldovan

  90. Habitat fragmentation and its effects on groundwater populations

    Article • Ecohydrology, June 2011, Wiley

    Oana Moldovan

  91. Spatial distribution patterns of the hyporheic invertebrate communities in a polluted river in Romania

    Article • Hydrobiologia, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Constantin Marin, Oana Moldovan

  92. Diversity patterns of fauna in dripping water of caves from Transylvania

    Article • Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology, January 2011, EDP Sciences

    Oana Moldovan

  93. INFLUENCE OF ROSIA POIENI AND ROSIA MONTANA MINING AREAS ON THE WATER QUALITY OF THE ARIES RIVER

    Article • Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, January 2011, OAIMDD - EcoZone Publishing House

    Oana Moldovan

  94. Biodiversity and Ecology of Fauna in Percolating Water in Selected Slovenian and Romanian Caves

    Article • Acta Carsologica, December 2007, Scientific Research Centre ZRC-SAZU

    Oana Moldovan

  95. Historical Biogeography of Subterranean Beetles – “Plato’s Cave” or Scientific Evidence?

    Article • Acta Carsologica, April 2007, Scientific Research Centre ZRC-SAZU

    Oana Moldovan

  96. Peştera cu Oase 2 and the cranial morphology of early modern Europeans

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2007, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Oana Moldovan

  97. Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) from the Peştera cu Oase (Banat, Romania): Paleobiology and taphonomy

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, December 2006, Elsevier

    Oana Moldovan

  98. An early modern human from the Peştera cu Oase, Romania

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2003, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Oana Moldovan

  99. Early modern human cranial remains from the Peştera cu Oase, Romania

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, September 2003, Elsevier

    Oana Moldovan

  100. Conservation of biodiversity in Romania

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, August 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oana Moldovan