PUBLICATIONS
2024
Maria-Laura Tîrlă, Relu-Dumitru Roban, Ioan Munteanu, Virgil Drăgușin, Marius Vlaicu, Ionuț-Cornel Mirea. From nappe stacking to strike-slip deformation: Alpine structural overprints refined by cave and karst geology in the Danubian thin-skinned units (Southern Carpathians, Romania), Tectonophysics, Volume 884, 2024, 230404, ISSN 0040-1951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230404
Marius Robu, Nimrod Marom, Ionuț-Cornel Mirea, Luchiana-Maria Faur, Alexandru Petculescu, Marius Kenesz, Roee Shafir, Natalia Égüez, Silviu Constantin. Intraguild interactions among carnivorans of the last glacial: The case of wolves and bears from Muierilor Cave, Romania. Quaternary Science Reviews, 334, 108720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108720
Duno-Iglesias P., Ramirez-Pedraza I., Rivals F., Mirea I.-C., Faur L.M., Constantin S., Robu M. (2024). Palaeodiet during the pre-dormancy period of MIS 3 Romanian cave bears as inferred from dental microwear analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 636, 1119888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111988.
2023
Catalina Haidău, Paul Adrian Bulzu, Ionuț Cornel Mirea, Ruxandra Bucur & Oana Teodora Moldovan (2023). Potential Environmental Drivers of Fossil Bones Degradation—A Metabarcoding Approach in Two Carpathian Caves. Geomicrobiology Journal, 40:7, 654-666. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2023.2227625
Theodorescu, M., Bucur, R., Bulzu, PA., Faur, L., Levei EA., Mirea I.-C., Cadar O., Lopes Ferreira R., Souza-Silva M. and Moldovan OT (2023). Environmental Drivers of the Moonmilk Microbiome Diversity in Some Temperate and Tropical Caves. Microbial Ecology (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-023-02286-8
CONFERENCES
2024
Marius ROBU, Ionuț-Cornel MIREA, Luchiana-Maria FAUR, Marius VLAICU, Florent RIVALS, Paulo DUÑÓ-IGLESIAS, Ivan RAMÍREZ-PEDRAZA, Jeremy E. MARTIN, Sébastien OLIVE, Pierre-Jean DODAT, Frank VANHECK, Laurențiu ANGHELUȚĂ, Nimrod MAROM, Roee SHAFIR, Meirav MEIRI, Eve POWER, Carlo MELORO, Laura TÎRLĂ, Theodor OBADĂ, Roman CROITOR, Viorica PASCARI, Elena DELINSCHI, Latinka HRISTOVA, Nikolai SPASSOV, Marin GOSPODINOV, Vesna DIMITRIJEVIĆ, Sanja ALIBURIĆ, Katarina BOGIĆEVIĆ, Ivan STEFANOVIĆ, Cătălina HAIDĂU, Andra ILIE, Natalija SUDAR, Alicja KAŹMIERKIEWICZ, Barbara BUJALSKA, Danijela POPOVIĆ, Mateusz BACA, Natalia ÉGÜEZ, Montana-Cristina PUȘCAȘ, Ciprian-Cosmin STREMȚAN - Paleoecology and extinction of large mammals from Isotopic Stages 3-1 of the Romanian Carpathians (and beyond): an integrative approach (INTEGRATE) ― Preliminary results. ZOOLOGYCON 2024, 6-9 November 2024, Bucharest, Romania. Poster.
Duno-Iglesias P., Ramirez-Pedraza I., Rivals F., Mirea I.-C., Faur L.M., Constantin S., Robu M. (2024). The similar omnivorous diet of MIS 3 cave bears and extant brown bears in the Carpathians: Implications for a broadleaf-forest bear glacial refugia. Poster.
2023
Ionuț-Cornel Mirea, Marius Robu, Alexandru Petculescu, Luchiana Faur, Silviu Constantin. Deciphering climate variability by studying Late Pleistocene cave infillings. Case study: Muierilor Cave, Romania. XXI INQUA Congress 2023, July 14th-20th 2023, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Catalina Haidău, Ionuţ Cornel Mirea, Luchiana Maria Faur, Oana Teodora Moldovan. Cave sediment bacteria as possible proxy for paleoenvironments? SedDNA Meeting, 06-09 June 2023, Potsdam, Germany.
Marius Robu, Ionuț-Cornel Mirea, Theodor Obadă, Vitalie Burlacu. The taphonomy of the MIS 3 cave bear bone assemblages from several key sites of the Republic of Moldova. Conferința Şiințifică - Istorie - Arheologie - Muzeologie - a Muzeului Național De Istorie a Moldovei (ediţia a XXXIII-a) 26-27 octombrie 2023, Chișinău (Republica Moldova).
2022
Ionuț-Cornel Mirea, Marius Robu, Alexandru Petculescu, Laura Tîrlă, Silviu Constantin. Late Pleistocene climate variability in the Southern Carpathians: Insights from Muierilor Cave (Romania). Geographical Perspectives on Global Changes, 18-19 November 2022, Bucharest, Romania.
Ionuț-Cornel Mirea, Marius Robu, Alexandru Petculescu, Marius Kenesz, Luchiana Faur, Răzvan Arghir, Vlad Codrea, Silviu Constantin. Reconstructing the evolution of Muierilor cave system (Romanian Carpathians) during the last ~120 ka. Interdisciplinary Archaeology: Methods, Studies, Results, 15-17 August 2022, Orheiul Vechi, Republic of Moldova.