PUBLICATIONS
2024
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.
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2023
Catalina Haidău, Paul Adrian Bulzu, IonuÈ› 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
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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
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
IonuÈ›-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.
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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
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IonuÈ›-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.
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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.