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Effectiveness of protected areas in the Caucasus Mountains in preventing rangeland degradation. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract As land use intensifies globally, it increasingly exerts pressure on protected areas. Despite open, nonforested landscapes comprising up to 40% of protected areas globally, assessments have predominately focused on forests, overlooking the major pressures on rangelands from livestock overgrazing and land conversion.
Ghoddousi A, Pratzer M, Lewinska KE, Eggers J, Bleyhl B, Ambarli H, Arakelyan M, Askerov E, Butsic V, Ghazaryan A, Lortkipanidze B, Radeloff VC, Kuemmerle T.   +12 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

Contemporary suspended sediment yield of Caucasus mountains [PDF]

Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2019
Processes linked to climate change and intensified anthropogenic pressure influence the environment, the hydrology and by extent the denudation processes in the Caucasus mountain belt.
A. Tsyplenkov, A. Tsyplenkov, M. Vanmaercke, V. Golosov, V. Golosov   +4 more
doaj   +5 more sources

The Demogeographic Crisis in Racha, Georgia: Depopulation in the Central Caucasus Mountains [PDF]

Mountain Research and Development, 2017
Many rural mountain areas across the world are facing depopulation due to outmigration and negative natural population growth. This study examines depopulation in the mountains of Georgia based on the example of Oni municipality in the Racha region on the southern slopes of the Central (Greater) Caucasus.
Kohler, Thomas, Elizbarashvili, Nodar, Meladze, Giorgi, Svanadze, Davit, Meessen, Heino   +4 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Causes of Geophagy by Ungulate Animals in the Caucasus Mountains

Achievements in the Life Sciences, 2014
Abstract This article is aimed at identifying the cause of rock eating by wild herbivores in the territory of the Caucasian State Biosphere Reserve in the Caucasus Mountains. The research focused on the mineralogical and geochemical features of the rocks eaten and the geological conditions of their formation.
Panichev, Alexander M., Trepet, Sergey A., Chekryzhov, Igor Y., Loktionova, Olga A., Krupskaya, Victoriya V.   +4 more
exaly   +3 more sources

The Effects of Vegetation and the Environment on Testate Amoeba Assemblages in Sphagnum Peatlands in the Northern Caucasus Mountains

Diversity, 2023
Understanding the interactions among the functional groups of living organisms within ecosystems is a main challenge in ecology. This question is particularly important in relation to the interactions between the above- and below-ground components of ...
Yuri Mazei, Andrey Tsyganov, Elena Chertoprud   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Determination of Mehlich 3 Extractable Elements with Visible and Near Infrared Spectroscopy in a Mountainous Agricultural Land, the Caucasus Mountains

Land, 2022
Soil spectroscopy is a promising alternative to evaluate and monitor soil and water quality, particularly in mountainous agricultural lands characterized by intense degradation and limited soil tests reports; a few studies have evaluated the feasibility ...
Amrakh I Mamedov, Witold Grzebisz, Elton Mammadov   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Total Shortening Estimates Across the Western Greater Caucasus Mountains from Balanced Cross Sections and Area Balancing

Tektonika, 2023
The Greater Caucasus orogen forms the northern edge of the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone. Although the orogen has long been assumed to exhibit dominantly thick-skinned style deformation via reactivation of high-angle extensional faults, recent work ...
Charles Trexler, Eric Cowgill, Dylan Vasey, Nathan Niemi   +3 more
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On the genetic structure and origin of the little ground squirrel Spermophilus pygmaeus (Pallas, 1778) in the North Caucasus [PDF]

Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции
Little ground squirrel Spermophilus pygmaeus (Pallas, 1778) is a polytypic species of significant interest for the study of taxonomic diversity, genetic structure, gene flow and genetic diversity.
F. A. Tembotova, A. Kh. Amshokova, M. S. Gudova   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Glacier change over the last century, Caucasus Mountains, Georgia, observed from old topographical maps, Landsat and ASTER satellite imagery [PDF]

The Cryosphere, 2016
Changes in the area and number of glaciers in the Georgian Caucasus Mountains were examined over the last century, by comparing recent Landsat and ASTER images (2014) with older topographical maps (1911, 1960) along with middle and high mountain ...
L. G. Tielidze
doaj   +2 more sources

The Site of the Maykop Culture in the Mountains of the Northwestern Caucasus [PDF]

Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Istoriya, 2021
The Meshoko rock shelter was first explored in the 1960s. Along with some other settlements in the vicinity, its materials were interpreted as evidence of the synchronism of the early Maykop and late Eneolithic cultures. Modern excavations have shown that Maykop and Eneolithic finds are concentrated in different layers, with natural deposits between ...
Sergei M. Ostashinskii, Evgenii A. Cherlenok   +1 more
exaly   +2 more sources