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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
doaj   +1 more source

Global patterns of treeline predictability and the gap between the forest and the treeline

Ecography, EarlyView.
The alpine treeline is the highest elevation at which trees can grow, which is assumed to be controlled by temperature and globally predictable. However, many upper forest limits (UFLs) do not reach this elevation, due natural factors and human disturbance.
Erickson G. Urquiaga‐Flores, Michael Kessler, Maaike Y. Bader   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plants, people and their shared heritage: A comparative medicinal and wild food ethnobotany of Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians living in the Gjirokaster area, southern Albania

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Traditional knowledge about wild plants connects people to nature and sustains both cultural identity and biodiversity. This study explores how cultural exchange among Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians in southern Albania shapes the use and naming of medicinal and food plants.
Evanthia Dina, Ani Bajrami, Mousaab Alrhmoun, Naji Sulaiman, Konstantinos Ntinas, Marjol Meço, Bledar Pulaj, Nektarios Aligiannis, Avni Hajdari, Andrea Pieroni   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign policy of the European Union towards the South Caucasus in 1992-2014 [PDF]

, 2015
This assessment of European Union foreign policy towards the South Caucasus shows that while the EU has developed a coherent transport policy since 1992, paradoxically, it has had no corresponding coherent conflict resolution policy for this region.
Kereselidze, Nino
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Snow variability effect upon avalanching

Лëд и снег, 2015
Thickness, density, shearing strength, and temperature of snow on mountain slopes are considered as stochastic fields or processes. Parameters of these fields (processes) were estimated in several geographical regions. Errors of snow stability estimation
P. A. Chernous, Yu. G. Seliverstov, V. E. Suchkov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing genetic diversity in a reintroduced Mediterranean griffon vulture Gyps fulvus population to inform long‐term conservation management

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Reintroductions play a key role in conservation biology. Their long‐term success strongly depends on maximizing the genetic diversity of founders, as well as on ensuring ecological connectivity with adjacent populations. Accordingly, evaluating the conservation status of reintroduced populations to limit the loss of their genetic diversity requires ...
Nicolò Borgianni, Mario Posillico, Lorenzo Attili, Paolo Ciucci, Rita Lorenzini, Luisa Garofalo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A revision of the weevil genus Urometopus Formánek, 1904 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) with descriptions of thirty-two new species

European Journal of Taxonomy
A comprehensive taxonomic revision of the genus Urometopus Formánek, 1904 is presented. The genus, distributed across the Black Sea Basin, Caucasus, and Alborz, is redefined to comprise 49 species. The subgenus Phyllobioides Formánek, 1923 stat. res. et
Nikolai Yunakov, Denys Khrapov
doaj   +1 more source

The Ladies’ Alpine Club, Embattled Collaboration and International Communities of Knowledge, 1907–39

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the development of the Ladies’ Alpine Club from its inception until the Second World War through its Yearbooks, articles and lectures, as part of a community of knowledge which was devoted to international mountaineering.
James Watts
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial ecology and population trends of the scavengers (Aves: Falconiformes) in Azerbaijan

Acta Biologica Sibirica
Avian scavengers in Azerbaijan, including the Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus), Black Vulture (Aegypius monachus), Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus), and Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), are experiencing significant population declines, with a 15.
Arzu F. Mammadov, Tahir A. Karimov, Alex V. Matsyura, Dashgin Sh. Ganbarov   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The First Rock Glacier Inventory for the Greater Caucasus

Geosciences, 2023
Rock glaciers are an integral part of the periglacial environment. At the regional scale in the Greater Caucasus, there have been no comprehensive systematic efforts to assess the distribution of rock glaciers, although some individual parts of ranges ...
Levan G. Tielidze, Alessandro Cicoira, Gennady A. Nosenko, Shaun R. Eaves   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source