Data on occurrence and ecotoxicological risk of emerging contaminants in Dinaric karst catchment of Jadro and Žrnovnica springs [PDF]
Data in Brief, 2022 Karst catchments are valuable drinking water sources and fragile habitats to many endemic species. This dataset presents initial insights into the occurrence and ecotoxicological risk of 21 emerging contaminants (ECs) (including 11 pharmaceuticals, 4 ...
Ana Selak +3 more
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Factors Beyond Karstification Have Shaped the Population Structure of a Surface‐Dwelling Minnow (Phoxinus lumaireul) Able to Disperse Underground [PDF]
Evolutionary ApplicationsThe Dinaric Karst, a biodiversity hotspot, features complex surface and subterranean hydrological networks that influence aquatic species distribution.
Susanne Reier +5 more
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Diversity, 2022 The waters of the Dinaric Karst drain into both the Adriatic and the Black Sea basins. Precipitation is high, yet surface waters are scarce, with the exception of sinking streams.
Susanne Reier +2 more
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Revealing European cave shrimp diversity: a new species of Spelaeocaris (Decapoda, Atyidae) named through public participation [PDF]
ZooKeysThe family Atyidae, the world’s largest family of freshwater shrimps, is represented in Europe almost exclusively by subterranean species. The Dinaric Karst of the northwestern Balkans is among the most species-rich regions for atyids, hosting two genera,
Jure Jugovic +4 more
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Karst flash floods: an example from the Dinaric karst (Croatia) [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2006 Flash floods constitute one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters worldwide. This paper explains the karst flash flood phenomenon, which represents a special kind of flash flood. As the majority of flash floods karst flash floods are caused by
O. Bonacci +2 more
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Toward the conservation of the endemic monotypic fish genus Aulopyge from the Balkan Dinaric karst: Integrative assessment of introduced and natural population [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The complex biogeographical history of the Balkan Peninsula caused remarkable freshwater fish diversity and endemism, among which Cyprinidae fish dominate.
Jasmina Ludoški +4 more
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Molecular analyses of pseudoscorpions in a subterranean biodiversity hotspot reveal cryptic diversity and microendemism [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Nested within the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot, the Dinaric Karst of the western Balkans is one of the world’s most heterogeneous subterranean ecosystems and renowned for its highly diverse and mostly endemic fauna.
Dora Hlebec +3 more
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Land use and human impact in the Dinaric karst. [PDF]
International Journal of Speleology, 1999 The artice presents Dinaric karst, human impacts in the area, and its long history of deforestation, transformation into stony semi-desert, and a century long reforestation, where plans to restore the primary thick soil were just hoping against hope.
Gams Ivan, Gabrovec Matej
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Introduction to the Dinaric Karst [PDF]
, 2010 Dinaric karst is expansive, 800 km long and up to 150 km wide area of karst, which extends over majority of Dinaric mountains and therefore also over the southwestern part of Slovenia.
Nadja Zupan Hajna +2 more
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Water resources analysis of the Rječina karst spring and river (Dinaric karst)
Acta Carsologica, 2018 The paper deals with complex hydrological/hydrogeological behaviour in the Rječina karst spring and river basin located in the north-western part of the deep and developed Croatian Dinaric karst.
Ognjen Bonacci +2 more
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