Regional Analysis of Tracer Tests in the Karstic Basin of the Gacka River (Croatian Dinaric Karst)
Hydrology, 2023 Tracer testing is the only method in karst hydrogeology that can definitively determine whether a particular site belongs to a watershed of a particular karst spring.
Andrej Stroj +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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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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Some Insights into the Environmental History of the Dinaric Karst [PDF]
World Terraced Landscapes: History, Environment, Quality of Life Environmental HistoryAbstractThe explanations of the terms environmental history and karst are followed by an introduction to the Dinaric Karst and a selection of groundbreaking examples of the early intellectual history of karst research in this environmental macroregion, placing the Dinaric Karst on the European intellectual history map.
Ziga Zwitter +2 more
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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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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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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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A comprehensive dataset of published records of Leptodirini (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) from the North-western Balkans [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalIn Europe, the beetle tribe Leptodirini (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) reaches its highest diversity in southern parts of the continent, where this predominantly subterranean group developed into one of the largest subterranean radiations in the World.
Teo Delić, Maja Zagmajster
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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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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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