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Exploring Ocean Floor Geodiversity in Relation to Mineral Resources in the Southwest Pacific Ocean
Resources, 2022 The future extraction of mineral resources may irreversibly damage ocean floor geodiversity in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. Therefore, understanding of the spatial distribution of ocean floor geodiversity in relation to mineral resources is important ...
Arie Christoffel Seijmonsbergen +3 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Geodiversity incorporates many of the environmental patterns and processes that are considered determinants of biodiversity. However, research on the spatial relations between geodiversity and biodiversity at large regional scales is challenging because ...
Yanjiao Ren +3 more
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Geodiversity and geotourism utilization of islands: Gwanmae Island of South Korea
Journal of Marine and Island Cultures, 2014 The island area has well preserved geodiversity and biodiversity due to minimal exposure to humans. UNESCO has maintained things and sites with geological importance as geoheritage.
Yeong-Koo Koh +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 Soil moisture content (SMC) is a limiting factor to ecosystem productivity in semiarid shrublands. Long-term droughts due to climatic changes may increase the water stress imposed on these lands. Recent observations demonstrate positive relations between
Vladislav Dubinin +3 more
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Brief Notes on Geodiversity and Geoheritage Perception by the Lay Public
Geosciences, 2021 Geodiversity has an irreplaceable significance for both biodiversity and for human society as it has numerous functions and offers various benefits and services.
Lucie Kubalíková +2 more
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Towards Transferable Use of Terrain Ruggedness Component in the Geodiversity Index
Resources, 2022 Geodiversity, as diversity of the abiotic environment, includes terrain ruggedness (or roughness), which is one of the essential parts of geodiversity evaluation.
Borut Stojilković
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Exploring Hawaiian long-term insular geodiversity dynamics [PDF]
, 2017 The role of time is underrepresented in assessments of geodiversity. Hot spot islands are unique systems to explore long-term geodiversity dynamics. The geodiversity dynamics of seven Hawaiian Islands are analysed by a qualitative-quantitative assessment
Seijmonsbergen, A.C. +6 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global decarbonization has positioned lithium as a strategic mineral for electric vehicles, battery storage, and low‐carbon development. Yet its extraction raises serious environmental, political, and justice concerns that complicate dominant narratives of clean energy progress.
Jacob Kwakye
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Quantitative geodiversity assessment in biodiversity investigations
Nordia Geographical PublicationsDespite the growing recognition of geodiversity in recent years, it remains overshadowed by its biotic counterpart, biodiversity. The objective of this thesis is to narrow this gap by advancing the quantitative assessment of geodiversity within the ...
Maija Toivanen
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Geodiversity photographed: An exploratory and iconographic study of geoheritage in protected areas
International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2023 This paper is part of the scope of cultural geodiversity and mobilizes photography in order to understand the role it has played in the knowledge of geodiversity and in the recognition of geoheritage.
Claire Portal
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