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Geodiversity of Italy

Journal of Maps
In recent years, natural areas have been exposed to increasing anthropogenic pressure related to the growing need for natural resources. Comprehensive information on the geodiversity of a territory is essential for all stakeholders in order to define ...
Annarita Casaburi, Ines Alberico, Fabio Matano   +2 more
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Using LANDSAT 8 and VENµS Data to Study the Effect of Geodiversity on Soil Moisture Dynamics in a Semiarid Shrubland

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, Tal Svoray, Ilan Stavi, Hezi Yizhaq   +3 more
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Five Decades of Citizen Science Reveal Erosion of Hotspots of Multifaceted Plant Diversity. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
Using 2.5 million citizen‐science records of 1957 plant species collected across southwest Germany over 53 years, we examined changes in species richness, evolutionary diversity, and plant functional traits. These facets changed independently and were explained by different environmental drivers: climate and human activity primarily shaped taxonomic ...
Ferenc V, Krause C, Pagel J, Boxriker M, Voggesberger M, Wörz A, Thiv M, Liancourt P.   +7 more
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Geodiversity in the Amazon drainage basin. [PDF]

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
This dataset contains all maps used in the analysis of geodiversity in the Amazon drainage basin, for the article "Geodiversity in the Amazon Drainage Basin" published in Philosophical Transactions A (https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0065). The database
Alsbach CME, Seijmonsbergen AC, Hoorn C.
europepmc   +3 more sources

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, Sanne Valentijn, Lisan Westerhof, Kenneth Frank Rijsdijk   +3 more
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A Public Participation GIS for Geodiversity and Geosystem Services Mapping in a Mountain Environment: A Case from Grayson County, Virginia, U.S.A.

Land, 2023
Geodiversity and geosystem services are essential concepts for conservation efforts in mountain regions. Approaches that integrate both natural and human dimensions of mountain abiotic nature are best suited for this purpose; however, geodiversity ...
Kyler B. Stanley, Lynn M. Resler, Lawrence W. Carstensen   +2 more
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What do We Mean by Environmental Heterogeneity? Toward A Mechanistically Explicit and Scale-Dependent Framework. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
We synthesized 360 studies on environmental heterogeneity (EH) across taxa, regions, and disciplines. Only 10% of studies explicitly defined EH, and definitions were predominantly descriptive. We identify four operational interpretations of EH and propose a Research Roadmap linking EH metrics to five mechanistic hypotheses with testable predictions ...
Hérnandez-Chávez I, Hernández-Canchola G, López-González C, León-Paniagua L.   +3 more
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Geodiversity data for Europe. [PDF]

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
Geodiversity is an essential part of nature's diversity. However, geodiversity is insufficiently understood in terms of its spatial distribution and its relationship to biodiversity over large spatial extents.
Toivanen M, Maliniemi T, Hjort J, Salminen H, Ala-Hulkko T, Kemppinen J, Karjalainen O, Poturalska A, Kiilunen P, Snåre H, Leppiniemi O, Makopoulou E, Alahuhta J, Tukiainen H.   +13 more
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Geodiversity and Biodiversity [PDF]

, 2022
Non-living and living nature are inherently connected. Geodiversity, which consists of the variation in geology, soils, topography, geomorphology and hydrology, is seen as the foundation and stage for biodiversity.
Toivanen, Maija, Tuija Maliniemi, Maliniemi, Tuija, Maija Toivanen, Helena Tukiainen, Tukiainen, Helena   +5 more
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Global geodiversity components are not equally represented in UNESCO Global Geoparks. [PDF]

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
The aim of UNESCO Global Geoparks (UGGs) is to protect globally significant geoheritage and geodiversity, but quantitative evidence on the global representativeness of geodiversity components (i.e.
Polman EMN, Seijmonsbergen AC, Versteegh H, Kissling WD.   +3 more
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