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Application of landscape metrics in the evaluation of geodiversity

Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2013
The purpose of this study is to present opportunities for using landscape metrics to evaluate geodiversity on individual landscape levels. The research area is located to the west of the Płock Urban and Industrial Agglomeration in Poland.
Malinowska Ewa, Szumacher Iwona
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geodiversity index in the ubajara national park, Ceará, Brazil

, 2021
A quantificação da geodiversidade, definida pela variedade de elementos abióticos e processos associados, é uma ferramenta importante na distinção de locais mais ou menos geodiversos. O presente artigo apresenta como objetivo aplicar um índice de geodiversidade ao território do Parque Nacional de Ubajara, Ceará.
Meira, Suedio Alves, da Silva , Edson Vicente   +1 more
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Community assembly on inland cliffs is context‐dependent

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Under harsh environmental conditions, community assembly processes are expected to drive pronounced functional convergence, with communities dominated by stress‐tolerant species.
Thomas Deola, Gianmaria Bonari, Alessandro Bricca, Leopoldo de Simone, Sofie Paulus, Claudia Angiolini, Francesco Candini, Juan Lorite, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Anke Jentsch   +9 more
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Response of Remote Tropical West Pacific Islands to Climate Variability: A Multiproxy Record From T‐Lake, Palau, Spanning the Early Holocene to Present

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lake sediments are natural archives of past environmental dynamics and how these systems have responded to past climate variability. Sediment geochemistry, governed by local geology and climate processes, is unique to each lake‐catchment and geochemical proxies must be validated for each study site.
Jalene Nalbant, Larissa Schneider, Jessica L. Blois, Matthew Wolhowe, Julian P. Sachs, Simon G. Haberle, Geoffrey Clark   +6 more
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The obsolescence of protected area categories in a polycrisis world

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Current global conservation models face significant limitations in addressing the global polycrisis, and the constraints of the International Union for Conservation of Nature protected area (PA) classification system are part of the issue. The principles of the new conservation paradigm—governance, equity, and interculturality—are not viable ...
Pamela Esther Degele
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Spatial Patterns of Geodiversity and Their Relevance to Land Management in Mount Cangshan Global Geopark

Land
Geodiversity assessment has become an important tool for understanding the spatial heterogeneity of abiotic elements and supporting conservation and land-use planning in protected areas.
Benyan Xu, Jianfeng Yang, Yun Yu, Yuesheng Han, Ruiliang Wang   +4 more
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Locating Geodiversity Hotspots through Grid-Based Spatial Indexing: Lombok Island, Indonesia

Journal of Geoscience, Engineering, Environment, and Technology
Locating geodiversity hotspots across large areas poses a challenge for further geopark development in Indonesia, especially on Lombok Island, which spans 5,435 km². A geodiversity hotspot is an area rich in unique geological features that need to be determined.
Gathot Harbowo, Danni, Siringoringo, Luhut Pardamean   +1 more
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Integrating natural baselines into ecosystem restoration: scaling herbivore targets for European landscapes

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Herbivore‐mediated ecosystem processes are fundamental to biodiversity, yet have been greatly diminished by megafauna extinctions and replacement of wild herbivores by managed livestock. With increasing restoration ambitions—including the United Nations' (UN) Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the European Union (EU) Nature ...
Camilla Fløjgaard, Robert Buitenwerf, Alessandro Chiarucci, Martin Konvička, Rasmus Mohr Mortensen, Norman Owen‐Smith, Deli Saavedra, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Rasmus Ejrnæs   +8 more
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Exploring the Geodiversity—Biodiversity Relationships in Freshwaters for Environmental Conservation: A Global Systematic Literature Review

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 36, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Geodiversity refers to the heterogeneity of abiotic characteristics in nature, and in freshwater ecosystems, it mostly mirrors the diversity of hydro‐geomorphological features in inland waters. Although several scholars have highlighted that geodiversity contributes to habitat formation and influences biodiversity and ecological processes, it ...
Ioanna Xynogala, Eva Papastergiadou, Janne Alahuhta, Elias Dimitriou, Alexis Ramfos, Konstantinos Stefanidis   +5 more
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Geosite determination based on geodiversity assessment utilizing the volcanic history of a near-sea-level explosive eruption-dominated volcanic island: Tūhua/Mayor Island, New Zealand

, 2022
Tūhua/Mayor Island is located approximately 45 km off the NE coast of the North Island of New Zealand. This island was formed by various explosive and effusive volcanic eruptions commonly influenced by magma–water interaction eruption events occurring ...
Li, Boxin, Vladislav Zakharovskyi, Kósik, Szabolcs, Szabolcs Kósik, Boxin Li, Károly Németh, Németh, Károly, Zakharovskyi, Vladislav   +7 more
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