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Resource limitation of soil microbes in karst ecosystems
Science of The Total Environment, 2019Knowledge about resource limitation to soil microbes is crucial for understanding ecosystem functions and processes, and for predicting ecosystem responses to global changes as well. Karst ecosystems are widespread in the world, and play a key role in regulating the global climate, however, the patterns of and mechanisms underlying microbial resource ...
Hao Chen +4 more
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2022
<p>Karst groundwater dependent ecosystems (KGDEs) represent an important asset worldwide due to their ecological and socioeconomic values. Although they are increasingly recognized as such, they have not been adequately documented and studied. The present contribution aims at characterizing the main KGDEs of the Dinaric karst in Slovenia.
Natasa Ravbar, Tanja Pipan
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<p>Karst groundwater dependent ecosystems (KGDEs) represent an important asset worldwide due to their ecological and socioeconomic values. Although they are increasingly recognized as such, they have not been adequately documented and studied. The present contribution aims at characterizing the main KGDEs of the Dinaric karst in Slovenia.
Natasa Ravbar, Tanja Pipan
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Plant ecology of tropical and subtropical karst ecosystems
Biotropica, 2019AbstractSubstantial areas of tropical forests, including those within nine tropical biodiversity hotspots, contain karst landscapes that have developed on soluble carbonate rocks. Here, we review how the ecology of karst forest trees is influenced by hydrological, edaphic, and topographic factors that exhibit fine spatial heterogeneity.
Nalaka Geekiyanage +3 more
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Tradeoffs and synergies between ecosystem services: A comparison of the karst and non-karst area
Journal of Mountain Science, 2020Under the influence of various natural and human factors, the relationship between the ecosystem services provided for human beings by a karst ecosystem is becoming increasingly complex, profoundly limiting the effective and sustainable development of the social economy and ecosystem protection in karst areas. Taking Guizhou, China as an example, which
Hui-qing Han +5 more
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2007
Karst is a type of landscape found on carbonate rocks (limestone, dolomite, marble) or evaporites (gypsum, anhydrite, rock salt) and is typified by a wide range of closed surface depressions, a well-developed underground drainage system, and a paucity of surface streams.
Julius Taminskas +3 more
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Karst is a type of landscape found on carbonate rocks (limestone, dolomite, marble) or evaporites (gypsum, anhydrite, rock salt) and is typified by a wide range of closed surface depressions, a well-developed underground drainage system, and a paucity of surface streams.
Julius Taminskas +3 more
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A marine karst ecosystem in need of some love
2023Here, we describe a karst pool and cave ecosystem of Taiwan’s ‘Orchid Island’. The pool and cave system contained a particularly rich sponge fauna with 17 potentially novel species identified after careful examination and a large number of possibly novel species identified following preliminary examination.
Cleary DFR, Huang YM, de Voogd NJ
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Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, 2001
AbstractIn this paper the author gives a definition of the karst ecosystem and discusses the characteristics of the karst environment and karst ecosystem and the relationship between life and the karst environment. Finally he clarifies the structure, driving force and functions of the karst system.
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AbstractIn this paper the author gives a definition of the karst ecosystem and discusses the characteristics of the karst environment and karst ecosystem and the relationship between life and the karst environment. Finally he clarifies the structure, driving force and functions of the karst system.
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Karst ecosystem and environment: Characteristics, evolution processes, and sustainable development
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2021Abstract The studies in this Special Issue addressed environmental and ecological issues at the karst areas in the Southwest China. The contributions from these studies indicated that some active agricultural practices that were carried out in recent years reduced environmental risk and increased economic benefits at the karst areas.
Si-Liang Li +3 more
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Biogeomorphology and contingent ecosystem engineering in karst landscapes
Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 2016While karst is not biogenic in the same sense as, say, coral reefs or peat bogs, and carbonate dissolution can occur abiotically, formation of karst landscapes would not occur in the absence of the biosphere. Seven levels of biogeomorphic biotic-abiotic interactions are identified, from indirect impacts to landforms as extended phenotypes.
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Karst Springs: Isolated Ecosystem Ecology from the Water Mite Perspective
2021Karst springs are known to host a great diversity of water mites that include euryvalent generalists, but also a highly specialized crenobiont species (exclusively found in springs). A total of 44 crenobiontic water mite species has been reported in the springs of the Western Balkans, which is about 32% of the crenobiontic species known in Europe. Most
Ivana Pozojević, Vladimir Pešić
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