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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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Journal of Environmental Management, 2022
The role of cultural ecosystem services (CES) is vital to consider when developing ecological sustainable development policies that can improve the well-being of humans. Research on CES has increased in recent years; however, few studies have explored the complex mechanisms driving perceptions of CES and the factors influencing those perceptions.
Xin Nie +5 more
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The role of cultural ecosystem services (CES) is vital to consider when developing ecological sustainable development policies that can improve the well-being of humans. Research on CES has increased in recent years; however, few studies have explored the complex mechanisms driving perceptions of CES and the factors influencing those perceptions.
Xin Nie +5 more
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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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Research Progress on Karst Tiankeng Ecosystems
The Botanical Review, 2017The geomorphologic features called tiankengs were first discovered and named at the end of the twentieth century in karst areas of China. They have enjoyed increasing attention owing to their unusual geologic processes and unique ecological communities.
Gaozhong Pu +4 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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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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Threshold Effects between Ecosystem Services and Natural and Social Drivers in Karst Landscapes
LandIt has been shown that there are thresholds of influence on the response of ecosystem services to their drivers, and the range of drivers that provide high levels of ecosystem services can be delineated through thresholds.
Zhou Qiuwen
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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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International Journal of Digital EarthA thorough assessment of the karst ecosystem quality plays an important role in regional sustainable development. In this study, based on multi-source remote sensing data, a comprehensive ecosystem quality index (EQI) was developed by integrating the ...
Jiaguo Li +2 more
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Springs as Essential Water Sources for Dependent Ecosystems in Karst
2021The karst covers some 30% of the territory of former Yugoslavia and similarly Western Balkans countries and represent fully contrasted terrain. On one side there are dry hilly mountainous terrains with deep groundwater table and terrestrial ecosystems adapted to these circumstances while on another, in the foothills and along erosional bases are often ...
Zoran Stevanović +4 more
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