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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Soil Ecosystem Degradation of Karst Regions in Southwestern China
2012Deeply influenced by karst geological environment, the structure of the soil ecosystem in the southwest karst area of China is characterized by strong vertical variation and space variation, structural feature of nonrenewable soil, and functional feature of poor circulation of nutrient elements and limited vegetation growth.
Xie, Shi-you, Wang, Ju
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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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