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Ecological Indicators, 2022 Human uncontrolled land use is the main cause of ecosystem degradation and increased rock desertification in karst areas of Southern China. Landscape ecological quality assessment (LEQA) based on land use plays a significant role in promoting sustainable
Zhigao Wu +3 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2023 The accurate analysis of landscape pattern and ecological process characteristics in rapidly urbanized areas is crucial for formulating policies related to differentiated urban development and landscape management measures.
Changyue Hu +3 more
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Modelling habitats in karst landscape by integrating remote sensing and topography data [PDF]
Open Geosciences, 2018 Field mapping is an accurate but also time consuming method of detailed mapping of habitat types. Levels of habitat types are usually hierarchically nested at several levels.
Valjavec Mateja Breg +3 more
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Assessing Karst Landscape Degradation: A Case Study in Southern Italy [PDF]
Land, 2022 Karst regions are peculiar due to their environmental and ecological features and hold a rich abundance of natural resources; nonetheless, they represent one of the most endangered areas in the world as a result of human activity.
Luca Pisano +4 more
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Environmental and Sustainability IndicatorsThe karst mountainous regions in southwest China have long been a key area for ecological restoration. As an important indicator of environmental quality, ecosystem health plays a crucial role in evaluating the effectiveness of ecological restoration ...
Limin Yu, Lijie Pu
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Large-scale anthropic conversion of natural ecosystems into human-dominated countryside ecosystems has led to biodiversity loss worldwide. However, how countryside landscapes affect biodiversity is still controversial, especially in karst regions lack of
Shengtian Yang +7 more
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DInSAR based land deformation detection in the karst landscape of Gunung Sewu [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Hydrologic element specifically precipitation was fathomed to contribute in land deformation of karst landscape. Cempaka Tropical Cyclone (TC) had ensued in the last of 2017 in the Indian Ocean implicated to a high rate of rainfall upon the karst ...
Pambudi Ridwan Arif +1 more
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Karst Landscape Governance in the Guilin World Heritage Site, China
Heritage, 2023 Sustaining karst landscape areas in World Heritage Sites under increasing human pressures and climate change is an emerging challenge. Growing evidence has highlighted the transition from traditional government-oriented regulation to the collaborative ...
Guizhen He +4 more
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Landscape change of land use in the karst region of Jinan city, North China
Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 2023 With the rapid development of urbanization, land use change has occurred in most karst mountain regions of North China over the last decade, so studying landscape pattern changes induced by urbanization would have implicational significance to regional ...
Shanzhong Qi, Fuxin Heng, Lina Ji
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Geomorphology of the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin: A GIS-based approach to hydrogeologic mapping
PLoS ONE, 2021 This paper classifies the karst landscapes of the Petén Plateau and defines the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin by illustrating the distribution of its karst hydrologic features.
Ross Ensley +3 more
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