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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.
Zhijie Wang
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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, Dayun Zhu
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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
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Ecological IndicatorsSoil erosion is a key environmental issue impacting terrestrial ecosystems, especially in sensitive karst regions. Although it is generally accepted that soil erosion processes are strongly influenced by changes in land use and landscape patterns, there ...
Jiao Pan, Benjin Yu, Rui Li
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Microagroecosystem models and their landscape ecological risk evolution in karst mountainous areas
Ecological IndicatorsMicro-spatial agroecosystem (AES) changes in karst mountain areas are a response to the human-land relationship of the human activity center. However, the changes and linkages between AESs and landscape ecological risks (LER) from a micro perspective in ...
Limin Yu, Yangbing Li
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Ecological IndicatorsThe karst region serves as a crucial drinking water source. With the rise in water quality pollution, there is a substantial increase in pressure on water resources.
Shizhen Xiao
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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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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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Assessing Karst Landscape Degradation: A Case Study in Southern Italy
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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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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