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Showing items 41545 through 41553 of 73380.Kafkasör Forest Area which is close to the Artvin (Turkey) city center is an important recreational area. 'Kafkasör Festival' is arranged in July every year. However, the area is intensively used during the festivals, and irregular usage and lack of equipment damage the area.
Land degradation is always with us but its causes, extent and severity are contested. We define land degradation as a long-term decline in ecosystem function and productivity, which may be assessed using long-term, remotely sensed normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data.
The socio-economic changes of the last decades have resulted in changes in traditional land uses with consequent abandonment of large farmland areas in the Mediterranean region.
While much attention has been given to examining various aspects of poverty, anumber of studies have shown that institutional environment in which the poorexist conditions welfare outcomes, thus highlighting the inherently crucialimportance of institutions for poverty reduction.
We applied an intermediate disturbance-complexity approach to the land-use change of cultural landscapes in the island of Mallorca from c.
Peatbogs are the most productive and biodiversity rich ecosystems of high dry Puna region, and provide essential ecosystems services to local inhabitants.
Urban areas contribute disproportional nitrogen (N) loads to downstream aquatic ecosystems resulting in potential hypoxic ‘dead’ zones. Riparian areas along streams and rivers reduce inorganic N concentrations through denitrification, an anaerobic microbial process.
Anthropogenic land use affects aquatic landscapes. For example, landscape-level conversion to urban or agricultural land can heavily influence nutrient cycles in headwater streams via increased nutrient loading and altered hydrologic patterns.
Facing increasing levels of ecosystem degradation, scientists and practitioners aim to preserve ecological integrity â to maintain structures and functions expected of ecosystems in a region.
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