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7 Citations
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22 Pages

4 February 2021

The purpose of this study was to identify the influence of karst landscape on the sustainable development of the Bela krajina region, southeast Slovenia. In order to better understand the influence of karst landscape on sustainable development we use...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,652 Views
18 Pages

Microbial Resource Limitation in Aggregates in Karst and Non-Karst Soils

  • Yunqiu Wang,
  • Muhammad Shahbaz,
  • Mostafa Zhran,
  • Anlei Chen,
  • Zhenke Zhu,
  • Yehia Galal Mohamed Galal,
  • Tida Ge and
  • Yuhong Li

10 August 2021

Karst is a widespread ecosystem with properties that affect the microbial activity and storage and cycling of soil organic carbon. The mechanisms underlying microbial resource availability in karst, which limit the microbial growth and activity in so...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,964 Views
14 Pages

18 August 2022

To investigate the distribution characteristics and hazard levels of eight heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, Zn) in karst soil with a high geological background of heavy metals, 32 and 40 surface soil samples were collected from limestone and...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,078 Views
20 Pages

17 March 2021

Karst aquifers in the Dinaric karst are very rich with groundwater and are a very important resource for public water supply. The characteristics of the Dinaric karst are the lack, or very thin layer, of covering deposits, large amounts of precipitat...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,177 Views
18 Pages

An Intermittent Karst River: The Case of the Čikola River (Dinaric Karst, Croatia)

  • Ognjen Bonacci,
  • Josip Terzić,
  • Tanja Roje-Bonacci and
  • Tihomir Frangen

17 November 2019

Intermittent and ephemeral streams (IRES) are responsible for transporting about half of the water on Earth’s surface. Their hydrological behavior is different in various landscapes. IRES are found more often in karst terrains than in any other...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,802 Views
34 Pages

3 August 2024

This study examines climate change, anthropogenic impacts, and their relationship with the sustainable development of the Brestnitsa karst geosystem. It is representative of the karst in Bulgaria, which is developed on a quarter of its territory. The...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,046 Views
17 Pages

The phoD-Harboring Microorganism Communities and Networks in Karst and Non-Karst Forests in Southwest China

  • Min Chen,
  • Hanlian Qin,
  • Yueming Liang,
  • Dan Xiao,
  • Peidong Yan,
  • Mingshan Yin and
  • Fujing Pan

9 February 2024

Phosphorous (P) limitation is common not only in tropical rainforest and savanna ecosystems, but also in karst forest ecosystems. Soil phoD-harboring microorganisms are essential in soil P cycles, but very little information is available about them i...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,596 Views
12 Pages

24 February 2021

Studying vulnerability has become one of the hot issues of ecological research under global change and sustainable development scenarios. However, there are few studies focusing on the vulnerability of karst areas, especially on the comparison betwee...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,136 Views
13 Pages

26 December 2023

Karst groundwater resources are rich, and they have important water supply significance. A karst reservoir is a means of exploiting and utilizing groundwater resources, but because of the complex hydrogeological structure and underground river pipeli...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,245 Views
21 Pages

Ionic Runoff as a Way to Determine the Degree of Karst Denudation (Case Study Jasov Plateau, Slovak Karst, Slovakia)

  • Alena Gessert,
  • Imrich Sládek,
  • Veronika Straková,
  • Mihály Braun,
  • Enikő Heim,
  • Andrea Czébely and
  • László Palcsu

21 May 2021

Estimation of the catchment area of a karst spring is not possible in all areas for various reasons. The Slovak Karst is protected by the highest degree of protection and karst springs are used as a source of drinking water for the second largest cit...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,252 Views
13 Pages

Lower Sensitivity of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen to Regional Temperature Change in Karst Forests Than in Non-Karst Forests

  • Yunfan Li,
  • Rong Yang,
  • Peilei Hu,
  • Dan Xiao,
  • Zhongcheng Wang,
  • Wei Zhang and
  • Kelin Wang

10 February 2023

Lithology has such an important effect on the sustainability of soil carbon (C) pools. Forests are an important part of terrestrial C sinks; yet, it is unclear whether their soil carbon sensitivity to temperature changes is regulated by lithology, es...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,045 Views
15 Pages

In recent years vulnerability maps have been used as a tool to highlight the areas with the greatest potential for groundwater pollution based on the hydrogeological conditions and their respective human impacts. Several regions of Greece depend comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,758 Views
19 Pages

Water Recharge of Jinan Karst Springs, Shandong, China

  • Henghua Zhu,
  • Liting Xing,
  • Qinghan Meng,
  • Xuerui Xing,
  • Yuming Peng,
  • Changsuo Li,
  • Hu Li and
  • Lizhi Yang

3 March 2020

As the main scavenge port of groundwater in the karst water system, most of the karst springs affected by human activities experienced discharge attenuation phenomenon in the north of China. Whilst artificial replenishment measures have been taken to...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,714 Views
19 Pages

Changes in Ecological–Production–Social Functions in Karst Areas: Insight from Guizhou Province, South China Karst

  • Rong Zhao,
  • Kangning Xiong,
  • Anjun Lan,
  • Qiwei Chen,
  • Zhaojun Liu,
  • Fangli Feng and
  • Nana Yu

21 January 2025

The ecosystems and human social systems in karst areas are undergoing rapid development. In this context, effectively identifying changes in the various functions of karst areas is crucial for formulating accurate sustainable development policies. Ho...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,224 Views
16 Pages

29 May 2023

Rocky desertification is a common phenomenon in karst areas. Soil carbon and nitrogen storage is of great significance to the formation and evolution of ecosystems. Soil leakage is one of the important indicators in evaluating ecosystem stability. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,203 Views
17 Pages

The Impact on Karst Aquifer Regimes Induced by a Surface Reservoir in Karst through Multiparametric Analyses (Reservoir Bileća—Herzegovina)

  • Saša Milanović,
  • Ljiljana Vasić,
  • Branislav Petrović,
  • Tina Dašić,
  • Veljko Marinović and
  • Petar Vojnović

3 August 2023

The results of long-term groundwater monitoring in the Bileća reservoir adjacent (eastern Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina) indicate that there is a good hydraulic connection between the reservoir and the karst aquifer located in the right ba...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,926 Views
26 Pages

22 June 2018

In order to assess a concealed karst cave’s influence on karst tunnel stability, an assessment model is proposed based on the analytic hierarchy process and a statistical analysis of relevant engineering projects. Major factors are studied and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,694 Views
28 Pages

20 February 2024

LiDAR-based digital terrain models (DTMs) represent an advance in the investigation of small-scale geomorphological features, including dolines of karst terrains. Important issues in doline morphometry are (i) which statistical distributions best mod...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,130 Views
12 Pages

Coastal karst aquifers are common in the Mediterranean basin. With their significant potential storage capacity, they are an attractive groundwater resource in areas where the water demand is the most important. They discharge either at the coastal z...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,179 Views
14 Pages

Guizhou Karst Carbon Sink and Sustainability—An Overview

  • Min Zhang,
  • Wu Yang,
  • Mingxing Yang and
  • Jun Yan

14 September 2022

Global warming and climate change are becoming the most popular topics among scientists. In this century, the research focusing on the process and mechanism of the carbon cycle, especially the research of reducing the concentration of atmospheric CO2...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,707 Views
16 Pages

8 November 2023

Karst groundwater is an important water supply, especially in northern China. With the rapid development of China’s economy, anthropogenic activities have had a significant impact on karst groundwater formation, circulation and other processes....

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  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,697 Views
8 Pages

7 December 2018

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Global Geoparks initiative balances the conservation of geological heritage with its use in purposes of tourism industry. However, the resources of geoparks and the current...

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  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,439 Views
19 Pages

Karst Brackish Springs of Albania

  • Romeo Eftimi,
  • Mario Parise and
  • Isabella Serena Liso

The territory of Albania presents wide outcrops of soluble rocks, with typical karst landforms and the presence of remarkable carbonate aquifers. Many karst areas are located near the coasts, which results in a variety of environmental problems, most...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,552 Views
12 Pages

5 January 2023

Karst landforms constitute one of the most harmful geological conditions, which have an adverse effect on the deep foundation structures of bridges. During earthquakes, the existence of karst caves can cause serious seismic damage to the bridge pile...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,986 Views
19 Pages

6 May 2019

The Jinan karst spring system, discharged by 108 springs in 2.6 km2 city center area of Jinan, China, has been suffering lower regional groundwater levels, which threatens the karst springs outflowing and aquatic ecological civilization. For better s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,362 Views
12 Pages

Stable Isotope Hydrology of Karst Groundwaters in Romania

  • Renata Feher,
  • Carmen-Andreea Bădăluță,
  • Traian Brad,
  • Călin Drăgan,
  • Virgil Drăgușin,
  • Dragoș Ștefan Măntoiu,
  • Aurel Perșoiu and
  • Maria-Laura Tîrlă

23 May 2024

In this article we present the first investigation of the stable isotope composition of groundwater in Romania, East-Central Europe, with a focus on the karst areas. Our aim is twofold: (1) to provide a countrywide map with the distribution of stable...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,251 Views
15 Pages

Impact of Withdrawals on Karst Watershed Water Supply

  • David Labat,
  • Rémi Argouze,
  • Naomi Mazzilli,
  • Chloé Ollivier and
  • Vianney Sivelle

20 April 2022

Karst systems consist of heterogeneous aquifers characterized by non-linear hydrogeological behavior. This is intrinsically linked to the coexistence of saturated versus unsaturated, open-channel versus closed-conduit flow and laminar versus turbulen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,119 Views
34 Pages

Equivalent Porous Medium (EPM) Modeling of Karst Features for Slope Stability Analysis in Karst-Prone Weak Rock Masses

  • Joan Atieno Onyango,
  • Takashi Sasaoka,
  • Hideki Shimada,
  • Akihiro Hamanaka and
  • Dyson Moses

In weak carbonate rock masses, small-sized karst features ranging from greater than 2 cm to over 1 m in diameter can significantly compromise slope stability, yet they are often overlooked in traditional geotechnical models. This study employs the eq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,020 Views
15 Pages

12 July 2019

Karst aquifers are a major source of drinking water with intrinsic features that increase the pollution risk from anthropogenic and natural impacts. In Yucatan, Mexico, groundwater is the sole source of drinking water, also acting as receptor of untr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,603 Views
14 Pages

12 December 2024

With their unique karst geomorphology and rich biodiversity, forest ecosystems present huge ecological potential, and their ecological products promise great economic value. In this context, an important way to realize the sustainable development of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,609 Views
28 Pages

The Interplay of Environment and Biota in Assessing the Freshwater Quality in Karst

  • Daniela R. Borda,
  • Ioan Cociuba,
  • Laura Epure,
  • Nicolae Cruceru and
  • Ioana N. Meleg

12 June 2022

Karst aquifers are both a valuable resource for humankind and a habitat for unique biota. The quality of freshwater sources may be easily affected by natural (e.g., geology, climate, and vegetation) and anthropogenic (e.g., agriculture, livestock, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,653 Views
18 Pages

Profiling the Bacterial Diversity in a Typical Karst Tiankeng of China

  • Gaozhong Pu,
  • Yanna Lv,
  • Lina Dong,
  • Longwu Zhou,
  • Kechao Huang,
  • Danjuan Zeng,
  • Ling Mo and
  • Guangping Xu

While karst tiankengs have a higher capacity to act as safe havens for biodiversity in changing climates, little is known about their soil microorganisms. To fill this gap, we investigate the distribution and driving factors of the bacterial communit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,026 Views
20 Pages

10 April 2019

Karst watersheds are often treated as non-karst watersheds that can lead to several hazards. Hence, how do karst watersheds differ from non-karst watersheds and what are the effects of karstification on groundwater availability and quality? In this s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,501 Views
15 Pages

A Procedure to Estimate Global Natural Recharge in Karst Aquifers

  • Eugenio Sanz Pérez,
  • Juan Carlos Mosquera-Feijóo,
  • Joaquín Sanz de Ojeda and
  • Ignacio Menéndez-Pidal

13 June 2025

Natural recharge in karst aquifers is a key component of global water resources, yet its estimation remains challenging due to the complexity of karst hydrogeological processes. The recharge assessment deserves special consideration, especially in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,366 Views
22 Pages

Groundwater Geochemistry in the Karst-Fissure Aquifer System of the Qinglian River Basin, China

  • Lanfang Xu,
  • Zehua Ni,
  • Wenlong Huang,
  • Shiliang Tu,
  • Shoujun Jiang,
  • Zhuohan Zhuang,
  • Libo Zhao and
  • Hongyu Yang

30 October 2024

The Qinglian River plays a significant role in China’s national water conservation security patterns. To clarify the relationship between hydrogeochemical properties and groundwater quality in this karst-fissure aquifer system, drilling data, h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,077 Views
22 Pages

Coastal karst aquifers show a three-dimensional vulnerability, which consists of the whole of the “intrinsic vulnerability” and the “groundwater vulnerability to seawater intrusion”. The results of a study carried out in the S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,984 Views
17 Pages

Karst Landscape Governance in the Guilin World Heritage Site, China

  • Guizhen He,
  • Mingzhao Yu,
  • Xiang Zhao,
  • Lei Zhang and
  • Lina Shen

23 May 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 collaborativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,599 Views
17 Pages

Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Groundwater Chemistry of Baotu Karst Water System at Northern China

  • Changsuo Li,
  • Xingzhou Zhang,
  • Xubo Gao,
  • Chengcheng Li,
  • Chunfang Jiang,
  • Wen Liu,
  • Guangqi Lin,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Jiancong Fang and
  • Xiubo Zhang
  • + 1 author

14 March 2022

Karst water quality degradation has been a challenge for domestic and industrial water supplies worldwide. To reveal the possible factors response for karst water quality degradation, Baotu karst spring system is studied as an representative example....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,123 Views
17 Pages

Hydrologic Model Prediction Improvement in Karst Watersheds through Available Reservoir Capacity of Karst

  • Lin Liao,
  • Saeed Rad,
  • Junfeng Dai,
  • Asfandyar Shahab,
  • Jingxuan Xu and
  • Rui Xia

31 July 2024

This study aimed to enhance flood forecasting accuracy in the Liangfeng River basin, a small karst watershed in Southern China, by incorporating the Available Reservoir Capacity of Karst (ARCK) into the HEC-HMS model. This region is often threatened...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,402 Views
18 Pages

21 February 2021

A coupled model has been developed to simulate groundwater flow in fractured karst systems according to the complex geological and karst hydrogeological conditions of the dam site, where a 3D mathematical model based on Boussinesq equation was used t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,391 Views
21 Pages

26 June 2024

Stable isotopes in natural water bodies serve as hydrologic tracers, with a history of extensive application in karst groundwater research. The present paper is a systematic review of previous research results, with the objective of sorting out and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,310 Views
10 Pages

The Role of Attached and Free-Living Bacteria in Biodegradation in Karst Aquifers

  • Roger Painter,
  • Tom Byl,
  • Lonnie Sharpe,
  • Ahmad Kheder and
  • Justin Harris

8 December 2011

Natural attenuation of groundwater contamination occurs at some level for all aquifers impacted with organic contaminants. The issues regarding natural attenuation are whether it takes place at a sufficient rate to be protective of human health and t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,560 Views
31 Pages

Occurrence of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Urban Karst Groundwater Systems

  • Rachel A. Kaiser,
  • Jason S. Polk,
  • Tania Datta,
  • Rohan R. Parekh and
  • Getahun E. Agga

18 March 2022

Antibiotic resistance is a global concern for human, animal, and environmental health. Many studies have identified wastewater treatment plants and surface waters as major reservoirs of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and genes (ARGs). Yet their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,289 Views
19 Pages

19 December 2020

Various methods of time series analysis have been used in studies of karst hydrological systems. Among these methods, correlation and spectral analysis have had an important role. The correlation analysis most often has been based on determination of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,540 Views
16 Pages

Quantification of Groundwater Recharge from an Ephemeral Stream into a Mountainous Karst Aquifer

  • Noam Zach Dvory,
  • Alon Ronen,
  • Yakov Livshitz,
  • Eilon Adar,
  • Michael Kuznetsov and
  • Alexander Yakirevich

17 January 2018

Sustainable groundwater production from karst aquifers is primarily dictated by its recharge rate. Therefore, it is essential to accurately quantify annual groundwater recharge in order to limit overexploitation and to evaluate artificial methods for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,367 Views
22 Pages

To provide theoretical support for the protection of centralized drinking groundwater sources in karst areas, it is necessary to accurately identify the development of karst conduits and analyze the differences in hydrogeochemical characteristics of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,015 Views
13 Pages

Challenges and Limitations of Karst Aquifer Vulnerability Mapping Based on the PaPRIKa Method—Application to a Large European Karst Aquifer (Fontaine de Vaucluse, France)

  • Chloé Ollivier,
  • Konstantinos Chalikakis,
  • Naomi Mazzilli,
  • Nerantzis Kazakis,
  • Yoann Lecomte,
  • Charles Danquigny and
  • Christophe Emblanch

Aquifer vulnerability maps can improve groundwater management for sustainable anthropogenic development. The latest update of karst aquifer vulnerability mapping is named: the Protection of Aquifers base on Protection, Rock type, Infiltration and KAr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,287 Views
15 Pages

6 January 2023

The evaluation and monitoring of the ecological environment quality of heritage sites can help provide sustainable and healthy development strategies for heritage management organizations. In this study, an ecological evaluation model based on the re...

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