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Volume XX |
Environment

Identifying gaps in conservation and habitat management – Natura 2000 site Târnovu Mare-Latorița

1,*, 2,

Abstract: The study aims to identify the main gaps in conservation and proposes objectives in the management of protected areas. The physical characteristics of the protected area, the land use, the identification of current pressures and future threats are analyzed. Geomorphological and geological analysis is the component that highlights the correlations between relief and the distribution of habitat types. Among the features that make it unique in the Carpathian landscape, the protected area consists of a very rugged calcareous ridge with calcareous rocky slopes and chasmophytic vegetation, alpine calcareous grass-lands and a habitat of community interest consisting of forests with Larix decidua (the largest larch area in the Romanian Carpathians). The site is also home to a viable population of large carnivores (Ursus arctos, Canis lupus, Lynx lynx).
The main current pressures that are also mostly identified as future threats to the site are intensive grazing, the extension of access roads, poaching, creating of conditions for invasive species, reduction of habitat connectivity due to anthropogenic causes, antagonism with domestic animals, and off-road driving of the motor vehicles.
Future threats are anticipated due to growing forestry activities, with a negative impact especially by complete deforestation, which is favoured by the restitutio in integrum of forests to the private domain without any conditionality for those that lie within the protected natural areas.
Intensive grazing leads to grassland degradation (impoverishment in species, changes in plant association). Among the proposed conservation measures, we mention: strict control of grazing livestock and grazing period, payment of compensation for private forests with high conservation value, limitation of buildings and access roads in the high areas.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2021.035.dDates:
Received: 05-01-2021 Accepted: 30-10-2021 Printed: 30-12-2021 Online: 14-02-2022
Affiliations:
  • 1 Geography Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Craiova, 13 A I Cuza Street, 200252 Craiova
  • 2 Biology Department, Faculty of Horticulture, University of Craiova, 13 A I Cuza Street, 200252 Craiova
Corresponding author:
  • * emilmrnsc@yahoo.com
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Acknowledgements: Financial support for this study was conducted under the project "Development Management Plan for Natura 2000 site ROSCI0239 Tarnovu Mare- Latoriţa" Project cofinanced by the European Regional Development Fund in the Sectoral Operational Programme "Environment" Priority Axis 4 - Implementation adequate management systems for nature protection.
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Volume XX |
Biogeography

Phylogenetic diversity and EDGE approach in conservation of birds of prey in Europe

1,*, 2

Abstract: Biodiversity of our planet is rapidly eliminated, at rates much higher than ever observed in human history. The birds of prey, among others few groups of bird species in Europe, have the highest proportion of threatened and near threatened species per taxonomic group and also, 25% of birds of prey species are experiencing population decline. Today, more than never in our modern life, we have to fight for nature conservation. Our understanding of biological diversity has broadened due to the fact that the use of phylogenies in ecology is increasingly common. If our conservation efforts are directed to maximize the preservation of biodiversity in a broad sense, we have to think beyond species. If we treat the species as evolutionary units, and not like types, our conservation efforts will preserve not only the organism, but the organism capacity to responde to environmental changes. In this paper I aimed to highlight the importance of phylogenetic information in conservation of birds of prey species in Europe through the EDGE approach. This metric has been implemented to prioritise species, beeing the only global initiative to focus on conservation of threatened species with significant amount of unique evolutionary history. Using this approach in conservation, we can be more confident that we will have the potential to preserve more functional trait diversity than expected. The top five birds of prey EDGE species in Europe are: osprey (Pandion haliaetus), the black-winged kite (Elanus caeruleus), the egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), the european honey-buzzard (Pernis apivorus) and the bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), according their EDGE scores.

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Full article Dates:
Received: 21-04-2021 Accepted: 01-09-2021 Printed: 30-12-2021 Online: 14-02-2022
Affiliations:
  • 1 Faculty of Horticulture, Department of Biology and Environmental Engineering, University of Craiova, 13, Al. I. Cuza Str. 200585, Craiova, Romania
  • 2 Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Craiova, 13, Al. I. Cuza Str., 200585, Craiova, Romania
Corresponding author:
  • * mihailstefanescu@yahoo.com
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Volume XIX |
Geomorphology, GIS and Remote Sensing

Landslide-susceptibility Analysis, Mapping and Validation in the Bălăcița Piedmont (South-West Romania)

1, 1,*, 2, 1, 1

Abstract: This work presents the results of applying the GIS matrix method (GMM) to the mapping and validation of landslide-susceptibility analysis in different sectors of the Bălăciţa Piedmont. The main objective of the paper concerns the achievement of landslide-susceptibility maps based on the inventory, classification and description of the landslides within the study area. The starting point was represented by the DEM and, subsequently, based on the lithological data, other determinant factors were analyzed and reclassified in a vectorial format: slope angle, slope elevation and slope aspect. After the factors that determine instability were identified for each type of mechanism, susceptibility maps were drawn. In the resulting landslide-susceptibility map a model for the validation is presented (based on the determination and calculation of a set of landslides not included in the susceptibility analysis). The landslide-susceptibility maps of the Bălăciţa Piedmont are preventive tools intended to minimize risks in the threatened areas, especially near the settlements that are located on the left slope of the Jiu river and witness the reactivation of old landslides.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2020.127.dDates:
Received: 05-03-2020 Accepted: 03-08-2020 Printed: 30-12-2020 Online: 01-03-2021
Affiliations:
  • 1 Geography Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Craiova, Romania
  • 2 National Agency for Natural Protected Areas, Dolj Territorial Service, Craiova, Romania
Corresponding author:
  • * mihaela.licurici@edu.ucv.ro
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Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank the University of Craiova that facilitated this research and provided technical support. Special gratitude goes towards Bilașco Ș. for the useful suggestions offered during statistical processing in the GIS environment and to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.
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Volume XVIII |
Environment

Human impact due to the capitalization of water resources within the Jiu Gorge National Park

1,*, 1

Abstract: Within the Jiu Gorge National Park, there was a project, which almost draws to an end, for the hydro-energetic capitaliza-tion of the river, which implies a potentially negative impact of this investment on the aquatic sector of the Jiu river in this sector. The current study analyses the hydrological regime of the Jiu river within the gorge sector (natural flow and controlled flow for the technical-economic capitalization parameters) and the impact on natural landscapes due to building and construction sites, bringing arguments and solutions for meeting the declared objective of conserving the aquatic ecosystems within the Jiu Gorge National Park. Thus, there must be ensured a minimum discharge (ecological discharge) on all rivers within the national park and Natura 2000 sit, to provide for this mere purpose of this category of protected areas.

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Full article 10.5775/fg.2019.031.dDates:
Received: 25-03-2019 Accepted: 08-07-2019 Printed: 30-12-2019 Online: 30-12-2019
Affiliations:
  • 1 Geography Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Craiova, 13 A I Cuza Street, 200252 Craiova
Corresponding author:
  • * emilmrnsc@yahoo.com
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Volume IX |
Geomorphology

The Analysis of the Relief Fragmentation Features within the Bălăciţa Piedmont

1,*, 1, 1, 1

Abstract: Within the Bălăciţa Piedmont there are to be distinguished two areas with specific features, which correspond to the Danube catchment and to the Jiu drainage area. Both in the case of the drainage density, as well as in that of the relief energy, the distribution of the value classes correlated with the two catchments underlines major differences, but also certain resemblances, situation which is explained by the evolution time, the base level, the flow direction in relation with the structure and the lithological and climatic homogeneity.
The analysis of the data enabled the quantification of the relief energy and of the drainage density within the Bălăciţa Piedmont, as well as the correlation of the two parameters in report to the main catchments. The computation and representation methods for the two indicators of the relief fragmentation (i.e. the depth and the density) allowed for a quantitative interpretation (the identification of five value classes), as well as for a spatial interpretation (the grouping of the values depending on the two collecting rivers: the Danube and the Jiu). The aggregation of the influence factors on the two main drainage areas is mostly due to the fact that the Danube catchment extended its area in the detriment of the Jiu catchment, the three more important tributaries (the Blahniţa, the Drincea and the Desnăţui) catching sectors within the upper course of the tributaries of the Jiu.
The analysis of the relief fragmentation within the Bălăciţa Piedmont shows that this unit is on different evolution stages. The complexity of the fragmentation is closely connected to the maturity degree of the valleys and to the morphogenetic complexes imposed by the paleogeographical evolution.

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Full article Dates:
Printed: 01-11-2010 Online: 21-11-2010
Affiliations:
  • 1 Department of Geography, University of Craiova, 13 A.I. Cuza Street, Craiova, Romania
Corresponding author:
  • * sboengiu@central.ucv.ro
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Acknowledgements: The authors would like to kindly acknowledge all persons and institutions that supported this research by means of their knowledge, equipment or financial funds. We mention that this study benefited by material and logistic support from the project "Vulnerability of slopes and landslides in the Bălăciţa Piedmont. The use of G.I.S. and the achievement of digital maps of vulnerability", CNCSIS code 2005/2008. Special gratitude goes towards the researchers that previously studied this piedmont unit and to the useful suggestions offered by the reviewers.
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