Geodiversity: a significant, multi-faceted and evolving, geoscientific paradigm rather than a redundant term

M Gray - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 2021 - Elsevier
Using outlines of ten geodiversity-related topics plus some related studies, this paper argues
that geodiversity has contributed to many new insights, new avenues of research and new …

Geodiversity in the Amazon drainage basin

CME Alsbach… - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Amazon is the largest drainage basin on Earth and contains a wide variety of abiotic
landscape features. In spite of this, the geodiversity in this basin has not yet been objectively …

[HTML][HTML] Geodiversity assessment to regional scale: Ecuador as a case study

P Carrión-Mero, J Duenas-Tovar… - … Science & Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Geodiversity is the variety of earth materials, forms and processes that constitute and shape
the Earth planet. Therefore, geodiversity includes essential for developing nature-based …

Geodiversity and biodiversity

H Tukiainen, M Toivanen, T Maliniemi - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Non-living and living nature are inherently connected. Geodiversity, which consists of the
variation in geology, soils, topography, geomorphology and hydrology, is seen as the …

Global geodiversity components are not equally represented in UNESCO Global Geoparks

EMN Polman, AC Seijmonsbergen… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The aim of UNESCO Global Geoparks (UGGs) is to protect globally significant geoheritage
and geodiversity, but quantitative evidence on the global representativeness of geodiversity …

Geodiversity assessment as a first step in designating areas of geotourism potential. Case study: Western Carpathians

A Chrobak, J Novotný, P Struś - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Geodiversity is the natural diversity of features of geological structure, relief, and soil cover,
including the relationships between these features, their properties, and their impact on …

A framework for quantifying geodiversity at the local scale: a case study from the Rokua UNESCO Global Geopark

H Tukiainen, T Maliniemi, J Brilha… - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Geoconservation and related quantitative and qualitative geodiversity assessments are
gaining increasing attention. However, methodologies for measuring geodiversity at local …

Quantifying alpha, beta and gamma geodiversity

H Tukiainen, T Maliniemi, J Alahuhta… - Progress in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Geodiversity is an emerging, multi-faceted concept in Earth and environmental sciences.
Knowledge on geo-diversity is crucial for understanding functions of natural systems and in …

Land surface diversity: A geomorphodiversity index of Italy

M Burnelli, L Melelli, M Alvioli - Earth Surface Processes and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Geomorphodiversity refers to the variety of landforms and morphological processes
characterizing the landscape. The definition of an index to quantify geomorphodiversity is a …

Geodiversity data for Europe

M Toivanen, T Maliniemi, J Hjort… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Geodiversity is an essential part of nature's diversity. However, geodiversity is insufficiently
understood in terms of its spatial distribution and its relationship to biodiversity over large …