Turkey's globally important biodiversity in crisis

ÇH Şekercioğlu, S Anderson, E Akçay, R Bilgin… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Turkey (Türkiye) lies at the nexus of Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.
Turkey's location, mountains, and its encirclement by three seas have resulted in high …

Holocene environmental change and its impact on sediment dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean

B Dusar, G Verstraeten, B Notebaert, J Bakker - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Investigators have studied past environmental change in the Eastern Mediterranean region
from a number of perspectives. While climate reconstructions and palynological research …

Tracking the microplastic accumulation from past to present in the freshwater ecosystems: A case study in Susurluk Basin, Turkey

FF Almas, G Bezirci, AS Çağan, K Gökdağ, T Çırak… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems has become a global issue in recent years due
to its presence everywhere around the world. Although several studies have explored the …

Evolution of the morphology of the river Dragonja (SW Slovenia) due to land-use changes

SD Keesstra, J Van Huissteden, J Vandenberghe… - Geomorphology, 2005 - Elsevier
The effects of increasing agricultural land use on fluvial morphology have received much
attention in fluvial research. However, in several regions in Europe, a reversing trend of …

Palynology, palaeoclimate and chronology from the Saalian Glacial to Saint-Germain II interstadial from two long cores at the limit between the Mediterranean and …

SAG Leroy, P Henry, O Peyron, F Rostek… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Marmara region (NW Turkey) has a transitional vegetation and climate
between the Mediterranean one and the Euxinian one. For the last Interglacial period or …

Sedimentary and environmental characteristics of the Gilan–Mazenderan plain, northern Iran: influence of long-and short-term Caspian water level fluctuations on …

N Kazancı, T Gulbabazadeh, SAG Leroy… - Journal of marine systems, 2004 - Elsevier
The south–southwestern Caspian coastal lowland in Iran, or the Gilan–Mazenderan plain, is
a relatively narrow but long, composite depositional area of late Quaternary age. The Sefid …

Dinocyst assemblages and water surface conditions in the Sea of Marmara during MIS 6 and 5 from two long cores

SAG Leroy, P Henry, F Marret, C Paillès, L Licari… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sea of Marmara is the connection between the vast Black Sea-Caspian Sea
basin (Pontocaspian) and the Global Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea. Its water levels and …

The timing and evolution of the post-glacial transgression across the Sea of Marmara shelf south of Istanbul

KK Eriş, WBF Ryan, MN Çağatay, U Sancar… - Marine Geology, 2007 - Elsevier
High-resolution seismic reflection profiles and analyses of the sedimentary substrate at the
Sea of Marmara (SoM) entrance to the Strait of İstanbul (SoI, Bosphorus) provide a detailed …

Influence of arsenic and boron on the water quality index in mining stressed catchments of Emet and Orhaneli streams (Turkey)

PI Omwene, MS Öncel, M Çelen, M Kobya - Environmental monitoring and …, 2019 - Springer
Emet and Orhaneli stream basins are characterized by intense mining of colemanite, the
main borate mineral in the area. Unlike other global borate deposits, the colemanite of this …

A 2800-year multi-proxy sedimentary record of climate change from Lake Çubuk (Göynük, Bolu, NW Anatolia)

F Ocakoğlu, EO Dönmez, A Akbulut… - The …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The sediment of Lake Çubuk in NW Anatolia, which is situated very close to the climate
boundary between the dry Central Anatolia and the wet Marmara region, is regarded as a …