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2,100 | The Adaffa Formation is a Geological formation in Saudi Arabia, and the lowermost unit of the Suqah Group. It dates back to the Campanian of the Late Cretaceous. The lithology consists of sandstone, siltstone and marl, with a basal granitic conglomerate with phosphatic nodules | Adaffa Formation |
2,101 | The Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) is an exposure of Precambrian crystalline rocks on the flanks of the Red Sea. The crystalline rocks are mostly Neoproterozoic in age. Geographically – and from north to south – the ANS includes parts of Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Yemen, and Somalia | Arabian-Nubian Shield |
2,102 | The Great Rift Valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, that runs from Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in geology as it is considered an imprecise merging of separate though related rift and fault systems.
This valley extends northward for 5,950 km through the eastern part of Africa, through the Red Sea, and into Western Asia | Great Rift Valley |
2,103 | The Hormuz Formation, Hormuz Series, Hormuz Evaporites or Hormuz Group is a sequence of evaporites that were deposited during the Ediacaran (Late Neoproterozoic) to Early Cambrian, a period previously referred to as the Infra-Cambrian. Most exposures of this sequence are in the form of emergent salt diapirs within anticlines of the Zagros fold and thrust belt. As a result of their involvement in post-depositional salt tectonics, the internal stratigraphy of the sequence is relatively poorly understood | Hormuz Formation |
2,104 | Jebal Maqla is a mountain located in northwest Saudi Arabia, near the Jordan border, above the Gulf of Aqaba, and is located in Tabūk, Saudi Arabia.
Maqla is one of the tallest mountains in the northwestern Arabian Peninsula and the estimated terrain elevation is around 2,326 metres (7,631 feet) above sea level. It is in the Madiyan Mountains | Jabal Maqla |
2,105 | Jildiyyah Mountain (جبل جلدية) meaning Leather mount (it was also called Gelve and Gelveh) is a mount located in Saudi Arabia, and has a height of 1,107 meters (3,632 feet). Although the mount is not high by Saudi standards it has come to hold a high profile in Arab culture.
The mountain and the hills surrounding it are sites of important archaeological value, containing many ancient petroglyphs and a number of rock carvings with human and animal back to prehistory | Jildiyyah Mountain |
2,106 | The Khuff Formation is a geologic formation in Oman and Saudi Arabia. It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian and early Triassic periods.
Stratigraphy
Depending on the author, various definitions and names for the members of the Khuff Formation have been proposed, which may lead to confusion | Khuff Formation |
2,107 | The proven oil reserves in Saudi Arabia are reportedly the second largest in the world, estimated in 2017 to be 268 billion barrels (43×10^9 m3) (Gbbl hereafter), including 2. 5 Gbbl in the Saudi–Kuwaiti neutral zone. This would correspond to more than 50 years of production at current rates | Oil reserves in Saudi Arabia |
2,108 | The Rub' al Khali Basin (ٱلرُّبْع ٱلْخَالِي) or ar-Rubʻ al-Khālī / ar-rubʿ al-ḵālī Basin, Arabic for "Empty Quarter Basin", is a major endorheic sedimentary basin of approximately 560,000 square kilometres (220,000 sq mi) in southern Saudi Arabia, northeastern Yemen, southeastern Oman and southeasternmost United Arab Emirates. The onshore foreland on Mesozoic rift basin is geographically defined by the eponymous Rub' al Khali and covers the regions of Najran and Riyadh and the Eastern Province. The basin is geologically bound by the Central Arabian Arch in the north, the Oman Thrust in the east, the Northern Hadramaut Arch in the south, and the Arabian Shield in the west | Rub' al Khali Basin |
2,109 | The Samail Ophiolite (also spelled Semail Ophiolite) of the Hajar Mountains of Oman and the United Arab Emirates is a large slab of oceanic crust, made of volcanic rocks and ultramafic rocks from the Earth's upper mantle, that was overthrust onto continental crust as an ophiolite. It is located on the eastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula and covers an area of approximately 100,000 km2. Based on uranium-lead dating techniques, the Samail Ophiolite formed in the Late Cretaceous | Samail Ophiolite |
2,110 | The Adaffa Formation is a Geological formation in Saudi Arabia, and the lowermost unit of the Suqah Group. It dates back to the Campanian of the Late Cretaceous. The lithology consists of sandstone, siltstone and marl, with a basal granitic conglomerate with phosphatic nodules | Adaffa Formation |
2,111 | This is a list of ecoregions in Serbia.
Terrestrial
Serbia is in the Palearctic realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome | List of ecoregions in Serbia |
2,112 | The Balkan mixed forests are a terrestrial ecoregion of southeastern Europe according to both the WWF and Digital Map of European Ecological Regions by the European Environment Agency. It belongs in the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome and the Palearctic realm.
Geography
The Balkan mixed forests cover much of the valleys, plains and mountain slopes of the eastern Balkans, mainly Bulgaria, on different altitude, except higher parts of the Rila-Rhodope and Balkan, Mountains, where they are substituted by the Rodope montane mixed forests | Balkan mixed forests |
2,113 | The Dinaric Mountains mixed forests are a terrestrial ecoregion of the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome in Southeastern Europe, according to both the WWF and Digital Map of European Ecological Regions by the European Environment Agency. It also is in the Palearctic realm.
Geography
The Dinaric Mountains mixed forests compose the montane forest region of the Dinaric Alps | Dinaric Mountains mixed forests |
2,114 | The Pannonian mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion in Europe. It covers an area of 307,720 km2 in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Croatia.
Flora
The plant communities include Mixed oak-hornbeam forests, azoal floodplain vegetation and lowland to montane herb-grass steppes | Pannonian mixed forests |
2,115 | The Rodope montane mixed forests is a terrestrial ecoregion of Europe defined by the WWF. It belongs in the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome and the Palearctic realm.
Geography
The Rodope montane mixed forests cover the higher parts of the Balkan Mountains, the Rhodope Mountains, Rila, Pirin, Vitosha, Sredna Gora, Ograzhden and Maleshevo, situated almost entirely in Bulgaria, as well as in some adjacent areas in Greece, North Macedonia and Serbia | Rodope montane mixed forests |
2,116 | Carska Bara (Serbian Cyrillic: Царска Бара, lit. 'Imperial Pond') is the largest individual bog in Serbia, in the municipality of Zrenjanin. Along with the neighboring pond of Stari Begej (old arm of the Begej river) it forms the Special nature reserve "Carska Bara" (Специјални резерват природе "Царска бара") | Carska Bara |
2,117 | Deliblato Sands (Serbian: Делиблатска пешчара, romanized: Deliblatska peščara; Hungarian: Delibláti-homokpuszta) is a large sand area covering around 300 km2 (120 sq mi) of ground in Vojvodina province, Serbia. It is located in southern Banat, situated between the river Danube and the southwestern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains. The sands are named after the village of Deliblato, in the municipality of Kovin | Deliblatska Peščara |
2,118 | Goč (Serbian Cyrillic: Гоч) is a mountain in central Serbia, about 15 km south of the spa town of Vrnjačka Banja. It belongs to the northern part of the Kopaonik mountain range and its highest peak, Krnja jela (Serbian Cyrillic: Крња јела), has an elevation of 1,127 m (3,698 ft). Goč is a popular hiking and mountaineering destination and the village Goč is a small ski resort | Goč |
2,119 | Gornje Podunavlje Special Nature Reserve (Serbian: Специјални резерват природе Горње Подунавље, romanized: Specijalni rezervat prirode Gornje Podunavlje) is a large protected area of wetland in the northwest of Serbia (Vojvodina
province), on the Danube's left bank. It comprises two large marshes, Monoštorski Rit and Apatinski Rit and vast forests, meadows, ponds, swamps and the Danube's meanders, including 66 km (41 mi) of the Danube course (1366 – 1433 km). It is a part of the trans-boundary biosphere reserve "Mura-Drava-Danube", a five country project, dubbed the "Amazon of Europe" | Gornje Podunavlje |
2,120 | Island of Krčedin or Krčedinska Ada (Serbian: Крчединска ада) is a river island in Serbia. It is located on the left bank of the Danube across the village of Krčedin, in the municipality of Inđija, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The uninhabited island is part of the
Special Natural Reserve "Koviljsko-Petrovaradinski Rit" | Island of Krčedin |
2,121 | The Jerma (Serbian Cyrillic: Јерма) or Erma (Bulgarian: Ерма) is a river in southeastern Serbia and western Bulgaria. It is notable for passing the Serbian-Bulgarian border twice.
Course
Serbia
The Jerma originates in the undeveloped and sparsely populated area of Krajište, in the southeastern corner of Serbia | Jerma (river) |
2,122 | The Karađorđevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Карађорђево) estate lies 10 km north-west of Bačka Palanka, Serbia. The estate covers an area of 69. 14 square kilometres (26 | Karađorđevo estate |
2,123 | Labudovo okno (Serbian: Лабудово окно) is a special nature reserve and a Ramsar site in Serbia.
Location
Labudovo okno is located 75 km (47 mi) east of Belgrade. It is situated along the Danube from the ada of Žilava to the Serbian-Romanian border | Labudovo okno |
2,124 | Ludaš or Ludoš Lake (Serbian: Ludaško / Ludoško jezero; Hungarian: Ludas or Ludasi-tó) is a shallow lake in the province of Vojvodina in northern Serbia, near the city of Subotica. It is a special natural preserve and, since 1977, designated as a swamp area of international significance by the Ramsar Convention. The name of the lake stems from Hungarian "ludas", meaning goose | Ludaš Lake |
2,125 | Obedska bara (Obedska pond or Obedska bog, Serbian Cyrillic: Обедска бара, pronounced [ɔ̂bɛdskaː bâra]) is a large swamp-forest area and natural reserve stretching along the Sava River in Serbia, in Southern Syrmia (Srem/Szerémség), some 40 km west of Belgrade.
The pond is an oxbow lake, a remnant of the meanders of the old Sava River, whose main stream presently flows more southward. Due to its shape the swampy bed of the pond, situated between the villages of Obrež and Kupinovo, is called “The Horse-shoe” (potkovica) | Obedska bara |
2,126 | Okanj (Serbian Окањ) is a saline oxbow lake situated near the village of Elemir in the Zrenjanin commune, western Banat, Vojvodina Province, Serbia. It was formed from a meander of the Tisa River (UTM: DR43) and is now about 4. 5 kilometres (2 | Okanj |
2,127 | Osredak Special Nature Reserve (Serbian: Специјални резерват природе Осредак / Specijalni rezervat prirode Osredak) is a natural monument in central Serbia. It has been declared a special nature reserve in 2020 in order to preserve the wetlands in the West Morava Valley. The wetland is important for the preservation of the water quality of the West Morava and is the only important wetland locality in the radius of 100 km (62 mi) | Osredak Special Nature Reserve |
2,128 | Podunavlje is the name of the Danube river basin parts located in Croatia (Slavonia, Syrmia, and Baranya) and Serbia (Vojvodina, Belgrade and Eastern Serbia). Podunavlje is located on the southern edge of Pannonian Basin. In its wider meaning, the Croatian term refers to the area around the entire flow of the river Danube | Podunavlje |
2,129 | Selevenj heath or Selevenjske pustare is a Pannonian heath type reserve in the Kanjiža and Subotica municipalities in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia. The reserve with an area of 6. 77 km2 has never been urbanised and is protected as a special nature reserve | Selevenj heath |
2,130 | Suva Planina (Serbian Cyrillic: Сува планина, meaning "dry mountain") is a mountain in southeastern Serbia. It lies between the towns of Niška Banja to the northwest and Babušnica to the southeast, with a ridge branching towards Bela Palanka to the north. It was previously called Kunovica | Suva Planina |
2,131 | Moshorin plateau (Serbian Cyrillic: Мошоринска Висораван) or Moshorin plateau is a loess plateau situated in the Vojvodina province, Serbia. It is located in south-eastern Bačka (Šajkaška region), between the town of Titelberg in the south, the villages of Glock, Vilovo and Šajkaš in the south-west, the village of Mošorin in the north, and the river Tisa in the east. It is 18 km long and 7 | Titelski Breg |
2,132 | Trešnjica is a river in western Serbia. The source of the river is situated on the Povlen mountain. After 23 km the Trešnjica joins the Drina near Ljubovija | Trešnjica |
2,133 | The Uvac (Serbian Cyrillic: Увац) is an international trans-boundary river, rising under Golija mountain and Pešter plateau, then flowing through southwestern Serbia and cross into eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina where, after 115 km, it finally meets the Lim river from the right, however, before it empties into the Lim, for a 10 kilometers Uvac forms the border between two countries. Also, while meandering through Serbia, Uvac loosely makes the northern border of the Raška region, too.
Upper course
The Uvac originates at the Pešter plateau from the Ozren and Ninaja mountains, as Rasanska reka (Cyrillic: Расанска река) | Uvac |
2,134 | The Uvac Special Nature Reserve (Serbian: Специјални резерват природе Увац / Specijalni rezervat prirode Uvac) is a special nature reserve of the category I in Serbia. It is known for the successful project of the preservation of the griffon vulture.
Location
The reserve is located in the southwestern Serbia, in the municipalities of Nova Varoš (approximately 2/3) and Sjenica (1/3) in the Zlatibor District | Uvac Special Nature Reserve |
2,135 | Vinatovača (Serbian Cyrillic: Винатовача) is an old beech forest in the central-east Serbia. It is the only rainforest in Serbia, left undisturbed for several centuries. It is located in the municipality of Despotovac and is placed under the state protection as the strict natural reserve, which covers an area of 0 | Vinatovača |
2,136 | The Zasavica (Serbian Cyrillic: Засавица) is a bog in the region of Mačva, west central Serbia. It is a major wildlife refuge and one of the last authentically preserved wetlands in Serbia. In the 2000s it became a popular attraction with the successful reintroduction of beavers, which had become extinct on the same land areas 100 years before | Zasavica (bog) |
2,137 | Bosut Gradina (Serbian: Градина на Босуту / Gradina na Bosutu) is an archeological site in Serbia. It is located on the left bank of the Bosut river, located between the villages of Vašica and Batrovci, Šid municipality, Syrmia District, province of Vojvodina. The site contains remains from several time periods, including Neolithic, Eneolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age findings | Bosut Gradina |
2,138 | Crkvine (Serbian Cyrillic: Црквине, romanized: Church ground) is a Neolithic locality and an archaeological site in the village of Stubline in the municipality of Obrenovac, which is part of the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The Neolithic settlement is dated to the 5th millennium BC and was part of the Vinča culture. The research of the site began in 1962 and the locality was declared a cultural monument in 2014 | Crkvine (Stubline) |
2,139 | The Drina Formation ("Drina Formacija") is a stratigraphic unit in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It was deposited between the Cambrian and the Carboniferous onto Neoproterozoic basement. It is composed of clastic sediments, limestone and volcanic rocks | Drina Formation |
2,140 | The Hadži-Prodan's Cave (Serbian: Хаџи-Проданова пећина, Hadži-Prodanova pećina) is an archaeological site of the Paleolithic period and a national natural monument, located in the village Raščići around 7 km (4. 3 mi) from Ivanjica in western central Serbia. The rather narrow and high entrance with at an altitude of 630 m (2,070 ft) above sea level sits about 40 m (130 ft) above the Rašćanska river valley bed and is oriented towards the south | Hadži-Prodan's Cave |
2,141 | Lepenski Vir (Serbian Cyrillic: Лепенски Вир, "Lepena Whirlpool"), located in Serbia, is an important archaeological site of the Mesolithic Iron Gates culture of the Balkans. The latest radiocarbon and AMS data suggests that the chronology of Lepenski Vir spans between 9500/7200–6000 BC. There is some disagreement about when the settlement and culture of Lepenski Vir began, but the latest data indicates that it was between 9500-7200 BC | Lepenski Vir |
2,142 | The Museum of Natural History (Serbian: Природњачки музеј / Prirodnjački muzej) is a museum located in Belgrade, Serbia. It is one of the oldest specialized national institutions in Serbia, and is the only museum of this type in Serbia. By the richness and diversity of the exhibited species, as well as the results achieved in the domain of museology and science, this museum is one of the most important in the South-Eastern Europe | Museum of Natural History, Belgrade |
2,143 | The Pannonian Sea was a shallow ancient lake, where the Pannonian Basin in Central Europe is now. The Pannonian Sea existed from about 10 Ma (million years ago) until 1 Ma, during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, when marine sediments were deposited to a depth of 3–4 km (1. 9–2 | Pannonian Sea |
2,144 | Petar Pavlović (Požarevac, Serbia, 28 June 1864 – Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 5 August 1938) was a Serbian geologist, also a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, lecturer at the Grandes écoles and a long-time director of the Museum of Natural History, Belgrade.
Biography
Petar Pavlović was born in Požarevac to Colonel Stojko Pavlović and Jelena "Lena" Lunjevica, daughter of Nikola Lunjevica, the Serbian revolutionary leader. After graduating from Belgrade's Grandes écoles, he went abroad to pursue further studies in geology and palaeontology | Petar Pavlović (geologist) |
2,145 | Risovača Cave, (Serbian Cyrillic: Пећина Рисовача, Pećina Risovača) is situated at the very entrance of the town of Aranđelovac in central Serbia around 17 m (56 ft) above the Kubršnica river valley. It is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Palaeolithic in Serbia besides the Gradac Cave near Kragujevac. Its discovery confirmed the assumed existence of the Paleolithic culture south of the Sava-Danube line and provided new information on the life of prehistoric humans in Europe | Risovača Cave |
2,146 | Svilajnac (Serbian Cyrillic: Свилајнац, pronounced [sviːlaɪnʌt͡s]) is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. The population of the town is 9,131 inhabitants, while the municipality has 23,391 inhabitants.
It is located 100 km (62 mi) south-east of Belgrade, on the banks of the river Resava, and bordering the river Morava | Svilajnac |
2,147 | Svilajnac (Serbian Cyrillic: Свилајнац, pronounced [sviːlaɪnʌt͡s]) is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. The population of the town is 9,131 inhabitants, while the municipality has 23,391 inhabitants.
It is located 100 km (62 mi) south-east of Belgrade, on the banks of the river Resava, and bordering the river Morava | Svilajnac |
2,148 | Vinča-Belo Brdo (Serbian: Винча-Бело брдо) is an archaeological site in Vinča, a suburb of Belgrade, Serbia. The tell of Belo Brdo ('White Hill') is almost entirely made up of the remains of human settlement, and was occupied several times from the Early Neolithic (c. 5700 BCE) through to the Middle Ages | Vinča-Belo Brdo |
2,149 | Jovan M. Žujović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован M. Жујовић; 18 October 1856 – 19 July 1936) was a Serbian anthropologist, known as a pioneer in geology, paleontology and craniometry in Serbia | Jovan Žujović |
2,150 | The wildlife of Seychelles comprises the flora and fauna of the Seychelles islands off the eastern coast of Africa in the western Indian Ocean.
Human history and fauna
In common with many fragile island ecosystems, the early human history of Seychelles saw the loss of biodiversity including the disappearance of most of the giant tortoises from the granitic islands, felling of coastal and mid-level forests and extinction of species such as the Marianne white-eye, Seychelles parakeet, Seychelles black terrapin, and the saltwater crocodile. However, extinctions were far fewer than on other islands such as Mauritius or Hawaii, partly due to a shorter period of human occupation (since 1770) | Wildlife of Seychelles |
2,151 | The following is a list of ecoregions in the Seychelles, as identified by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Terrestrial ecoregions
by major habitat type
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Granitic Seychelles forests
Deserts and xeric shrublands
Aldabra Island xeric scrub
Freshwater ecoregions
by bioregion
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
Coralline Seychelles
Granitic Seychelles
Marine ecoregions
Seychelles
References
Burgess, Neil, Jennifer D’Amico Hales, Emma Underwood (2004). Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment | List of ecoregions in Seychelles |
2,152 | Aldabra is the world's second-largest coral atoll, lying southeast of the continent of Africa. It is part of the Aldabra Group of islands in the Indian Ocean that are part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, with a distance of 1,120 km (700 mi) southwest of the capital, Victoria on Mahé Island.
History
The name Aldabra, originally Al-Hadra or Al-Khadra (with several variants), was given by Arab seafarers for "the atoll’s harsh, sun-baked environment"; this name was included in the Portuguese maps of the 16th century | Aldabra |
2,153 | The Granitic Seychelles are the islands in Seychelles which lie in central position on the Seychelles Bank and are composed of granite rock. They make up the majority of the Inner Islands, which in addition include the coral islands along of the rim of the Seychelles Bank, namely Bird Island and Denis Island. The Granitic Seychelles contrast with the Coralline Seychelles or the Outer Islands, several island groups made up of low coral islands with dry, infertile soils | Granitic Seychelles |
2,154 | The Outer Islands or Coralline Seychelles (archipelago) is a collective term for those islands of the Seychelles that are not on the shallow Seychelles Bank (Seychelles Plateau) which defines the location of the granitic Inner Islands archipelago to the east. The local Seychellois Creole name for the outer islands is Zil Elwannyen Sesel, while the French name is Îles Eloignées. They are all of coral formation, and in the western Indian Ocean | Outer Islands (Seychelles) |
2,155 | This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Seychelles.
See also
Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Africa
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Madagascar
Geology of Seychelles
References
Further reading
J. D | List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Seychelles |
2,156 | The National Biodiversity Centre (abbr. : NBC; Chinese: 国家生物多样性中心; Malay: Pusat Kepelbagaian Bio Nasional; Tamil: தேசிய பல்வகை உயிரியல் நிலையம்) is a branch of the National Parks Board and serves as Singapore's one-stop centre for biodiversity-related information and activities. It manages all available information and data on biodiversity in Singapore | National Biodiversity Centre (Singapore) |
2,157 | The Peninsular Malaysian rain forests is an ecoregion on Malay Peninsula and adjacent islands. It is in the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome.
Geography
The ecoregion covers most of the southern Malay Peninsula in Malaysia and southern Thailand, and extends southwards to Singapore, the Riau Archipelago, and Lingga Islands, and east to the Anamba Islands | Peninsular Malaysian rain forests |
2,158 | The wildlife of Singapore is surprisingly diverse despite its rapid urbanisation. The majority of fauna that still remains on the island exists in various nature reserves such as the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve and the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. In 1819, Singapore was mostly covered in rainforests | Wildlife of Singapore |
2,159 | Igneous rocks are found in Bukit Timah, Woodlands, and Pulau Ubin island. Granite makes up the bulk of the igneous rock. Gabbro is also found in the area and is found in an area called Little Guilin, named for its resemblance to Guilin in South China | Geology of Singapore |
2,160 | The Jurong formation is a sedimentary rock formation that covers the south-west portion of the island of Singapore. The formation was laid down in the late Triassic to early or middle Jurassic geologic periods. It consists of dolomite, limestone, mudstone, sandstone, shale, and conglomerates that have been acutely folded and faulted as the result of tectonic plate movement | Jurong Formation |
2,161 | The Singaporean government has established four nature reserves in Singapore. There are Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Labrador Nature Reserve, and Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.
History
One of the first notions of nature reserves in Singapore was thought up by the then-Singapore Botanical Gardens Supritendent N | Nature reserves in Singapore |
2,162 | The Bukit Timah Nature Reserve (abbreviation: BTNR) is a 1. 7-square-kilometre (0. 66 sq mi) nature reserve near the geographic centre of Singapore, located on the slopes of Bukit Timah Hill, the country's highest natural peak standing at a height of approximately 165-metre (541 ft), and parts of the surrounding area | Bukit Timah Nature Reserve |
2,163 | The Central Catchment Nature Reserve (Chinese: 中央集水区自然保护区; Malay: Hutan Simpanan Kawasan Tadahan Air Tengah; Tamil: மத்திய நீர்ப்பிடிப்பு இயற்கை ரிசர்வ்) is the largest nature reserve in Singapore, occupying 2880 hectares. Forming a large green lung in the geographical centre of the city, it houses several recreational sites, including the Singapore Zoo, the Night Safari and the River Safari, as well as several newer facilities built to encourage public appreciation of the reserve, such as the HSBC TreeTop Walk. The reserve sits within the boundaries of the Central Water Catchment | Central Catchment Nature Reserve |
2,164 | Tanjong Chek Jawa (or Tanjung Chek Jawa or simply Chek Jawa) is a cape and the name of its 100-hectare wetlands located on the south-eastern tip of Pulau Ubin, an island off the north-eastern coast of the main island of Singapore. Chek Jawa is among the last few places left in Singapore with a natural rocky shore.
The wetlands are unique as several ecosystems can be observed in one area – sandy beach, rocky beach, seagrass lagoon, coral rubble, mangroves and coastal forest | Chek Jawa |
2,165 | The Kranji Marshes is a nature reserve in the northwest area of Singapore.
Background
A freshwater marshland, derived from the damming of the Kranji River to form the Kranji Reservoir, became seen as an important habitat. Nature Society Singapore (NSS) drafted a proposal highlighting its conservation value in 1990 | Kranji Marshes |
2,166 | Labrador Nature Reserve (Chinese: 拉柏多自然保护区, Malay: Kawasan Simpanan Alam Semulajadi Labrador), also known locally as Labrador Park (拉柏多公园, Taman Labrador), is located in the southern part of mainland Singapore. It is home to the only rocky sea-cliff on the mainland that is accessible to the public. Since 2002, 10 hectares of coastal secondary-type vegetation and its rocky shore have been gazetted as a nature reserve and its flora and fauna preserved by NParks | Labrador Nature Reserve |
2,167 | The Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (Chinese: 双溪布洛湿地保护区, Malay: Kawasan Simpanan Alam Semulajadi Sungei Buloh, Tamil: சுங்காய் புலோ ஈரநில வளம்) is a nature reserve in the northwest area of Singapore. It is the first wetlands reserve to be gazetted in Singapore (2002), and its global importance as a stop-over point for migratory birds was recognised by the inclusion of the reserve into the East Asian Australasian Shorebird Site Network. The reserve, with an area of 130 hectares, was listed as an ASEAN Heritage Park in 2003 | Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve |
2,168 | Slovakia is a land-locked country, and therefore the molluscs of Slovakia are all land and freshwater species. There are 247 species of molluscs living in the wild in Slovakia. In addition there are 9 gastropod species living only in greenhouses | List of non-marine molluscs of Slovakia |
2,169 | The East Slovak Museum (Slovak: Východoslovenské múzeum) in Košice, Slovakia, is one of the oldest Slovak museums, founded in 1872. It is located in the Old Town borough of Košice, at Námestie maratóncov (Marathon Runners' Square).
The museum was founded on 25 June 1876 as Felső-Magyarországi Muzeum (Museum of Upper Hungary), in the Kingdom of Hungary | East Slovak Museum |
2,170 | Šariš Museum in Bardejov - museum of Šariš region in Bardejov, Slovakia
The museum was founded in 1903 as The Museum of Šariš County (sl. Župa). Its first exposition and object purchases were focused on natural history | Šariš Museum in Bardejov |
2,171 | The Slovak National Museum (Slovak: Slovenské národné múzeum) is the most important institution focusing on scientific research and cultural education in the field of museology in Slovakia. Its beginnings "are connected with the endeavour of the Slovak nation for national emancipation and self-determination". It is headquartered in Bratislava, however, the Slovak National Museum governs 18 specialized museums, most of which are located outside the city | Slovak National Museum |
2,172 | The Dachstein Formation or Dachstein Limestone (German: Dachsteinkalk) is a geologic formation in the Alps and other Tethyan mountain ranges in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Slovakia and Slovenia. It preserves fossils dated to the Norian and Rhaetian stages of the Late Triassic period.
Fossil content
Among others, the following fossils were reported from the formation:
ReptilesMystriosuchus planirostrisInvertebrates
See also
References
Bibliography
Buffetaut, É | Dachstein Formation |
2,173 | The Tomanová Formation is a Late Triassic (Norian to Rhaetian) geologic formation in Poland and Slovakia. Fossil theropod tracks have been reported from the formation.
Fossil content
The following fossils have been reported from the formation:
IchnofossilsCoelurosaurichnus tatricus
Anomoepus sp | Tomanová Formation |
2,174 | On 25 October 1964, a devastating flood of the River Sava struck Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (today the capital of Croatia). High rainfall upriver caused rivers and streams in the Sava catchment basin to swell and spill over their banks in many places throughout Slovenia and northern Croatia. The worst of the flooding occurred in Zagreb | 1964 Zagreb flood |
2,175 | The 2010 Slovenia floods, on the weekend of 17–19 September 2010, were caused by heavy rains in Slovenia, resulting in one of the worst floods in the country's history. Among the regions affected were the capital Ljubljana, the Central Sava Valley, Laško, the Slovene Littoral and Lower Carniola. Initial damage was estimated to reach €15 million | 2010 Slovenia floods |
2,176 | In August 2023, major floods occurred in large part of Slovenia and neigboring areas of Austria and Croatia due to heavy rain. Amongst others, the level of rivers Sava, Mur and Drava was exceptionally high. Several settlements and transport links in Slovene Littoral, Upper Carniola and Slovenian Carinthia were flooded | 2023 Slovenia floods |
2,177 | The Slano Blato Landslide (Slovene: plaz Slano blato), or the Salt Mud Slide, is a periodic landslide in Slovenia that is triggered approximately once a century.
Although around 8,000 active landslides are present in Slovenia, the Slano Blato Landslide stands out as one of the most serious in terms of the damage it has caused. : 103 The landslide is located on the southern edge of the Trnovo Plateau of the Dinaric Alps, below Mount Čaven and Little Mountain (Mala gora) next to the Platna mountain pasture | Slano Blato Landslide |
2,178 | The following is a list of ecoregions in Slovenia as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Terrestrial
Slovenia is in the Palearctic realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome | List of ecoregions in Slovenia |
2,179 | The Alps conifer and mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion in central Europe. It extends along the Alps mountains through portions of France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Slovenia. The ecoregion extends from the lower slopes of the Alps to its peaks, which include Mont Blanc, at 4,809 m (15,778 ft) the highest peak in the Alps | Alps conifer and mixed forests |
2,180 | The Dinaric Mountains mixed forests are a terrestrial ecoregion of the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome in Southeastern Europe, according to both the WWF and Digital Map of European Ecological Regions by the European Environment Agency. It also is in the Palearctic realm.
Geography
The Dinaric Mountains mixed forests compose the montane forest region of the Dinaric Alps | Dinaric Mountains mixed forests |
2,181 | The Illyrian deciduous forests is a terrestrial ecoregion in southern Europe, which extends along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It belongs to the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome, and is in the Palearctic realm.
Geography
The Illyrian deciduous forests stretch along the eastern coast of the Ionian and Adriatic Seas, and occupies 40,600 km2 (15,700 sq mi) in Northern Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Northern Italy around Trieste | Illyrian deciduous forests |
2,182 | The Pannonian mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion in Europe. It covers an area of 307,720 km2 in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Croatia.
Flora
The plant communities include Mixed oak-hornbeam forests, azoal floodplain vegetation and lowland to montane herb-grass steppes | Pannonian mixed forests |
2,183 | The Dachstein Formation or Dachstein Limestone (German: Dachsteinkalk) is a geologic formation in the Alps and other Tethyan mountain ranges in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Slovakia and Slovenia. It preserves fossils dated to the Norian and Rhaetian stages of the Late Triassic period.
Fossil content
Among others, the following fossils were reported from the formation:
ReptilesMystriosuchus planirostrisInvertebrates
See also
References
Bibliography
Buffetaut, É | Dachstein Formation |
2,184 | The Dovžan Gorge Formation (Slovene: dovžanovosoteška formacija) is a geologic formation in Slovenia. It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian period. The formation is named after the Dovžan Gorge | Dovžan Gorge Formation |
2,185 | The Biodiversity of Cape Town is the variety and variability of life within the geographical extent of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality, excluding the Prince Edward Islands. The terrestrial vegetation is particularly diverse and much of it is endemic to the city and its vicinity. Terrestrial and freshwater animal life is heavily impacted by urban development and habitat degradation | Biodiversity of Cape Town |
2,186 | Colpomenia sinuosa, commonly named the oyster thief or sinuous ballweed, is a brown algae species in the genus Colpomenia. It is the type species of its genus and is widespread in tropical to temperate zones around the world. It is superficially similar to the Colpomenia peregrina species and in older texts, such as Knight and Parke (1931), C | Colpomenia sinuosa |
2,187 | The Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot (MPA) is a biodiversity hotspot, a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity, in Southern Africa. It is situated near the south-eastern coast of Africa, occupying an area between the Great Escarpment and the Indian Ocean. The area is named after Maputaland, Pondoland and Albany | Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot |
2,188 | The wildlife of South Africa consists of the flora and fauna of this country in southern Africa. The country has a range of different habitat types and an ecologically rich and diverse wildlife, vascular plants being particularly abundant, many of them endemic to the country. There are few forested areas, much savanna grassland, semi-arid Karoo vegetation and the fynbos of the Cape Floristic Region | Wildlife of South Africa |
2,189 | The following is a list of ecoregions in South Africa, as identified by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Terrestrial ecoregions
Listed by major habitat type
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Knysna-Amatole montane forests – Ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome in South AfricaPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic – Subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of South AfricaPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Maputaland coastal forest mosaic – Subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion on the Indian Ocean coast of Southern Africa.
Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic – Tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of eastern AfricaPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands – Ecoregion in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and ZimbabwePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Southern Africa bushveld – Sub-tropical woodland ecoregion of Southern AfricaPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Zambezian and mopane woodlands – Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion of southeastern Africa | List of ecoregions in South Africa |
2,190 | The Albany thickets is an ecoregion of dense woodland in southern South Africa, which is concentrated around the Albany region of the Eastern Cape (whence the region's name originates).
Geography
The thickets grow on well-drained sandy soils in the wide valleys of the Great Fish, Sundays and Gamtoos River in the Eastern Cape and, extending further northwest, in the valleys of the Cape Fold Belt. Thicket is vulnerable to fire and to grazing so has always been restricted to valley areas where these are less of a threat than on open plains | Albany thickets |
2,191 | The Bushveld (from Afrikaans: bosveld, Afrikaans: bos 'bush' and Afrikaans: veld) is a sub-tropical woodland ecoregion of Southern Africa. The ecoregion straddles the Tropic of Capricorn and constitutes the southern part of the Zambezian region. It encompasses most of Limpopo and a small part of North West in South Africa, the Central and North-East Districts of Botswana and the Matabeleland South and part of Matabeleland North provinces of Zimbabwe | Bushveld |
2,192 | Delagoa is a marine ecoregion along the eastern coast of Africa. It extends along the coast of Mozambique and South Africa from the Bazaruto Archipelago (21°14’ S) to Lake St. Lucia in South Africa (28° 10' S) in South Africa's Kwazulu-Natal province | Delagoa |
2,193 | Fynbos (; Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈfɛinbos] lit. 'fine plants') is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. This area is predominantly coastal and mountainous, with a Mediterranean climate and rainy winters | Fynbos |
2,194 | The Highveld (Afrikaans: Hoëveld, pronounced [ˈɦuəfælt], lit. 'High Field') is the portion of the South African inland plateau which has an altitude above roughly 1500 m, but below 2100 m, thus excluding the Lesotho mountain regions to the south-east of the Highveld. It is home to some of the country's most important commercial farming areas, as well as its largest concentration of metropolitan centres, especially the Gauteng conurbation, which accommodates one-third of South Africa's population | Highveld |
2,195 | The Indian Ocean coastal belt is one of the nine recognised biomes of South Africa. They are described in terms of their vegetation and climatic variations.
Location and description
The Indian Ocean coastal belt is a region of coastal dunes and coastal grassy plains in KwaZuluNatal and the Eastern Cape, from sea level to an altitude of about 600 m Mean annual rainfall ranges from 819 to 1,272 mm, and falls throughout the year, peaking in summer | Indian Ocean coastal belt |
2,196 | The Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands are an ecoregion located in Botswana, northern Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Setting
These woodlands cover the center of southern Africa, from northern Namibia diagonally through to southeast Botswana and just into the Tuli Block of South Africa. In Botswana there is another area running north from the Okavango Delta and the Makgadikgadi Pan towards the border of the Chobe National Park and then east to the border with Zimbabwe | Kalahari acacia–baikiaea woodlands |
2,197 | The Knysna–Amatole montane forests ecoregion, of the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, is in South Africa. It covers an Afromontane area of 3,100 square kilometres (1,200 sq mi) in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces.
Setting
The ecoregion, which is South Africa's smallest in area, covers two separate enclaves | Knysna–Amatole montane forests |
2,198 | The Kwazulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic is a subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of South Africa. It covers an area of 17,800 square kilometers (6,900 sq mi) in South Africa's Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.
Limits
The Kwazulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic occupies the humid coastal strip between the Indian Ocean and the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains | KwaZulu–Cape coastal forest mosaic |
2,199 | The Lesotho Highlands are formed by the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges in the east and central parts of the country of Lesotho. Foothills form a divide between the lowlands and the highlands. Snow is common in the highlands in the winter | Lesotho Highlands |
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