Biotopes in the Ganos (I??klar) Mountain and Near Surrounding Areas

Authors

  • Burçin Ekici Namık Kemal University Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, 59000, Tekirdağ, Turkey
  • Aslı Korkut Namık Kemal University Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, 59000, Tekirdağ, Turkey
  • Murat Özyavuz Namık Kemal University Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, 59000, Tekirdağ, Turkey

Keywords:

Biotope, Biodiversity, Ganos Mountain, Işıklar Mountain, Tekirdağ.

Abstract

In our day, with the increase of industrialization, the tendency towards natural resources has accelerated. This causes an increase in environmental pressure groups on the ecosystems. The increase in the demand for biological resources, lack of awareness of the global impact of biodiversity at the local level, and inadequate government policies regarding the protection of biological resources lead to loss in terms of biodiversity. Biological and ecological diversity are threatened especially due to inaccurate and intensive land use. For this reason, the importance of habitat protection is increasing, and potential ways to support environmental conservation efforts are being explored throughout the world. For landscape ecology and sustainability, a more effective and sustainable understanding of the use of space should be developed by demonstrating the current state of natural resources. In ecological planning, biotope mapping is a very important study to refer for taking decisions about conservation-utilization. With the biotope mapping, living environments and important habitats of plant and animal species are determined, the sensitivity status of each habitat is determined, thus, decisions regarding protection and utilization of biotopes can be taken according to their sensitivities. In this study, biotopes of Ganos Mountain and its immediate surroundings have been mapped. Within the scope of the study, selective and representative mapping methods have been used for biotope mapping.

In this context, existing studies on the research topic and area have been collected and evaluated, and once the area has been determined and identified according to the land use types, the biotopes that are important in terms of conservation and the ones that may represent the entire area enabling generalization are checked, and floristic studies have been initiated in those areas. As a result of analyses, the potentials of the mapped biotopes have been identified and the areas under threat of deterioration have been identified and proposals have been developed to ensure the continuity of the ecosystem in these areas.

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2018-07-22

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Ekici, B., Korkut, A., & Özyavuz, M. (2018). Biotopes in the Ganos (I??klar) Mountain and Near Surrounding Areas. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 40(1), 264–274. Retrieved from https://www.gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/9092

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