Record ID

UAM98d93cfa2682493ab73d47ad779aebc4

Author

Arkadiusz Krawiec Arkadiusz Krawiec,, Undefined Affiliation

Włodzimierz Wysocki Włodzimierz Wysocki,, Undefined Affiliation

Izabela Jamorska Izabela Jamorska,, Undefined Affiliation

Szymon Belzyt Szymon Belzyt,, to_translate_Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych [nowa struktura organizacyjna] (SNP/WNGiG)Szkoła Nauk Przyrodniczych [nowa struktura organizacyjna] (SNP)

Journal series

Resources, ISSN 2079-9276, e-ISSN 2079-9276

Issue year

2022

Vol

11

No

2

Pages

1-13

Keywords in original language

geoheritage; geotourist valorization; biodiversity and geodiversity; postglacial landscape;young glacial landscape

ASJC Classification

2308 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; 2309 Nature and Landscape Conservation

Abstract in original language

The geotourist evaluation of 32 geosites, including mineral deposits occurrence (1), petrolog-ical (12), sedimentological (2), and geomorphological (9), as well as hydrological and hydrogeological(8) sites, located in the area of Tuchola Forest Biosphere Reserve (TFBR), has been carried out. Thestudy aims to provide a qualitative assessment of geodiversity via the evaluation of abiotic natureobjects, as well as propose modifications in geotourist valuation criteria, for the purpose of applyingit to the areas located in the Central European Plains. The evaluated geosites represent both perfect ex-amples of typical features for the physiography of the TFBR, as a young glacial landscape,e.g., erraticboulders, glaciofluvial landforms, postglacial landforms, and lakes or peatbogs, as well as valuesproving the uniqueness of the area on both regional and international scales, e.g., disused under-ground lignite mine “Montania”. High scores of geotourist attractiveness (between 36 and44 points)have been received by 14 evaluated geosites (1 mineral deposits occurrence geosite, 4 petrologicalgeosites, 1 sedimentological geosite, and 5 geomorphological geosites, as well as 3 hydrologicaland hydrogeological geosites). The remaining 18 geosites have received a medium score (between25 and34 points). Three areas of high concentration of geosites, which overlap with the boundariesof Tuchola, Wdecki, and Zaborski (area of the greatest diversity of highly-ranked geosites) landscapeparks, were distinguished. The authors proposed geosites that require improving their accessibilityto enhance the geotourist attractiveness, recognized the necessity of marking out geotourist trails inthe most attractive and diversified areas, and noticed the influence of extreme weather phenomena(whirwinds) on changes in the geotourist attractiveness of some geosites. It is believed that the resultsof the conducted evaluation may favorably affect the importance, position, and publicity of the wholearea by supplementing the well-recognized biodiversity with the geodiversity presented in the study

DOI

DOI:10.3390/resources11020013 Opening in a new tab

Language

eng (en) English

License

CC BY

Score (nominal)

100

Score source

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Score

Ministerial score = 100.0, 15-05-2022, ArticleFromJournal

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WoS Citations = 0; Scopus SNIP: 2018 = 1.131

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