Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Oases are key to humanity’s settlement in drylands in the past, today, and in the future. They form complex geo-bio-cultural systems of pivotal importance. Present climatic, economic, and social changes may lead to the demise of tangible and intangible values in and of oases, potentially affecting 500 million people. We aim at raising awareness of the accelerating threat to oases and argue for immediate action to protect this unique system.
Source: npj Heritage Science
Authors: Knut Bretzke, Nuria Sanz, Mechthilde Falkenhahn, Sarah S. A. Alsaif, Marco Cantonati, Matthew Dalton, Feng Li, Rod Fensham, Juan A. Hernández-Agüero, Karin Hohberg, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Clara Jeuthe, Karin Kindermann, Joy McCorriston, Louise Purdue, Abdullah A. Saber, Thomas Schmitt, Lawrence E. Stevens, Karsten Wesche, Christiane Zarfl, Nicholas J. Conard, Klement Tockner
Institutions: Friedrich Schiller University Jena, University of Tübingen, UNESCO, Senckenberg - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research, King Saud University, University of Bologna, University of Oxford, Peking University, The University of Queensland, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Freie Universität Berlin, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Cairo, University of Cologne, The Ohio State University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Côte d'Azur, Cultures et Environnements. Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge, Ain Shams University, University of Potsdam, Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Goethe University Frankfurt
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: hybrid
Funders: Purdue University, Ohio State University, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, University of Oxford, University of Queensland, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Ain Shams University, King Saud University, Universität Potsdam, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Università di Bologna, Freie Universität Berlin, Peking University, Universität zu Köln, Directorate for Biological Sciences, Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
OpenAlex ID: W4415948173