The ancient metropolis of Pergamon in Asia Minor underwent profound transformations from the Hellenistic to the Roman Imperial period, affecting the peri-urban surroundings. This study aims to identify phases of landscape development in the Araplı alluvial fan and its peri-urbanized catchment. We examined seven sediment cores from the Araplı alluvial fan at the fringe of the Kozak horst and the Bakırçay graben using macroscopi...

Ecosystem functions and services are severely threatened by unprecedented global loss in biodiversity. To counteract these trends, it is essential to develop systems to monitor changes in biodiversity for planning, evaluating, and implementing conservation and mitigation actions. However, the implementation of monitoring systems suffers from a trade‐off between grain (i.e., the level of detail), extent (i.e., the number of stu...