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Jun 1, 2022 · Recreation ecology has its foundations in the premise that recreationists have a negative impact on ecosystems, and are thus treated as an ecological stressor. However, ecology is the study of interactions between organisms and the environment, not just an organism's impacts on the environment.
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- From Recreation Ecology to a Recreation Ecosystem
Recreation ecology is the scientific study of environmental impacts resulting from recreational activity in protected natural areas. This field of study includes research and monitoring assessments of biophysical changes, analyses to identify causal and influential factors or support carrying capacity planning and management, and investigations ...
Sep 30, 2021 · Assessing Recreational Impact to Cliff Habitats and Rare Plants. Protected natural areas, including parks, forests, wilderness, and wildlife refuges, have a dual mandate to protect natural resources and accommodate recreational visitation.
Jun 1, 2022 · The recreation experience is where people come in contact with nature and where social and ecological systems come together. Recreation systems have been described as social-ecological complex adaptive systems (Morse, 2020).
Sep 22, 2021 · Conservation policies could be improved by relying on robust knowledge about the relative ecological impacts of water-based recreation. We present the first global synthesis on recreation ecology in aquatic ecosystems, differentiating the ecological impacts of shore use, (shoreline) angling, swimming and boating.
- Malwina Schafft, Malwina Schafft, Benjamin Wegner, Benjamin Wegner, Nora Meyer, Christian Wolter, Ro...
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Recreational ecology is an internationally evolving research field addressing the high demand for nature-based tourism and recreation, and its environmental impacts.
Mar 17, 2016 · Recreation ecology studies investigating relationships between amount of visitor use and the magnitude of resource impacts consistently find that use and impact are strongly related only at initial and low levels of visitation, with weak correlations at higher use levels.
