The incidental ecotourist: Measuring visitor impacts on endangered howler monkeys at a Belizean archaeological site

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 40-51

  Grossberg, Rebecca ^a,b   Treves, Adrian ^c   Naughton Treves, Lisa ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Madison Environmental Group Inc   (United States)

^c Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Ecotourism; Environmental education; Howler monkeys; Mayan ruins; Visitor impacts

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; PLANNING;

ECOTOURISTS;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOTOURISM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PRIMATE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BELIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EDUCATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MONKEY; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TOURISM; TRAVEL; WILDLIFE;

BELIZE;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA CARAYA; ALOUATTA PIGRA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0037362138     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892903000031     Document Type: Article

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