Sand pads: A promising technique to quantify human visitation into nature conservation areas

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 98-104

  Weston, Michael A ^a   Antos, Mark J ^b   Tzaros, Chris L ^c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Parks Victoria   (Australia)

^c BirdLife Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detection; Intrusion; Recreation; Reserve; Visitation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ERROR DETECTION; INTRUSION DETECTION;

CLOSE PROXIMITY; GENERAL PUBLICS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN INTRUSION; INTRUSION; RECREATION; RESERVE; VISITATION;

SAND;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE RESERVE; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SAND; URBAN AREA; WETLAND;

EID: 58149475998     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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