Tourism in protected areas can threaten wild populations: From individual response to population viability of the chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 657-665

  Kerbiriou, Christian ^a   Le Viol, Isabelle ^a   Robert, Alexandre ^a   Porcher, Emmanuelle ^a   Gourmelon, Françoise ^b   Julliard, Romain ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

Author keywords

Biosphere Reserve; Ecological compensation; Individual based model; Ouessant Island; Population viability analysis; Recreation; Sensitivity of growth rate; Tourism disturbance; Visitor access

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOTOURISM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; JUVENILE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PASSERINE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PROTECTED AREA; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

BRETAGNE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINISTERE; FRANCE; OUESSANT ISLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX;

EID: 65349153254     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01646.x     Document Type: Article

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