Comparing hiking, mountain biking and horse riding impacts on vegetation and soils in Australia and the United States of America

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 551-562

  Pickering, Catherine Marina ^a   Hill, Wendy ^a   Newsome, David ^b   Leung, Yu Fai ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Horse riding; Impacts; Mountain biking; Nature based tourism; Recreation ecology; Weeds

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FERTILIZERS; LANDFORMS; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA; HORSE RIDING; IMPACT; MOUNTAIN BIKING; NATURE-BASED TOURISM; PLANT PATHOGEN; PROTECTED AREAS; RECREATION ECOLOGY; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; WEED;

SOILS;

BIOMASS; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PROTECTED AREA; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; BIOMASS; BIOPHYSICS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GRAZING; HORSEBACK RIDING; HYDROLOGY; MANURE; PLANT DAMAGE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT HEIGHT; RECREATION; REVIEW; ROCK; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOIL COMPACTION; SOIL EROSION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; UNITED STATES; URINE; VEGETATION; WEED;

AUSTRALIA; UNITED STATES;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 72149118204     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.09.025     Document Type: Review

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