Social media reveal that charismatic species are not the main attractor of ecotourists to sub-Saharan protected areas

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Hausmann, Anna ^a   Toivonen, Tuuli ^b   Heikinheimo, Vuokko ^b   Tenkanen, Henrikki ^b   Slotow, Rob ^a,c   Minin, Enrico DI ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Evolution and Environment University ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MARKETING; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VEGETATION; ARTICLE; HUMAN EXPERIMENT;

EID: 85018742552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00858-6     Document Type: Article

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