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D'Antonio, Ashley L.

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Modeling the ecological consequences of visitor behavior in off-trail areas of dispersed recreation use.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Modeling the ecological consequences of visitor behavior in off-trail areas of dispersed recreation use./
Author:	D'Antonio, Ashley L.
Description:	221 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-11A(E).
Subject:	Recreation. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3712225
ISBN:	9781321889086

Modeling the ecological consequences of visitor behavior in off-trail areas of dispersed recreation use.
D'Antonio, Ashley L.

Modeling the ecological consequences of visitor behavior in off-trail areas of dispersed recreation use. - 221 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Utah State University, 2015.

Predicting the locations of ecological impacts in a park or protected area, which often results from recreation use, allows managers to be more proactive in their visitor use management. However, the relationships between visitor behavior, visitor use level, the current ecological community, and any resulting ecological consequences are not well understood. Managers are particularly concerned about visitor use in scenarios where visitors disperse off of hardened surfaces. In these off-trail areas there is greater potential for ecological change. This dissertation clarifies the roles of visitor behavior and visitor use levels as drivers of ecological change by developing a social-ecological model of off-trail use.

ISBN: 9781321889086Subjects--Topical Terms:

535376
Recreation.

Modeling the ecological consequences of visitor behavior in off-trail areas of dispersed recreation use.
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520 $a GPS-based tracking and vegetation survey data from a variety of national park and national forest recreation destinations were used to build these social-ecological models. Results show that visitor behavior is a more important driver of ecological change at certain types of recreation destinations than visitor use levels. When patterns of visitor behavior are combined with measures of the vegetation community at these destinations, the importance of behavior is further emphasized. At some types of recreation destinations, even in very susceptible vegetation communities and during periods of very high levels of use, visitors are behaving in ways that minimize the potential for ecological change.
520 $a In order to make the results from these static social-ecological models more predicative and representative of the total visitor use occurring at a recreation destination, a simulation modeling procedure is needed. Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a modeling approach well-suited for representing dynamic social-ecological systems. The GPS-based tracking data that was collected to measure visitor behavior provides ideal ABM inputs. The framework presented here represents a proof-of-concept for ABMs of off-trail use and explores the potential for ABM in examining other recreation use issues. Taken together, these findings inform the sustainable management of parks and protected areas by emphasizing that maintaining desired ecological conditions may require focusing management efforts more on visitor behavior and less on visitor use numbers.
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