Assessment and Monitoring of Recreation Impacts and Resource Conditions on Mountain Summits: Examples From the Northern Forest, USA
Assessment and Monitoring of Recreation Impacts and Resource Conditions on Mountain Summits: Examples From the Northern Forest, USA
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山顶休闲影响和资源条件的评估和监测：以美国北部森林为例
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2010
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C. Carr
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C. Monz;J. Marion;Kelly A. Goonan;R. Manning;J. Wimpey;C. Carr
摘要山顶对可持续管理提出了独特的挑战：它们具有重要的生态意义，在许多情况下，对娱乐和旅游活动的需求很高。本文介绍了最近的进展，在山顶环境的资源条件和游客干扰的评估，借鉴了多年的例子，在美国东北部的首脑会议的跨学科研究。游客使用的结果，如非正式的步道形成，植被干扰和土壤流失的主要影响问题，解决了通过自适应的协议，从休闲生态研究，首脑会议的环境。此外，开发了新的方法，提供测量灵敏度的变化，以前无法通过标准的娱乐监测协议。尽管目前在美国东北部峰会环境中的应用有限，但所提出的方法有望在任何需要游客活动的峰会环境中广泛应用。
Abstract Mountain summits present a unique challenge to manage sustainably: they are ecologically important and, in many circumstances, under high demand for recreation and tourism activities. This article presents recent advances in the assessment of resource conditions and visitor disturbance in mountain summit environments, by drawing on examples from a multiyear, interdisciplinary study of summits in the northeastern United States. Primary impact issues as a consequence of visitor use, such as informal trail formation, vegetation disturbance, and soil loss, were addressed via the adaption of protocols from recreation ecology studies to summit environments. In addition, new methodologies were developed that provide measurement sensitivity to change previously unavailable through standard recreation monitoring protocols. Although currently limited in application to the northeastern US summit environments, the methods presented show promise for widespread application wherever summits are in demand for visitor activities.