Tourism in Protected Areas: Frameworks for Working Through the Challenges in an Era of Change, Complexity and Uncertainty

The plant biomass for protected areas was maximum in summer (1221.56 g/m2) and minimum in winter (290.62 g/m2) as against grazed areas having maximum value 590.81 g/m2 in autumn and minimum 183.75 g/m2 in winter. Study revealed that at Protected site (Kanidajan) the above ground biomass ranged was from a minimum (1.11 t ha-1) in the spring season to a maximum (4.58 t ha-1) in the summer season while at Grazed site (Yousmarag), the aboveground biomass varied from a minimum (0.54 t ha-1) in the spring season to a maximum of 1.48 t ha-1 in summer seasonandat Seed sown site (Badipora), the lowest value of aboveground biomass obtained was 4.46 t ha-1 in spring while as the highest (7.98 t ha-1) was obtained in summer.

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Characterising essential breeding habitat for whales informs the development of large-scale Marine Protected Areas in the South Pacific

Marine Ecology Progress Series ◽

10.3354/meps11663 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 548 ◽

pp. 263-275 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

RE Lindsay ◽

R Constantine ◽

J Robbins ◽

DK Mattila ◽

A Tagarino ◽

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Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

Marine Protected Areas ◽

Large Scale ◽

South Pacific ◽

Breeding Habitat ◽

The South

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Reef-wide beneficial shifts in fish population structure following establishment of marine protected areas in Philippine coral reefs

Marine Ecology Progress Series ◽

10.3354/meps12067 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 570 ◽

pp. 187-202 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

RY Fidler ◽

RG Turingan ◽

AT White ◽

MNR Alava

Keyword(s):

Population Structure ◽

Coral Reefs ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Marine Protected Areas ◽

Fish Population ◽

Fish Population Structure

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Modeling cetacean habitat use in an urban coastal area in southeastern Brazil

Marine Ecology Progress Series ◽

10.3354/meps13313 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 642 ◽

pp. 227-240

Author(s):

L Lodi ◽

R Tardin ◽

G Maricato

Keyword(s):

Habitat Use ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Linear Models ◽

Anthropogenic Activities ◽

Buffer Zone ◽

Humpback Whales ◽

Southeastern Brazil ◽

Major Influence ◽

Cetacean Species ◽

Few Data

Most studies of cetacean habitat use do not consider the influence of anthropogenic activities. We investigated the influence of environmental and anthropogenic variables on habitat use by humpback Megaptera novaeangliae and Bryde’s whales Balaenoptera brydei off the coast of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Although there are 2 marine protected areas (MPAs) in this area, few data are available on cetacean habitat use or on the overlap of different cetacean species within these MPAs. Our aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of the MPAs and propose a buffer zone to better protect the biodiversity of the study area. We conducted systematic surveys and developed spatial eigenvector generalized linear models to characterize habitat use by the species in the study area. Habitat use by humpback whales was influenced only by depth, whereas for Bryde’s whales there was the additional influence of anthropogenic variables. For Bryde’s whales, which use the area for feeding, sea surface temperature and the distance to anchorages had a major influence on habitat use. We also showed that neither of the MPAs in the study area adequately protects the hotspots of either whale species. Most of the humpback whale grid cells with high sighting predictions were located within 2 km of the MPAs, while areas of high sighting prediction of Bryde’s whales were located up to 5 km from the MPAs, closer to beaches. Our findings provide important insights for the delimitation of protected areas and zoning of the MPAs.

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