Applying Integrated Nature Conservation Management: Using Visitor Management and Monitoring to Handle Conflicts Between Winter Recreation and Grouse Species in Berchtesgaden National Park

The call of the wild: Investigating the potential for ecoacoustic methods in mapping wilderness areas

“…The complexity and dynamically evolving nature of the relationship between humans and their landscape requires us to change our perspectives and seek new ways of understanding these complex spaces that are also better suited and more robust for use in planning, nature conservation and policy making (Hennig 2016). Our results stimulate further work in the application of ecoacoustic methods in wildness mapping methodologies in order to ensure that they better reflect ecological and human processes and values.…”

“…We further demonstrate that AIs predict human perceptions of biodiversity and wildness, suggesting that acoustic methods capture important facets of the human experience of wildness. We argue that in recognising the acoustic environment as the nexus of atmospheric, biospheric and anthropogenic processes, ecoacoustics also provides a framework within which to integrate ecological and anthropogenic perspectives on wilderness, answering calls for new approaches to conceptualising and measuring wild spaces as the site of complex and dynamic human-environment relations (Leslie, 2016;Hennig, 2016). We recommend that ecoacoustics should be incorporated into future WA mapping and management, and suggest new research directions to develop and validate acoustic methods suited to the unique conditions of wilderness areas, across a range of biomes.…”