Assessing conflicts between winter recreational activities and grouse species

Jäger, Hieronymus; Schirpke, Uta

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111194

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“…Strava data have proven useful in previous studies, and high correlations with ground truth data have been reported from cities in Norway 68 , the UK 69 , the USA 70 and Australia 71 as well as in rural areas in Austria 34 and in Italy 33 . As our Strava index is an index of pedestrian recreation and the app is not used by everyone engaging in recreational activities in a defined area, true recreational activity is bound to be higher.…”

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“…Users of certain software applications (apps), like the training app Strava ( www.strava.com ), agree to share their spatial locations with the company. For apps with large userbases, such data can provide relative proxies for the spatial distribution of recreational activity 33 , 34 . Here we utilize data from the Strava app as a proxy for pedestrian outdoor activity (walking, running, or hiking) during summer in southeast Norway and investigate how habitat selection and habitat use by Eurasian lynx ( Lynx lynx ) are influenced by recreation.…”

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Smartphone app reveals that lynx avoid human recreationists on local scale, but not home range scale

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Mattisson

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Outdoor recreation is increasing and affects habitat use and selection by wildlife. These effects are challenging to study, especially for elusive species with large spatial requirements, as it is hard to obtain reliable proxies of recreational intensity over extensive areas. Commonly used proxies, such as the density of, or distance to, hiking paths, ignore outdoor recreation occurring on other linear feature types. Here we utilized crowdsourced data from the Strava training app to obtain a large-scale proxy for pedestrian outdoor recreation intensity in southeast Norway. We used the proxy and GPS-tracking data from collared Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) to investigate how recreation affects habitat selection at the home range scale and local scale by lynx during summer. We fitted resource selection functions at the two scales using conditional logistic regression. Our analysis revealed that lynx avoided areas of recreational activity at the local scale, but not at home range scale. Nonetheless, lynx frequently used areas associated with recreation, and to a greater degree at night than during the day. Our results suggest that local-scale avoidance of recreation and temporal adjustments of habitat use by lynx mitigate the need for a home range-scale response towards recreation. Scale-dependent responses and temporal adjustments in habitat use may facilitate coexistence between humans and large carnivores.

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Smartphone app reveals that lynx avoid human recreationists on local scale, but not home range scale

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Bischof

Mattisson

et al. 2022

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“…At the same time, socio-demographic changes, including population growth and altered leisure behaviour, are expected to increase the recreational use of natural environments (Guo et al, 2010). A higher spatio-temporal expansion of recreational activities, however, may add pressure on mountain environments by degrading sensitive ecosystems and leading to higher disturbance of wildlife (Jäger et al, 2020b). Additionally, it can be expected that conflicts between recreational user groups or with non-recreational interested parties such as forest managers, hunters, farmers, nature conservationists will become more frequent, which may lead to restriction of recreational use or limit the provision of non-recreational services (Schirpke et al, 2020a).…”

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“…In mountain ecosystems, which are highly susceptible to global change, an increasing demand for ecosystem services such as outdoor recreation may lead to increasing pressure on mountain ecosystems (Jäger et al, 2020b). Therefore, a profound understanding of interactions between human activities and ecological processes in such vulnerable system is fundamental to develop sustainable management strategies that aim at maintaining the supply of multiple ecosystem services and at preserving biological diversity (Huber et al, 2013), not only locally or regionally but also at cross-national level.…”

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Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development in the European Alps: Spatial Patterns and Mountain-Lowland Relationships

Schirpke

2022

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Significance StatementMountain regions provide various goods and services to people such as fresh water, timber, climate regulation, and recreation. This chapter illustrates the spatial distribution of eight key ecosystem services across the European Alps and adjacent lowland areas and analyses linkages with sustainability. The results indicate important spatial mismatches between (semi-)natural mountain environments and densely populated lowlands and between ecosystem services and sustainability. More attention should be paid on transportation processes and human well-being across different spatial scales to support the sustainable development of mountain socio-ecological systems.

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“…Jäger et al [31], Franklin et al [32], Hovardas [33], and Verschueren et al [34] analyzed more specific conflicts related to animal species. Jäger et al [31] and Franklin et al [32] assessed conflicts between winter recreational activities and grouse species, and between forestry and moose populations, respectively, and proposed tools to manage them. Hovardas [33] and Verschueren et al [34] assessed conflicts of humans with carnivores in protected areas in Greece and Namibia, respectively.…”

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A Goal Programming Model to Guide Decision-Making Processes towards Conservation Consensuses

Castro-Pardo

Azevedo

2021

Sustainability

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In this paper we propose a goal programming model that provides a consensual aggregated solution minimizing conflicts to guide multi-stakeholder decision-making processes and generates information regarding stakeholder groups to be exploited for negotiation purposes. This model permits to quantify variations in conflicts when the relative contribution of each criteria changes and gives insight to negotiation strategies with application in conservation areas. A dataset of a case study in the Meseta Ibérica Biosphere Reserve (Portugal-Spain) was used to test and validate the model. Fifty people belonging to four groups (scientists, government, farmers and businesspersons) assessed 20 management objectives in four dimensions: conservation, logistical support, development, and governance. The results showed the highest conflicts to be found for fauna and flora, education, and guarantees objectives while the most conflictive groups were scientists and farmers. The proposed model substantially reduced the global and intergroup conflicts associated to the same objectives, modelling the weights assigned to each objective in each dimension to find the most consensual/least conflictive solutions. This model can be a useful tool to improve complex decision-making processes in conservation areas with strong conflicts between stakeholders, such as transboundary biosphere reserves.

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Assessing conflicts between winter recreational activities and grouse species

Cited by 18 publications

References 35 publications

Smartphone app reveals that lynx avoid human recreationists on local scale, but not home range scale

Smartphone app reveals that lynx avoid human recreationists on local scale, but not home range scale

Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development in the European Alps: Spatial Patterns and Mountain-Lowland Relationships

A Goal Programming Model to Guide Decision-Making Processes towards Conservation Consensuses

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