The territory of the Crimean Peninsula has a long history of economic
development and as a result, in some, especially old-developed, regions
of the Crimean Peninsula, there is a problem of the use of the territory
by various nature users and, consequently, nature management conflicts
are developing. In most cases, qualitative assessment is used to describe nature management conflicts. The paper shows the possibility of quantifying
these conflicts using the concept of an ecological niche in a multidimensional
factor space. The paper, based on the concept of ecological niche, provides
a quantitative assessment of nature management conflicts in the river basins
of the northwestern slope of the Crimean Mountains (the basins of the Zapadnii
Bulganak, Alma, Kacha, Belbek, and Chernaya rivers). By nature management
conflict we mean a situation when, in a multifactorial space, the ecological
niches of the main types of nature use intersect and the quantitative measure
of this intersection is the measure of the nature management conflict. For
the main types of nature use within the river basins of the northwestern
slope of the Crimean Mountains (the basins of the Zapadnii Bulganak, Alma,
Kacha, Belbek, and Chernaya rivers), their ecological niches are constructed
in the space of the factors “Altitude, m” and “Slope, degrees”, as well
as “Annual air temperature, °C” and “Annual precipitation, mm”. A quantitative
assessment of the manifestation of nature management conflicts is given
as a measure of the intersection of their ecological niches.