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Tourism and Recreation Impacts: 2007 Publications

Banks, P.B. and Bryant, J.V.  Four-legged friend or foe? Dog walking displaces native birds from natural areas.  Biology Letters 3(6): 611-613, 2007.

Burger, J., Carlucci, S.A., Jeitner, C.W., and Niles, L.  Habitat choice, disturbance, and management of foraging shorebirds and gulls at a migratory stopover.  Journal of Coastal Research 23(5): 1159-1166, 2007.

Klak, T.  Sustainable ecotourism development in Central America and the Caribbean: Review of debates and conceptual reformulation.  Geography Compass 1(5): 1037-1057, 2007.

Martinez-Ribes, L., Basterretxea, G., Palmer, M., and Tintore, J.  Origin and abundance of beach debris in the Balearic Islands.  Scientia Marina 71(2): 305-314, 2007.

Meletis, Z.A. and Campbell, L.M.  Call it consumption!  Re-conceptualizing ecotourism as consumption and consumptive.  Geography Compass 1(4): 850-870, 2007.

Miksis-Olds, J.L., Donaghay, P.L., Miller, J.H., Tyack, P.L., and Nystuen, J.A.  Noise level correlates with manatee use of foraging habitats.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121(5): 3011-3020, 2007.  

Murray, G.  Constructing paradise: The impacts of big tourism in the Mexican coastal zone.  Coastal Management 35(2-3): 339-355, 2007.

Peters, K.A. and Otis, D.L.  Shorebird roost-site selection at two temporal scales: is human disturbance a factor?  Journal of Applied Ecology 44(1): 196-209, 2007.

Rossi, F., Forster, R.M., Montserrat, F., Ponti, M., Terlizzi, A., Ysebaert, T., and Middelburg, J.J.  Human trampling as short-term disturbance on intertidal mudflats: effects on macrofauna biodiversity and population dynamics of bivalves.  Marine Biology 151(6): 2077-2090, 2007.

Schlacher, T.A., Thompson, L., and Price, S.  Vehicles versus conservation of invertebrates on sandy beaches: mortalities inflicted by off-road vehicles on ghost crabs.  Marine Ecology 28(3): 354-367, 2007.

Stensland, E. and Berggren, P.  Behavioural changes in female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in response to boat-based tourism.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 332: 225-234, 2007.