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Title
Chapter Title: Best Practices Toward Sustainable Ecotourism
Book Title: Ecotourism’s Promise and Peril: A Biological Evaluation.
Author(s)
Samia, Diogo S.M. ;Angeloni, Lisa M. ;Bearzi, Maddalena ;Bessa, Eduardo ;Crooks, Kevin R. ;D’Amico, Marcello ;Ellenberg, Ursula ;Geffroy, Benjamin ;Larson, Courtney L. ;Loyola, Rafael;Møller, Anders Pape ;Reed, Sarah E. ;Sadoul, Bastien ;Shannon, Graeme ;Tablado, Zulima ;Zacarias, Daniel ;Blumstein, Daniel T.
Published
2017
Abstract
When entering a natural environment, ecotourists and wildlife operators must be aware they are entering habitats that are home to millions of individual organisms. Ecotourists are guests in these environments where residents must acquire resources, avoid predation and parasitism, and safely rest and reproduce. Each of these basic activities has been honed to efficiency by generations of natural selection to work well in that specific environment. Changes in the environment, such as those caused by human visitation and tourism activities, can create mismatches between what the organisms are adapted to and the environment, creating novel challenges for the organisms that call it home.
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