Title Recreational disturbance of shorebirds in tropical Asia / Priyan Perera, Sumudu Marasinghe, Greg D. Simpson, David Newsome

Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 97 pages : illustrations) Series SpringerBriefs in environmental science, 2191-5555 SpringerBriefs in environmental science, 2191-5555 Contents An Introduction to Shorebirds and Recreation in Coastal Zones -- Defining the Region of Tropical Asia -- The Impact from Motorized Recreational Vehicle Traffic on Coastal Waterbirds: A Case Study from Sri Lanka -- The Impact of Pedestrians on Shorebirds: A Case Study from Sri Lanka -- Overview of Management Strategies and Considerations for the Future -- Appendixies Summary Much of that growing demand for coastal recreation and tourism has focused on countries in South and Southeast Asia in the tourism megaregion that this book refers to as Tropical Asia. As such, the recreational disturbance of shorebirds in Asia is a serious conservation issue, at a time when populations of both migratory and non-migratory species of shorebirds are threatened and declining because of the loss of coastal habitat and increased human disturbance. Despite global awareness about the impacts that the growth of coastal recreation and tourism across Tropical Asia is likely to be having on threatened and endangered migratory and resident shorebird species of the coastal zones of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, less than 3% of the published peer-reviewed research into the recreational disturbance of shorebirds addresses coastal zones of Tropical Asia. This situation points to a significant knowledge gap regarding the impacts of human recreation on shorebirds in the Tropical Asian region. In contrast, almost three quarters of the peer-reviewed articles that report recreational disturbance research and management strategies focus on coastal zones in North America (36%), Oceania (20%), and Europe (20%). For those reasons, the quantitative systematic literature review and research case study from Sri Lanka reported in this book provide a call to action and recommendations for both management approaches grounded in the international literature and a research agenda that should be implemented in the coastal zones of Tropical Asia Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 21, 2022) Subject Shore birds -- Asia Shore birds -- Tropics Shore birds Asia Tropics Form Electronic book Author Marasinghe, Sumudu, author Simpson, Greg D. author Newsome, David, 1951- author. ISBN 9783031139680 3031139682

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