No visit, no interest: How COVID-19 has affected public interest in world's national parks
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چکیده
The use of digital content has become a powerful tool to evaluate and track macro-scale trends in human-nature relations. This is an emerging field study known as conservation culturomics, that seeks understand human culture through quantitative analysis large bodies content. Here, we used relative search volume on Google Search culturomic metric public interest investigate the global impact 2020 COVID-19 pandemic national parks (NPs). Specifically, focus impacts limiting people's mobility (through social isolation lock-down measures) NPs, since this likely have strong causal relationship with park visitation. We generated data for 2411 NPs from around world period January 2016 July 2020, explore between periods greater lesser restrictions due pandemic. observed trend declining during initial phase coronavirus pandemic, although there was considerable variation both countries. For example, contrary increased Finland first lock-down. Significantly, countries whose are highly dependent international visitors (e.g., South Africa India) had very severe declines interest. Our reinforces key role visitation plays driving illustrates utility methods monitoring human-park interactions at scale.
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Conservation
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0006-3207', '1873-2917']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109015