The main purpose of this study is to derive forest recreation demand in Jizerske Mountains Protected Landscape Area and to disentangle aesthetic factors that are responsible for changes in recreation utility of visitors. We estimate visitors’ preferences for alternative forest sites as a function of site characteristics using choice experiment technique. As forest scenic beauty may represent a ...

An appraisal of butterfly species composition in terms comparative diversity richness various habitat types was conducted and around the Nandhour Wildlife Sanctuary Terai Arc landscape Uttarakhand. During two years survey period (March 2018–February 2020), a total 89 butterflies belonging to families Nymphalidae 43 species, Pieridae 15 Lycaenidae 13 Hesperiidae eight Papilionidae seven Riodinid...

introduction conservation and management of landscapes and beautiful sceneries is one of the necessities of establishing and maintaining the protected areas. analysis of landscape visual quality has an important place in landscape planning and designing. in this way, reviewing effective criteria and discovering the simple patterns which affect the landscapes is the most important step of modeli...

In countries with high levels of urbanization, protected areas are often subject to human disturbance. In addition to dealing with fragmentation, land managers also have to confront the loss of characteristic ecosystems due to biotic homogenization, which is the increasing similarity of species assemblages among geographically separate regions. Using ants as a model system, we explored whether ...

• The increasing tourism services near protected areas affect adversely the landscape. anthropization index was applied considering land cover of different years. tourist infrastructure is in most anthropized sites buffer zone.