Nature based tourism products offer valuable experience to visitors which can only be appreciated or stimulated using sensory elements. Visual, sound, taste, smell, touch and mobility are sensory elements that are able to enhance visitors’ experience in any particular destination. However, some destinations might not provide all the elements. Therefore this study’s objective is to assess the ro...

The management, development and conservation of a protected area require vast knowledge of forest resources, its distribution and utilization pattern by its flora and fauna. Application of remote sensing and GIS as a tool, has assumed immense significance in assessment of these information. These applications are now widely used in conservation and management of protected areas across the globe...

Considering the majority of previous assessment perspectives on tourism carrying capacity are limited by “the number visitors”, this paper develops an innovative approach from “visitors’ experience utility” perspective. Using choice experiment method, is assessed exploring marginal utility and sensitivity visitors to changes in recreational attributes. Xian-Ren-Tai National Forest Park China em...

Where tropical forests have been cleared and abandoned, forest regrowth is often slow. Because of the increasing extent of such degraded lands and desire for these areas to fulfill conservation and ecosystem functions, it has become important to assess mechanisms that accelerate reforestation. In situations where site conditions limit tree establishment, one option to facilitate reforestation i...

Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China Department of Ecology and Ev...

Fast detection of forest fires is a great concern among environmental experts and national park managers because forest fires create economic and ecological damages and endanger human lives. For effective fire control and resource preparation, it is necessary to predict fire occurrences in advance and estimate the possible losses caused by fires. For this purpose, real-time sensor data of weath...

the main purpose of this study is to investigate the preferences of urban dwellers for variouselements of urban parks in order to provide some important suggestions for rehabilitation of urban deficient parks. inthis regard, this study has conducted a survey in one of the oldest parks in khorramabad, iran, to reveal the overallsatisfaction of the park situation and to explore the preferences of...

At Technische Universität München extensive official, forestal, climatological, touristical geodata and metadata on the unique ecosystem Bavarian Forest National Park were gathered since 1996 to set up a GIS-platform used for research projects as well as for education. To improve data availability of this precious datapool the GIS-platform has been Web-enabled by migrating all its data content ...

European grapevine populations quickly disappeared from most of their range, massively killed by the spread of North American grapevine pests and diseases. Nowadays taxonomic pollution represents a new threat. A large Vitis complex involves escaped cultivars, rootstocks, and wild grapevines. The study aimed to provide insight into the Vitis complex in the Danube region through field and genetic...

A mechanistic, biogeochemical succession model, FIRE-BGC, was used to investigate the role of fire on long-term landscape dynamics in northern Rocky Mountain coniferous forests of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. FIRE-BGC is an individual-tree model-created by merging the gap-phase process-based model FIRESUM with the mechanistic ecosystem biogeochemical model FOREST-BGC-that has mixed spat...