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Using crowd-sourced photos to assess seasonal patterns of visitor use in mountain-protected areas
Fecha
2018-11Registro en:
Walden Schreiner, Chelsey; Rossi, Sebastian Dario; Barros, Ana Agustina; Pickering, Catherine Marina; Leung, Yu Fai; Using crowd-sourced photos to assess seasonal patterns of visitor use in mountain-protected areas; Springer; Ambio; 47; 7; 11-2018; 781-793
0044-7447
1654-7209
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Walden Schreiner, Chelsey
Rossi, Sebastian Dario
Barros, Ana Agustina
Pickering, Catherine Marina
Leung, Yu Fai
Resumen
Managing protected areas effectively requires information about patterns of visitor use, but these data are often limited. We explore how geotagged photos on Flickr, a popular photo-sharing social-media site, can generate hotspot maps and distribution models of temporal and spatial patterns of use in two mountain-protected areas of high conservation value. In Aconcagua Provincial Park (Argentina), two routes to the summit of Aconcagua were used in summer, but most visitors stayed close to the main road, using formal and informal walking trails and the Visitor Centre, while in winter, there was very limited visitation. In Kosciuszko National Park (Australia), alpine walking trails were popular in summer, but in winter, most visitors stayed in the lower altitude ski resorts and ski trails. Results demonstrate the usefulness of social-media data alone as well as a complement for visitor monitoring, providing spatial and temporal information for site-specific and park-level management of visitors and potential impacts in conservation areas.