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  • Tourism and recreation: a common threat to IUCN red-listed vascular plants in Europe

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    Ballantyne, Mark
    Pickering, Catherine Marina
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    Pickering, Catherine M.
    Runkovski, Mark Nadir A.
    Year published
    2013
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    Tourism and recreation are large industries employing millions of people and contribute over US$2.01 trillion to the global economy. Unfortunately they also have diverse and sometimes severe environmental impacts affecting many species, including those that are rare and threatened. To assess the extent to which these industries threaten vascular plants, we reviewed data in the IUCN Red List for 462 Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable European species. Tourism and recreation were listed as threatening 42% (194 species) of these species from across 50 families, mostly herbs (70%). They were listed as threatening ...
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    Tourism and recreation are large industries employing millions of people and contribute over US$2.01 trillion to the global economy. Unfortunately they also have diverse and sometimes severe environmental impacts affecting many species, including those that are rare and threatened. To assess the extent to which these industries threaten vascular plants, we reviewed data in the IUCN Red List for 462 Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable European species. Tourism and recreation were listed as threatening 42% (194 species) of these species from across 50 families, mostly herbs (70%). They were listed as threatening plants in 9 of the 10 bioregions in Europe and in 25 of the 40 countries assessed. Popular tourism destinations such as the Canary Islands (41 species) and mainland Spain (40 species) had the greatest diversity of species listed as threatened by tourism and recreation. The most common of these threats were trampling (61 species), plant collection (59), the maintenance/construction of tourist infrastructure (43) and habitat degradation due to the urbanisation of tourist sites (13). Additional species assessments and more research on the impacts of tourism and recreation may add to these values. It is clear that these industries pose an important threatening process on plants in Europe based on the IUCN Red List data and hence deserve greater recognition in terms of research, conservation and management.
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    Journal Title
    Biodiversity and Conservation
    Volume
    22
    Issue
    13-14
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-013-0569-2
    Copyright Statement
    © 2013 Springer. This is an electronic version of an article published in Biodiversity and Conservation, December 2013, Volume 22, Issue 13-14, pp 3027-3044. Biodiversity and Conservation is available online at: http://link.springer.com/ with the open URL of your article.
    Subject
    Conservation and biodiversity
    Ecology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/55792
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