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Impact of outdoor winter sports on the abundance of a key indicator species of alpine ecosystems

2008-12-01

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1. Tourism and leisure activities have increased continuously all over the world during the past decades, exerting a growing pressure upon naturally fragile ecosystems, such as mountainous habitats. Recent studies have established that disturbance by outdoor winter sports (e.g. skiing, snowboarding and snowshoeing) is a source of stress for wildlife. This may in turn affect its abundance, but we still lack quantit...

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Literature Corpus work: 0b106f34-ae46-551f-a99d-a35bb144391b
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01547.x

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