LSR 2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Nature Reserve, Green Country
10 Feb 2016
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Impact: disturbance to a natural area as a result of recreational use there can be social impacts, economic impacts, ecological impacts impacts are never neutral: either have positive or negative impact. Most impacts are negative against ecosystem: impact is undesirable or degrades the natural ecosystem, ex: walking (thought to be relatively harmless but it does. Ex: pink lake made a durable surface for people to. Recreation ecology environments impacts upon: soil, vegetation, wildlife, water (4 main elements of the ecosystem) Deals with the impact of recreation on natural or semi natural: possible that recreation impacts could also affect air quality and geology can have positive and negative impacts. Impacts on soil critical element of the ecosystem. Outdoor rec has a considerable effect on soil: we don"t normally associate soil with outdoor rec soil is actually alive levels of the soil. Will continue until the recreation stops leaves scars.
