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Ecotourism and Birds in Coastal New Jersey: Contrasting Responses of Birds, Tourists, and Managers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Joanna Burger ,
Michael Gochfeld  and
Larry J. Niles
Joanna Burger
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855, USA
Michael Gochfeld
Affiliation:
Professor, Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
Larry J. Niles
Affiliation:
Director, Endangered and Non-game Species Program, Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, New Jersey 08625, and Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855, USA.
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People of diverse cultures appreciate and observe wildlife. With the increase in the importance of economic, social, and aesthetic, values of wildlife comes the responsibility for wise management and use of these resources to ensure biodiversity and the continued wellbeing of the populations. We describe several ways in which ecotourists affect the behaviour, reproductive success, and population levels, of breeding and migratory birds in New Jersey — a heavily industrialized, coastal US state with a dense human population. We use several case-studies to illustrate the effects of ecotourists on birds: heronries, breeding Least Terns (Sterna antillarum), foraging Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) during the breeding season, migrant shorebirds and gulls at Caven Point and Delaware Bay, and migrant hawks at Cape May.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Spring 1995 , pp. 56 - 65
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1995

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