Behavioural responses of two penguin species to human presence at Barrientos Island, a popular tourist site in the Antarctic Peninsula region
Abstract Visitor Site Guidelines are the principal instruments guiding tourist activities and behaviour at intensively visited sites. These instruments attempt to minimize tourist impacts on Antarctic wildlife, including penguins. However, some recommendations still need to be reinforced by empirica...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0954102021000559 2023-06-11T04:06:39+02:00 Behavioural responses of two penguin species to human presence at Barrientos Island, a popular tourist site in the Antarctic Peninsula region Cajiao, Daniela Leung, Yu-Fai Tejedo, Pablo Barbosa, Andrés Reck, Gunter Benayas, Javier 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102021000559 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102021000559 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Antarctic Science volume 34, issue 2, page 107-119 ISSN 0954-1020 1365-2079 Geology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography journal-article 2022 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954102021000559 2023-05-01T18:20:51Z Abstract Visitor Site Guidelines are the principal instruments guiding tourist activities and behaviour at intensively visited sites. These instruments attempt to minimize tourist impacts on Antarctic wildlife, including penguins. However, some recommendations still need to be reinforced by empirical research. Although penguins have enjoyed considerable research attention, a knowledge gap still exists regarding penguins' behavioural responses to realistic tourist activities, including talking sound, viewing distance and movement speed. To fill this gap, we conducted a series of experiments to simulate these activities on two penguin species breeding at an intensively visited site during the 2019–2020 season. We performed 106 replicates of passive and active human presence treatments. Responses varied between species, but active human presence consistently triggered significantly higher responses of strong vigilance behaviour. Our results reinforce Visitor Site Guidelines' recommendations of keeping quiet, moving slowly and increasing viewing distance if changes in behaviour are observed. We also recommend adopting a more conservative viewing distance in the early breeding season. Additional management-orientated empirical studies are needed, including on different species, sites and stages of the breeding season, as such results are valuable for strengthening tourism guidelines and assessing the efficacy of management measures under a post-COVID-19 scenario of increasing Antarctic tourism. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Antarctic Science Barrientos Island Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Antarctic The Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Barrientos ENVELOPE(-59.733,-59.733,-62.400,-62.400) Barrientos Island ENVELOPE(-59.749,-59.749,-62.406,-62.406) Antarctic Science 1 13 |
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Abstract Visitor Site Guidelines are the principal instruments guiding tourist activities and behaviour at intensively visited sites. These instruments attempt to minimize tourist impacts on Antarctic wildlife, including penguins. However, some recommendations still need to be reinforced by empirical research. Although penguins have enjoyed considerable research attention, a knowledge gap still exists regarding penguins' behavioural responses to realistic tourist activities, including talking sound, viewing distance and movement speed. To fill this gap, we conducted a series of experiments to simulate these activities on two penguin species breeding at an intensively visited site during the 2019–2020 season. We performed 106 replicates of passive and active human presence treatments. Responses varied between species, but active human presence consistently triggered significantly higher responses of strong vigilance behaviour. Our results reinforce Visitor Site Guidelines' recommendations of keeping quiet, moving slowly and increasing viewing distance if changes in behaviour are observed. We also recommend adopting a more conservative viewing distance in the early breeding season. Additional management-orientated empirical studies are needed, including on different species, sites and stages of the breeding season, as such results are valuable for strengthening tourism guidelines and assessing the efficacy of management measures under a post-COVID-19 scenario of increasing Antarctic tourism. |
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Cajiao, Daniela Leung, Yu-Fai Tejedo, Pablo Barbosa, Andrés Reck, Gunter Benayas, Javier |
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Cajiao, Daniela Leung, Yu-Fai Tejedo, Pablo Barbosa, Andrés Reck, Gunter Benayas, Javier |
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Behavioural responses of two penguin species to human presence at Barrientos Island, a popular tourist site in the Antarctic Peninsula region |
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Behavioural responses of two penguin species to human presence at Barrientos Island, a popular tourist site in the Antarctic Peninsula region |
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Behavioural responses of two penguin species to human presence at Barrientos Island, a popular tourist site in the Antarctic Peninsula region |
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Behavioural responses of two penguin species to human presence at Barrientos Island, a popular tourist site in the Antarctic Peninsula region |
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Behavioural responses of two penguin species to human presence at Barrientos Island, a popular tourist site in the Antarctic Peninsula region |
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behavioural responses of two penguin species to human presence at barrientos island, a popular tourist site in the antarctic peninsula region |
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