Soil trampling in an Antarctic Specially Protected Area: tools to assess levels of human impact
Research in extremely delicate environments must be sensitive to the need to minimize impacts caused simply through the presence of research personnel. This study investigates the effectiveness of current advice relating to travel on foot over Antarctic vegetation-free soils. These are based on the...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:11311 2023-05-15T13:45:10+02:00 Soil trampling in an Antarctic Specially Protected Area: tools to assess levels of human impact Tejedo, P. Justel, A. Benayas, J. Rico, E. Convey, Peter Quesada, A. 2009 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11311/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11311/1/download.pdf http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FANS%2FANS21_03%2FS0954102009001795a.pdf&code=05aa4366c39504d6d4063bbf512011e1 en eng Cambridge University Press https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11311/1/download.pdf Tejedo, P.; Justel, A.; Benayas, J.; Rico, E.; Convey, Peter orcid:0000-0001-8497-9903 Quesada, A. 2009 Soil trampling in an Antarctic Specially Protected Area: tools to assess levels of human impact. Antarctic Science, 21 (3). 229-236. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102009001795 <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102009001795> Management Agriculture and Soil Science Ecology and Environment Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2009 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102009001795 2023-02-04T19:27:17Z Research in extremely delicate environments must be sensitive to the need to minimize impacts caused simply through the presence of research personnel. This study investigates the effectiveness of current advice relating to travel on foot over Antarctic vegetation-free soils. These are based on the concentration of impacts through the creation of properly signed and identified paths. In order to address these impacts, we quantified three factors - resistance to compression, bulk density and free-living terrestrial arthropod abundance - in areas of human activity over five summer field seasons at the Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands). Studies included instances of both experimentally controlled use and natural non-controlled situations. The data demonstrate that a minimum human presence is sufficient to alter both physical and biological characteristics of Byers Peninsula soils, although at the lowest levels of human activity this difference was not significant in comparison with adjacent undisturbed control areas. On the other hand, a limited resilience of physical properties was observed in Antarctic soils, thus it is crucial not to exceed the soil's natural recovery capability. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Science Livingston Island South Shetland Islands Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Antarctic South Shetland Islands Livingston Island ENVELOPE(-60.500,-60.500,-62.600,-62.600) Byers ENVELOPE(-60.283,-60.283,-63.900,-63.900) Byers peninsula ENVELOPE(-61.066,-61.066,-62.633,-62.633) Antarctic Science 21 3 229 236 |
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Research in extremely delicate environments must be sensitive to the need to minimize impacts caused simply through the presence of research personnel. This study investigates the effectiveness of current advice relating to travel on foot over Antarctic vegetation-free soils. These are based on the concentration of impacts through the creation of properly signed and identified paths. In order to address these impacts, we quantified three factors - resistance to compression, bulk density and free-living terrestrial arthropod abundance - in areas of human activity over five summer field seasons at the Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands). Studies included instances of both experimentally controlled use and natural non-controlled situations. The data demonstrate that a minimum human presence is sufficient to alter both physical and biological characteristics of Byers Peninsula soils, although at the lowest levels of human activity this difference was not significant in comparison with adjacent undisturbed control areas. On the other hand, a limited resilience of physical properties was observed in Antarctic soils, thus it is crucial not to exceed the soil's natural recovery capability. |
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Tejedo, P. Justel, A. Benayas, J. Rico, E. Convey, Peter Quesada, A. |
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Soil trampling in an Antarctic Specially Protected Area: tools to assess levels of human impact |
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Soil trampling in an Antarctic Specially Protected Area: tools to assess levels of human impact |
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Soil trampling in an Antarctic Specially Protected Area: tools to assess levels of human impact |
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Soil trampling in an Antarctic Specially Protected Area: tools to assess levels of human impact |
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Soil trampling in an Antarctic Specially Protected Area: tools to assess levels of human impact |
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soil trampling in an antarctic specially protected area: tools to assess levels of human impact |
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http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11311/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11311/1/download.pdf http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FANS%2FANS21_03%2FS0954102009001795a.pdf&code=05aa4366c39504d6d4063bbf512011e1 |
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https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11311/1/download.pdf Tejedo, P.; Justel, A.; Benayas, J.; Rico, E.; Convey, Peter orcid:0000-0001-8497-9903 Quesada, A. 2009 Soil trampling in an Antarctic Specially Protected Area: tools to assess levels of human impact. Antarctic Science, 21 (3). 229-236. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102009001795 <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102009001795> |
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