Assessing environmental conditions of Antarctic footpaths to support management decisions

• Published in: Journal of Environmental Management
• Main Authors: Tejedo, P., Benayas, J., Cajiao, D., Albertos Bofarull, Belén, Lara, F., Pertierra, L.R., Andrés-Abellán, M., Wic, C., Luciane, M.J., Enríquez, N., Justel, A., Reck, J.K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV. 2024
• Subjects: ecologia; gestió ambiental; Antarc*; Antarctic; Barrientos Island
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10550/93310; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.04.032

Thousands of tourists visit certain Antarctic sites each year, generating a wide variety of environmental impacts. Scientific knowledge of human activities and their impacts can help in the effective design of management measures and impact mitigation.We present a case study from Barrientos Island i...