%0 Journal Article
%T Impacts of eco-tourism development on landscape ecology with special reference to the Gudoushan nature reserve in Guangdong Province<br>广东省古兜山自然保护区生态旅游开发的多尺度影响
%A XU Song-Jun
%A QIU Peng-Hua
%A XIE Gen-Zong
%A LIU Hao
%A HU Bi-Yan
%A <br>徐颂军
%A 邱彭华
%A 谢跟踪
%A 刘浩
%A 胡碧燕
%J 生态学报
%D 2007
%I 
%X The impacts of tourism development on the distribution of micro-and meso-scale vegetation types were evaluated for the Gudoushan Nature Reserve in Guangdong Province. The results show that: (1) Based on investigation in 10 plot areas, the impact index of phytoecology was generally high, indicating that tourism development has caused ecological degradation in the study area; (2) Tourist activities have major adverse impacts on the plants in either side of the tourist path, areas surrounding the scenic spots and shops; (3) The degree of impact on vegetation varied with landscape type and shows the following decreasing order: mountain meadow > mountain shrub > mountain forest; within forests, mixed forest > evergreen broad-leaved forest > rain forest; and artificial forest > natural forest; (4) Number of shade plant species, number of tree seedlings, litter thickness and species diversity index are among the good indicators for impact assessment while grass coverage gives a poor indication for the same purpose; (5) Human activities such as intermediate cutting in timber stands, road or tourist path construction have significantly adverse impacts on the landscape ecology; (6) From a standpoint of landscape ecology, evergreen mixed forest and monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forest are more sensitive to tourism development and areas south of the service district and Mt. Nanwu are among the ecologically sensitive zones; (7) The multi-index approach provides a useful tool for early warning of ecological threat from improper tourism development which may assist the natural reserve managers in better managing the development of tourism in this area.
%K nature reserve
%K eco-tourism
%K landscape ecology<br>自然保护区
%K 生态旅游
%K 景观生态
%U http://www.alljournals.cn/get_abstract_url.aspx?pcid=90BA3D13E7F3BC869AC96FB3DA594E3FE34FBF7B8BC0E591&jid=FE163E5DB2274E5937319DE98913EC37&aid=ED30BEDFE0A056C1A7454F6F312D2E64&yid=A732AF04DDA03BB3&vid=DB817633AA4F79B9&iid=F3090AE9B60B7ED1&sid=D2D5B6A05BEA7C3D&eid=7DD694249CCA7A8C3FC60A5BCAB52A73&journal_id=1000-0933&journal_name=生态学报&referenced_num=0&reference_num=22