Effect of outdoor recreation on forest phytocenosis
Togisbayeva A. Gura D. Makar S. Akulinina I.
June 2022Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Biodiversity and Conservation
2022#31Issue 71893 - 1908 pp.
This study aims to analyze the impact of outdoor recreational activities on the status of forest plant communities based on long-term data. The study was conducted in 2008–2019 in the vicinity of St. Petersburg (Russian Federation). A total of 1,284 transect lines 50–500 m long, 6 m wide, and at 25 m distance between each other were laid. Since 2011, the study area received the status of Specially Protected Area. According to the data obtained, maps were drawn showing an increase or decrease in the degradation rate due to recreation activities. Following the closure of vehicle access to the study area in 2011, the flow of vacationers nearly halved (25 people per 100 m of shoreline, p ≤ 0.05 vs. 2008). In 2018, their number virtually did not change (p > 0.05 vs. 2012). The emergence of parking lots and the prohibition on motor vehicles did not affect the number of vacationers on sand beaches (p > 0.05 between 2018 and previous years). However, their number significantly decreased (2-fold, p ≤ 0.05 between 2018 and 2008) on undulating and gently undulating plains. Recreation impacts on the condition of various landscapes were graded according to the state of the forest site.
Forest phytocenosis , Recreation impacts , SDGs , Trampling , Vegetation degradation
Text of the article Перейти на текст статьи
Department of Ecology, Kazakh National Agrarian Research University (KAZNARU), Almaty, Kazakhstan
Department of Cadastre and Geoengineering, Kuban State Technological University, Krasnodar, Russian Federation
Department of Geodesy, Kuban State Agrarian University, Krasnodar, Russian Federation
Institute of Regional Economics and Inter-Budgetary Relations, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation
Department of Physical and Socio-Economic Geography, National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk, Russian Federation
Department of Biology and General Genetics, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russian Federation
Department of Dermatology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Department of Ecology
Department of Cadastre and Geoengineering
Department of Geodesy
Institute of Regional Economics and Inter-Budgetary Relations
Department of Physical and Socio-Economic Geography
Department of Biology and General Genetics
Department of Dermatology
10 лет помогаем публиковать статьи Международный издатель
Книга Публикация научной статьи Волощук 2026 Book Publication of a scientific article 2026