Valerie Braun – Margreth Keiler – Günter Köck (Eds.)


eco.mont

Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management


Valerie Braun
is Managing Editor of eco.mont and Project Manager of several projects at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

Margreth Keiler
is Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

Günter Köck
is Director of the National Research Programmes at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

ISSN 2073-106X Print Edition
ISSN 2073-1558 Online Edition

ISBN 978-3-7001-9441-5 Online Edition

Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management 15/2 
06/2023  online edition
Die print-Edition erscheint in der innsbruck university press

License: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

“eco.mont – Journal of Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management” was founded as a joint initiative of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas (ALPARC), the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps (ISCAR), the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Innsbruck. “eco.mont” offers a platform specifically for scientists and practitioners working in and on protected mountain areas in Europe and overseas. Target audiences of the journal are scientists from all related disciplines, managers of protected areas and an interested public including practitioners, visitors, teachers, etc.“eco.mont” is available by open access under CC BY-NC-ND-Licence from the Austrian Academy Press and in a printed version from Innsbruck University Press. Alpine protected areas play a key role in biodiversity conservation, but also in monitoring species and habitats. Since its first issue, eco.mont has published articles on long-term monitoring programmes in different areas of the Alps.

The current issue covers a wide range of topics concerning protected areas globally. Geographically, the articles cover protected areas in the Alps, the Himalayas, Southern Siberia and the Italian island of Sardinia. The subjects discussed include anthropogenic sounds and their influence on outdoor recreation, sacred larch trees as cultural monuments, firewood as a natural resource, sustainable regional development in a natural park and Biosphere Reserve on Sardinia, a glimpse into the EuroMAB Conference 2022 in Carynthia, Austria, the influence of historic and current land-use changes on wetland habitats, the development of the small-mammal fauna in the Swiss National Park in the last 100 years, and the conservation of endemic species in the Yarlung Zangbo river basin in Tibet.

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Valerie Braun – Margreth Keiler – Günter Köck (Eds.)


eco.mont

Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management

ISSN 2073-106X
Print Edition
ISSN 2073-1558
Online Edition

ISBN 978-3-7001-9441-5
Online Edition
Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management 15/2 
06/2023  online edition
Die print-Edition erscheint in der innsbruck university press

License: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Valerie Braun
is Managing Editor of eco.mont and Project Manager of several projects at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

Margreth Keiler
is Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

Günter Köck
is Director of the National Research Programmes at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

Ricarda Ferrari, Reto Rupf, Birgit Reutz
S.  4 - 12
doi:10.1553/eco.mont-15-2s4

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doi:10.1553/eco.mont-15-2s4
Abstract:
Regional Nature Parks (RNPs) such as the Parc Ela and Beverin Nature Park are popular destinations for outdoor activities and recreation in the Alpine areas of Switzerland. As in many other mountain and peripheral regions, their soundscapes are being increasingly influenced by humans. Little is known about which sound types are perceived positively or negatively by visitors in Alpine areas and how sounds affect visitors’ perceived recreational quality. To better understand this relationship, surveys were carried out in four areas of two RNPs, Beverin Nature Park and Parc Ela. Each area included two or three sites with different anthropogenic sound levels. Sounds with anthropogenic origins were found to be rated significantly more negatively than sounds with biophonic and geophonic origins. Using linear mixed models, this study confirmed that sound levels had the strongest effect on the perceived quality of visitors’ recreation at sites with similar visual landscape features. Sites with low levels of anthropogenic sounds were perceived as having the least impact on recreational quality. However, no significant difference in the impact of sounds on perceived recreational quality was found between medium and high sound levels, indicating that there could be a threshold between 33.7 and 38.6 dBA above which noise has a negative impact on recreational quality.

Keywords:  Alpine areas, anthropogenic sounds, outdoor recreation, noise
Published Online:  2023/06/13 11:41:56
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Rights:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

“eco.mont – Journal of Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management” was founded as a joint initiative of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas (ALPARC), the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps (ISCAR), the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Innsbruck. “eco.mont” offers a platform specifically for scientists and practitioners working in and on protected mountain areas in Europe and overseas. Target audiences of the journal are scientists from all related disciplines, managers of protected areas and an interested public including practitioners, visitors, teachers, etc.“eco.mont” is available by open access under CC BY-NC-ND-Licence from the Austrian Academy Press and in a printed version from Innsbruck University Press. Alpine protected areas play a key role in biodiversity conservation, but also in monitoring species and habitats. Since its first issue, eco.mont has published articles on long-term monitoring programmes in different areas of the Alps.

The current issue covers a wide range of topics concerning protected areas globally. Geographically, the articles cover protected areas in the Alps, the Himalayas, Southern Siberia and the Italian island of Sardinia. The subjects discussed include anthropogenic sounds and their influence on outdoor recreation, sacred larch trees as cultural monuments, firewood as a natural resource, sustainable regional development in a natural park and Biosphere Reserve on Sardinia, a glimpse into the EuroMAB Conference 2022 in Carynthia, Austria, the influence of historic and current land-use changes on wetland habitats, the development of the small-mammal fauna in the Swiss National Park in the last 100 years, and the conservation of endemic species in the Yarlung Zangbo river basin in Tibet.



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Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
A-1011 Wien, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
Tel. +43-1-515 81/DW 3420, Fax +43-1-515 81/DW 3400
https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at, e-mail: verlag@oeaw.ac.at