[Coral-List] Calculating Carrying capacity: Marine & Islands Reserv

[Jay Robs]

Before I speculate,

Define:

"actual numbers of visitors",  "as applied to"

-Jay R.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:38 AM, oli taylor <taylor_ojs at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Listers,
>
> Myself and colleagues are working on an advisory report which aims to
> provide management advice and ACTUAL FIGURES pertaining to carrying capacity
> of marine and terrestrial resources associated with a group of islands
> within an existing nature reserve. Our goal is to strengthen overall
> management activities and prevent degradation of ecological resources by
> applying an adaptive approach.
>
> Key to this work is determining actual numbers of visitors as applied to a
> number of different resources. In particular:
>
> -coral reefs
> -seabird nesting colonies
> -turtle nesting beaches
>
> Whilst conducting a comprehensive literature review has been relativerly
> straight forward, finding good references which set out calculations for
> developing thresholds for the above has been more difficult.
>
> We would value any inputs on good references which can help address this...
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>  Oli Taylor
>
>
>
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