Impact perceptions and acceptance capacity toward Piping Plovers Charadrius melodus among visitors on a public beach in Nebraska, USA
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Sandy coastal and inland beaches provide important habitat for shorebirds during the breeding, migration, and over-wintering seasons (Brown et al. 2000). These same beaches often are attractive to humans for recreation (Maguire et al. 2011), residential or commercial activity (Brown et al. 2010) and, in many areas, human use is intensive (De Ruyck et al. 1997). Human use of beaches can result in physical destruction of shorebird nests and young (Dowling & Weston 1999, Ruhlen et al. 2003), displacement of shorebirds from key nesting, foraging, and chick-rearing habitats (Lafferty 2001), and disruption or alteration of adult or parent-chick behaviors (McGowan & Simons 2006, Weston & Elgar 2007). Humans may introduce additional threats to shorebirds by altering the physical structure of the habitat or the native predator community (Schlacher et al. 2007).
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Impact perceptions and acceptance capacity toward Piping Plovers <i>Charadrius melodus</i> among visitors on a public beach in Nebraska, USA
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