fragmentation is one of the major spatial processes leading to change in a landscape, which is described as transformation of a specific habitat or land cover to smaller patches with less connectivity and viability. construction of roads is one of the main causes of fragmentation in natural areas and habitats. presence of roads in ecologically sensitive and protected areas, leads to destruction...

W. A. Bunn ([email protected]), C. B. Brown and N. J. Sanders, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. (Present address of W. A. B.: USDOI, National Park Service, Grand Canyon National Park, P. O. Box 129, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023, USA.) !M. A. Jenkins, USDOI, National Park Service, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1314 Cheroke...

this method is based on assigning some weghing values for natural, cultural, and recreational resources of a site for national parks. numerical value are used to determine whether a particular area is suitable for the of national parks. delfi technique is also employed to reduce the subjectivity as well as, bias in site selection, criteria used in parts of the world for this p~ are the basis of...

1Toxicity Assessment Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA 2 Integrated Systems Toxicology Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangl...

Kinmen National Park is the only battle memorial-themed natural resource conservation park in Taiwan. With the rapid growth in tourism, Kinmen National Park faces the challenge of managing with the resulting environmental impact. For this study, we adopted the tourism ecological footprint (TEF) and tourism ecological capacity (TEC) to evaluate the ecological conditions of Kinmen National Park f...